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therealstonedelephant · 19 days ago

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sukugo is a crack ship TO YOU. to me it's a perfectly legitimate ship, held back within the canon universe principally due to adherence to classic genre structures and not by lack of character compatibility

#sukugo #not to be a crack ship definition purist. but it doesnt qualify as a crack ship if the characters are totally compatible #and if a major reason that the ship is not canon is just because the characters aren't main characters and thus not the focus of the story #what i mean is that jjk has a pretty normal structure for a coming of age martial arts story #it has the young protagonist who is the focus of the story #who has a wise teacher who is killed by the villain to provide the protagonist with more motivation to defeat the villain #gojo and sukuna were both doomed by the narrative in that the narrative followed this classic structure. so long as yuji is the protagonist #and main character then gojo needs to die to allow him growth and focus #and sukuna needs to be defeated by yuji #sukuna and gojo's relationship could only develop to a limited extent within their fight because its only setting the stage for the final #fight between yuji and sukuna #BUT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY MANY EXCHANGES BETWEEN GOJO AND SUKUNA THAT DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE COMPATIBLE AS A SHIP IF THEY HAD #TIME AND SPACE TO DEVELOP THE STORY IN THAT DIRECTION #“teacher and villain set up to be on opposing sides but finding understanding and an equal and love in each other” is totally legit dynamic #thats the premise of tian ya ke/word of honor #what im saying is that sukugo are very compatible as a ship #but to have a ship like sukugo be believable in canon. their relationship needs to be given time to develop #more time than jjk is able to give it within its structure without more genre subversion and without them being main characters #jjk

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nostradamvs · 4 months ago

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The thing about Ranma ½ is that is not as subversive and critical as people expect it to be, but it is smarter and more self-aware that people give it credit for

#ranma 1/2 #ranma #i mean having the tomby who hates men and the men who turns into a girl as the main couple is very much intentional #or its how its a martial arts parody aka a gnere that used to be mostly male oriented but then again the title character turns into a girl #and all the game with genre expectations with the rest of the cast #but is still a sitcom romantic comedy

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 4 months ago

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016, Burr Steers)

29/09/2024

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zealfruity · 4 months ago

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Actually its not just me and my overambitious WIPs in the world. There is also Chinese Soap Opera About Revenge #15 in the bg supporting me.

#zeal talks #also love when theres martial arts magic and they fly around its a good genre #wuxia i think its called #like i havent had such a good time watching a show in a looong while

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worstloki · 1 year ago

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murim genre but it’s some girl who isn’t even going to be learning martial arts or anything she’s just landed in another woman’s body (???) and is inexplicably so powerful that no one can get to her

#the men are all indignant about it too because it has the typical murim genre traits #don’t even make her ‘pretty’ with the white skin why not make her ethnic #since the genre characters love that kind of thing #this random street rat woman has spiritual prowess unrivalled by any other in the surrounding nations #she refuses to learn to fight and doesn’t want to follow a martial art type because ??? why should she #this has gone to her head btw #put this random into the body of someone who was working in a brothel for kicks #the martial artists are gonna be so so angry

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dream-thief-forever-amen · 8 months ago

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Alright fans of The Blood of Youth - let’s have a sparring match!

Please name your weapon and attack art (sword art if it’s a sword).

Hmmm I can sense your killing aura…

I draw my first hidden weapon, the Formless Script Tool… and attack with The Path Through the Heavenly Meridians… as Destiny is scripted in a language the soul can only decipher after death. You shall read your fate today as I send you to the underworld!

Draw your weapon and face me!

#the blood of youth #cdrama #wuxia #the blood of youth dumb martial arts game #now I know why everyone likes this genre #May I never tire of meeting new warriors and weapons!#the banquet of adjectives and proper nouns!#come and play with me! May this thread be eternal

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agnesandhilda · 7 months ago

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just watched the first two episodes of cobra kai season six and the introduction of a new superevil korean martial arts master to be the bigger-picture villain to john kreese (who is in himself the bigger-picture villain to johnny and daniel) does not bode well with cobra kai's overall track record with its asian characters

#bolo liveblogs #cobra kai #a big part of this is just cobra kai's legacy as part of a 1980s martial arts movie franchise a genre where orientalism is the norm #but like. cobra kai introduced kyler as a sort of new-gen johnny #and then proceeded to give him none of johnny's development (though that scene where daniel does a microaggression at him was great)#and now there's kim da-eun who in large part exists to mete out punishments to cobra kai's female students #that would be considered too extreme to depict if a man was doing it. which is its own huge interesting thing!#and she's not developed either. just a scary asian woman without the narrative focus given to the white characters #(many of them associated with actual military colonization of asian countries)#who are meant to be at least somewhat sympathetic no matter how bad they are.#idk. I don't like it

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the-acid-pear · 1 year ago

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Honestly there's certain franchises that go beyond the traditional genre classifications and go on instead to form part of their own category called Autism. Things such as FNAF and UT/DR fall in this category. There's many more cases although many merely fall within personal categorization, and are valid only to certain extreme.

#luly talks #saying this bc i was thinking of my latest interests #and i was like damn deltarune really sticks out like a sore thumb doesn't it?#but then i realized FNAF goes beyond the traditional horror. no one watches FNAF to be scared. they do for tism motives #this doesn't apply to other things like Saw because the public still recognizes them as Scary Movies. same w THC #UT and FNAF are also really close timeline wise tbh #you'd say nostalgia not autism but no these are brand new products w little attachments to the nostalgic ones #Baki is in a tricky spot to classify because the whole point of this was to divide between autism VS actual genre (that I'm autistic about)#but baki there's certain point where i watch it less bc im a martial arts fan and more bc i missed these ppl.#though i guess that's what nostalgia is about

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sunriseverse · 1 year ago

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genuinely the more i deal with sunrise the more i feel in my heart that one scanlation team’s note that’s like “we’re sorry for the delay but our translator is reading up on shinto texts to better translate the upcoming chapter”. every time i try and put pen to paper i realise i need to know more and as a consequence nothing gets written.

#finished my reading on gender and sexuality #but now i’m doing reading on wuxia genre development #and then i have reading on kazakh history and culture to do #and THEN. i have to do research and reading on historical martial arts and sword usage #and then i need to research yuan and ming metallurgy #and then i need to research middle chinese linguistics and seal script #at this point it is less me creating this verse #and more this verse creating ME #c.txt

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tabby-shieldmaiden · 2 years ago

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Things I learned after stretching out my special interest to related topics in order to expand my scope of interest:

There is a lot of stuff in the world.

A lot of stuff in the world is connected to a lot of other stuff in the world.

Attempting to squeeze it all in your head will make you very dizzy.

#tabby says something #autism #actually autistic #like seriously #started out with 'how female characters are written in action genre animation'#and then it was like #i now need to learn everything about animation and female character led stories and feminist lit theory and the other magical girl genres #and martial arts and weaponry and witchcraft and the toy industry #and all these interests then branch off into other interests and it is all fueled by the girls in my soul!

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doctorcanon · 1 year ago

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Some of y'all really need to watch less shonen and more well...anything else.

so like. obviously it's an immensely tragic route to take but sometimes it's just so satisfying for a story to go "there's no happy ending this time. resistance is futile in this scenario. the 'good guys' can't win. this is a pointless last stand. so for their final act, our beloved characters are going to rock the antagonist's shit so fucking hard it makes you stare at a wall struggling to process what just happened and how you feel about it for hours afterwards."

#i could name several martial arts movies that end like this #y'all can find all of these stories if you just look for fice minutes #stop watching stuff geared toward people under 15 #and watch The Raid #or Rise of Legend #or True Legend #maybe Hero #fuck even bodyguards and assassins and that was based off a true story!#all im saying is: its a genre where its not about good and evil persay but just how hard you fight for what you want.

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rpgromanceplayinggirls · 15 days ago

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Name: Jade Empire

Genre: Fantasy, Martial Arts, Action RPG

Platform: PC, Xbox, MacOS, iOS, Android

Release: 2005

Audience: Teen

Protagonist Type: Optional, Set

Romance type: Optional, BxG, GxG

Official Synopsis:

Step into the role of an aspiring martial-arts master and follow the path of the open palm or the closed fist. In this multi-award-winning action-RPG, your choices and actions will determine the fate of the entire Jade Empire. Will you prevent the destruction of this beautiful land, or will you crush it beneath your heel? Are you a warrior who uses his strength and fighting mastery to bring peace, or will you instead use your power to bring pain and ruin?

The choice is yours.

Content warnings: Violence

Notes:

There is no customization of the main character in the game, but the player may choose one of three unique female characters to play as. Each character starts with a different fighting style, but the player may equip other fighting styles freely as the game progresses while still maintaining their chosen appearance.

The female player character, known as the Spirit Monk, has two romance options available to her: The mysterious female masked assassin Silk Fox, and the male Sky, a charming rogue who mourns his dead wife and child.

The game favours the female love interests, and it is common to accidentally romance Silk Fox when attempting to romance Sky, as platonic-seeming dialogue with Silk Fox may be read as romantic by the game. Taking care not to be too friendly with Silk Fox is advised if the player wants to romance Sky.

There are multiple endings for the game, and the love interests will become good or evil depending on the path the player takes.

The game is set in a fantasy Asian culture that largely takes cues from ancient China, but also invents many details, and mashes aspects from elsewhere in Asia together in a way that may come across as insensitive to modern players. However, the game was an early landmark for Asian and LGBT representation in video games, and it was considered quite progressive for the time period.

#jade empire #genre: fantasy #genre: martial arts #genre: action rpg #protagonist type: set #protagonist type: optional #romance type: optional #romance type: bxg #romance type: gxg

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stuff-diary · 16 days ago

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Polite Society

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Polite Society (2023, UK)

Director & Writer: Nida Manzoor

Mini-review:

I could tell Nida Manzoor was a maverick from watching We Are Lady Parts, and this movie confirmed it once again. Much like that show, Polite Society is unpredictable, surprising and entirely fun. There's nothing else like it out there, and that on its own is already an achievement. It took me a moment to get used to the over-the-top, campy tone of the film, but from there on I had an absolute blast. The cast goes all in, and their obvious delight is a big part of what makes the experience so enjoyable. I don't really know what else to say, cause it's better to go into this movie knowing nothing about it, and I don't wanna risk spoiling anything. The point is: watch this!

#polite society #nida manzoor #priya kansara #ritu arya #nimra bucha #akshay khanna #seraphina beh #ella bruccoleri #shona babayemi #shobu kapoor #jeff mirza #sally ann #eunice huthart #martial arts movies #martial arts cinema #action comedy #genre bending #sisterhood #movies watched in 2025

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novelease · 3 months ago

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Explore "The Realm Of Eternal Life"!

Have you heard about "The Realm Of Eternal Life," the mesmerizing Xianxia novel by 辰东 (Chen Dong)? Spanning an impressive 284.57 million words, this story whisks readers away to a world teeming with ancient secrets, fierce battles, and the quest for immortality.

Set on the enigmatic Dragon Island, the narrative follows Xiao Chen as he engages in epic confrontations with the Royal Celestial Maiden. This wild island is a backdrop for thrilling adventures and reveals the captivating interactions between powerful beings, such as dragons and fallen angels.

As the story unfolds, deep philosophical themes about life and existence emerge, encouraging readers to ponder the legacies of ancient deities like Suiren, Laozi, and Buddha. The blend of action, drama, and mystery makes this a must-read for fans of the genre.

Don't miss out on the chance to experience this phenomenal journey! You can read it for free at NovelEase.

#chinese novel #xianxia genre #epic fantasy #adventure #martial arts #immortality

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theannypetite · 6 months ago

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The Martial Emperor's Life After Seclusion

Time to Read: 1 minute Ling Ge originally came from a different world, and, thankfully for Ling Ge, although he never had a master to guide him, his martial arts abilities quickly grew and became amazingly strong. However, he went into seclusion 10 years ago after defeating invaders in Eastern China. Now he’s been lured out by a girl who wanted to join a martial sect, and, to protect her, he…

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#Adapted from a webnovel #Author: Yi Baijun #Genre: Action #Genre: Chinese Fantasy #Genre: Comedy #Genre: Cultivation #Genre: Fantasy #Genre: Harem #Genre: Martial Arts #Illustrator: Hedgehog on a Plane #Illustrator: Shrimpman #Publisher: BiliBili Comics (defunct)#Theme: Ancient China #Title: The Martial Emperor&039;s Life After Seclusion #Title: 武帝隐居之后的生活

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ulkaralakbarova · 7 months ago

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TIFF 2024: SET YOUR WATCH FOR 11:59 PM: TIFF’S MIDNIGHT MADNESS RETURNS WITH DEMI MOORE`S "SUSBSTANCE" TO OPEN THE ANTICIPATED EVENT

tiff toronto international film festival 2024 For cult film fanatics who revel in the best of the bizarre, the wait is finally over. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its highly anticipated Midnight Madness lineup for 2024. This year’s program promises to be a thrilling journey through action, horror, shock, and fantasy cinema, featuring five world premieres among the…

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