#i love canon ships the most

[pinkcheesecake7]

I can’t take criticism on Mel seriously because most of it is done by jayviks who say she’s pretty and call it a day then act like they love her😭. Like sorry, I’m not taking you seriously when your account is filled with only jayvik and you only talk about Mel to objectify her and seem like you don’t hate “the female character that gets in the way” that’s simply not enough. A lot of these hardcore “Mel is a manipulator” people are very obviously biased lmfao. “Jayce dumped her” except that never happened? They talked and then he left and fucking died lol, one important thing to remember is that these are CHARACTERS and there is writing behind them. What I’m saying is that they were handled poorly by the writers and they never actually “broke up” or should I say he never “dumped her🤓” they just.. had a thoughtful conversation and it was never brought up again. I feel like yall only say he “dumped her” so it fits the shitty narrative that Jayce dumped Mel for Viktor which is NOT true and literally never will be. You guys literally call her an “independent black woman who doesn’t need a man” except in different wording to make her seem unlovable. Yes, she doesn’t need a man but she WANTS a man. Stop acting like you actually want her to be independent, you just want to get her out of the way but also still seem like you’re an “”ally””.

[bixels]

Be honest, what are your thoughts on appledash? Do you hate it or its more of not a big deal

Not a big deal to me. I like it, I see all the appeals, I just personally like Rarijack more.

[sigmakia]

Guess what I did

my art

[peacockrulz]

N tries to tell another joke (gone wrong)

Sequel to This

[astraeajackson]

he has immense beef with the god of war and he's distantly related to a flying sheep!

annabeth: where?!

he's every brick's dream boyfriend and he was literally raised by wolves!

leo: where?!

he's physically incapable of any swearing beyond 'dang it' and his fate lies in the hands of a highly flammable stick!

hazel: WHERE?!

[voidedsoul5]

Gerry Keay the man you are <3

Ft. My Michael design. Listen, I know Uncanny Valley is The Stranger not The Spiral TECHNICALLY but I've always viewed Micheal/The Distortion as looking like something you'd see in shitty analog horror tapes. Just something not right yk? Original images below the cut for anyone who wants them :)

[musicalmoritz]

I do not understand why HanaKou, Aoinene, and Terukane shippers always act like their ships are so unpopular when they’re some of the most popular in the fandom😭 This isn’t a callout to any single person btw bcuz I’ve seen like half the fandom do it atp, it happens every day. I know it’s harmless but like c’mon guys. Ya’ll would not survive being a Terunene or MeiAoi shipper

I’m not even joking to me it sounds exactly like if someone called SatoSugu a rarepair

[smilesrobotlover]

Did some ship templates for my fav ships lol. I love them all

[seagreenstardust]

Why do I feel like a few years are gonna pass and Hori’s just gonna shadowdrop a pic with bkdk holding hands

[neunhofferart]

Howdy, Heidi! You said that some fans picked up things that were done on accident… Were there more scenes like that? Also, were there scenes that you guys made on purpose but fans didn’t pick up / were aware of them? In shipping terms (hihi) and in general terms. Thanks!

I think in every type of media you will inevitably see versions of 'authorial' intent vs audience interpretation that overlap and differ from each other in many ways. (Authorial intent in quotes because in collaborative mediums like film and animation every single person on the pipeline who touches the work probably has a slightly different personal interpretation they're contributing to the final work, even under someone like a showrunner or a director).

Humans are smart and it's in our nature to look for connections and find explainations to questions, so most of the time if someone is putting something down, someone is going to pick it up, so to speak, and a lot of things ARE on purpose.

But this same phenomenon can also lead to us seeing connections in places that even the 'authors' might not have originally thought of while creating the work, and I think that can be pretty neat actually! I don't necessarily think reading alternate interpretations of works is wrong-- it can be very healthy to explore multiple reads of a narrative or a character/character dynamic. On Chaos Theory there were definitely times when we were like 'fans are probably gonna ship this even if it's not the text' haha. Sometimes fans latch onto headcanons you really have no control over. Sometimes things were animated slightly differently from how they were conceived (which is also a natural part of things).

But yes, sometimes I have seen a few other things that were interpreted in slightly different ways from how they were directed or written verbally, but I'm personally of the opinion that it's more fun to leave some things visual and open to a little interpretation rather than beating the words over the audience's head and having the characters constantly announcing 'I'm feeling this because of this!' And going 'this is the only way to interpret the show and the characters and if you don't you're wrong!'

It's usually not a huge deal. I think even as we were working sometimes I'd make connections to myself that weren't necessarily spelled out to us and go 'oh, this is a throughline for this character actually!'

Like for example- if I remember correctly, the original direction behind how Kenji reacted to Ben's apparent death was that it was supposed to the first time he'd ever seen someone he really KNEW seemingly die right front of him, and being unable to do anything about it deeply affected him. Ben is a very important turning point in his character development regardless of which way you read it.

And I think this is actually something that just continued to stack onto his character throughout both shows whenever any of his friends lives are seriously in danger. In Camp when he's still unable to do anything but comfort Sammy while she's poisoned, to deciding it's too dangerous not to trade Wu's laptop for Brooklynn, to eventually throwing himself between the spinosaurus his dad is about to kill Darius with and choosing his friends over his own father and being willing to die with/for them... and then in Chaos Theory it kind of reboots all over again with Brooklynn dying and then his dad dying right in front of him, and his complex of not wanting to be useless and trying to do whatever he can at the expense of even himself to keep the loved ones he has left safe is kicked into overdrive.

I think there are a lot of things like that where the intent is not always verbally spelled out, but the more important thing is that it's still (hopefully) making you feel something.

[mswyrr]

After twenty years, the thing I still don't get is that everything cruel that can be said and has been said against Zutara romance can also be said against their friendship--and Zuko's friendships with the other characters!--and yet somehow friendship is always good and pure but romance would immediately make their healthy friendship dynamic bad and abusive???

But that's not how relationships work. If they can have a healthy friendship, then they could have a healthy romance. If any romance is inherently unhealthy, then the friendship must be inherently unhealthy too.

You've got the original writers saying women who think that Katara and Zuko should be together will forever have "failed relationships"... and then, at the same time, those same writers are like yay let's write them bonding and building a friendship.

People calling a brutally abused child who went on a redemption arc and turned against his father's ways a "colo/nizer" when it's a romance, but when it's friendship it's all good somehow. If lips never touch, it's not possible for a relationship to be toxic??? But if lips DO touch, then a healthy friendship based on mutual respect immediately becomes a Lifetime movie about toxic boyfriends...

The only way this logic works is if you think romantic love immediately "corrupts" or "taints" in a way friend love doesn't. And that's an incredibly ugly, sad idea to push.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Look people can discourse about how problematic a ship is and how terrible people are for shipping it all they want, but the reasons they try and assign for shipping something are usually pretty ridiculous. The only actual point of discrimination on whether or not I’m gonna ship a pairing is just how narratively compelling the character dynamic is. Do they play off each in an interesting way? Is there some good narrative symbolism involved?? I’m there.

Yes that does mean I’m often a basic bitch and end up enjoying whichever slash and femslash ships are popular BUT there’s usually a reason why a bunch of writers have gotten into something! Tbh! Shit being popular doesn’t mean it’s bad, stuff usually pops off for A reason, regardless of it’s a reason you personally agree with.

[the-daringstars]

𝕀'𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕟 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟&𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕦𝕤 -

For the wonderful AlThisAestheti (On Twitter)

[supemaeve]

It's funny, you know, of all the people here, I've known you the longest. Sometimes it just seems like you're the only person I can lean on.

[quibbs126]

So something that came to my brain

We’ve gotten Optimus and Megatron iterations where Megatron is older than Optimus, and in more modern interpretations, where they’re around the same age

So why not have an iteration where Optimus is the older one of the two?

The idea that immediately pops into my head is that before the war (assuming we keep the story of the two knowing each other prior), Optimus could have been a mentor to Megatron, only for Megatron to eventually change for whatever reason and turn his back on Optimus, creating the Decepticons and waging war

It doesn’t need to be that, it’s just what came to my head first. But the idea of their dynamic being where Optimus is the older and Megatron the younger is maybe something to explore in future iterations. We now have a version where Starscream is notably older than Megatron, why not do the same with him and Optimus?

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 779: “Their trump cards”

Pag 1

5: Smash through

Pag 2

1: your soul!!

Hurakan!!

Pag 3

4: What's that

Just now

Was it an hallucination!?

Pag 4

1: A gigantic bull appeared on the course!!

Pag 5

1: Around the back of Hakogaku's number 14!!

It's huge!!

What the hell is that!!

3: Did you know?

When you're being serious, your emotions come out from your back!!

Pag 6

2: People really all have their own thing!!

Pag 7

2: And he even tore his jersey!?

4: Seriously?

This is bad

Pag 8

1: Legs, give me just a little more, yon!!

2: 150m left!!

Pag 9

3: Buoooogh

7: Tch

Pag 10

1: It's not the moment to be fascinated!!

What am I doing!! I'm the one who told him to use his final technique

2: Match his timing

3: Don't misjudge

4: your goal!!

5: Final gear

6: Sixth stage!!

Pag 11

1: “Golden yellow”!!

Pag 12

1: Hooo

2: ruaaaagh

Are you watching? Aoyagi-san

This is what I spent a year working on

Pag 13

1: My special technique!!

2: Two people are accelerating!!

They're so fast!

Amazing!

What's that stretch!!

3: This is too crazy!!

Hooo

4: ruaaagh

What do you think, Aoyagi-san

If I could be greedy....

5: I'd ask for you to witness this moment, Aoyagi-san

Pag 14

4: The race is heating up as they get closer to the sprint line!! Two people are chasing one person!

Gooo..!!

Kaburagi-kuuu...n.!

Your voices are so loud

Pag 15

1: Go!! Surpass him!! Go, Kaburagi!! If you win I'll allow you to speak informally to me, without the “san”!!

Oooon!!

2: The two behind are getting closer!!

Gooo!!

3: Waaaa

4: You're so fast....

Aren't you amazing?

Pag 16

1: Kaburagi Issa

Ruaaaagh

You think I'll let you do whatever you want, Gunma!?

2: Buooogh

Will you give up, Mountain bike guy!!

Pag 17

1: We!!

Pag 18

1: Caught you!!

Pag 19

1: Buooraagh!!

Pag 20

1: They caught up!!

Both of them!!

Hakogaku, Sohoku, and Gunma are lined up!!

3: 100m left until the sprint line!!