#if zuko didnt fucked up at the end of season 2....maybe. but he did and they were barely friends. so. no. im glad nothing happened

[garrettrulefivewhitlock]

Season 3

Watched LoK season 1 and it was really good

[zghostreviews]

She ra review part 1

I know this isn't anime, but this show and how horrendous the writing got has honestly bugged me to no end.

SheRa 2018 is a "reboot" of the 80s SheRa, though I wouldn't even call it reboot considering the creator trashed the original constantly and also never even watched the original show in the first place. The only thing this "reboot" has in common is that it uses the names of the characters from the original and that's it. The show is basically a fucking fanfiction labelled under original work outside of that essentially.

Going into the actual show topic.

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I started this show pretty much a year or 2 late, basically just waiting for all the drama to die down from the annoying reactionary communities. When starting out, I REALLY wanted to like the show, and honestly, I was enjoying it back then. Unfortunately, as episodes went by I started enjoying it less, ESPECIALLY in season 5 where everything had officially gone to shit.

The writing for this show is honestly fucking awful, they had many great ideas but either these were executed badly, or they didn't go completely through with it. There's also a lot of stuff that didn't make sense. Like when it comes to the princesses, elements, and their runestones. The elemental princesses are all able to do that rainbow power thing that I forgot the name of, yet some princesses that actual have a power that is elemental(*coughs*spinerella*coughs*) aren't able to be included in this. Glimmer which doesn't even use an elemental power can be included, but Spinerella, who literally uses wind, a fucking elemental, can't be included?? That sure doesn't make sense. This show also has a problem with further elaborating on things.

Though they did a REALLY good job with the writing of Shadow Weaver, she is a VERY complex character and you can truely tell the writers put alot of their effort into her. If you're not some fucking catradora stan that just immediately hates her character just because she abused your fave, than you'd definitely agree.

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Going into the characters themselves.

Adora

She's very bland for a main character and Im honestly not a fan of her design. Why is she shaped like one of those bugs from the ants movie when she was a soldier that constantly trained since childhood? She should have muscle of some kind, and that goes for everyone else in the horde minus Rogelio, Scorpia, and Huntara who was a former horde member.

Catra

I really....really don't like catra, she reminds me of 4 different goals I knew....if they all merged into one person... Catra is a selfish, manipulative, and very unstable character. She had SO many opportunities throughout this show, literally since the first season to just join the good side Adora is now on. Catra, unlike Adora was very much aware that the horde was evil since day one, yet when offered the chance MULTIPLE times to join the good side, she refuses, but is still VERY adamant on stalking Adora, and constantly trying to kill her. Season 5 was especially awful, she literally got worse and worse overtime until this season and in season 4 was willing to commit mass murder(or would it be mass genocide?) all because of Adora, just to spite her. I see many catra stans trying to say catra's redemption arc was better than Zuko's when um, no? It wasn't. Unlike catra, Zuko didn't have multiple chances to better herself and join the good side automatically. Zuko, from what I remember, couldn't just immediately drop everything and join the good side. He was a prince of the fire kingdom who was stuck under his father's command and he actively had to work to better himself throughout MULTIPLE seasons before he could join the good side and gain people's trust. Meanwhile Catra had multiple chances since literally day one to better herself and go to the good side, yet she just wanted to be an asshole, attempt to kill everyone, abuse others, and overly obsess over, stalk, and literally murder Adora on multiple occasions. Literal toxic relationship, but that didn't matter as long as it was catradora end game.

Bow

I actually have no problem with him, he's a nice support character. The only annoying thing is that his abs are constantly showing no matter what he's wearing, except for the one time when he was trying to hide his real self when we first meet his dads.

Glimmer

I didn't like this girl either. I hated the way she treated her mother. She just seems spoiled and whiny and way too quick to do things without an ounce of thought. The way she treated her mom most of the time was just completely unnecessary. Like dayum bitch, she just doesn't want to lose the only other family she has left. As someone with mother issues and does not have a mother, Glimmer had literally no reason to be that fucking rude to her mother, her mother just cares about her well being, safety, and overall existence, unlike mine.

Shadow Weaver/Light Spinner

Excellent character, very well written, bonus points for having a hot voice and having big milf energy. She was the horde kids caretaker and trainer from what it seemed. She has a lot of layers to her. If you look more into her character you see that she actually does care about people around her, she just could be emotionally stunted. She was kinda both selfless and selfish. She had this whole obsession with gaining power which she had even as light spinner, which definitely hints at her family maybe being disappointed in her for being powerless or something along those lines. She even shows signs of having been abused herself, but unfortunately continued this cycle of abuse on Catra and Adora specifically. Shadow Weaver had many goals that involved Adora specifically and she was willing to hurt others in order to finish this goal. Even as Light Spinner this was prominent as she was willing to help save the universe even if it ended up harming herself or others around her in the process. She wasn't just some cruel old woman, but a very complex woman that had a lot of baggage. Sucks that they ended up killing her, I wish she got her own redemption because her story definitely had a lot of potential to be great. It would've been cool to see her try to better herself out of her own willingness, repent for the shit she'd done, maybe a childhood backstory to understand her better, and she tries to apologize to those she used and abused and it doesn't in any way involve having to accept her apology. I just think Shadow Weaver was a neat character.

Hordak

The mindcontrolling is not an excuse for how fucking shitty he is, he became a fucking a war criminal and coloniser out of his own free will. The fandom seems to think that shadow Weaver had done everything wrong, but look at hordak like "uwu my sweet cinnamon roll". Hordak literally colonised kingdoms, kidnapped infants and young children, most likely imprisoned and/or killed those babies parents/other family members, tried to take over the whole world, and other actual war crimes, but he got a pass to walk off into the sunset because he had feelings for someone, and his big bro was mean to him when he was in the cult. Don't come at me with the 'buts' you have, wrong hordak didnt do any of the bs our hordak did when he was no longer under mind control.

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I think I'm done for now. It's 1am now. I'm gonna just stop here and continue with more at some point.

[applecherry108]

first of all hooooooooolyyyy shiitttt

FUCK tungle. it took like 30 tries to log in on desktop. admittedly, i was using the wrong password at first, BUT, even when i remembered the right one it kept giving me shit. This is what i get for being L337 i guess... -_-

anyways, im only on desktop so i can add a readmore to say:

i just,,,,,hate voltron. okay? It sucked. it fucking sucked. i watched the first season and it was like, okay yeah, this has potential. and then s2 was like, okay yeah not as good but maybe s3 will pick up...

s3 didn’t pick up. it was just one long death spiral by the same idiots who fucked up the atla sequel. i hate their writing, i hate their story plots, i hate how they butcher any good ideas they have, and i especially hate their inability to have good character AND plot development happen at the same time.

I got swept up in storm of klance and that’s about it. i have soft spots for other ships but at the end of the day i don’t care. i just don.t fucking,,, care???

the fandom is a mess, the crew was a mess, everything was a fucking mess from the get go.

Like who tf is this show written for?? it has to be for like, 8-10 year olds. It has to be. Everything is just so....stupid. Nothing is ever properly explained, motivations never really given, everyone is just a 2 dimensional cardboard cutout of a trope. And that pisses me off so much bc like??? other shows aimed at young kids can still have great world building. they can have good world building and characters and overall story and still be cheesy and a lil dumb. cheesy and a lil dumb is completely fine!! but voltron is just so...godammn... BORING!! it’s like i WANT to like the characters but its just so goddamn hard when everybody is so fucking flat. by all rights, i should want to marry allura. shes everything i loved when i was little, from her color pallet to her princesshood to her white fucking hair!! i should LOVE allura but i don’t!! i kind of hate her. why?? i don’t know!! shes so...boring! and flat! and fucking PASSIVE! everything in this show lands so fucking flat holy shit.

pidge at matts “grave”? yikes, that was second hand hard to watch for like.... “oooh this is so serious!” but the buildup wasnt there...it was kind of funny tbh... and HELLA awkward...

don’t get me started on lance and hunk. bolin was my favorite look character for the first few episodes and then he got knocked to Comic Relief and had maybe two (2) importantish moments. he/they may be part of the main cast but they’re not main characters. they feel like background props to the Actual Main characters.

which brings me to keith.

FUCK keith.

that’s my reaction after every! new! season!! is just,, FUCK keith. god the show functioned SO WELL without him. he’s just so...idk. i also don’t care. what was his character arc anyway? it SHOULD have been about learning to love and trust others but we only get that in lip service and speed run character development (i hate the quantum abyss...so much... like yeah, who cares about SHOWING our characters mature, let’s just tell that it happened in afucking montage.) if keith were a properly developed character he shouldve remained PASSIONATE and idk, run support?? that boy SHOULD have piloted red, end of story. period. keith doesn’t need to lead he needs to learn to TRUST others and that insludes trusting other WITH HIS LIFE. i won’t rant about how we should have had black paladin lance, but keith should have never ever been black paladin. even after he “matures” he still sucks at. he’s this awful,,little,, Shiro 2.0. and I hate it. i ahte it and i hate shiro just a little bit. even though he was arguably the most likeable character, he shouldve stayed dead. or missing. or whatever. he didn’t need to come back and they didnt need to make keith a little offbrand clone of him. i ESPECIALLY hate that they aged keith up 2 years for no goddamn reason other than to make him the Adult (tm). keith’s dedication to others was gre4at, but it should have, and im failing for this word here so forgive me, climaxed? cresscendo’d? whatever. /resulted/ in him playing support. not leader. lone wolf keith doesn’t need how to lead his pack, he needed to learn to HELP his pack. to be a TEAM PLAYER. he didn’t want the responsibility of leading bc guess what?? some people hate leading!! there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be support! keith’s entire arc is a huge mess of missed opportunities and a grand illustration that he is lm’s and jds’ favorite, just like fucking mako.

i won’t rant about mako, but just know i fucking hate him and the special treatment he gets, and good LORD does keith take over mako. keith isn’t space zuko he’s space mako and it fucking SHOWS.

okay, i’m losing steam here, but like.... so apple, why tf where u voltron 24/7 if you hated it so much? because homestuck was over and i needed a new hyperfixation. and i really had to force it for vld tbh. and at the end of the day, it wasn’t so much about the show itself as the potential of klance (or sheith, up until s3). between the interviews, the coding, the fucking EVERYTHING--it really felt like it could be canon. i knew in my heart it was queer baiting but i had HOPE dammit. hope that this could be killer representation, hope that these characters would delvelopment into something incredible. again, there was so much POTENTIAL. and all of it was wasted. everything really came to a head during the fucking game show episode. it was like lm and lds giving everyone who likes lance the middle finger, really driving home that “no no, he IS just stupid. he’s the comic releif. there’s nothing deeper about him and no one will stand up for him bc they all think of him as such.” and that just....broke my heart. we were so...SO close to lance actually mattering but nope! bolin’d again! and what was his purpose in s8? why to be an accessory to allura of course!

i’ve seen a lot of people really divorce themselves from canon and live solely for fanon, esp fanon klance but like.... i can’t. i just can’t. it’s so fucking hard to work with these cardboard characters. you can only draw so much depth onto them, you know? until the very last moments they had potential, but then it all got snuffed out. but who cares about canon? why bother with it? because! we don’t have a solid consistent fanon version of them! no one sat down and delivered the ten commandments of “here’s what we agree k and l are actually like” it’s stupid and it sucks because everyone has their own little differences and its so so tiring to basically be interacting with minutely different ocs all the goddamn time. canon matters bc it gives everyone the same base to work with. like a cooking showing with the same basket ingredients, but now it’s like.... ya’ll don’t wanna use the mandatory ingredients (and why would you? those canon ingredients are like, a century egg and spoiled sardines, they’re awful.)

okay, and im at work and just came back to this and dont remember my train of thought so like... what really threw all this into sharp clarity was the recent steven universe episodes. they were so...GOOD. so fucking good. so much plot and foreshadowing coming to a head. it was such a wonderfully satisfying payoff that it made me remember what a GOOD show is like, how vld is so very very /bad/. the difference is fucking striking. where one is an intricately woven tale with excellent character development and clear story AND character arcs, that can progress AT THE SAME TIME, one is a hacked together flaming dumpster firing that constantly falls flat and doesn’t know where its going or why. and it s so BORING! like fight scenes can be amazing! they can be well coreographed and tense! and we as the audience can be anxious about the outcome! and vld just wasn’t that! it was boring repetetive action in the least exciting way. and where su set up a lot of potential, holy shit they DELIVERED on that potential. not just for rep, but for characters! for story! for plain ol simple character interactions! and then, again, two dimensional cardboard cutouts.

and now with this difference in good vs bad show so very clearly highlighted for me, i just.... i can’t, anymore, with vld. it sucks. it sucked and i can’t pretend or force a fixation with it that just isn’t there, and truthfully, probably never was. maybe that’s why i’ve been struggling to finish my fic, struggling ever since i posted the last chapter, ever since s7, which, again, that game show was really the nail in the coffin as far as holding onto any hope that this tire fire would ever pick up. like a physically feel ill trying to finishing this stupid fic bc i don’t care so hard. i don’t care and i just... really want to be over it. im sick of seeing it everywhere, im sick of the drama, of the Discourse. like all fandoms have their issues, but hold fuck does vld fandom have a massive Purity problem. like, god, let people ship whatever. who cares. die mad about it.

like homestuck, idk if i’ll ever fully ween myself off vld but i want to move on. i want to enjoy Other Things without having this lackluster weight on my shoulders. and more than anything, i want to stop feeling like im obligated to like the same shit as i did two years ago, or last year, or hell, last week! feel free to unfollow, but yeah i just.... really needed to let this out in a proper post and not in the misc tags somewhere.

[ridleycraft]

posting this 4 the shitpost fic im making

tw: blood, violence, death, murder, mayb emeto (itz all written n it iznt 2 graphic but just trying 2 b careful)

ok so one day i decided to go online and look for websites that i could use to watch avatar the last airbender and shit since i couldnt pay for a netflix subscription because im poor as fuck. then i saw it...freeepicnaenaecartoons.com. i clicked on it and looked up avatar the last airbender and click the download button. i know i couldve just downloaded a fuckin virus onto my compiter but who even gives a shit anymore. anyway when it was done i went to my files and all of the episodes were there. i spent hours just watching the episodes because my life is sad and i have nothing else to do with it.

thats when i saw an episode i had never seen before. book 0: blood chapther 0: azula.mp4. ok first of all what the fuck. there is no book 0: blood that exists. this had to be a fuckin fan thing that got mixed in with the rest of the episodes. and what the fuck kind of name is azula.mp4. i clucked on it because fuck it. and that decison would be the one that iw ould regret for the rest of my life……...

it started without the intro and just a title card there that said the episodes title. that was weird i thought because usually it starts with katara explaining shit. anyway then it cut to a blank white screen and then static for 167 hours which i skipped over because what the fuck. then it cut to something but there was no color like it was the fuckin 1960s or something. that was only for a few seconds though because then the color was back but it was red tinted it was aang katara sokka toph zuko and suki riding on appa and azula was there for some reason but she looked weird. at first i thought someone might have adapted the search into an episode but then i remember that toph and suki werent in the search. that was weird as shit.

anyway then appa started flying down for some reason. “guys i sense something odd like a spirit or something.” anng said. “well there arent any spirits here so i think youre just seeing things like azula” someone said i couldnt tell because the quality was shitty. “BITCH YOU SBLEISMT PIECE FO SHIT YOU CANT MAKE THAT COMPARISON!!!!!!!” azula screamed angrily and then shy jumped off of appa. at first i was shocked at her language cecause avatar was a kids show so they couldnt curse so but then i remember that it was a fan thing.

“AZULA NO HE DIDENT MEAN WHAT HE SAID” zuko yelled. then it cut to azula falling but suddenly a blood red wisp came out of her and she landed on her feet safely. she looked confused and then the wisp came in from of her for a few seconds and then zoomed away. what the fuck was a whatching. this was so weird and the wisp that cam out of azula had a bad energy to it. 

anyway then it cut to everyone else landing on the ground on appa and ten getting off of him. “we need to find azula as soon as possible shes too dangerous on her own.” suki said which i agreed with because yeaaaaahhhh. they searched for her together for a bit and then katara suggested that they split up so they did. aang and katara were together suki and sokka were too and then toph and zuko were together as well. 

it cut to aang and katara walking together and looking for azula. they got all lovey dovey for a second because theyre in love and shit i guess. then aang stood still to the point where it was creepy. “i feel the presense again we might have to split up so i can see whats going on.” aang said and katara nodded. aang walked away and like a minute later he heard a scream. he ran over and i couldnt believe what i saw.,.....

KATARA. WAS. DEAD.

WHAT THE FUCK WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE THIS IT WAS SO GORY AND HORRIFIC AND THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! katara had stab wounds but also burns which was so weird. aang then screamed and cried which made me cry. then it cut to suki and sokka. they heard aang crying and suki suggested that they go over there and see what the fuck happened. they started running ober there but then the blood red wisp appeared again. it then morphed into azula but she was different. she was black and white like from the begining of the episode. her eyes where pitch black except for two tiny white pupils in the center. she had a knife which was on fire but the fire wasnt blue it was dark red like blood. it was so creepy i ddint know what was going on.

“...azula? what in the...” sokka siad. tohse were my exact thoughts. she held out the knife and then said something in backwards japanese. luckily and suspiciously conveniently i know backwards japanese so i was able to translate it. the words were haunting....my heart sunk and i almost screamed so loud it woke up the whole neighborhood....why would someoe make something like this???? this shit was fucked up

...she said “lol fucker die”

then she stabbed them both and also burned them and there was a hyperrealistic blood and gre everywhere. what the fuck. thatnk god this is a fan thing because if this was on hte air kids everywhere would be traumatized. it was so realistic like hyperrealistic. like it was real blood and guts. and then i knew that sokka and suki were DEAD...the weird azula thing laughed in a demonic way that i will not elaborate on because its just too scary. then she turned back into a wisp and sped away. most fucked up shit i ever fuckin seen in my life. not even that pain olympics video i saw once could top this shit.

now the only people alive other than azula were zuko toph and aang. it cut to zuko and toph walking. they stumbled upon suki and sokkas dead bodies which horrified zuko. it didnt sink in for toph at first because she couldnt tell who they were because she was blind but then she realised it was suki and sokka and she screamed. then aang appeared in the distance. he was in the avatar state and he was doing crazy bending shit it was so cool. then the dreaded wisp came back and turned into the fucked up azula thing. then it summoned a huge blood red fire ball and killed aang while he was in the avatar state!!!!!! shit really did come around i guess (get it because azula killed aang in the avatar state once in the season two finale and now this fucked up azula thing just killed aang in the avatar state) anyway it was terrifying

“OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK???? WHAT IS THATt” zuko yelled. the azula thingy came onto the ground and said in backwards japanese with a demented smile “i am azuxa and you will bow down to me peasant asswholes or die.” she took out her flaming knife and the two flinched. then they bowed down to her. “i dont fuckin want to do this but it feels like my boduy is being conyroled what the fuck” toph said. “same with me” zuko said

“this is getting to boring im gonna kill you bitches now lol” azuxa said in backwards japanese evilly. then she killed them both and their deaths were just as gory as the other ones. i almost vomited that time it was so fuckin gross and yes i am aware that this is a fan thing but how the fuck is this gonna be interesting if im not scared.

then it finally cut to azula. she was unconscious for some reason. then a blood red wisp came to her and turned into azuxa. then azula woke up and gasped when she saw azuxa. “i thougt i got rid of you!!!!!!!!1” azula said. “well turns out you didnt but hey its all okay i killed them all for you you dont have to be scared or angry because everythings alright azula. i did everything for you to make you happy.” azuxa said in backwards japanese. “what??? holy shit what” azula said. “yeah its true! theyre dead and i killed them for you” azuxa said in backwards japanese. “no i fucking hate you die????” azula said.

then azuxa finally said something in english, and it was haunting…”FINE I WAS STRAIGHT ANYWAY!!!!”

then azuxa blew up the world and then hersef. then the episode ended there. there werent even credits. i closed the tab imedately and just sat there for a few seconds anbd cried. what the fuck was that was so scary i couldnt believe it. and then i looked behind me and azuxa was there and she killed me and im burning in hell oh go d please help me it burns it BURNS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUASDFHGJFREKWKDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDHELLO I AM AZUXA I HAS TOKE OVER THE COMPUTER YOUR NEXT AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA KRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR *VIGOROUS STABBING NOISES* lol u ded