#internal critique

[luckthebard]

I just had a lightbulb moment where I realized that a huge part of what never ended up fully clicking for me about the story in C3 is it kept telling me things without effectively showing them.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

For International Women's Day, We Recognize The Women In The Helluvaverse Who Got Screwed Over Hard By The Narrative

Stella because she is demonized for daring to be upset she was cheated on and had to portrayed as evil so her husband could be woobified.

Octavia she's neglected by her father and her life ruined by his infidelity but the standom sides with her shitty dad.

Millie the most neglected member of the team who has so much potential to flesh her out but is just regulated to being Moxxie's wife.

Mimzy gosh this girl was at one time supposed to be a main character but got regulated to a fucking joke.

Barbie Wife so much hype for her and she ends up getting cut in a flashback, getting neglected in her debut episode, and just ignored until the narrative needs a mention of her.

Vaggie she really is the lesbian Millie who is the most out of focused member and has nothing much going for her than he relationship with Charlie. Even then it doesn't have that much chemistry.

Cherri Bomb like Mimzy she has a long history in the development of the show where she even seems to implied to become a side character with her own subplot but nope she isn't shown until theater episodes of season 6 and her relationship with Angel Dust is changed to be super toxic and more focus is put into romantically tying her with Sir Pentious.

[starrclownshazbinblog]

There's no way in hell I'm picking up my pen for my tablet tonight so I can't show yall the sketch but a important part of Angel's story is his deep and intense homophobia towards himself.

Like in his human life he genuinely had mental breakdowns and prayed to God cause he though of a man in lust.

The longer he's been in hell the better he gets with his issues but man did he not have a good time in his human life.

Marrying Carmilla and having Isabella kinda helped but not that much.

I bring this up cause Huskerdust is canon in my rewrite but logistically it would take A WHILE cause of their issues.

Just two people who want each other but their problems are crippling <3

Huskerdust child 100% canon:

[bayetea]

Thoughts on Luke? just curious, i love all your pjo stuff and i saw that you like thaluke so 👀

(resisting the urge to say "no one gets him like I do") to be completely honest barring that one thing luke is probably the best written original character in the entire percy jackson franchise

[speedlimit15]

im so serious straight and bi women you need to be more careful and listen to your own instincts when a man's advances feel even slightly creepy. i promise the novelty of ceaseless attention will wear off. when you sense what might be a predator you should step away, not closer

[shorthaltsjester]

i contain multitudes and can say that i am a little :( about vex and percy being teammates with benefits because i think there’s something particularly heartbreaking about the dynamic that was neither of them ever said a thing even though they both were aware of it and it took losing percy for vex to finally admit it and Even Then, she couldn’t say it to percy’s face when they got him back, percy was the one who had to make the first move (that they were both alive for at least) and he was only able to do that because he’d heard her confession, because he never would’ve thought otherwise. to be clear, i also very much enjoy the story being told, i think i just wish they’d maybe committed more significantly to This Is A Campaign-Inspired Story Rather Than A Retelling sooner in the show so that maybe there would be a bit more grounding or set-up for the storylines the narrative is focusing on (and i understand why they wouldn’t), because i think they’re doing very well with percy’s arc for example, because they started with focusing on his and keeping his beats mostly the same and that seems to be much the same case as some of his second wave of meaty character stuff has arrived. but with vex they’ve aimed for the same character beats but it doesn’t always feel as earned or really feel like much character at all; i think saundor particularly was a bit of an :/, since in the campaign it was really a catalyst for vex interrogating her role in the party and her morality and something she struggled to get over and that haunted her far beyond the walls of that tree, but in the show it hasn’t really had a clear impact on vex beyond the scope of the episode itself — syldor certainly has, but the challenge that saundor presented didn’t really have much weight beyond its moment. and obviously a large part of that’s also probably just, 7 protagonists and wanting to expand the perspectives to antagonists and give more room for side characters is a lot of things to cover. and, i say with love, perhaps a bit too ambitious for a 12 episode per season, ~22 minute runtime show if they want their characters to have the kind of depth that really makes campaign 1 shine the way it does.

[soggybottomboysvevo]

the severance/substance parallels are soooo important to me wrt understanding the innie/outie relationship. fundamentally, an innie and an outie share a body and core personality traits, but they are different consciousnesses. elizabeth and sue have different bodies and the same consciousness, but they're still battling for control over who gets to be. The Person. its you but not you. its your evil twin who bears the punishment for your transgressions. its the part of yourself you've decided isnt worthy of love or basic human decency. "you [undergo the severance procedure] when u hate yourself and you’re sick of yourself and you’re lonely because you hate yourself so u let literally nobody into your life. You destroy yourself because you HATE yourself."

(x)/ (x)

[calypsolemon]

endlessly pouring over your own art is fun when you stop making it about criticizing everything that could possibly be conceived as a "mistake" or "flaw," and start thinking about the recursive onion of meaning that you didn't even put in there on purpose, but that you gradually peel back and go "egads! there's an aspect of this i didn't even conceptualize while i was making it, but will now treat as my intent all along! truly, my genius knows no bounds 😌"

[scorched-cipher]

Probably wasn’t the best thing for me to be reading Warrior Cats as a young gal in my school days because the amount of shit I let slide concerning other peoples’ treatment of me as a result of its messages was quite Bad. And I can sort of tie it back to how Warriors treated its gals. Like, we have a set of stories that hype up the most basic guy characters for whatever they do, and then the only femme characters you have to relate to as a little girl is the “bitch wife” (I love you Nightcloud) that hates their “honorable” husband, the subservient wife that does everything right by doing what any man tells her to and existing to have no personality and bear children, the scapegoat who takes the blame for everything with as much grace as possible because they truly believe they deserve it and cannot see otherwise, the sacrifice (tm) that the main guy character cries to himself about, the “useless lazy fat girl” that the narrative hates for no reason despite having a good personality and no reason to hate outside of internalized bigotry, etc.

You know what, I’ll just narrow this all down into one category for you so that I don’t continue on forever: The Victim. All of the girls in Warriors are victims of their society, the people they must bow to (men), and even the narrative. They could do all the work in a story and still see nothing but disdain come of it. They get walked all over by the men of the story whenever narratively possible. And I really read this as a little kid and went “wow, these girls have so much grace for still being polite and hardworking and respectful after being consistently neglected, and are seen as good because of it! Let’s do that for the foreseeable future!” And then I wondered why I was constantly used for my skills and not seen as a person, rather a commodity for others’ success. What a joke

[chemicalarospec]

my favourite part of Death Note is that it's an excellent critique of how ridiculous and horrible police/policing ideology/punitive justice is when taken to its natural conclusion/extreme, but the old man writing it absolutely did not have that in mind -- as evidenced by the fact that he had the Good Normal Police take down This Unhinged Freak Who Thinks We Should Kill Criminals (tho tbf I do think it's a pointed critique of the death penalty - "it's still murder even if they're death row criminals" like it's not spelled out but it's pretty obvious the death penalty is murder too then. But the author kinda gives up on acknowledging the normal "justice" system isn't 100% prefect by the end). like I'm not 100% certain but I do think Light's dad was just made a policeman for plot convenience & possibly to explain why criminals take up so much space in Light's head, not because the Kira's ideology could only be developed by the child of a cop. (L would have used that as evidence it was the case.) Also the author said Mr. Cop Father is good.

[spotsupstuff]

Honestly with my understanding of how your cycles work it would be funny to see an interaction between a human and an ancient where they are like "Woe is us we are trapped in a cycle blah... blah (basically longwinded explenation of how it works)" and the person is just like "I don't see the issiue here that's cool as fuck"

yes, well... part of why the rebirth cycle (Small Cycle) became so despised *is* because of propaganda. originally the thing was seen as a gift worth worshipping and praising, but as most things usually do, it has some downsides that certain group of people latched on to to demonize it

most of those being the aftermath of waking from death. such as still feeling the pain of the injury that killed the individual. it's relatively fine if one gets a fast death like a Noot stabbing, but if it's death like bleeding out from dismemberment? waking up feeling the pain of it, the phatom body part aspect even though it's Right There and not being able to treat it until it fades on its own isn't so fun

then the mental scarring of going through something like that...

the raincarnation cycle (Great Cycle) became despised because of something like a spirit's depression/nearly chronic frustration. low karma Ancients (under karma level 7) experience those kind of feelings seemingly out of nowhere, detached from the situation happening in the physicality

one can be eating their most favorite food ever and suddenly Bam, feelings of anger, sadness and frustration all at themselves. this happens because the spirit is aware it isn't moving forwards in cultivation/towards natural Ascension as it is supposed to and that upsets it

and judging by the existence of Those -points at Iterators- not many people actually work on bettering themselves because Why would they? They have the Iterators to get them the reward for becoming a good person without them having to change anything

so the nearly chronic spirit frustration/depression is common

[brw]

People praising Percy's X Force for being a criticism and analysis of the CIA is really funny because no, objectively he Did Not Do That.

[keeps-ache]

i think i'm starting to really like writing again :D this will have consequences

[happy10thousandyears]

Sometimes I look at some of my truely vicious mutuals on other websites compared to the way I talk sometimes and was like damn yeah I could also be kinda harsh/extreme at times couldn't I

[kaleido-write]

Me: hey I wanted to understand your work better , also here's some compliments about stuff I like !

Terfs for some reason: you dumb idiot can't understand shit and I hate you , you traitor of feminity she/her pronouns stop bullying me i hate all of you TRAS !!!!!!!

[leannareneehieber]

So proud of my collaborator & business partner Thom for this very important essay via Reactor on the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Madripoor, a fictional city they've now set in Indonesia. Please read, please share & learn some history from a member of the Indonesian diaspora who beautifully weaves in his own family's difficult life experiences into this article about how Southeast Asia is depicted.

Please share, because I didn't know the Indonesian history Thom shares here and I find that tragic. Learn something new today!