#honestly I blame the WEBTOON

[buriedinmyownfeelings]

Nothing is worse than shipping a rare pair so rare that there is literally not a single piece of media about them in this world

So if I want something I have to make it myself and no one wants that because I am unreliable even to myself

[sunsetsmakemesad]

Me when I'm reading a webtoon and the comments are absolutely dragging the character I never really had a strong opinion on:

[geekgirles]

I could be reading this all wrong and only seeing what I want to see, but if I'm right and you think about it, Aurora's actions in this chapter seem to be meant to further confirm that she never fled because Armand told her to and, more glaringly, she never cared about the Sadida beyond using them to enable her own ascension to power.

When she returned in chapter 3 and Yugo and Amalia called her and her father out on fleeing and abandoning them against the Nécromes, Aurora claimed she was just carrying out Armand's will, which was to protect their unborn child. She even went as far as trying to paint Amalia in a bad light due to "not knowing the joy of carrying a child", implying Amalia couldn't possibly know what it's like to put your child first, not-so-subtly calling her selfish.

This all coming from the same woman who is now going against her father's admittedly reasonable orders in the face of a furious Amalia looming over them.

Now, as much as I'd like to say Amalia wouldn't have touched her hadn't Aurora taken flight with the intention of fighting her in the first place, the truth is it's hard to tell Amalia's true reasons behind going after the Osamodas. Maybe she just wanted to berate and kick them out of her kingdom for poisoning Yugo but her emotional state was reflected by her vines, giving her a more dangerous, unhinged look. Or maybe she truly intended to use violence against them and she is partly to blame.

Whatever the case, it doesn't change the fact that Aurora has once again revealed her true colours: she's chosen to fight Amalia, even while pregnant, even though she refused to do so to aid and lead the Sadida in battle.

This all reads as her entire personality being nothing but two-faced, hypocritical, and self-serving, with no concern or care for anyone but herself. Not her husband's people, not her husband's family, not her husband, not even their child.

Because this time she doesn't even have the excuse of trying to protect her child, that's actually what her father was trying to do. No, she willingly and knowingly put her child in danger by ignoring her father's warnings—why am I not surprised that one (1) time she doesn't blindly listen to her father is the one time she honestly should have?— and engaging Amalia.

What's more, her motives for forsaking her child's safety after painting herself as the widowed martyr, burdened by the responsibility of motherhood, are purely egotistical.

As the above frames show, she's not even trying to defend herself and the child from Amalia's wrath (again, that's her father), rather, her actions are motivated by her pride, ego, and seething hatred of her sister-in-law. There's no moral high ground, no motherly love, no protective instintcs, nothing!

All there's left is the all-consuming desire to get rid of Amalia once and for all. Her hatred of her overrides all reason, which is probably part of the reason why her father came with her to the kingdom to reclaim the throne in the first place: because Aurora is both too unstable and impulsive to be trusted with such responsibility. The Osamodas King is essentially keeping her in check because she can't be trusted to be left to her own devices without messing it all up.

And this all ties back to her actions in season 4, which, combined with the webtoon, highlight her sheer hypocrisy. She claimed she only ran away because she was protecting her child, so she should be forgiven for throwing an entire kingdom and possibly the whole world to the wolves in order to save her own skin, but suddenly there's nothing wrong with fighting a very pissed off Sadida Queen (one of the most powerful Sadidas around after Sadida Himself and His dolls and the one she just so happens to have a personal vendetta against) while pregnant.

She didn't leave the kingdom because Armand told her to, she did so out of her own volition. Just like nothing she's doing is for her child, but for herself. She's no mother, let alone a queen, but an unstable, entitled brat.

[3llatricks]

That moment when you realize you gotta start posting on Tumblr more often if you want to get noticed:

Anyways!

Here's me trying to find my people!

Fandoms I'm in:

Cinderella Boy (Webtoon by Punko, really good, go read it please)

Deadpool and Wolverine (less in the fandom, more of only here as moral support to @cryptidkisserrr )

SpyXFamily

Voltron: Legendary Defender (blaming @cryptidkisserrr for this one too but more positively)

FNAF

Percy Jackson (this does not mean I can quote everything word for word or tell you everything about a character)

Gravity Falls/Owl house

Batfamily! (All of DC too but mostly the Bats. Blaming @inkstainedhalo for this one)

Danny Phantom ( @inkstainedhalo's fault)

(If you're in one of these fandoms, share your favorite character/quote)

Food I Enjoy

Pasta

Lasagna

Green Chili! (I'll share my recipe one day)

Hamburgers

Swedish Meatballs (this one is @hey-demons-is-me-ya-boi's fault)

Ribs (not the ones covered in BBQ sauce, just regularly seasoned ribs)

(this list could honestly go on lol, anyways, please share your favorite foods too, one day I wanna start sharing recipes cuz that would be fun)

My Hobbies

Drawing

Writing

Singing

Mountain Biking

Skiing

Playing Video Games

(I'm kinda lame when it comes to Hobbies lol)

Maybe more will be on the way later, but for now, here's to hoping I find my People

[genericpuff]

Idk if my addition will matter.

I've been following Hanza since back when they were making my deepest secret, so I've seen the development of the guy upstairs first hand and how hanza writes it. Even back in the concept stages, it was so blatantly clear that it was supposed to be a thriller/cat mouse vibe where Adam (killer) was horrible and not to be rooted for. They've compared him to irl serial killers and how those guys will often use women as shields to hide their true selves from the public and how that's messed up and bad to do.

They've shown Adam as a horrible irredeemable person and honestly there's little to no nuance with how they handle it, but that makes sense because how else can you handle an audience like what they've gotten without beating them over the head with the facts. How many ways can you outright show your main character despising and wanting to yank their best friend out of the jaws of a murderer before the audience realizes its not foreplay.

I think them going from an actual romance to a fully thriller non romantic story meant that the residual audience expected some kind of messy toxic romance, but Rozy to me has always explicitly read as Queer so idk why people aren't getting the hint.

I get their frustration and it seems like they might be shifting into a potiential issekai romance about a grandad and a middle aged woman who got reincarnated as his grandson's fiance (hard to explain but its hilarious if you want to check it out) without any thriller elements from their recent non comic posts. Whatever they do I hope they can find something to be passionate about again.

your addition VERY MUCH MATTERS actually because I don't read TGU and have very little context to the situation as a whole aside from what I've seen people talking about, which makes me reluctant to speak on it because I don't wanna go spreading misinformation in any regard. So I appreciate you taking the time to lay it all out for me, thank you!!! <3

And yeah, I've seen posts shared in the /r/webtoons sub from other blogs claiming that Hanza was being an awful person for "taking people's money" and "baiting them" into reading a dark romance story when that's very obviously not what it is? Even one excerpt that was literally like-

And I just... since when is any romance plotline that ISN'T abusive and problematic at its core (such as between a serial killer and a victim) considered "super conservative" and "pure"? It's really baffling to me how people have gone so far in the opposite direction of "purity culture" that they've started arguing on behalf of legitimately harmful and toxic relationships. It's extremely concerning especially when you know the majority of people saying this shit are between the ages of 16-21. IDK what the fuck we're doing anymore when it comes to the romance genre (and TGU isn't even a romance ffs).

Aaaand yeah in relation to where the Hanza topic came up, that's really why I'm moving away from WT as an audience and why I don't consider it a "loss" to not use WT anymore. Once upon a time I wished for Time Gate to be a contracted series, for it to have thousands of readers and be my job. But seeing what's going on with Hanza's work just informs me that I'd be dealing with a lot of the same shit - people expecting Uzuki and Mitsuhiro to be the endgame of the romance when they're literally NOT good for each other, which is the POINT. Like sure, unlike the main duo in TGU, they actually are a couple with a 'relationship' but it's not meant to be healthy and the last thing I need are 15 year olds thinking they're "couple goals". If you ship them in fanfic or w/e the fuck that's fine but please don't get mad at me when they don't wind up being the endgame couple, they're both terrible people and make each other worse when they're around each other (・_・;)

Either way yeah, I don't blame Hanza in the slightest for getting so frustrated with it all that they'd rather just be done with it. It sucks for the more loyal and sane part of their audience that the series is gonna be ripped out from under them like that, but at the end of the day if the creator is being harassed and decide they're done as a result of it... why should they have to keep putting up with bullshit just for a comic? I don't even blame Rachel if she was ending LO by choice due to the noise of the fandom, and unlike Rachel, I don't have anything in the slightest against Hanza or their work LOL But I also don't have the full picture on it all so maybe my opinion will change if I find out more about it. I just don't think any of this shit is worth directly harassing a human being over.

That said, can't get any better than someone who's read their work since before TGU, so again, thank you !

[local-writer]

This is just my opinion on Bam and his character, but there is a little pinch of spoilers for season 2 during the workshop battle, so beware!

I know Bam tends to be a little bland sometimes, but honestly, that's only because he never gets enough time to really explore the world and figure out who he is and what he truly wants (aside from keeping his loved ones safe). He is constantly being thrust into situations (like the current arc for example) that he didn't really want to be in to begin with. Perhaps this choice was intentional by SIU, or maybe Bam will slowly become his own person over the course of the story.

We did get a glimpse of Bam and his thoughts during the hell train, and his feelings about the current situation and such, but we haven't really had anymore of that and it makes me sad.

I honestly hope that eventually, Bam will have the focus shifted onto him and only him for a while, and we get the chance to really explore Bam and learn more about him instead of the main plot.

I'm not shitting on tog when I say this, I absolutely love the story and all of the characters and the badass lore that surrounds it, but in my opinion, I feel like some things could have been a little different? Like, for example, the hell train arc. Khun mentioned going on a vacation after the workshop battle, but they never did because they had to leave shortly after if they wanted to catch up with Rachel in time if they wanted to save Horyang. Instead, I feel like SIU could have used this time to focus on Bam for a bit and develop his character a little more, maybe even taking a break like Khun had suggested (and ofc leaving Horyang alive so that there was never any immediate need to chase after Rachel), and then getting into the hell train arc? Idk, the story feels rushed at times so that we can reach the big plot points quicker, but I don't blame SIU for this either. I mean, how could one possibly have enough time to really sit and think about the choices they're about to make in their story whenever they have such a strict updating schedule? I could never, I would be a failure webtoon artist/story writer lmao. I applaud and respect the people who have the patience for it 😭

What do you think could have been different in the story? I'm interested to hear your thoughts!

[ifuckinglovelookism]

I've got stronger feelings about Jiho. I really do.

I feel for every character lile Daniel, who faces his bullying and becomes a great person, we need to keep on mind there are often people who turn out like Jiho.

I understand that he's an extreme case, but it sheds light on a very real thing: bullying and the mindset that comes with it.

Daniel's mindset was to become strong. He was always a reliable person, before he ever got his new body. (Except to his mother, but I feel he way more than makes up for it later in the story)

But Jiho

Jiho was desperate. He tried everything he thought he could (albeit all awful choices) and still continued to sprial.

But it was always everyone else's fault.

He blamed everyone around him for his actions, and was never able to see Daniel ad a friend.

I'm still unclear why he was killed off? He was such a great character. Probably my fourth favorite in the entire webtoon.

Honestly, I could go on and on about this character, but I'll stop here so im not ranting.

In a world full of bullies, be a Daniel, not a Jiho.

Self reflect. Apologize to your friends when your bad to them, instead of using them. Him and Daniel could have been beasties, but he was unable to see Daniel for who he was.

Sorry for the rant. I just got reintroduce to this character again, and forgot how strongly I feel about him.

I love him in thw way most people have a favorite Villan. Maybe it's because when I was bullied, for a while I was just a trash person.

Not saying the bullying was my fault, or I deserved it. But u could have been kinder to those who actually cared about me, and I stead saw everyone as an enemy and pushed them away. Thankfully I've grown as a person and cherish my friends now. But it was hard when I viewed everyone as a possible threat.

Thanks for listening

[prospectivehero]

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT GUYS!

First and foremost, I have two confessions. One, I haven't read Red Hood: Outlaws WebToon. It's on my list, but I will admit that I'm missing context. Two, though I talk about disability, my main focus is physical walking disabilities. This commentary should apply to every physically disabled human being if I'm doing this correctly, but I chose to have a specific focus for the sake of brevity.

I'd have very few nickles if I could have one for every time I saw a wheelchair-dependent character get suddenly healed. But it's still too many nickels. I can't blame Marvel or DC for my poor relationship with my own mobility aids. It didn't help anything to see Barbara Gordon or Charles Xavier suddenly be able to walk after seeing them for so long in their wheelchairs. Recovery and recuperation should never be scoffed at. We should celebrate when we can accomplish difficult goals and be happy for others who achieve what they thought was impossible. But these characters' changes aren't about recuperation. They're about ignorance.

Recuperation doesn't always mean full recovery from the viewpoint of a disabled person. Sometimes, "walking quickly" or "standing independently" isn't the end goal. It's usually more complicated than that. Small things like strengthening the core or practicing distance walking in a walker are crucial for someone's health or mobility. If it means they can walk independently in the process, then cheers! But sometimes standing isn't a possibility anymore. Many able-bodied people, without this context, may perceive this attitude as "giving up." I've had to explain to several different people that my choosing my wheelchair over my crutches to be a more functional human is not the same thing as quitting. But society has a model for success, and that model has a healthy set of legs.

Growing up, it broke my heart when I saw a character who had to experience a permanent and life-altering disability being suddenly cured. That's not a story of recuperation. That's a writer trying to "fix" something that was "wrong". I don't think the writers mean that as an insult. It's a terrible trope that's rooted in ignorance. But that ignorance is commonplace. It makes self-acceptance all the more difficult for a person who doesn't have full use of their body. Instead of being a person in a room who happens to use a wheelchair, that person suddenly becomes a paria because they are "physically incorrect."

Barbara Gordon, still paralyzed, marrying Dick Grayson is important. In their most standard form, weddings are supposed to be beautiful and romantic. Most of us dream about being the most beautiful, best versions of ourselves that we've ever been for one of the most special days of our lives. Barbara was the best version of herself when her father wheeled her down the aisle. She was Batgirl and is now Oracle, but she never stopped being Barbara. She is loved by her father, her adopted family, and her husband. The saccharine nature of that scene had nothing to do with a disabled woman being loved by an able-bodied man. It was a sappy, beautiful wedding being celebrated by our favorite dysfunctional found family.

I'm honestly really excited to read this webtoon. It is about Jason Todd, but the care and respect Patrick R. Young shows in this scene and how well it was depicted by Nico Bascuñán says a lot about how they handle the rest of whatever story they tell in this comic.

[revertrate]

the fact that hom put up with junghyun knowing very well what he did to his close friend at that time after all that shit he pulled and outed him as well,,, and sangjoong still chose to throw away his friendship for junghyun. Something about homs extreme patience and resilience is commendable. If you look at it hom is made out to have weird interests or shit but he's the most normal and sanest out of them. Apart from what stupid things he did in highschool

[yandere-kittee]

Yandere!Villainess x Fem! Reader.

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Note: I honestly only got this idea because I'm trying to make a book/webtoon with this kind of plot.

❦contains: n/a (pretty much a tame post, more in part 2)

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Before your cliche death, you were very much hooked on a certain book during your lifetime, it was your cliche romance story; with a female lead coming from a small noble background and the male lead being a rebellious prince who was cold to others but her.

He fell in love with her kindness and was thinking of breaking off his engagement with the Villainess, a duke's daughter.

She loved him very deeply but he didn't reciprocate those feelings, her only hope was that he'd eventually fall for her when they got married. But they didn't, and she had blamed the fl for the cause.

So now, you woke up as the maid of said villainess, the good thing about this is because you can change her inevitable fate as villainess, by showing her that she deserves better than that prince.

She was not what the book had described her as, she was often depicted as cold, malicious and rude. But working as her maid, you got to see that she displayed things that not even the book or author themselves have told.

Maybe she really just displayed it when the prince and female lead we're there, rubbing in their relationship in front of her face, but overall, she was pretty nice to be with.

It wasn't hard to grow close to her, she was easygoing and wasn't rude to a closer like you.

Yandere! Villainess had only clinged to the Prince because he was there for her since she was a child, he was what helped her get through her older brothers death.

She didn't care if it was only for him to look good in front of her father and mother, if she tried hard enough, he'd eventually care for her genuinely, but it never came. He was always looking at her.

She was in despair seeing him be so happy with her, she wanted what they had, she wanted him.

"My lady, you can't just sit around crying over the prince! He isn't worth your tears! " You'd cried out as you tried to pull the blanket away from her, but she was a Duke's daughter and trained with swords since she was little, her strength was far more compared to yours, so she only had to tug the blanket hard enough before you came toppling over her.

"My lady! " you had gotten up and checked to see if she was alright, but when you pulled the blanket away from her head, she was already looking at you, both of your eyes met, the room was shrouded in silence as you both stared at each other.

"You have really pretty eyes..."

You we're flustered,simply put, you we're embarassed right after you realized what you had said, you really tried to go about your day like normal, but you couldn't help but cringe whenever you remember what you said to your master.

But oh well.

Life goes on.

She's never had someone comment on her looks before, well, not recently, she's always been commented on her mature behavior as a kid, her swordsmanship and the way she carried herself, like a true noble should.

But when you commented on her eyes, she's focused on the way they shine under the light more than ever, maybe they really are.

She's recalled you we're the new maid that was tasked in mostly tending to her needs, you we're very chatty, to the point she thought you we're annoying, but she found solace in your random rambling, she's just never seen someone talk so much but look so passionate while doing it.

She also knows you by how much you want her to stop sulking over the Prince, she always wanted to tell you how it wasn't your business on who she should or shouldn't love, but she couldn't help but feel that you're right.

Maybe she should just love someone who's willing to love her for her and stay by her side forever.

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Honestly think this was shit>< But I just wanted to get this out of my system before taking my nap. Anyways! Be gay, do crime! 🏳‍🌈

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[scovilletwothousand]

WARNING: OPINIONS BELOW

not to bring up old amd major fandom discourse but...

okay so watching the atla live action drove me back into my 2010 zutara era, and reading all that zutara fanfic made me think of klance (the other blue/red ship we should have had) so i was reading klance fic which made me realize i forgot most of the show and made me want to rewatch the show and im about to finish season 2 again and guys??? omg????

ok i was a klance girly thru and thru like everyone else but in the early seasons like 1 and 2 (and i realize what i'm about to say is blasphemous but bear with me) allura and keith had HELLA chemistry. like they had bonding moments and had like...a lot of deep talks and skinship (like the ep where they thought they were being tracked by zarkon, or the ep where allura gets over some of her galra hatred for keith's sake, etc etc) and were honestly more compelling than allura and lance or allura and shiro. maybe it's because i'm no longer a child/i'm looking at it through a more critical lens but the dynamics are totally different than what i remember in the early seasons.

OBVIOUSLY IT'S MEANT PLATONICALLY IN THE SHOW but the chemistry is real platonically or romantically. and for fandom that ships anything with a pulse, this ship really should have been more popular.

i think ppl were just so obsessed with wanting gay characters or characters with specific sexualities that they glossed over characters that had real chemistry. and only sticking to the skinny characters was whack. lance had hella chemistry with hunk and but i think y'all are too fatphobic to properly appreciate him. i blame the show for making hunk the least fleshed out of the main characters. hunk is more than comic relief!

also? y'all butchered my boy keith in fanon. he's got way more personality in the real show than in fanon, which like i understand that usually fanon characters have less personality but the difference is wild. canon keith is not nearly as withdrawn or moody as he is in fanon, he's just kind of a grumpy guy who knows what he wants and is incredibly determined to get it. he's not as emo or depressed (or repressed) as fanon makes him either

for the record, i'm still klance for LIFE but omg have a little fun sometimes. bi keith supremacy.

also, unrelated and completely off-topic sidenote, stop writing spanish into your fics if you can't speak it. i can't speak it even i can tell yall on some gringo shit. use italics or <brackets> like they do in comic books and webtoons. way less cringe.

[blue-eyed-moon-child]

Last one for now. What's your 3rd favorite sbg character and why? You're not allowed to compare how much you like them with how much you like other characters (such as their rank, or even if you like them more or less) in the explanation

You bastard you gave me conditions for this I'll try but sorry if I bend the rules a little. I'm going to try to handle this as a pros and cons rather than a numbered list.

I'd say Tyler is my third favorite.

Pros: I do enjoy that he is the "protector" and it's gotten him hurt really bad at one point for him to have to take a step down and realize that he has to also let other people take care of him too. That trope always made me think "ahh yes a baybeee" for characters. His idea that he has to take on a parental role only to realize he is a kid is something that I always felt akin to? (I took care of my brother and mom for a while so...Tylercore ig) I do enjoy that he is a sarcastic bastard sometimes! The humor makes him well rounded and I know that he is "Just A Kid" so watching him be a little silly sometimes is reason that I always look for him in the background too. Little guy (he's so much taller than me) has a lot to learn and it's like a little brother that you can't wait to watch him get his heart broken for the first time, smile the biggest smile youve ever seen at graduation, and finally get a taste of adult freedom when he gets his license after painfully teaching and getting frustrated. Cons: Though, I sometimes roll my eyes and smack the wrinkles off my forehead a little bit when he decides that instead of working together as a team, he just immediately goes into pointing fingers, trying to find someone to blame. The anger and wanting answers for a situation where its very obvious that no one has answers is the most frustrating part about him. I jsut wanna grab his shoulders and scream "CALM DOWN PLEASE JUST LISTEN BEFORE YOU GAIN STRONG OPINIONS" soo bad but unfor he is but a comic character. I did respond to a post earlier that I really wish he would play to his own strengths (use a baseball bat as a weapon instead of almost immediately getting a gun) and planning for the worst with all the other characters in his mind. As someone who tends to protect the other people in their life, I'm always constantly thinking of the worst case scenarios and it makes me come back and basically wrap everything in bubblewrap so no one else gets hurt. I'm constantly checking the ground for glass and I wish that Tyler would do that too instead of being such a "I'm shrugging my shoulders cause I dont care about you but if you get hurt I'm going to tell you how useless you are" LIKE???? BROTHER???? HELP THEM THEN! <- which makes me say "uuughhh SHUT UP!!" sometimes soooo idk

I'll leave it at that for now but I can honestly do this for each character if I had the time to (plus no one would actually read it so eh)

(Also this is absolutely not dogging on Red's writing whatsoever. I love how rounded a lot of her characters are, even the side ones, they feel more human than some of the other webtoons I've read. They're flawed!! I like that about all of them. In the end, they're just teenagers. They're gonna suck! You're gonna like parts of them! They're teenagers in a really really shitty and unfortunate situation. They are constantly being lied to and gaslit into what is true and what isn't. They are literally fighting for their life ALL. THE. TIME. Give them - and Red - a break! PLEASE! )

[winns-stuff]

Agree that shippers of kronos and hera are freaking disgusting, though im a little hesitant to lay the blame on rs. When i first read it, i recognized it for being awful and insidious abuse and thought it was framed surprisingly well. Webtoon readers are known for being shit balls at reading and media comprehension, so many other webtoons i read suffer from readers being way too obtuse and rooting for genuinely abusive characters that the creator always frames as toxic. (tho full disclosure i haven't read the fast pass episodes so this might have changed!!) while i also do wish rs might make it clearer that its abuse so these commentors would shut up, at the same time i think its sad creators would need to sacrifice more sublte, clever storytelling just so that certain sections of the fandom won't misunderstand.

I understand your point, the main reason why I included Rachel in that rant is because if she can make an authors note about Persephone not dying, she should be able to come out with at least a statement saying that you shouldn’t ship Hera with Kronos at all because half of those people are grown adults, they should absolutely know better.

Rachel never holds her fans accountable when they’re saying fucked up things in Rachel and Lore Olympus’ defense and she’s known for being active in various groups including Lore Olympus so she should have no problem making an announcement condemning stuff like that. The problem isn’t that her subtle writing wasn’t clear enough for her fans the problem is you have over 45 comments on your main page talking about how Hera’s SA wasn’t SA and victim blaming her for the trauma Kronos gave her and you’re not saying anything about it.

It’s even worse since like I’ve said there’s a lot of fans who relate to both Hera and Persephone with their traumas, having a fandom like that condoning disgusting stuff like that and dismissing coercion and SA is disingenuous and honestly made me lose even more respect for her. I’m not asking her to stand up for her fans as an anti I’m asking her to stand up for them as a decent person, it’s the bare minimum to make a statement and of course if the fandom doesn’t listen I won’t talk anymore about it since she’s one person but she hasn’t said anything and that’s the problem.

[the-kr8tor]

The webtoon thing made me giggle like- 'oh no we're stuck in a maze with fucking yellow everywhere' 'oh no...lets make out' Daily Hobie HC!! ACTOR HOBIE EEEEE Hobie and you had been working together as actors for a long time, with even falling for each other at some point and being in a stable relationship. With having produced the newest movie, Zepotha, the two of you found a lot of interview opportunities approaching Hobie and you at a shocking rate, as the actors of the main characters in the movie. Some of these have been turned down due to some complications, but one thing that you both were ecstatic for was the 'Puppy Interview'. Although Hobie (and you, but you were less open) hated sitting down and having to be put through a barrage of questions, the only good thing was the puppies. Once the both of you were seated, the camera began recording, with the two of you introducing yourselves, unable to stop chuckling at the way everything was so unscripted. The moment the puppies came into the little pen, Hobie was immediately scooping them up into his lap while you leant into him, going scarily quiet for a few moments as you tried to keep up the slight amount of professionalism you had left. You watched with a smile as the puppies clambered all over the two of you, latching onto one and letting it lay in your lap, watching it playfully fight with the other puppies from the safety of your legs. As questions about the movie and Zepotha were being asked, Hobie and you both answered as honestly as possible, even talking about a few easter eggs of the movie, specifically that were hidden to point to Hobie's character. He pointed out one of the main clues in the movie that pointed to the dead rabbit scene was the expired red cordial spilling, which a lot of people seemed to have missed. Eventually, the question came out which made both of you instinctively meet each other's gaze. 'First impression of each other when you guys first met?' Immediately, you respond with 'fear', causing Hobie to burst out laughing, watching as two puppies gnawed at his spiked bracelet, encouraging them to continue to try bite into it. You felt slightly flustered when you heard Hobie nonchalantly admit that his first impression of you was that you were admittedly kind of cute. The next question was shifted back to the movie Zepotha, with Hobie answering eagerly for this one. 'What character from the movie most represented you IRL?'. It was so surprise when Hobie immediately mentioned his character that he played, which was a scrawny punk boy. He chuckled as you fondly roll your eyes at him, pointing out how he relates because Hobie made the character from scratch to fit into the film, to which Hobie proudly hums at you. Overall, both of you seemed to love the Puppy Interview, since it was all Hobie and you gushed about on the ride back home to the boathouse. You both changed into more comfortable attire and laid on the bed, with Hobie flopping down next to you, starting to initiate a small playfight. You wrestled against him with a laugh, the playfight going on for around 15 minutes before you gave up with a sigh, letting Hobie cover your face with his sweet kisses, whispering the last line of the killer from the movie into your ear, like he had killed you. Hobie feels his heart swell at the sound of your chuckle, before seeing you stick your tongue out like you were dead, unable to help himself from laughing at your antics. -🐦‍⬛

Lmaooo can't blame them since there's nothing else to do but rip some yellow wallpaper! 😂

Daily Hobie HC!!!

ACTOR HOBIE OMG HOW I MISSED U

AHHHHH THE PUPPY INTERVIEW!!!!!! I can imagine that there's one puppy who never left R's lap the entire interview and they ended up adopting the puppy!!

Awwwee the doggy gnawing at Hobie's bracelet 🥺

Is that a real movie? Sounds like it is

Oh i love how there's an implication that he wrote the movie! So cool of him to do

Lol he killed R in the movie 😂

The little play fight!! 🥴🥰🥰

[genericpuff]

On your post about rather having 100 mature readers than having a large group of immature readers for your comic, in the tags you mentioned the "hanza situation". If you don't mind me asking, what's that?

So there's been talk about Hanza , the creator of The Guy Upstairs on Webtoon, supposedly wanting to drop the comic altogether due to how their fanbase ships the main characters (one of which is a serial killer) and just due to the fact they've fallen out of love with their own comic over the course of publishing it on Webtoons. The comic isn't confirmed cancelled yet, it's just what they apparently want to do and are gonna be running it by WT for approval.

Which like, yeah, I don't blame them if that's true and if they've "fallen out of love" with their work, that shit can and does happen all the time especially when your work winds up exploding to a degree that you become 'detached' from it. And I don't blame them for being ick at the fandom for their comic shipping their main characters, apparently that started when it was being pirated on another site and miscategorized as a romance when it's a horror / thriller comic but that's just what I've heard from others who do read the comic.

The actual vibe on the whole situation is unclear, they posted like last week about how the two characters were siblings which I THOUGHT was an April Fool's joke because it was legit posted on April 1st. But now apparently they actually ARE siblings? So they deadass just spoiled their comic before it was over? Though apparently this was for the purpose of trying to get their fandom to knock it off, but it's just led to people getting even more pissed because they see that as Hanza 'baiting' them into reading a dark romance comic which... it never was.

IDK man I'm getting such mixed signals off the whole thing esp because we haven't seen these DM's/emails/etc. which like... okay obviously Hanza doesn't need to share anything they're not comfortable with but there's tinfoil hat theories about them using it as a cover for just not wanting to do the comic anymore. But I don't really subscribe fully to that theory because... why? I'm just not sure which thread of logic to follow here lmao

I honestly have no fucking clue what's going on with this situation anymore because it seems to get more complicated by the day LOL I don't read The Guy Upstairs so I have zero stake in it but let's just say this - I've been on Webtoons since 2016 and am more than aware of how the WT fandom tends to behave on a regular basis, and that's just an audience that I personally don't want, regardless of how positive or negative other people's experiences are. There are people in the WT fandom who are sane and normal, yes, but I'd like to think those people are also fully capable of finding comics outside of WT if they so choose. The general demographic of WT who don't travel outside of it as I've experienced it over the years is just not one I want to tailor to so I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if Hanza was experiencing this and just wanting it to stop. Someone mentioned to me the other day that Webtoons is like the webcomic version of BookTok and ngl I couldn't agree more 💀😆

But yeah, that's about all of my knowledge on the Hanza situation lol

[featherxs]

been thinking about asuka ren a normal healthy amount ever since she debuted in webtoon and now i realize tumblr is better for compiling all my thoughts on her. so here… are some thoughts, for sure!

first of all… we know so little about her :( the main things are basically: japanese mangaka, creator of peace land, and was present in the group regression in epilogue. mostly she serves as hsy’s foil throughout the peace land arc, and she briefly shows up during the enemy of the story scenario to support kimcom.

but there are a lot of small details that add up to her character, in my opinion… for example, her constellation sponsor is “master of the niten ichi-ryu,” who cannot be anyone but miyamoto musashi himself. this is kind of funny considering how she is unfortunately a wet sock for most of peace land arc except for that scene (…where she doesn’t even use a sword!). what’s even funnier, though, is that miyamoto apparently did ink paintings as well. sometimes i think singshong just gave asuka some random big-name japanese sponsor to cement her status as a leader among them, and sometimes i think about this coincidence. because… is it?! (incidentally, she is mentioned to have/use a katana, but it isn’t specified if she has two. tsk… what’s your dual blades stigma for if you’re not gonna use it, girl?) in addition, her physique and strength were both level 55 during peace land arc, which were pretty high when you compare it to michio’s mid-20 stats. a twitter user got the idea of her being from a family that runs a kendo or judo gym and was going to inherit the dojo someday before she declared she’d become a mangaka, and i haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since.

as for her personality… well, we’re told she’s a leader among the japanese incarnations, but… honestly, does she act like a leader to you…? from what we see of her in peace land, she can be cowardly, easily shaken or attacked, and she put the small people’s lives over her companions’… in short, she’s a little bit pathetic (fond). but then again, that was in peace land, so i guess you can’t blame a girl for being a little shaken up after being confronted with choosing between killing her friends or killing her creations. but we also see her argue with hsy a little over clichés and tropes, and we also see how she spoke out against yamamoto when he declared he’d kill the small people, so that adds up to her being decisive and true to her morals. (also, tangentially related, she calls michio by his first name without honorifics, which is as intimate as you can get. this is cute, personally, because in the ebook he mentions he was a college student before the scenarios, so he could be anywhere from 18-22+ years old, while asuka… is 31. that’s, like, her little brother.)

definitely the most interesting part about her is peace land and her relationship with it, though. because, of course, a creator must have a relationship with their creations! she must have resented her work at some point because of all the critique it got and how it ended up getting canceled so early in its serialization… i wonder how long ago was that before the events of orv, if peace land was her debut manga or her most recent work. if it was somewhere in the middle, then i want to know if she went back to making mainstream content after peace land’s failure just to earn money and if she resented that, too, or if she was prideful enough to try and make more unorthodox manga like it but kept getting shot down anyway. did she lose confidence in her craft… could she no longer find the same joy in creating no matter what she made…

then when tls123 apparently contacted her about it — how cruel must it have been to unknowingly have let someone borrow your setting, thinking your words may have finally reached someone, only to later find out the characters and setting you had put your heart into were turned into cannon fodder for your colleagues. to destroy your own work in order to move forward… what if she considered it for just a moment… after all, if anyone had the right to decide what happened to these people’s lives, it should be her, the one who made them in the first place. but after seeing them with her own eyes, in that panel where the small people are looking up at her, it must have really cemented her decision then. to them, she’s just another disaster here to kill them, but they don’t know she’s technically their god… (maybe that’s also partly why she seemed so agitated when questioning how hsy won over the people’s loyalty so quickly, because who is she to them?)… they don’t know she must have really loved them as she wrote their story. and even if they knew, maybe they would only resent her for bringing this torture upon them anyway… the guilt and resentment and frustration of a failed work but still, still that creator’s love and pride throughout it all. because after all, a writer truly can’t help but love what she has created…

i never really thought about asuka beyond a really stupid fic idea i had for her and hsy, but seeing her in webtoon following the ebook’s revisions really made me appreciate her character more. her feelings towards her work are so complex, even if we don’t see a lot of it, and even worse is that she forgets all about making peace land in the end. she doesn’t just become a character in a bigger story: her narrative has also completely escaped her hands now. but in a way, maybe she’d be happy to know they’re separate from her as she is separate from them, because that means they’re moving forward in their own world line… and not bound by such mortal restraints as the manga serialization being canceled.

man this got long, and this doesn’t even include all the delusions i have for asuka/michio and asuka/izumi. well then, my final message: