#i can't be bothered to tag the individual members of certain groups mentioned here (at least right now) so I'll just tag the group

[incomplete-ruler]

Okay now that I've awakened and had some good (but late) sleep, I can finally share my thoughts on 29 verse (mostly (there's probably some stuff I forgot to add)).

Well firstly, I do like how this song was made with the 2nd gen groups in mind, as well as it basically being an opener to the third season (since the main verses are split between the two units). As much as I grew to love the new content in rap guerilla, you can really tell that the new groups were sort of stuck onto a song originally made for the 1st gen groups (even with buraikan honestly). However, with this song they're all very much integrated into the song (I mean that should be obvious but still thought to mention it). I also think this is the first alternate 'all units' song that features the new groups+buraikan. If the stageplay ever adapts rtl, I'd love to see this performed by the stage actors at some point (probably after the first half tho).

I'd say that my favourite verses overall (at least right now) are cozmez, AMPRULE and VISTY. VISTY's verse in particular I thought was a nice way to end the revengers section, especially Kantaro's part (I'll bring them up again later). Individually I'd say that Reo's and Shiki's verses are some of my favourites too. Reo's verse is literally so addictive and there's just something about the way that Shiki delivers his (more specifically this line at 3:26) that I'm obsessed with for some reason (Ryuu's verse is also starting to grow on me as I'm listening to this song on repeat while writing this).

Also as a bonus I'm glad that Anne has a better verse in an all units song that's not just "fuck the racist, I don't need no fake ass" (minus the songs from the stage adaptation).

As far as the group order goes, I'm pretty sure they were planning to alternate between the 1st and 2nd gen groups (using the order given for the revengers and avengers teams of course). However with the avengers team, I think they just decided to put BAE at the end right after they'd already swapped them around which put 1Nm8 at the start of the avengers section...which also brings me to my next point.

So as mentioned before VISTY ends the revengers section, but do you know who is right after? 1Nm8 and as we all know they'll be going against each other in battle of unity. But ALSO do you know who starts/ends said verses? Kei and Kantaro.

So in conclusion: THE QUEERS ARE FIGHTINGGGGGGG (and the battle hasn't even started yet)

[littlemisssquiggles]

... I think we need to have a small talk about how discourse in certain certain fandom communities should be handled....

Am I the only one who gets a bit bothered whenever I go into fandom community tags and there are these strange posts that ultimately call out the whole community and put everyone on blast for a certain problem currently happening within the community… when in actuality, the problem isn't with whole community per say.

Usually, the real root of the problem lies within a much, much smaller population of the community.

That being said, I'm not saying that fandom communities can't have their fair share of discourse. It's just that, as a member of said fandom community, I'm just tired of being put on blast or being involved in some kind of petty drama that I have no direct correlation to, y'know what I mean?

Shoot; most of the time I don't even know what's going on yet when these moments of discourse occur, the people actually involved have the nerve to create posts either blaming the whole community for their personal grievances with certain members of the community or worse blaming each other for "upsetting the community" when the reality of the situation is:

Homie; no one else outside of that small inner circle directly involved with the issue would know of its existence if ya'll did not bring attention to it with your posts.

And in this instance, this is NOT an "entire community" problem. This is a YOU problem or a YA'LL problem.

This is an issue that started because one person or a small group of people within a community got into a scuffle with one another and now that scuffle has been escalated to the point that these folks are no longer just fighting amongst themselves behind closed doors but are also bringing that fight out into the open; bringing it to the attention of the rest of community (and any other onlooking spectators).

But even if this is the case, this is still not a whole community problem. It's ya'll problem.

Because most of the time when these so called problems arise, half of the community don't even know what the f*** is going on yet here we're being indirectly mentioned in posts that imply that the issue is with the whole community (inclusive of oblivious, innocent parties) or something the whole community just needs to know about or be involved in when really, it isn't…? Or shouldn't. Not really.

It's a personal problem within a very, very small group within the community and from the perspective of an innocent party, I just don't think its fair for the rest of the community to be held at fault or roped into it a fire started by a certain certain "dramatic" group; y'know what I mean?

And in respect to that certain certain "dramatic" group, if the folks involved can't handle their issues on their own behind closed doors amongst yourselves like reasonable and understanding individuals then perhaps it would be best to not bring that mess into the rest of the community .

Whether doing it is an attempt to garner sympathy from the rest of the community or to turn the rest of the community against their opposing party in the drama, either way it STILL isn't fair to the rest of the community since the rest of the community wasn't involved from the start with the drama and aren't aware of all the details in the issue i.e the full REAL truth.

That's as much as I'll say on this topic.

While I may not be as vocal on here as I used to, this squiggle meister has been noticing some weirdness happening in certain certain communities that I genuinely liked.

This isn't to target any fandom community in particular. This is just a repeatable habit I've noticed in fandoms I've been in over the years including one happening recently as I type this.

And while I may not have all the details on what's truly been going on under the surface, the most I can say is that I don't like what I'm seeing and really wished the folks involved would "handle things much better" to sort things out amongst themselves.

~LMS (2022)