#im just not a fan

[emistations]

I know you're more passionate about JP Sonic, but I'm still curious: What are your thoughts on Ian Flynn's writing for English Sonic (from IDW comics, Sonic Frontiers (Ian was mostly writing the dialogue based on the premise that SEGA of America had given him for that game)) and other recent Sonic media?

For me, and many others, it may be the best writing for NA Sonic we've had in years. Yes, he isn't perfect and he's made some mistakes, but when you compare his work to the Pontac/Graff era, there's a massive improvement to be noticed. I've seen a lot of accusations being thrown at Ian when there's plenty of evidence to disprove them, and it kinda sucks to see a nice guy getting so much hate. Yes, people are allowed to not like Ian's work, but that doesn't mean they have to be jerks about it. It doesn't help that the mandates from SoA reistrict him from doing some incredible stuff.

This is just my personal thought anyway. What do you think of Ian's writing, and do you have any personal nitpicks with it? (sorry if that came off as accusatory, i'm just curious)

You're good, your question was not accusatory in the slightest! I'm personally a HUGGGGE fan of this question (and I'm glad I can answer it somewhere safe without getting dog pilled).

In full honesty, he's decent at best but that's it. He's leagues better than what we had before but if we had better options I wouldn't want him to write for the games. I can live with him writing IDW (although I have many criticism for that comic & do not consider it canon because of said criticism, even if it).

Ian's problem is that he has a good understanding of the characters, just a not good enough one. He convies their actions (in the comics) so well. But when it comes to dialogue it all falls apart. Sonic, for example, is supposed to be a static hero, the story changes around him & not the other way around. Ian has good story driven narrative, but not character driven. So characters getting philosophical out of nowhere seems unnecessary, especially when Sonic's straight to the point. And Ian has NOOOO idea how to write Amy, especially with that vague "sharing love with the world" arc she had in frontiers. It's clear there are characters he struggles with. Same goes to Eggman & how irrelevant he is.

Ian as a person is... Eh. He's kind & sweet, yes, but unprofessional. It's the fact that people don't know his role isn't that huge and start controversies because of what he makes up on the fly on his podcast, and then he asks "why did this thing happen?". He shouldn't be answering questions that will start a war and then wonder why it happened. He's a little careless in that departement.

All in all, I think he's ok at writing but has apparent flaws that people choose to ignore. I could go on in a longer post about what I didn't like in Frontiers' story to justify my point, but atm I'm too lazy haha.

Tl;dr, good writer, just not great. Would take Toyoda over him tbh.

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[momo-de-avis]

I think the asoiaf books are dark in general but ultimately hopeful, like, the end won't be happy for everyone but things will be be better overall. Pretty sure the got creators didn't understand the books at all which is why the show is dark (often times literally) for darkness sake and it's brutal and shocking, and therefore attractive to nihilistic bros that ~like~ to see rape on screen because it's "realistic for that time". I agree the reactions to the prequel are funny because we *do* know how it will end (badly 😬) so isn't it pointless?? But then again, how many historical tv shows are there about the tudors for example, when we know exactly how that story goes? Why not do the same with fake history?

i dont know man, i dipped out of the books after so many characters started dying I just stopped paying attention

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filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

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This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

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[doodledrawsthings]

@mindboogling and i have been brainrotting over the unnamed Solace family members for like two days straight, the implications make me severely ill please take them Boog designed the sibs, i designed the mama. they dont have names idk what they should be...

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pokemon fans when they have to wait another year for the next big game with no major releases in-between

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atla renaissance pt 3 calls to me like a siren

[kitamars]

various trad doodles i made while i was supposed to be paying attention in class

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

genuinely is my brain erasing itself or is google/tumblr censoring that post about notre dame and old growth forests.

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[chara-55]

STARSCREAM ORIGINALLY BEING THE ONE TO HELP ORION & CO. SAVE D-16 & THE HIGH GUARDS HOLY SHT

[doodledrawsthings]

got bugs on my brain recently