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Genuinely that's kind of why I never got everyone who was like "Fuck Harry Potter everyone who liked Harry Potter is a fascist"....Like babe first of all read the books. Second of all separate the art from the artist do exist for a reason. Third of all. Ok great you insulted a book serie and a nornal person who enjoyed reading it....How did it help Trans people against JK Rowling steam roll of hate ?
I don't see fantastic beast getting as much shat on despite it being radically worse then Harry Potter in every way despite being set in the same universe. I don't see her getting criticized a LOT about her olympic's manifesto about that one boxer being a trans woman. Like genuinely speaking.
You all just scared of the fact that yes she is a bitch but she was not always like that. She was at the start like OP said. Someone fairly normal that you could meet in the grocery store looking at the cheese aisle wondering which one she should pick. She was someone with a dream, a book and got rejected more then once until her book was finally published. She made a serie she made movies out of it. She is not an industrial plant in any capacity whatsoever, she won the legal hard earned way I mean we Quidditch into real life that's how good she had it. Yes Harry Potter IS a product of it's era. Yes she tackled lot of subjects in a way that one would say was disastrous at best, misplaced at worse. But the message of Harry Potter was "Evil will lose" which is frankly a good message, very basic but the road we did to get there was wow.
Genuinely speaking. No one is a bigot from birth. Terrible people CAN make genuinely good art. And the thing she was not terrible when she begin. She was just a normal person. And the hatred grew on her because she never questionned herself and no one ever questionned her. The God complex grew to the point where this grown ass woman managed to finally fund enough money to the Anti-trans movement that the whole England got impacted.
I need everyone here to understand that hating Harry potter does not make you a good person nor the moral one. Hating JK Rowling is a step in the right direction, hating how she became like that and learning from it is the only direction that matter.
I can even begin to say that the moment she called Voldemort an asexual and someone who will never love and she saw it as a bad thing...Was the first step toward the transphobia. Because what is the problem of never wanting sex or romance right ? Just mind your business. Not hard. But there it is. The seed of the problem and that bitch will sprout and look at her.
But that's my conspiracy theory that I do have proof of (asked some transphobes how they started to being transphobic and boom shakalaka hatred for asexuals is the first step. The next is thinking pansexuals are not real. And the final boss giving a shit about how other people do with their bodies. And then they question if bisexuals are real. I am very serious watchout)
Anyway. Yup.
ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.
I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.
She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!
This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.
No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.
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Hot take? It gets on my nerves when FNaF has mysterious lines just for the sake of sparking theory.
“Remember what you saw,” (4) “Off to that place again,” (6, Midnight Motorist) “The one you should not have killed,” (UCN) are all examples of this phenomenon.
To me it feels like a lot of theorists dedicate time and energy to solving these little mysteries and they abandon the bigger picture or worse, abandon entire theoretical timelines based on one line that doesn’t really mean much.
#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#like it’s not productive for theory even#why are we spending time and basing entire timelines on one line from FNaF 4#ALSO THAT STUPID FUCKING BOX#what’s in the FNaF 4 box?? idc#who is ‘the one you should not have killed’ more like who asked#what is ‘that place’ more like what did I do to deserve all these stupid fucking questions#what did he see? not Elizabeth’s death because why the fuck would William have a remnant capturing robot without any motivation#because he’s evil? boriingggggg#okay I’m getting a little intense here sorry#please do NOT give me your opinion I did not ask#you can expand on what I’m saying or even contradict it but don’t just say ‘umm no’ bc I will get sad
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no i genuinely think james wilson is insane and i will prove it right now. be amazed at my deductive reasoning.
in season two when wilson is temporarily staying with house as he looks for a new apartment, house ends up deleting a message from a realtor involving information regarding an available apartment wilson was interested in. we're led to believe that this is because house has realized that wilson staying with him means a cleaner environment and real food to eat, and he doesn't want to lose those perks.
but tbqfh i am almost positive that wilson did that on purpose. this man has his OWN phone, so why would he give out house's number for information that only pertains to him? he was 100% trying to gauge house's tolerance of him living there.
i mean, even in episode one it's explicitly stated that house shows affection through actions, rather than words. based on his actions, wilson knows that house cares about him, and also house likes to feel as though he is mischievous and one step ahead of everyone else at all times.
if house, for some reason (say, idk, delicious meals), changed his mind about wanting wilson to move out, would he really swallow his pride and ask wilson to stay? no he fucking would not. he could never admit that he actually is obsessed with wilson's cooking, because that is essentially saying that he's become dependent on something that someone who is NOT himself can provide.
so, instead of having a conversation like a sane person, wilson gave out house's number for information regarding his moving. This way, if house really wanted him to move out, he could shove the message in wilson's face. But, if not, he could start scheming like a cartoon villain for a devious little way to make sure wilson didn't have the opportunity. which is what happened.
wilson 100% orchestrated that entire interaction i am fucking positive
#house md#gregory house#greg house#james wilson#hilson#they r so insane#like if this is true then thats not even the craziest thing that wilson would have done on the show#they drug each other like every season#and also don't forget how house's detox challenge in season one was the product of a wilson scheme#this man is crazy and i will die defending this theory#anyway#i hope this makes any sense at all
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Okay. Since we're going over all the takes on Mr. X at this point.. What if his powers really don't have a backside. What if (the state of) his normal life is the backside.
What if his normal life is akin to that of heroes where he has to pretend to be something he's not and follow rules that the people who control his life came up with to further their own goals. What if he can only be free of other people's beliefs and expectations when he's a hero.
What if in reality he truly is like everyone else. The other heroes. The ordinary people. All those who work themselves to the bone, who are tired and overworked and sick of all the exploitation...
What if when he's in the form of the number one hero.. when he becomes the most sought after product on the hero market..
Is when he gains the freedom to truly be himself
#to be hero x#tbhx#hero x#considering one of the first things they revealed to us in the trailers was that he's a white-collar worker...#we definitely need to think about that if we wanna try to predict / guess what he's actually like#this thing feels very lin ling coded but lin ling is tbhx coded (introduction to the main themes of the show)#so I feel like my best prediction rn is that he's actually the other side of the same damn coin#(cue the coin flip clip from the opening *coughs*)#I think from a writing perspective the whole downside thing is based on a characters perception#so if the writers make us think that X is an omnipresent all powerful god#then it just makes sense to reverse it by revealing that the opposite is equally as true#and then he'd have an even stronger incentive to want to break the system cuz both of his lives would've been defined by exploitation#maybe not the bright side of X (at least not after he became No. 1) but I don't think being the best product makes him no longer a product#ACTUALLY#“bright side” was supposed to refer to his hero identity bc of the black & white switch he has going on but#yeah calling his normal self the “dark side of X” would definitely reinforce the idea that it's the not so good parts he hides#and we've not much of normal X yet (other than his sugar stealing. you go boy exploit the company back for sugar. I believe in you) but!#we all know there's darker times coming. right.#I don't think they're gonna reveal his normal life to have a sad backstory or Idk (there's gonna be enough of that elsewhere anyways haha)#but we've definitely only seen the top of the iceberg for now#btw yes I do think capitalism & the CEOs are gonna be the real villains#and X is probably playing their game to win#yes all along you were reading my “X is actually anti-capitalist” propaganda#we're gonna go free heroes (at a cost) :))#ice demon talks#tbhx theories#tbhx analysis
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i’m gonna preface this by saying i don’t actually care which ship is endgame in chaos theory (i’m a multi-shipper at heart so ship and let ship) and i’m prob not saying anything new but
everyone thinks brooklynn’s favorite color is pink. it’s actually yellow.
the first time we meet kenji, he’s wearing pink.

the first time we meet darius, he’s wearing yellow.

#jurassic world chaos theory#jurassic world camp cretaceous#jwct#jwcc#apologies for the bad quality photos hafshdhsgjs#i’m sure this could be a combo of denial and overthinking a small coincidental detail#i’m sure the crew wasn’t even thinking of kennlynn at this point in production#but MAKES U WONDER…#cuz like kenji switches pretty quick to having blue be his color#so like WHY… random pink shirt appearance….#*insert ‘i’ve connected the dots’ ‘you haven’t connected shit’ meme here*
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Soooooo... remember when I said I was rewatching DRDT?
Well, here's the result of that! As I did, I made a Danganronpa: Despair Time Episode Guide, full of links to specific, labeled parts of each episode to make it easier to rewatch and reference. The document should be available to all, so hopefully it'll come in handy for anyone who's interested in theory writing. Since it's taken me a bit review the story, I've already been using the guide to put together some of my theories over the past couple of months, and man has it saved me some time.
As I say in my opening blurb on the document itself, if you notice that anything is wrong or unclear, feel free to let me know! You can use the comments on this post to point stuff out as well.
I hope that you find this useful! (the cost of admission is putting up with my terrible scene title jokes)
#danganronpa despair time#drdt#fanganronpa#my theories#when i say months know that it did not take me that long to actually make the tables and stuff#i just limited myself to only rewatching while i was doing work to force myself into being productive#and then even when i was doing work sometimes i would listen to something else#i do plan to continue this once more content is released as well but obviously no one knows exactly when that would be#i might also add a section for like q&as and stuff i haven't decided yet#anyways please do not call me insane i swear this is normal behavior#...happy valentines day????
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Been thinking about all the chatter for the whole day while at work and now that I'm home (but exhausted) I think I can nail down some more thoughts here.
So a few more headcanon clarifications. She's 4 years old. Got her powers 6 months before the 1999 start date with Heavy's incursion into New York's airspace and the whole fallout there during issue 1. Her powers coincided with every single insect on the planet pausing for a solid hour before resuming normal function as she started turning them back on and going about their work. She comes to the government's attention within two weeks, is revealed and announced to the world two weeks after that in a mad scramble to basically claim a Superpower for themselves. Hotly negotiated deals with Annette and Danny. Government is desperate, her parents know it, and they work out a deal.
In the background to this is something I've been wondering about since issue 1 dropped which was "What the fuck was Heavy doing in New York in the first place? Why do the drive by?" and there's a subtle note there that he's doing it because of the president. We'll assume it's a president at odds with Heavy's political bent. It's 1999, next year is an election year, maybe this president is trying to be tough on atomics? There's also some blame from Heavy on the american people for voting the president in, so I'm assuming also that the President ran his campaign on a populist rhetoric against Atomics and likely passed some kind of legislation, emboldened by Magus and the Pyramid's support. Now with a Superpower of their own (sorta) they're able to send Taylor in as first contact against Heavy when he does his flyby. I'll circle back to this after I make my point and response.
Let's headcanon a little meeting between the six. Roughly three months before November 1999 and Heavy's flyby. Lux is meeting with all the other five Superpowers much in the same manner as they met to speak with The Major, about a very similar topic, a wholly American Superpower (at least in theory. She's only based in America, but her work is global) and what they should do about her. Specifically, if they should treat her the same way as they did with The Major.
Valentina is immediately against Lux's suggestion, even before he starts laying out the consequences or their options. She's not even remotely on board with killing a child. He asks her to calm down and that he's not suggesting that either, but he does want to lay out the possibilities, stating that the Six aren't the only ones capable or willing to kill a child to prevent them turning into the Seven.
Here are the options as Lux puts it;
One, Taylor dies and nothing happens. Insects go back to normal, the global ecosystem keeps ticking, and three months of increased agricultural co-operation between bugs and humans goes down the drain. A brief period of struggle within the nests of certain species that Taylor has started making work together, either as support for production or as an efficient food chain for the bigger insects, as they reassert battle-lines across species. A four year old dies, the Hebert family suffers an unfathomable tragedy and a hundred thousand children across the world lose their butterfly swarm avatar playmate. "Best case scenario, the world keeps ticking." He makes the mistake of saying that out-loud and it bums the whole group out and almost makes Valentina walk away. He scrambles to get to-
Two, Taylor dies and the global insect population dies with her. Lux, consults (mind reads) specialists in every field involved from economists to entomologists to agriculturalists, and confidently states that within a year at least ninety percent of humanity will have starved to death as global food production grinds to a crawl. Not a halt, but a crawl. Bird populations rely heavily on bugs to supplement their diets, even if their main food sources are fruits, fish or meat. Within two months most bird species are extinct. Birds were also pollinators and seed spreaders, so without them and bugs we're looking at even more severe knock on effects with fruiting trees. Whales and similar sea life starve without krill. Crabs, lobsters, prawns and any other kind of shellfish also cease to exist, removing a significant amount of calories from the ecosystem. Without pollinators the only kind of food that can be grown will have to be hydroponic or very specific kinds of vegetables. The third world will be hit harder than anywhere else. Without the pollination many species of plants will die off which will then also lead to soil erosion, which will cascade into a global climate crisis, mainly dust bowls and desertification. The rich farmlands of North America, Ukraine, Central and South Africa, Australia, China, Brazil all have their agricultural production slashed by numbers I'm not qualified to speculate but a scary amount, Lux assures. And a four year old will also die. It starts to become clear that Lux isn't advocating for anything. He's making the situation clear to the other five.
Three, Taylor's body dies, but her consciousness lives on in the bugs. Three A) and B) here are dependent on if she's going to lash out at humanity for her assassination or not. If her parents are dead, for example, or her death was particularly traumatic or worthy of vengeance. Suddenly, every single human being on the planet is outnumbered literally one point two billion to one. That for every pound of human there are at least three hundred pounds of insect at a conservative estimate. And that's without a vast intellect turning every thought it has to increasing production and lethality, cutting down forage time for food and simply feeding swarms of spiders, wasps and ants. And that they are no longer waging an eternal, brutal war against each-other for survival. They are now laser focused on the human race and our destruction. Taylor might not be able to fight the likes of Hellbound, Valentina or Heavy, and Magus might have to seal himself in a Pyramid for a doomed siege with dwindling supplies and initiates, and Masumi might be able to survive as her alter ego permanently, but Lux certainly can't survive in a world without humanity. His power is human centric. He'd be just like anyone else, consumed alive by the quintillion mouths of a mind he can barely speak to anymore. To top it all off? If they manage to kill her somehow without wiping out humanity doing it, they're back at square one with option two, a total ecological collapse with a global war against bugs to top it off. And she can go into hiding, burrowing deep into the earth. Imagine having to hunt down every single ant, hoping that you're burning off enough of her gestalt neurons that she suffers ego death and hasn't simply set bugs to wage war in perpetuity.
They leave the meeting with a clear decision. She's clearly their peer as a Superpower, in the sense that her death would be a horrible consequence for the rest of the world - just like a majority of their own deaths - in two out of three options, and nobody is willing to take that 33% chance, even if they've all certainly killed children before. (Although, I don't know if Lux, Valentina or Heavy has killed children. I do know that Hellbound and Magus' actions during the SSoL definitely killed children, and you could say Valentina's actions there also contributed to that, and possibly her actions in Cuba/Turkey might have had some collateral. Masumi definitely has, with Tokyo. Heavy was willing to have children killed as his peace deal, and Lux was willing to do it if Heavy traded in his own family to balance it.)
Circling back to issue 1 and Heavy's flyby, as promised. Lets say the meeting ends like that, Taylor's continued existence and the conclusions reached during the meeting also make it to the governments of the world, and they agree that the risk is too high. She's officially a Superpower like the rest of them. Taylor figures this makes her a Superhero, actually, and is the only Superpower to lean into active use of her power and the good she can do with it. She becomes a very popular figure after six months, lots of people are being urged to treat bugs well, build apiaries, pick up organic farming. Farmers save millions on insecticides. Bee allergies never have to fear again. Wasp stings, malaria mosquitos, spider bites are all a thing of the past. Tarantula pets and jumping spiders become a lot more friendly, it's like having a superhero around you at all times. The wasps even remove their own nests free of charge. Exterminators unfortunately have to shift their businesses to other pests, since you can just ask Weaver nicely to move cockroaches out of your home. No more bed bugs or lice. No more communicable diseases from insects. No more fleas, or at least, no more jumping from animals to humans. Taylor does understand she needs to keep much of the insect population functional, and she's discovering a lot of uses for the 'useless' bugs that escaped the public and academic eye. The field of Entomology is simultaneously in shambles and has never been stronger. While no modern insect behavior study can ever be trusted again, Taylor's insights have led to leaps and bounds in the field that would've taken decades, and she's got the entire field asking her questions, supplying her with answers to her own, and commenting on a dozen new species she unveils every day and globally sharing all of this information. She's even suggesting breeding hybrids, new species, guiding evolutionary processes enabling Entomologists to put a handle on a heretofore uncontrollable force of nature.
Humanity is enthused. She's saying she's running the numbers, even at her young age, and has determined she might be able to end world hunger by 2005. The american public treats her like a Superhero, and opens the way for a few other atomics to start acting the part too. It might even open up the possibility for something similar to the Protectorate or PRT to start operating. The american government asks her to intervene when Heavy swings past New York, and she does, and is able to get enough bugs together on his railing to ask him to leave because he's frightening everyone for no good reason. With her around, the government is less quick to jump towards their Numinous weapons in orbit (inverted pyramid renegades, of course), which means Heavy has no reason to push further and leaves without a confrontation, whilst still being satisfied that he's flown the colours and paraded Haven through american airspace.
Now, since the comic isn't even remotely complete, I can't exactly speculate on how this changes the future beyond Lux being able to finish his interview, get on his plane to Masumi's art gallery (Taylor is presumably there made out of a swarm clone) and micromanage things there. Magus might not get his Secretary of Magic position without a situation to exploit. The plot hasn't really moved on beyond that with issue 8, so I'm looking forward to issue 9 dropping soon this month.
Fuck this post is long enough that I'm considering making it a separate one but fuck it. My last point to cover here is that as an AU or crossover, introducing Taylor into this mess establishes a stark contrast with The Power Fantasy's canon plotline of "Superpowers must never fight eachother or we all lose" the contrast being; what if there was a Superpower who needed to use their power and the use of that power was largely beneficial. How does that skew the balancing act that Lux and Valentina are operating on. Magus is no longer the only one who becomes more powerful the more acolytes he has, in much the same way that I suspect Lux is becoming more powerful the more humans there are, Taylor would become more powerful the more bugs there are. Or at least, more impactful on society and the ecology of the planet the more bugs she has. She could also be getting smarter, that's a possibility. But back to the point. Power Fantasy is a story about the horror of conflict and the Superpower's attempts to avoid it at all costs, whilst unfortunately creating self fulfilling prophecies doing so. Taylor represents a possible next generation of Superpower. Someone to pass the torch on towards. A bit of millennial hope at the turn of the millennium. With agricultural benefits comes a shift in imports and exports, which can fundamentally shift the nature of colonialism, the third world, and global trade (especially as silk becomes as easy as cotton to harvest). The shifts can come too with the place of Atomics in modern society, from being associated with individual nuclear bombs all the way up to national arsenals, to being considered Superheroes. Plenty of room for bad heroes and good villains, sure, and contending with Supercops will also be a focus, but it will at least be a focus for the future, something that Taylor's existence is a chance at.
Assuming, of course, they make it to the next year without everything going off.
I've read the comic version of The Power Fantasy up to issue 8. Just letting everyone know. I am now crazy.
7th superpower Taylor Hebert aka Weaver. Controls all of the bug life on the planet including crabs, prawns, krill and other sea bug life. As of 1999 the most over-worked 4 year old imaginable but she loves her job. Confined to a hospital bed because her consciousness is spread across all of the bug-like creatures of the planet and her brain waves are similar to that of a coma patient (though she can still move her eyes and listen and eat and move her head). Has an entire department within the USA's Department of Agriculture and their mirror organizations in every other nation dedicated to liaising with her. Set to end world hunger by 2004 and is instrumental in the breakneck pace of helping turn the Sahara desert into a food forest.
Both parents are still alive and it's kinda uneasy how many attempts there are against them, since almost everyone knows how it goes trying to fight a superpower. Secret Service details on both of them. USA is unsure if killing her would also cause total brain death of bug life or set them back to normal. Her capacity for spying on people is a step below Lux's omnipathy. From her parents comes a leftist bent that aligns her with Heavy, but because Lux is the biggest conversationalist she has, she's more in his camp. Valentina's biggest fan. Hellbound, Magus and Masumi aren't really present in her life, but she's aware of the Pyramid and the destruction of Europe and Tokyo. Born well after the second summer of love, she's a young superpower amongst a team of very bitter rivals with long histories.
What I'm actually unsure of is how many megadeaths she's capable of. For those who haven't read The Power Fantasy, it's an estimation of how many millions of people per hour she could kill. Three of the superpowers are at the max of 6000 megadeaths, all six billion people on earth dead in a single hour or less. The weakest is Masumi's at 250 megadeaths, a quarter billion per hour, and that's because she's got a kaiju to end all kaiju. I think Taylor can be set at a reasonable 33 megadeaths. Travel time of her bugs cuts her per hour abilities short, but the reality is that if Taylor died or stopped working, the whole world would starve to death not too long after.
#wormblr#parahumans#worm#worm spoilers#wildbow#worm web serial#taylor hebert#worm fanfiction#the power fantasy#santa valentina#etienne lux#jacky magus#eliza hellbound#ray heavy harris#morishita masumi
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chapter 45 of wistoria: wand and sword has me SCREAMING!
Like--
--Will, my boy, my lad, my lil guy. Respectfully--
--WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?!
Every new chapter gives me such whiplash, I love it. Kick her ass, Will!
#screaming from the void#wistoria wand and sword#will serfort#THIS BOY#my theory presently is that he's some kind of construct or product of magic made specifically to combat the celestials#like. the way he talks when he uses his power is so robotic that it feels like hes falling into a deeply buried program#and apparently his memories are like swiss cheese so his origins before the orphanage are a mystery#and theres that mystery lady lurking deep in his subconscious (his mother/creator perhaps?)#like i knew from jump there was SOMETHING up w this boy. his strength and speed are INSANE even by anime standards#cant wait to find out more :D
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Posting screenshots from The Raggy Dolls every day until ITV puts it on ITVX: Day 76:
#ok stupid theory time!!#so Princess is supposed to be a princess doll right#but she looks nothing like the others#(even IF she was a princess doll that got ruined she'd still share similarities with the others like having remnants of a blue dress)#so i have two ideas as to why that is:#theory 1:#she was meant to be a special edition#but the machine messed her up as we are led to believe#OR theory 2:#(which is my personal favourite)#she was never actually meant to be a princess doll at all#what she really is is a test sample for multiple fabrics#that just so happens to share the same base as a princess doll#it makes sense#her dress (while patchwork) is too neatly sewn to have been tore up by the machine#not to mention her hair is completely different to the other princess dolls#and her sharing the same basic body as the princess doll would explain why she was on the production line alongside them#so in a way#she's a bit like sad sack#another thing to add to this theory#is that her speaking voice is different from the other princess dolls#(probably because Neil put in more effort because she's a main character)#idk i thought of this at like 3am#the raggy dolls#princess
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Nothing gold can stay.
This is a general principle I remember every time I find something nice. When a writer or an entertainer makes me laugh, I remember that one day, like in the next 5-8 years they won't be there to do that anymore. Maybe they'll die, but usually they'll just dry up and stop or their sponsor will abandon them.
And sometimes it's really easy to see. Very easy when it's a social media driven platform that relies of specific talent. When the talent leaves, for one reason or another, and they can't change the guard (so to speak) and bring in someone else just as good or better and keep the audience there they'll dry up. And I think that happened with Polygon.
Extended ramble/rant under the cut.
I think BDG Unravels and Monster Factory were their golden geese bringing in clicks. They got people to recognize Polygon when everything "shifted to video". But the clear warning sign was, imo, before those series had their talent leave for greener pastures, Polygon as a media company was trying to capitalize on the talent they had as much as possible by putting them in places where they weren't able to benefit from being the version of themselves that people liked. It's harsh to say, but I think putting any kind of actor in a "casual" situation to entertain viewers is a bad idea and a sign of creative stagnation and profit squeezing.
And if you aren't sure what this looks like based on my description, it's generally when a media company has a group of their actors (their "talent") sit around a table and play board games on camera. It might sound fun in theory, and it might be a good way to get sponsor money from the game maker, but it's honestly just... It's really dull entertainment. I'd sooner watch a poker championship on G4 or ESPN extra or whatever channel that's always on (is G4 even a thing anymore? I feel like it's not). The production of a show or series that allows an actor to be funny or interesting in a way that they are creating something is what catches an audience. The actor's real personality doesn't matter, so their approach to playing a board game or general tabletop game (excluding role playing games for obvious reasons) doesn't matter and it doesn't draw people in, because when you break I down it is just 3-6 people sitting at a table and making decisions based on elements decided either randomly or for them. They aren't creating, they're following rules.
And it becomes less interesting than a let's play of a video game as well, because it isn't about experiencing the game or exploring the game, it's about who gets to win the game. Even if the game isn't about winning. For example, when I plan Catan I know I'm not going to win (I'm very bad at Catan, I don't think I've literally ever won a round), so I play the interesting strategy and cause chaos to make it more fun for the other players; but that still isn't fun to watch because you know I won't win and you can generally see who will pretty easily, and the only real entertainment at the table are conversations we players are having--but those conversations are specifically really only entertaining to us. This is the inescapable truth about 99% of tabletop games: they're almost never fun to watch but they can be very fun to play. And if you can't even watch in the same room, so you can also be part of that conversation a little or back a specific player and tease everyone else, there's virtually no entertainment value. After the entertainment value is gone, the sales value is all that remains.
And some media companies actually understand this! There are some productions, like a few that do MtG cubes but focus on the banter at the table or some that play the same thing over and over again like Among Us or Town of Salem or whatever online party game of the week and really only focus on how the players interact with each other, that do this well and successfully. But the big companies almost never get this, and if they do get the same results they get there by accident and still don't understand why.
Another reason I used board game show as a death knell metric, is because I know of a few productions that tried it out and then shut it down pretty quick or very quickly adapted the show to be about the players instead of the games. I know GameGrumps has been through that before, I know CriticalRole has been there, and I know a few smaller productions that were basically extended friend groups have been there. And they all survived (as companies) by pivoting to player focused entertainment.
To bring it back to Polygon. Polygon was always a company first. They hired good talent for a long time, they had good writers. But they were always about the profit, and so they always focused on what they were selling. Sometimes, when they were successful, they were selling opinion and personality as entertainment. But just as often and ever more frequently, they were selling ad space.
As a forewarning, a while ago Dropout rolled a show out that is basically their "cast plays a few board games" show. And I haven't watched it, so I can't be sure what kind of version I this show it is, but the small price hike in subscription fee (which was rolled out perfectly, I have to admit) combined with the increasing cast size and the introduction of their board game show, isn't a good sign for where they're headed. By my metrics, they have 5 more years, max, before they close doors. And it will have been a good run regardless. And that's the important thing, I think. That's the "nothing gold can stay" aspect of it all. When it comes to entertainment, even if it's good and ends it was still good.
Jesus Christ. Polygon's done.
Plante is out as editor. Massive layoffs across the staff, including Nicole Carpenter, Petrana Radulovic, Michael McWhertor, maybe Charlie Hall...
Fucking hell. I wouldn't have even tried to start writing about games without that site. Goddamnit all.
#polygon#social media entertainment#how i tell when an influencer entertainment show is going to end
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roger waters and david gilmour would have either had a much better or a much worse relationship if they had just listened to plato and socrates and given in to their carnal desire towards their fellow man and just fucked about it in the first place but they really took the beautiful homosexual wisdom of man loving philosophers for granted and look where it got them
#lena.txt#me when i’m normal#floyd posting#the worsties#watermour#roger waters#david gilmour#pink floyd#i’m just saying they knew what was up#imagine the catalyst for the downfall of pink floyd being that they ignored the wise words of plato and socrates#and obviously the wisdom of billy joel but that goes without saying#i know this seems like a joke but it’s not even a joke like my sibling told me all about plato and socrates and their belief in queer theory#and like all of this shit and rules and stereotypes and stuff is all just a made up product of modern society#like if you’re a person and you want to have consensual sex with another person what is weird about that at all#like the concepts of gender and sexuality far predate us so why do we think we know best as a society????#i’m getting off course here but literally if these concepts did not exist the world and our attitudes towards this would be so different#this could solve lots of problems not just the schism of pink floyd#i just believe this is not how humans were meant to live#we place so much stock in these things that truly do not matter at the end of the day#it’s really sad that we do and now i’m completely off topic and rambling#i’m stoned and feeling a lot about plato and socrates as well as david and roger#pretty sure plato even wrote fanfiction about socrates no funny shit#also my adhd meds are working overtime rn so that plus smoking weed creates quite the beast in me
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obsessed (neg) with the guy in my classes who loves to say 'many people argue that [claim i've only ever seen on tumblr]' like do you want to cite your sources mayhap
#i just get amnoyed because he'll blanket say some things are 'stupid and wrong' and i'm like idk man i think it depends#today he told is that academic humor theory is stipid and wrong and once more i was like idk man i think it depends!!!!!!!!#like it's often productive to dispute specific theories but to call a whole field stupid and wrong with literally no explanation is like ???#to me#for the record i think that you can bring up arguments you've seen online but it feels a little odd to like#just present it as a decontextualized claim about What People Are Saying#many people are saying even......#personal nonsense
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WHAT THE FUCK ...
That was a LOT.....
I need to let everything sink in, think over it, watch it again I-
Wow... Kojima you fuckinsunnovabitch , you mad bastard i-... wow..
#death stranding#kojima productions#hideo kojima#death stranding 2#ds2#on the beach#i need to rethink my WHOLE theory#the aging#fragile...WAS THAT EVEN FRAGILE? i am not sure..#that puppet....joker higgs...#hES A GOOD BOI NOW?#LOU TURNED EVIL? CORRUPTED ? BROUGHT BACK THE BTS???!#it feels like home#i am in awe#yet everything is DIFFERENT#i need to sleep over everything
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rough recreation of the set of murals I thought existed in treasure reef. I saw screenshots of these somewhere back in the day and thought i NEED to play season of abyss. But now that I’m looking for them I’ve seen nary a trace of their existence at all, so I assume it’s not real, or else this would be the talk of the town when it came to krill lore. Still, where….?
#talks#I was like oh fascinating so they figured out a way to lab grow or otherwise farm mantas for energy and then they tried experimenting to up#productivity and created krills which is why those are also in containment. MY theory ^^ and then these murals aren’t even like. real…?#maybe?
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There is gonna be more than that coming from the poll, but whatever it is vote Kacchan/Deku for best hero. Idc who wins i just need them to be together again
if they just announced it today without saying anything before, I would probably immediately do it.
Right now im just bitter because of the hype -I thought it would at least slightly relate to the actual story (adaptations of other stories, extra content for the volume which once again may I remind everyone is extremely short, almost half what a manga volume usually looks which is a huge problem).
This disappointed me extremely, as its not even related to any content from the manga beyond the characters it uses. I get that many ppl will work on this, and that artist will get excited over being able to get the spotlight, some will be able to ask specific questions, and a character will get a statue and a movie.
Still extremely disappointed because of the "special project will be announced on the 5th *wink wink*".
I can't feel excitement over it as, in my mind, I lost something that felt better -more content related to the story. So at best this would be "oh cool I can try it", a feeling pretty similar to the other announcements -not my favorite thing in the world, but I wont reject it and try to see what comes out of it.
This isnt at best to me right now
#grrr talking#grrr being a hater#literally one of the special things was already announced -the fan book#bc im feeling negative I will say negative stuff here so beware#as far as I saw the fan book is a way of getting another product without paying artists#and days before we already knew it would happen#the statue thing feels like the art exhibition like okay thats cool still doesnt compare to more stories like at all#and I will never see any of that in person ever so why would I get extra happy about that?#I know this is an homage so we can feel like we are closer to their world and all but the statues have a bad connotation there#vote so we can see the protagonist and the deuteragonist in a movie#im sorry why do we need to massively vote so they get content? they are literally the most important characters#and what would even be the movie about? For all I know they could do whatever they wanted with the characters#a movie based on who the most popular character is... great. unless passionate ppl are involved in the project it doesnt sound like a good#a good story could come out of it#as its based on who is most popular among voters not an actual story the characters need#so unless 278 characters already have backstories and stuff planned that would get explored in a movie#i dont trust what they could do with this#and I dont want to give them my hope. They didnt need to make an announcement for the announcement#that only has made me feel super bitter#will I get over it later in the day? probably#I still want to express myself#the only thing in my mind about using this opportunity is still bitter lmao#just asking why didnt you make them hold hands#because I can try to justify it with my own theories#but that doesnt mean anything now does it
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it's overwhelming being an adhd creative, i need to be an octopus so i can do 8 projects @ once
#i woke up from a nightmare w a horror story formed in my head#i need to write that + write my btr fic#but also finish composing for my zine#and also work on this btr music theory shit that popped into my head (i need to analyze what makes their songs appealing to me#and i could yap abt how shit like 'nothing even matters' follows a lot of production and composition trends of the 00s/2010s that i love)#etc etc#well the only way to get any of it done is to start 1 by 1 so i might start w the zine today after i run my errands
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