#idk what i didn't expect it to be so graphic like it's literally a show where one of the main characters is a cannibalistic serial killer

[mrmoonytoonie]

Bendy and the Dark Revival Rant (negative and long)

Idk why I'm making this, maybe for just peace of mind and y'all can bash me in the comments if y'all want or tell me your own opinion if anyone actually reads this stupid thing. Warning I might be all over the place and this isn't scripted so expect foul language and emotion and unprofessional things.

So I'll like to start with that I'm a MASSIVE fan of Bendy and the Ink Machine and have since alpha chapter 1. That game is my childhood and what inspired me to take drawing more seriously.

The "Ink Demon"

So Bendy and the dark revival, literally disappeared and came back out of nowhere lol. I was actually excited and hyped as hell when it was first announced, glad to know Bendy wasn't forever dead (literally sobbed my eyes out when we killed him in chapter 5). But then nothing, no updates, no news, NOTHING, but I still had hope even when everyone was leaving. Then yay the game is here! But my stupidity and something I should have done was that I should have watched the trailer and someone play it to save my money. I got the game when it came out for the PlayStation and immediately played it going in there blind, even though I couldn't even see what I was playing 97% of the time due to it being too dark even with all the house lights off in the middle of the night it was fun at first! Then the fucking "ink demon" part came up, I was so damn excited to see him in better graphics only to have that THING show up. I had to do a double take to see if that was even the ink demon and to my disappointment it was, I'm not going to lie I don't see how people like it, to me it stripped him from all his creativity and made him into a basic ass demon to the point it's not even close to being Bendy related. I'm not gonna lie I did like the voice at first but later its so damn annoying! Like spit that shit out dude, there is no reason for you to do all that! Also how the programmed him is so lazy and annoying and broken "Oh no hide the ink demon is coming", now at first I was excited to have the chase of my life but NOOOOOOOOO, literally just tells you and you hope to God he decides to spawn in where he is supposed to because he will spawn when there isn't any hiding places. Oh and the hiding places are another annoying broken thing, when I'm trying to hide sometimes you have to look at it at a very specific angle and pray it works. Anyways, so at this point we saw little Bendy and ... The Thing, at this point we already know the "big reveal" was that little Bendy is that thing, like anyone should have seen that coming. ALRIGHT so the end, WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THE ENDING?! Like why is it just the same ending to BATIM?! Also trying to control Beast Bendy was so damn annoying and wacked! Also what was even his motive? Why the hell did he need Audrey to turn into Beast Bendy? He didn't need it before why need it now? But literally everything gave me more questions then answers and you could have made a better ending than whatever the hell Meetly gave us.

Honestly there is so so much about Bendy and the Dark Revival that I absolutely despise but that would end up making a whole book if I continue so imma just complain on how they massacred my boi. Also if you like BATDR then that's great! I'm glad that people can enjoy things even tho I don't. It's just I feel like I'm going crazy because I don't see anyone else who doesn't like it. Also I didn't expect the game to be easy but it was just so unenjoyable, I was expecting to have the thrill of being chased down hallways and stairs, to fight searchers and the butcher gang, to see old characters that I love and adore only for it to have none of that and just becoming a headache and a broken mess. For someone (Me) who played BATIM over a hundred times to only play BATDR only 3 is just sad. Anyways thanks if anyone reads this, this was just something to help me.

[zalrb]

HoTD frustrates the hell outta me, because like this stuff SHOULD be interesting. I SHOULD be invested. On paper, the concept and the plot sounds pretty exciting! But from the very first episode, they refuse to develop the characters. Aemma’s death by forced c-section in ep1 was horrific, but we only knew her for less than an episode, got almost no idea of who she was as a person or her relationships with the other characters, so it’s like… okay this is gruesome, but what does this mean besides being gruesome? Viserys and Rhaenyra grieve for her, but WHY? What things about her were special, made them love her? And this carries on for every character and everything that happens for the whole series. The kid’s death this season was like… okay, we don’t know this kid and barely know Helaena, so why should this matter? And then the impact of his death lasts for about a day and then it seems nobody gaf anymore, even Helaena lmao. And I so wanted to like this show as an asoiaf fan. I don’t even really mind that they made changes from the books, I expected it because the source material itself is very thin, but I hoped they would add more depth, not make it even more shallow! No wonder grrm has been throwing shade at people making bad adaptations, but honestly he gave his okay to make this show, so he has only himself to blame lol

I've gotta be honest, Aemma's death/birthing scene didn't affect me the way it did most fans, I think because at that time, TV was doing a lot of graphic birthing scenes, I just tapped out and I wasn't particularly surprised that a king would choose his heir over his wife, I don't know there was so much outrage surrounding that scene and I was just kind of like, is that not something we would expect in a patriarchal society? Idk. But I get your point.

I also agree that I should be intrigued because I was like, Rhaenyra basically building an army of "bastards" should be cool, and the fact that she's more disappointed about not having riders opposed to the deaths of various people when the dragons turn on them should be an interesting character insight, the dragons choosing their riders should be exciting, but I don't care about any of it because it all seems so passive and I don't feel the stakes because I keep being like wait, who is winning this war, that shot of the small folk choosing rotten vegetables feels perfunctory, like I just don't FEEL the scale of this war.

Because even in season 1, there was just a lack of detail that would've made the world richer, the stakes more palpable

which is why when people keep bringing up how season 2 was terrible, i'm like season 1 was literally no better.

[plothooksinc]

👻 and 🤩 if you don't mind!

I do not! Sorry for the delay my brain has been kinda foggy lately

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

Ahaha, I don't really have any that are wild. 😅 Mine are all small things like "Leo sometimes gets words wrong because he doesn't know them and sometimes gets them wrong because it annoys Donnie" or the concept of them all trying to give themselves first aid lessons when they were ten to... very limited success. All tiny things that don't really change much because I generally work with what a show gives me. Though I do tend to bow to popular fanon when I like it, I wouldn't call them wild either because everybody uses those. Etc etc.

🤩 What led to your interest in the fandom?

UHHH well. I was walking past the living room while my uncle was watching 4pm cartoons after school (he was 14, my age) and caught the tail end of one of the classic TMNT eps-- it was literally just a clip of April O'Neil for Channel 6 news walking through a destroyed wall and then doing a news report and it cut to the teetles arguing over who she was (thanking? winking at? Idk). She interrupted her own broadcast while they were arguing and said "Cool it, guys! If you must know, I was winking at Splinter!" So that was ...IDK season 2? They were still getting mystical crystals? Anyway, I love cartoons, I love redheads, and I especially love weird cartoons b/c I grew up on a bunch of dubbed anime, so I sat down to watch it properly the next day and was hooked. April was my actual first fave because I always latch onto redheads. (Represent, I guess?) Over time it switched to Leo. Largely because, hilariously, I decided poor lame 87!Leo needed someone to like him. (He grew on me more unironically later on.)

That's probably as far as it would have gone, except I really liked them and so was recording episodes etc, and then while I was at work one day at K-Mart I saw TMNT comics! Which were... actually the colourised volume 1 of Mirage TMNT in four graphic novels, being sold in the kids reading section (oh dear, K-Mart, you didn't look at those too closely, did you?) and so I bought them expecting MORE ADVENTURES OF -- wait, who the hell are these guys. Why are they all wearing red, holy shit is that blood wow they just gutted Shredder in the first issue ... :D :D :D (Oh look, they threw Leo through a window. bb's first blorbo covered in blood, there we go--)

Anyway, yeah at that point I was hooked. And checked the newsagency and found the Archie TMNT comic series, and then from there trekked into the city one day while I should have been at school to visit bb's first comics shop-- TMNT is actually how I got into comic reading, AMV making, and fanfiction by the by-- and, uh, solididfied hurt/comfort as my jam-- and I just kept going down that rabbit hole.

So. Shout out to K-Mart for deciding to sell bloody, gory TMNT comics in the kid's section I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you!

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[indigo-creates-chaos]

Okay so I had a sleep and I wanna elaborate on this. It's just gonna be a lot of barely logical rambling lol

First, let me talk about the other songs I had to warm up to. For context: I started listening to Epic properly between the release of the cyclops saga and the ocean saga. Based on the snippets I was really excited for Keep your friends close and Ruthlessness. When the saga released I was hesitant bc neither were what I thought they'd be. I've since listened to both countless times and I've grown to love them. What put me off initially was the tone shifts/location changes in both of them. I understand now that that's what worked best for the musical and I like the choices.

I also now understand why Jorge has not talked about song 21 and 22 prior to releasing them, going into those blind was an experience for sure.

That being said, let's talk about the thunder saga. Spoilers under the cut.

First of all, let me say that this is just purely my opinion, I have thoughts and I need to put them somewhere.

So. The songs are blending together in my head a lil bit bc I watched a reupload of the livestream and there wasn't big gaps between them. That being said, I like the first song. I like the back and forth and the little hints that something isn't right. I like the reveal that Odysseus knew all along and that he was prepared.

(Let me throw in here that I don't really like gore/Body horror. The more graphic it is and the more focus it gets, the less comfortable I am. I can usually read it just fine bc I can skim it or skip it if I want, but I can't really watch it or listen to it. I recognise that that's a me problem, I just wanted to mention it.)

And then he went "yeah, let's cut of their tails, throw them back into the ocean and let them drown :D" like sir, yes, I understand that they tried to kill you but like??? That is unnecessary??? Especially considering that they're probably at least ½ to ⅔ tail so what you're actually saying is to cut them in half??? Also, they have gills, they won't drown, they're gonna bleed out instead. But hey, based on the lyrics I briefly thought that the crew was gonna eat them so like it could've been even worse lol, a warning still would've been nice though.

Another thing. We're saying that Odysseus is smart, right? So he could've just taken the sirens and fed them to Scylla instead of killing them. That would've also saved his men. Idk, that feels like the smarter course of action to me.

But hey, at the end of the day we got exactly what the end of the underworld saga promised us. We got Odysseus as a monster. I get that that was the logical continuation and I knew that it'd happen bc of the snippets from future sagas but I didn't expect it to happen immediately. I guess that and the way it was presented just threw me off.

Speaking of Odysseus as a monster, I think he achieved that. Like yes, he threw the child off the wall, but that was bc the gods literally told him to. That didn't make him a monster. He also spared the other monsters he encountered up to the underworld saga. That also didn't make him a monster. But cutting sirens in half and throwing them back in the ocean to die? And then purposely sacrificing his men? Yeah, that's where I draw the line.

Also, it's probably explained in the odyssey, but why did Eurilycus open the bag of wind? I don't really understand his reasoning for it lol but that's fine, I'll figure it out eventually.

Also, I love how the crew was trying to take over the ship bc they didn't trust Odysseus and then Zeus shows up and gives him the ultimatum and they go "surely he's gonna choose us, right? Right?" Like guys, what did you expect to happen there? How did you think that would go after seeing and understanding the Scylla situation??

Anyway, I think that's all I had to say. To anyone who has read this far, thank you! I hope you have a wonderful [timezone] ^^

I just listened to the thunder saga. I'll need 2-8 business days to process this. Wtf just happened??? Somehow it's not at all what I thought it'd be and also fits perfectly. I don't even have an opinion regarding it. I have no idea if I like it or not. Like no thoughts at all, I'm just stunned. What do I even do now??? Idk, I probably just need to listen to it repeatedly and warm up to it like I did to the other sagas... but I feel like it'll be more difficult to do for this one (at least for me personally).

I should also get myself a copy of the odyssey (and the illyad while I'm on it) so I can read them...

[gnael]

hiiii <3 big ask big answer is what i'm expecting would LOVE to know your top 5/faves across various media that are new(in release or just new to you) this year! so: shows, movies, games, books, songs/albums, new artists you've discovered etc

tv shows:

the bear; you already know bc you put me and like a dozen other people on to this show lol - the chaos, the vulnerability, the rawness idk it's very realistic while being dramatic and comedic I'd like to see syd and carmy on my screen very soon <3

the endgame!! I watched it on hulu this summer and spent the last week trying to figure out what it was called. just figured it out and wouldn't answer this ask before I did. they cancelled the show after one season (and it's not on hulu anymore) but it's perfection nonetheless. storyline and plot is there. the characters are developed. two women go from enemies to acquaintances bc if they don't work together the us will quite literally fall apart (one is a prisoner and the other an fbi agent lolol). that sounds romantic but it's not. it's good stuff.

books:

do not go gently by judith smith-levin is intense and graphic, but the plot is there, the characters are decent, and I'm only including this book bc I was startled by the time I finished reading. I was stuck in the best way possible.

sugar by bernice l. mcfadden is sad and happy and hopeful. I have the sequel (this bitter earth) on my bookshelf simply bc sugar ended on such a good cliffhanger. it wasn't lazy or like the author just tossed it at the end, it was intriguing and woven throughout the story so well. I love all the characters involved no matter how annoying they are bc they felt so real.

movies: a woman under the infulence - a movie I had to watch for a film class but didn't regret it and it immediately came to mind when you sent me this! focuses completely on a woman and her journey with her unnamed mental illness. it's raw, maybe a bit too raw, it felt more like a documentary of sorts, and I wanted to hug mabel and her kids throughout it </3

ty imo!!! this was fun :-)