#just say you don’t watch the show

[creativity-deficient]

I think one of the most annoying (and unfortunately most common) opinions of South Park I see way too often is that the show’s brand is apathetic centralism, and that it pushes the agenda that if you care about anything, you’re lame.

I really don’t think that’s true. South Park is a show that often tries to see things from both points of view, which includes taking jabs at both sides as well. However, time and time again they have been shown to have very left leaning beliefs, such as being pro-lgbt+, anti racism, feminists, etc etc. They’ve covered topics such as police brutality, the unfair treatment of women in society and the toxic culture of things like photoshop, sexual assault, mental health, homophobia, transphobia, abusive relationships, and so much more. They’re constantly making fun of bigots, pedophiles, rapists, and overall assholes. The kids are constantly learning lessons by the end of each episode about how the world works.

Sure, they may not always get everything right, and there are certainly things that haven’t aged as well today. As someone who loves the show, I can admit that. However to reduce it down to “apathetic centralism” and act like they simply just do not care about anything at ALL, not only is completely false, but doing the show such a disservice too imo.

[keferon]

May I ask what were the best transformers media you ever saw/read?

Well Transformers Prime, Transformers 1986 and IDW comics are having the first place that’s for sure

And then the second place is kind of shared by Fall of Cybertron, Exodus, Prime wars trilogy, Robots in disguise(2001) and Transformers One.

The third place goes to G1, Animated, Earthspark, Armada, War for Cybertron Netflix series, Aligned Robots in disguise, Bumblebee, Rise of the Beasts and Cyberverse because I only liked some little parts of them.

And then I also saw some of the Bay movies, Victory and Headmasters and didn’t like them at all.

Separate first place for J-Decker. It is not exactly Transformers but it is a show about giant robots and I loved it

[fromduck]

Guys I’m being dead ass when I say this. It’s been five years- HALF A DECADE since I last watched Voltron and yet Keith Kogane stays on my mind. He won’t leave 😭

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

I’m convinced that people who hate Mabel have a) never watched the show and/or b) don’t have siblings. Because until they encountered Bill Cipher for the first time, there was nothing to suggest Dipper’s obsession with the journals was more important or valid than Mabel just wanted to have a normal summer with a whirlwind romance. And even after incident with the portal Dipper and Ford actively keep everything secret from Mabel and Stan so she has no idea of the stakes or what Bill is capable of. Add to that that her dreams of the future were all suddenly crumbling around her all at once, and it is perfectly reasonable if not expected that she would fall for an immortal chaos demon’s tricks.

Also, most of the stuff involving the journal that goes wrong is Dipper’s fault but he still pretends like he and Mabel are in it together. And those of you who are siblings know that Mabel takes it extremely well. Like if I had accidentally sold my body as a puppet to a demon and the only way I could ask my sibling for help was through a sock puppet, I would expect them to help, but only after they spent a good half hour laughing and making fun of me with the additional consequence would be that any time I ask them for a small favor in the future, they would remind me that they were the one to save me from my stupid mistake, so no, they won’t pass me the salt.

(Also, can we just take a moment to see the giant double standards when it comes to the romances that Dipper and Mabel’s have. When Mabel pursues a romantic people treat it as irrelevant and getting in the way of the plot even when it doesn’t. But when Dipper tries to win Wendy’s affection, people expect Mabel to drop everything, sacrifice her pet, mess with time travel to help set up a scenario which Dipper can win a carnival game as a flex.)

[spirkbitch]

i’ve been attempting to understand for a while why i hate so much that a video of the january 6th insurrection was used in star trek, and aside from how much it confuses the timeline (eugenics wars in the 90s, nuclear winter in the early 21st century, but somehow all sorted out by 2016 and trump was elected president?), i think i’ve found part of my problem with it.

it just seems like an easy cop out to get ‘progressive points’, a quick way for the writers to show you where they stand, without even an attempt to fit it into the timeline in a way that makes sense.

my main issue is that star trek has, of course, always dealt with complicated issues, but it used to be so much more thought out. there used to be metaphors, allegories, explanations that actually made sense (though sometimes it wasn’t spelled out for you) . The Cloud Minders, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (tos) and The High Ground (tng) are just a few episodes off the top of my head, that deal with similar, difficult, situations. Even episodes like A Private Little War, which clearly hasn’t aged well, was very obviously an allegory for proxy wars, a very real and pertinent issue at the time it came out.

but the thing is, you have to think between the lines to understand them, none of them are so heavy handed as to just directly show a video of a historical event just to say “hey guys this is bad”, like it was only put there to prove the point that the show runners don’t support that.

one issue this brings up for me is, while trying to find others that agree with me on this i just keep coming across the sentiment “politics shouldn’t be in star trek”. if you’ve managed to miss the politics this whole time then i regret to inform you that your skull may be made of lead.

it’s hard to discuss real opinions on a show when so much of the criticism is flooded with “it’s too woke!! why is there politics in star trek!!!”

star trek has always been an overwhelmingly progressive show, (accounting for the fact that it started in the 60s of course) but unfortunately a lot of people have managed to miss that, a lot of the progressive points have ‘aged out’ of the show, and no longer make the point they used to as clearly as they would have had you watched them when they came out. now it seems that writers are overcompensating to drive home the point that it’s a progressive show.

to people who missed how progressive it already was, this makes it look unnecessarily ‘woke’ and like it came out of nowhere, for the rest of us who were paying attention, it seems very heavy handed and like they’re trying too hard to achieve something that old trek did effortlessly.

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

a good animated show must have at least 4 of the following:

- gay

- existentialism/nihilism

- morally grey lead characters

- horrendously depressing themes/messages

- psychedelic weird shit that highlights the absurdity of life

i don’t make the rules (i do make the rules pls recommend me shows—i’ll put the ones i’ve watched in the tags, feel free to add any you think of)

[gemmaswife]

damn yall putting the blame on a depressed alcoholic man grieving his wife rather than the global evil company who kidnapped said wife and probably filled his phone with ads for two years until he ended up working for them to further extend her torture. that’s crazy

[castleclerics]

byler fandom annoying as hell bc i do not understand how this doesn’t absolve absolutely every single person of byler doubt 100%. mike literally glances down to his right nervously.

bro just look at this one more time. there is nothing else for mike to look at besides will’s wrist touching his, will’s arm is literally blocking the whole right side of the painting!!!!!!! like that’s crazy are you kidding me it still throws me for a loop

this should honestly be the most undeniable proof imho like. it literally cannot be and isn’t anything else but mike feeling weird about will just brushing against him. girl. like it’s in the bag yall pmo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oxymoronicdumbass]

you think i’m crazy about this show now? HAH you should see my AO3 account! …but on second thought, maybe you shouldn’t…

[ceilidho]

thinking of this price today…….

I saw a preview of a show awhile back where the premise is that this woman is keeping her former kidnapper locked up in her basement and using him to help her solve crimes, and in one scene he tells her he’ll only give her information if she tells him that she loves him. ……I don’t need to know anything more about this show, that made me GASP

[watchyourbuck]

If Buck gets yet another random-rescued-woman love interest arc™️ I might have to retire guys

[the-scarlet-witch-22]

How I sleep at night not caring about anyone besides Agatha Harkness being in a potential season 2 of Agatha All Along

[keferon]

I was looking at your master post and noticed it on had a YouTube. And I think my brain shattered.

I thought I’ve been following you for less then a year. Nope. Been consuming for nearly three. And I just never realised the art style was so similar. Wo. Now I’m down right curious if anyone else has had that happen. You are awesome. Your old mc animations was what got me to try animating.

Ahahah mmmm yeah. This. Hahahjgjg. This happens pretty often. I have the habit of quietly creating a new blog/account for every new fandom. So. My personal record so far - one person managed be my fan four times at once because they were loving my YouTube and then reading two of my comics on two different blogs and then also being a fan of a TV series I work on. They thought they were appreciating the art of four different people:D

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Light save me from pretentious imbecilic book fans who spend all their time nitpicking extremely minor choices in the show and insisting that that means they did a bad job adaptating the large scale plot and themes. Just pucker up and kiss my ass actually.

[howfrightening]

the peace that i feel knowing that every voice that hates on hmoney doesn’t matter, and that the majority of audiences like it and want it back and so do the inventors of the ship- the actors themselves🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ never underestimate the love a gay has for that one token “straight” couple.

the way that the hetty and trevor relationship compliments each of their character journeys so well without over taking their main plots and lets them be awful and human, but then also grow is so good. i need to yap more about them honestly.

[empathicxo]

as someone who was on twitter when wilbur soot was declared a sexual abuser, and is now on tumblr when neil gaiman’s facing allegations of sexual abuse, it’s actually so fucking ironic to see that the minecraft fans, of all people, are handling this better than the good omen fans.