#it's a valid criticism to have of anyone

[tamagotchikgs]

can i admit something ,,,,,,,,,,, i have never understood why people use books as like THE Truth Media. like if u dont read books you're dumb. you have no idea whats going on and oohhh we're gonna be so vague with it too when like What. whoat ,, literally anyone can write a book it doesnt mean shit i have read some of the most inane takes in my entire life in a book . there r endless resources for information that u can actually cross reference and fact check and get other sides of whatever it is and. just So much. especially lately i have seen it being said so much n it has never made sense to me LMAO,,, just because something is printed doesnt make it the ultimate truth ,,,? u kno

[pyjamapantscat]

I don’t see enough people talk about the actual problems within the httyd franchise. Most people’s problems is with bad writing here and there, which is a valid thing to be upset about don’t get me wrong. However, the topic of racism isn’t talked about enough. Like why are the only few characters of color villains and straight up stereotypes???

[hua-mo-jin-is-a-cutie]

this is the only social media website where I feel like I can talk about this without getting hated by teenagers with no media literacy, but I watched (pirated) Hazbin Hotel. And while I'm still very critical of Viv herself and the decisions she's made about her staff and her public statements and her past actions, some of which are very gross, for what it's worth, I think Hazbin is alright.

There are things I'd do differently sure, but it's like... aggressively average. The music is hit or miss, with mostly catchy tunes accompanied by lyrics that often made me cringe a little by how they already feel like outdated references to current slang. I also really don't enjoy when they have a big musical number come out of nowhere and have other characters acknowledge that they're singing. It really takes away from the musical numbers themselves. it's like musical writing 101 to NOT do that.

I know this is something people tend to criticize, but I'll be honest I like most of the character designs. They have fairly distinct silhouettes and it's kinda what drew me in enough to watch it in the first place. I'm particularly fond of Nifty. I do think some of them are a bit too complex, too busy to be super appealing, and must be hell to animate. I also think there's not really much cohesion in character designs of the world other than color, and even that's a stretch. I wish we'd at least been given some sort of reason in the show that some demons are furries and others aren't.

The animation is pretty nice, though the camera movement tends to make it a bit hard for my eyes to focus when there's a lot going on.

I've seen a lot of people complain about the pacing and while I agree that things are moving too fast, that we need time to get to know these characters and this world and earn these, what are supposed to be, hard hitting moments. I also acknowledge that I like fast pacing. I want it to slow down, but not astronomically, just a smidge.

I'd say the writing is also hit or miss. Sometimes it's got me fairly entertained, but other times it's making me uncomfortable and not on purpose. Again, slang that will quickly become or already is irrelevant is a major issue for me.

Contrary to what I've seen many people saying, I actually thought episode 4 was handled decently enough. Honestly the pacing is really the only thing holding it back for me. It doesn't feel like it's glorifying or romanticizing sexual abuse or domestic violence. It frames Valentino as the abuser he is when it's most important, even when he is a bumbling idiot in other scenes. Scenes of abuse between angel and Val are taken seriously enough. I wasn't a huge fan of the song Poison, but I also don't think it's romanticizing SA. I mean it literally ends with Angel sobbing on the floor so... I dunno how anyone came to that conclusion. There are times when the show jokes about sexual assault which I do think is distasteful and is one of my gripes with the writing overall, however when it comes to the topic of angel and val, it's handled well enough.

I'm interested in seeing where the plot goes with how episode 6 ended even with it's flaws. It's going in an interesting direction so far and I think the music of that episode was pretty good, calling back to the first episode's song with Adam in a clever way.

So overall I'd give Hazbin like a 6/10. It's fine, but it's got flaws. I'd like to see the kinks ironed out in season 2 and have Viv acknowledge some of her mistakes or at least take criticism well for once.

Anyway, stan Nifty, she's best girl.

[cringefaecompilation]

orym: the gods can and should have the final authority on things because they are the final authority, and if you're in charge it means you are wholly good and you should not be questioned. those are the facts.

also orym: um sorry i know you asked and are trusting me to do it but actually i can't kill all my friends even if they're trying to murder me. sorry tempest. oops i """""accidentally""""" stabbed myself in the chest now i can't stop laudna from eating me ha ha funny how that works

[ayphyx]

Me when someone makes a sweeping statement that i don’t necessarily disagree with but the actual situation is much more nuanced and the statement only applied to certain situations so i cant wholeheartedly endorse or agree with it

[drop-the-curtain-123]

ok very specific gripe about assassination classroom

But how comes the series is all "be yourself, use your hobbies, despite everyone judgement, for good" then just... Never questions the roasting of Mimura air guitaring?

Look at my boy! He's so unwell afterwards

Ik now there are more scenes later in the manga that again use it as a Punchline. It just encapsulates that weird gap of "things that are just never Not the Joke/Mocked" which kind of defeats the show messaging 😭

t's not even used in a "do it anyway, grow strong and proud" like some others, it's just. There.

(hi rinka btw happy belated birthday to you)

Anyway unconsequential nitpicking rant over, have a good day.

[funeralscythe]

if he doesn't do this already, i think ranboo should just start blocking his fans when they're disgusting. maybe getting pushed out by the man* himself will be the wake up call they need. idk.

[sparring-spirals]

every time i see one of the posts about Imogen being fully ready and willing to fight Vox Machina for a whole host of reasons, I greatly appreciate the angst and character analysis and depth there, but also, some part of my brain is just nodding sagely and going, yea, ur so right, just like this:

[image description: A screenshot of a tumblr post with a close up on the top half of a fuzzy yellow chick with its beak open, seeming to menace the camera. The caption under it reads

"i'll kick anyone's ass. i'll kick your ass. i'll kick your dog's ass. i'll kick my own ass".

The tumblr username has been edited to read "Imogen".

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[soft-serve-soymilk]

Average head children experience sounds like: "Cynthia, your brain is just the Coconut Mall soundtrack on loop" "Yeah?! And yours is Grumble Volcano! Where's your smile??" *cheek pinching intensifies*

[detectivenyx]

it's a little weird to see the website that usually goes 'FUCK CORPORATIONS PIRATE AND STEAL FROM THEM FOREVER', when faced with two games utilising AI media generators, completely ignore the one that's not attached to any property in any way except perhaps Bram Stoker's Dracula that actively advertises its usage of AI as a central game mechanic, while tearing into the one that looks like something a large and hostile gaming corporation put out primarily because of that surface level similarity and only using the fact another game of theirs uses AI image generators

[dawnstarranger]

Listen everyone has their own metric for what good writing is and isn’t but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t get me down a little to see one of my faves dragged through the mud by both haters and fans alike on a pretty much weekly basis

[trimmedarmor]

doing the equivalent of gripping something intensely hard then forcing myself to let it go every time i see something about the stupid fandom drama i got pulled into earlier this year

[n7viper]

i realise i'm tearing apart the stompies lore (sorry marcus, my beloved) but I like the idea for mae specifically that her "stompies" aren't actually the exotic. if we keep the game limitation of only wearing 1 piece of exotic gear, she wears liar's handshake (punchy arcstrider gang!)

so then also reusing the fact that a lot of armour sets look very similar (gensym knight, errant knight, sovereign boots, flowing boots, etc etc etc) I am leaning towards mae's stompies being a pair of greaves/boots that she's modified over time. she is injured by stasis in beyond light, and it's a persistent injury that doesn't fully heal, leading to a lot of chronic pain in her ankle/calves. so from BL onwards, she is regularly changing up the way that the bracing works on her greaves until she finds something that actually works for her and gives her the support she needs

I mean, I could also just break "lore" and say she wears both liar's handshake and stompies but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ tinkering with armour and accommodating a chronic injury is cooler than just saying she wears two exotics. especially when she may not really need the healing properties of liar's handshake - it would be easy to use those basilisk vambraces as little weapons too if you're up close and personal

[grimark]

not that anybody asked but i do think terms like "cis+" or "cisn't", which i've seen thrown around in relation to the prev post, are a bit unnecessary. to me, it just seems like excessively atomising a fairly common experience, which is the desire to not be subject to the more uncomfortable and restrictive aspects of socially constructed gender roles. and sure, it might never even occur to a lot of cis people to do this kind of introspective analysis of their gender identities, and they might therefore be lacking some of the additional perspective of someone who has, but i don't think we necessarily need need a special new category for it. when you get down to it, "cis person who has previously questioned their gender" and "cis person who has never felt the need to question their gender" are both still cis, which in theory is a value-neutral description and a perfectly fine thing to be.

[clumsyyhearts]

if I see ONE more “hot take” about the Percy Jackson show which ends with “and the CASTING isn’t BOOK ACCURATE” I will start strangling. L + ratio + Annabeth is black in the show + Get the fuck over it I don’t care

[beachesgetpeaches]

if you are a swiftie (or anyone really) who has criticised matty and you are now applauding azeali a bnks for her clout posting really

the hypocrisy really does drip through and it spreads like wildfire