#it could have been handled way better

[ladystarksneedle]

Alicole expectations from the first episode:

What we got

[johnstantined]

and you know i gotta say. the vast majority of the people losing their shit this weekend made it very clear that they do not understand the difference between "artists who want a measure of comfort in their lives" and "the billionaires actually being targeted by phrases like eat the rich." that is such a weird thing to be so proud to announce to the whole entire internet.

it's also extremely weird to behave as though any individual is entitled to an artist's work for free. or that the audience should be the final say in determining what an artist creates. there is a major difference between the betrayal of an artist who produces art and then banks on their social capital to engage in harmful, violent, bigoted behavior (like jk rowling) and the "betrayal" of an artist who decides that they should be or need to be compensated for their work. the latter isn't actually a betrayal at all. it's just a shift.

the thing is that the watcher boys didn't invent capitalism, they didn't invent the streaming model, they didn't invent youtube or patreon. they aren't getting 100% of the money from either. their merch doesn't magically appear as if made by elves while they sleep. their videos don't happen out of nowhere and without incurring bills. they have a business which employs people, and sure, you can say they employ too many people, but do they actually? a bunch of randos on the internet don't actually know that. they don't know these job titles, or how necessary it is to have everyone there. it's pure speculation. the entire company exists within a system they did not invent and are trying to stay afloat in said system while a bunch of assholes on the internet berate them for not acquiescing to their every whim at the expense of their artistic integrity, their ability to compensate their staff fairly, and their ability to keep making art.

and jumping from "i want to continue enjoying this artist's work for free" to "i think people should be fired and the remaining employees should be given greater responsibilities and more tasks to complete" is wild to me. there's nothing leftist in that and so trying to leverage leftist jargon to prove some sort of moral superiority is fucking wild, it's disingenuous, and it's sketchy as hell. you're allowed to be disappointed. you're not magically exempt from being told you're being an asshole if you decide your disappointment entitles you to take part in asshole behavior.

"but we don't want something heavily produced and we don't want these shows" then don't watch! that's it! don't watch! you are not being held hostage and forced to engage with this content. you have the choice not to. throwing a tantrum and launching racist vitriol at steven lim and demanding he step down as CEO shows a level of entitlement and childishness that, frankly, i wish they could have ignored, but they're both kinder & more patient than i am.

anyway congratulations to watcher on their new streaming service and their gorgeous new website, congratulations to the boys on a new step in their careers and on achieving something they've made clear they've wanted for ages, thank you to the boys for all their hard work and for sharing their creativity with us. thank you too for taking such a big and genuinely brave step to no longer be beholden to major corporations and advertisers so you can make the art you want to make. thank you to steven lim for taking so many steps back to keep the company running and for doing your best in a shit economy and while being targeted by this kind of nastiness online. and thank you to the entire team at @wearewatcher for continuing to do amazing work despite being treated like shit by the fan community at large on the internet while you're trying to make a living and create art. you all deserve better than you've been shown of late and i hate that such an exciting moment got overshadowed by so many temper tantrums.

because the whole fucking point, the dream, is getting to make the art that matters to them, without being held back. i'm sorry y'all don't want the heavily produced and high quality shit but your preferences as a member of an audience are not the law by which artists should abide. they are artists and they are free to, and deserve to, make the art they want to make.

[mscheckacheck]

Im abit late but happy bday kiana!!

[thewolvesof1998]

Has someone talked about how Buck’s wearing a lot more over sized clothing lately? I bet you they’re hiding a pregnancy, that’s how we find out buddie’s gone canon, it’s time for Buck to baby trap Eddie back.

[delawaredetroit]

Anyway, on the issue of how Bakugou never gets consequences, and that generally the bad things that happen to him have no connection with his misdeeds...Aoyama's involvement in his kidnapping could have complicated that a bit

Why is Aoyama the traitor? Because his parents arranged for him to receive a quirk from All for One. Why did they do that? So that Aoyama could be "normal" so that he could be spared from the ostracization of being quirkless - i.e. to protect him from the childhood Izuku had. So more or less Aoyama is the traitor because his parents wanted to protect him from people like Bakugou.

The set up is there for this, but there isn't really any follow through with it

[hellaciousfaith]

So, a while back ago I commissioned @dweebsfilingcabinet because @mayhemmaybe had a brilliant idea of inserting Shiro and Mephisto into a MTG card that they had, and I was not only immediately onboard with the idea but impatient to make it manifest.

I dunno what I love more: the brilliance and the lighting of the stained glass from the Bloody Fairy Tale inspired images, the sheer power and possessiveness radiating from both sets, or all the yelling and screaming Dweeb and I did with/at each other while they made these beautiful works of art happen, which had us both geeking out the entire time. Like, god fucking damn, I hit the jackpot here!!

Anyway, you should really commission @dweebsfilingcabinet. Their art is always phenomenal, their prices are highway robbery onto themselves, they never disappoint. Please give their sheet a look. It's super worth it and always a fucking masterpiece.

MTG reference undercut

[grumpysunfish]

Can we like. Stop projecting modern day western class discussions into mdzs. Or better yet stop talking about class altogether since so many of you are clearly ill prepared for it.

I love mdzs for how complicated and different it is from what I'm used to and seeing all of that get whittled down into the same old tired money/power = bad when it is so much more than that. It's a completely different system and culture. Western capitalist critiques isn't going to cut it people.

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

"Cuhut it out- you guys!" "Nu-uh, not until you're all perked up first! You don't want those gym challengers meetin' with an ol' mopey leader, do ya?" "Whitney's right, dear friend. No need to hide that beautiful smile of yours, alright?~"

What it takes to cheer up Johto's beloved ghost boy 👻💕

[wraithsoutlaws]

i think theres a conversation to be had about how taash's story explores gender roles and transness in ways that could be seen as reductive but if your take away is "they could've given us a butch lesbian and instead we get THIS" about a canon nonbinary character i simply don't want to hear anything else you have to say about it

[finleyforevermore]

Kindly, no one @factchecktheblog any hate or rude asks/messages. Neither of us handled things the way that we should have, and we both apologized to one another and sorted things out. Please be respectful. Thank you. :]

I don't know if anyone HAS sent anything, but I would like to stop it BEFORE it happens.

[loderlied]

i am sorry. about the gort stuff. btw

[cinderellaenjoyer]

Lautski thank you for not having a girl who can be demonised by the fandom for 'getting in the way of the Ship'

[sforzesco]

hello! I always like reading your thoughts on various media set in Ancient Rome and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on i claudius?

(I don’t know if you’ve talked abt the show but tumblr search is being awful rn)

thank you for reading and i hope you have a good rest of your day!

oooh I don't think I've really talked about I Claudius here

I enjoy it a lot! its pretty stripped down compared to the big epic productions set in Rome, and it's 1000% to it's favor. kind of like how artists will do limited palettes to push their boundaries, or stage productions allow you to escalate the character in ways you don't get to experience in other mediums. all of that pushes the show into a space where the spectacle of interpersonal drama really thrives and shines

also I like the aspect ratio it was filmed in! I think it adds a visual tightness that exemplifies how the character narratives interlock with each other, especially since the whole thing is like watching a cascading crash of dynastic dominoes.

[dawn-sunlight]

Putting my various Hamster and Gretel predictions out there now that we have all the descriptions

Stuff that I absolutely think is going to happen:

Ms. Night is the one who gives Hiromi the truth gas and encourages her to release it at the art show.

Hiromi finds out Hamster and Gretel's identities at the end of Miss Direct, and ends up telling Ms. Night.

Ms. Night is the villain mentioned in the description for Trading Faces.

Kevin and Hiromi get together at the end of Trading Faces after he helps rescue her.

Mordros learned from Hamster Ex Machina and starts his invasion by kidnapping people(Kevin, Fred, Bailey, possibly Lauren, Lyle, and Footkicker because of their powers but extremely unlikely) that could be a potential problem. He also manages to get Hamster.

In addition to all that, he at some point manages to take Gretel's powers.

I suspect that Hiromi learns of Kevin and Fred's involvement with Hamster and Gretel at the end of The Art of Deception but I'm not as confident about that

I've also both seen and had the thought myself that The Imposter might be Ms. Night, and I definitely could see that happening (though I''m hoping it doesn't)

I really want any sort of attention to be given to what effect the reveal will have on Hiromi and Fred's friendship, but I have no idea what the actual likelihood they do that is.

Stuff that I don't think is going to happen but I would like to:

A Tchotchke appearance so the implication he was going to appear again doesn't go to waste

Lauren helping in the fight against Mordros

Literally any kind of proper conclusion to Lauren and Lyle's arc

[seventeendeer]

just watched the barbie movie everyone was discoursing about last year and I can't help but feel like a lot of the problems in its execution could have been avoided if the kid character's arc had been about learning to embrace girly stuff as an act of rebellion against the adultification of teen girls while barbie went full butch transmasc

[bizlybebo]

theres something in me that wants to write the exact same au shifted slightly to the left 48269484 billion times