#none of that matters when im consuming media

[blueskittlesart]

i think you should be allowed to complain about whatever you want forever (and as someone who has been absolutely dying a thousand deaths over the currently planned live action how to train your dragon movie i completely understand this flavor of anguish)

sure sometimes positivity can be good, but sometimes u gotta start eating the walls and yelling to the sky about your misery (it’s cathartic <3). i am so very sorry you are joining the “bad live action movie made purely for money that has no shot of capturing what i love about this media” club, and i hope that at some point in the future it will be able to hurt at least a little less

it's like. idk. like i know that im at best a niche internet microcelebrity but it does kind of feel like im at the point where im being held to a weirdly high standard for. posts on a dying blogging website. like as far as i'm concerned i've never marketed this as an overtly positive space. i complain constantly. i've built this blog around media analysis and critical reads of the things i enjoy, whether those reads are positive or negative. but it's gotten to the point where any time i post an even minimally divisive opinion i get someone who is angry that i even dared to have an opinion at all. i've been very open on this blog about what these games mean to me and how much of my life is tied up in them. I became an artist in part because of my love for them. they have driven the success of my career over the past 5 years. I don't think it's unreasonable for me to be disappointed when something like this happens even if it's "just a game" or "just a movie" especially when my entire brand of content is posting about the game in question. i feel sort of insane. like, you all understand that i'm a person, right? that when i post things they come from my real human brain with real human thoughts and emotions? That i'm not curating my thoughts and opinions for you to consume? I'm just posting. i have a big audience but i am still just posting. and no one understands more than me how insane it is that i'm saying all this in response to posts on my legend of zelda fan blog. but like. i need you all to understand that you can't just tell people to not feel something that they are feeling and expect them to react positively to that, no matter what the context is.

anyways none of this is directed at you the asker im just using you as a vessel lmao but thank you for your support. i am nothing if not a hater and i will continue to be a hater until the end of time god bless 🙏🙏🙏

[teomodo]

is there a reason for this apparent trend of Extreme Credulosity on the internet beyond the usual advertiser friendly/made for kids/eternal september/no-discretion-just-endless-content reasons... like i acknowledge i am not the target demo here but it seems very common these videos with the spooky scary thumbnail about how this media was BANNED omg what could it be and what it be's is like 30 years ago in the dark ages of mass media conservative christians had the power to take bloodhound gang off their radio stations because it was too off color for their tastes. like i think maybe this is only interesting to me because ive been around older/religious people so much so i hear the decline of society thing all the time and like accelerated degradation of social etiquette and taboo and Young People are all culturally relevant and hip and with it and savvy but it feels like wrapping back around to this like extreme wide eyed...ness... very disingenuous feeling very obviously for profit... like maybe in my mind im overstating the cultural relevance of rotten.com and it just feels like EVERYONE on the internet used to watch videos of the cartel torturing people to death and now EVERYONE only watches 30 pieces of lost childrens media found in 2025 [12:28:56] number 30 a reddit user posted about a show they couldnt remember about a blue dog who solbed mysteries and a comment suggested it was a show called blues clues Lost Media: Found. maybe the powers that be have enforced the dichotomy of content creator/content consumer in a 10/90 ratio because everyone acknowledging their capacity for creativity and self fulfillment is not profitable and they did it so well that it cultivates this feeling like we *are* running out of new things (even though we're not) so we take the campfire ghost story aesthetics of like a whang video on mr. hands and apply it to whatever the anticlimactic drama du jour is because this form of presentation is established even if we don't have actual content to justify such a presentation and we're just scraping the bottom of the barrel for ad sense, content wise. the other side of this coin is of course that uber savvy misanthropic irony poisoning is also still everywhere and the grand old tradition of white kids adopting aave to seem Worldly is alive and well so when they say "blud thought he ate with the top hat willy wonka ahh chile 😭 😭 " it sounds like everyone else is soooo gauche and naive and you see the top hat soooo often that everyone knows what you'retalking about. i think i understand that a little more as a cultural trend/defense mechanism where the gullibleness maybe i want to understand less because im afraid the answer is everyone buying wholesale into the modes of thought that make them good youtube viewers, or, if not enthusiastic conscious adoption of that kind of thinking just taking the path of least resistance because real life is so sucks right now. honestly most of the time it just feels like everyone is talking to nobody online and our little jokes and performances are always just whizzing over the shoulders of The Viewership so maybe none of this even matters whatsoever

[etherealspacejelly]

I fear that i would be sad and becoming a hateful bigot that calls anything that’s different to the norm ‘bad’.How do i become not like this?

well i think the first thing to do is to throw out the idea that you have any clue what 'normal' even is! because none of us do!

normal is a very subjective term. it is affected by the country you grew up in, the culture and religion of your family, the media you consume regularly, the people you spend time with most often, the list goes on

you will never truly understand the vast extent of The Human Experience because there will always be experiences you cannot relate to or empathise with no matter how hard you try. so you need to get into the mindset that Every Single Human Being deserves basic human rights no matter what. they deserve healthcare, housing, food and water, bodily autonomy, etc. because in a society where your rights can be taken away because you did something Bad, the people in charge will find a way to make the people they dont like into Bad People, so that they can get away with taking their rights away. see: homosexuals are paedophiles, trans women are predators, Muslims are terrorists, etc. etc. etc.

the only way to ensure your rights never be taken away is to make sure No Ones Rights Can Be Taken Away Ever, yes even Those people. yes, them too. when i say no one, i mean no one.

keeping an open mind and listening to other peoples experiences is also highly important. if something makes you uncomfortable, sit with that. think about Why it makes you uncomfortable, and whether that is a rational thing to feel about it or if it is a knee jerk reaction that was taught to you by your family or the society you grew up in.

you will have to accept that you Are going to be wrong about some things. you are not always the good guy in every story. you will say bigoted things or be ignorant about something or offend someone, even if you never intended to. and your response to that should not be "omg i didnt mean it im not a bigot i would never do anything bigoted my mums brothers dogs cousin is [insert minority group]!!", it should be "ok, i messed up here. i clearly have much more to learn on this subject. im so sorry for [thing you did/said] and for any harm it caused, i will educate myself so that this doesnt happen again."

and its important to remember that having some internalised bigoted beliefs doesnt make you an Evil Person, you were just raised in a bigoted society. of course you're going to pick these things up thats what humans do! we learn from and copy the behaviours of those we grow up with as children. but you do have to do the work to challenge those beliefs and educate yourself. i believe that people should always be given the opportunity to grow and change, and that often times bigoted behaviour comes from a place of ignorance and fear. these people will never change their beliefs if we treat them like irredeemable monsters, it will just push them further away.

anyway thats my take on it i suppose. other people will have different opinions. i hope this helped you in some way :)

[cuppatealover]

reasons why i think my parents pissed off a fairy before i was born (why i think im cursed)

cursed pieces of media always seem to find me

im not exaggerating when i say ive seen more than my fair share of fucked up stuff. it always seems to land on my cellular device or my piece of paper. ill be simply enjoying a show or consuming a book as one does and the most heinous thing will happen and ill be expected to just carry on. and now i do just that, i keep calm and carry on. more specifically theres one topic that seems to pop up a lot (tw!!) incest.....now now you may be thinking "what!? incest....id drop whatever it was and go reconnect with nature...weirdo" now now lets not jump to conclusions, 9/10 that movie/book/manga/whatever is actually really good (the other 1/10 lands you in therapy) and the incest or whatever never progresses the plot at all, but is a big enough plotwist to give me whiplash. and dont you worry, ive got an example. last year, i needed a book so i went to my schools library with a friend. about 10 mins of searching resulted in no book i felt inclined to read....until my friend gasps, a book in her hands..."Shadowhunters"?? i had never heard of it but apparently it was a big part of her childhood, something that soothed the gaping hole Twilight left...okay ill read i said. reading the first few chapters was great, i could practically smell an enemies to lovers and the big mystery of who and where mc's brother is was lingering in the back, my type of book i thought happily. little did i know....mc and ml were infact revealed to be siblings......i dropped my book. i had already thought it was weird that ml's adoptive brother had a crush on him but that gets crushed quick and now this...? now you may be thinking isnt it illegal or sum to promote incest..? and yes u are right, so you can imagine my deep sense of relief i felt when mc and ml were infact not related... because i didnt know how much more i could take of the ml yearning for his literal sister..(he was relentless...). but it doesnt stop there, for all you sickos out there, the author still managed to weasel some incest in. when the ml and mc are still believed to be siblings by them and everyone, another ml enters, this boy is perfect, maybe even a better fit for mc, girl is feeling it too. turns out this second guy is none other than.....her brother !! shocked you didnt it...(hes completely sick and knows the entire time....he wants his sister). but dont worry guys other than that, Shadowhunters is really good, character development? chefs kiss. i luv isabelle.

all my pens perish

im not exaggerating when i say i probably go through 6 pens a week, either they explode in my school blazer, completely new pens dry out in my pencil case, snap or most common cause, i lose them. i try pencil and the lead snaps in the middle so now matter how much i sharpen it, it will never be useful again. this is a cry for help, any stationary reccs??

i lose everything all the time

would you believe me if i said ive lost my keys a total of 5 times this year? well dont. because ive lost them 7 times and only 3 of the times have they been returned. im a regular at the keymaker.... how many of you can you say that??? i hope none, i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. i think this 'losing stuff' thing ties in rather nicely into my fish memory too, im pretty convinced ive got a rare amnesia that hasnt been discovered yet. its almost impossible, scratch that, it is impossible for me to remember everything for school the next day, ill always forget at least one thing. my friends will try referencing a supposedly funny/memorable thing that happened and ill just stare. theyll stare back and then do everything in their power to try to make me remember...nothing works.

my friends always have the same crushes as me

you may be thinking, well thats kind of normal for a group of girls that hang around eachother to have the same taste in people and i i thought so too, until it was such a regular thing i just stopped telling them about my crushes. i do have a story, start scene-its the end of a history lesson and im really happy, its been good lesson and i love history. im abit tired because its P5, the end of the day, for that reason, im lagging just a little, i leave my book usually at school because ive got two and my bag doesnt need any added weight . as im packing, a boy, a desk away from mine, walks over and takes my book to the cabinet, some thing he really did not need to do. and i don't know why but i guess im attracted to people being nice, even if it was just a decent human being doing just decent things... the next day, i realise i do want this boy, sadly. i had noticed him before, hes the kind of pretty that doesnt need to exist in a boy but if it does, he unfortunately becomes an object of envy. long lashes, blonde hair, droopy kinda eyes that make him look sleepy all the time. we had just never talked, seeing as we never had reason to. the next day, in a maths lesson, my friend says, "hey don't you think so and so is cute..." as shocked as i was, partly because this friend had been gushing about a different boy an hour ago and partly because it had happened again, i think i played the "really? maybe if i squint really hard he's meh" role really well....long story short, they're dating now....

now youve read my reasoning, there are more...but i just cant remember, i just know you see what i mean. my parents deffo pissed off some magical being and in return it cursed their firstborn daughter.

xoxo

A

ps: this is actually my second time re writing this because i accidentally deleted but the world just needed to know...ty for reading to the end <3

[lordrandreaming]

Unwanted Arcana opinion that might put me in hot water below:

I think the writing is incredibly lackluster, for personalities, interactions, and so on.

I noticed, as I neared the end of Julian's route, the writing lost it's fire. It seemed.. Confused. Like whoever wrote it had no idea where this was all going. You can tell, there was a change in writing.

Lucio, Muriel, and Portia are especially victims of this sudden change, because it just felt like they were given 'filler' personalities and stories. No one is hit harder than Portia. Followed by Muriel.. Followed by Lucio.

Now I like Lucio. But.. He wasn't done justice. You can say, that living the pampered life turned this count whos been in various bloody fights, raised out in the cold harsh winter environment, would make him this squishy, soggy idiot we know.

But.. His characterisation really could have been better. I see him more as 'Sorry not sorry I did that lol' not 'I need everyone to forgive me or im crying' (its not actually like that, but it's pretty close.) And then fucking off for adventure.

In my opinion, which yes, is just an opinion, Lucio should have stayed in Vesuvia and make up for what he's done by lending a helping hand. Yes everyone hates him, as he was written to be the *worst* character..

I think it's unfair what happened to all the routes by the end. Im assuming, If Julain's near-ending was so cobbled together, that Nadia and Asra's routes suffer the same fate.

As a writer, I care about the character's I am writing. I can see clearly that in the end, none of the M6 were cared about. They were made to be appealing and draw people in, because it was "the Thing" at the time.

It makes me incredibly sad, that now I see how cobbled together everything is. Some amount of thought went into the story, but it could have been so much better..

There isn't alot to do, for one. And I know.. 'Its just a game!' However, as a consumer of said media, it's extremely lacking and doesn't stimulate me like I'd hoped. It's like a false promise- but there was no promise to begin with.

When I first seen the Arcana, I was not at all interested. And for good reason.. As advertised was not what we got. I got into it about, two years ago now.

Yes, I was late, but.. The fandom was near death when I came into the scene. Yes yes, I know, people of course are still heavily into it, and I still love it myself but.. It makes me sad.

The character's clearly weren't cared about. They were put out there for visual appearance to lure in lonely gay people. Lesbians, Bi, everyone. They included everyone so they can pull in more people.

Nothing wrong with that- alot of games and industries tend to do this. But they never stick with what they said..

You can say: Mori, why are you bitching about this? It doesn't matter anymore!

Or

If your so unhappy, why don't you just stop caring?

Because.. It started out as a passion, you can see, and quickly as people left, new people kept coming in and that passion was quickly lost.

It saddens me, as an artist and writer. The love was lost.. And the Arcana became hollow anymore. As I played through it a second time, it just felt empty. It was so thrown together- the ingredients just didn't mix.

Id re-write the whole damn game if I could. And like hell I'm going on Dorian.

I appriciate that the people who still love the fandom, want to make and create and that Dorian allows that to happen, but I don't vibe with the fact that anything you post on there is now Dorian's to claim and use.

You can be mad at me, say that I'm wrong because Im dumb and didn't play all the routes, or tell me that I'm just seeing 'face value'. But I'm not changing my opinion because people are mad at me.

This isn't a post meant to rile up or insult anyone. Im not starting a debate. This is just my heartfelt opinion, and that opinion is the state the Arcana was left in was shit. It could have been more interactive, we could have had so much more, but ultimately, we are left with a hollow possibility of what could have been, but never was.

[ithisatanytime]

caro♡ - over u (Official Video)

lesbians arent as bad, they are fucking worse in many ways. i had the document i wish i still had it but it was like a higher up influential jew writing a letter over forty years ago talking about literally selling the west on homosexuality with lesbians because the idea is more palatable for people. can we fucking stop pretending that the media doesnt have a strong influence on people? i know im not the only one who saw those photocolagges of dorks wearing the jacket from the movie drive, this is one of those lies we all go along with because we like consuming media, but in the end you are just lying to yourself. when i was going to highschool, first year, everyone was bisexual all the girls all of them literally, not a one wasnt bisexual, year before that? NONE BISEXUAL maybe one gay in the whole school and this is well past the matthew shepard propaganda documentary on mtv it wasnt a matter of all the women in my life being lesbian or bisexual and finally having the courage to come out, everyone can steal if properly tempted and told its not really wrong in this case, everyone can kill, etc. 13 year old girls are FUCKING DUMB! THEY ARE DUMB! the myspace scene was bumping, t.a.t.u was making out on mtv and katey perry kissed a girl and she liked it, everyone went bi and if you try to pretend that this media blitz isnt soley responsible i bet you spend a lot of long nights sucking on the corner post of your bed frame. the jews did this KNOWINGLY as per that document i conveniently never saved and cant remember any details about lmoa. they specifically said decades ago, start with dykes and work your way down because people are more chill about dykes. sixteen years later and taking your eleven year old son to get his dick chopped off is legit totally normal, most normal thing you could do, prepare him for a life of being sodomized in ways no one had hithertoo dreamed up, but surely that has nothing to do with the constant pushing of trans bullshit in the media?

 if you are mad at me for this post i have just one question for you, have you ever been tested for autism? im not trying to be a jerk, but it the answer is anything but “yes and it came back negative” i dont care, you arent trans theres no such thing, you have autism and have been taken advantage of, i dont hold it against you.

[hella1975]

my friend watched banana fish and im actually.... kinda annoyed about it

[turnin9pag3]

see and i understand what youre both saying but also the way i see it at the end of the day these characters dont exist in real life. when im upset abt is people being up my ass abt a “fake story” or me getting shit on for liking a fan-fiction rather than a published story. im not saying you cant like canon more and i respect it for what it is as the origin of the world we have all come to love but its still fiction. it created the story but how is it any more real than anything else. james potter isnt real. sirius black isnt real. harry potter isnt real. none of it is real so i just dont see why it matter what i choose to spend my time enjoying. like i said previously published media isnt anymore valid than unpublished media at least to me. i dont need someone else to tell me what is good or real. i will decide for myself what i like. (also from first hand experience some of the best writing ive ever read is a fan fiction and ive been an avid reader since i was really little) so i simply dont see how people can choose to degrade fan fiction readers and writers for just trying to expand on a world of characters they already love. like obviously i get loving the orginal story too i mean shit i have a harry potter in my bag at all times and ive read the series 7 times, but that still doesnt change the fact that it doesnt actually exist and how well known it is doesnt make it exist. give credit to canon for creating what we love but dont shit on fanon just because you see it as invalid by whatever personal criteria u run it by. also just to note, the whole post was a joke i was making because i kept having people trash on me for my marauders addiction like ofc i have big views on it but those are my personal views that i wasnt exactly planning on sharing with the world. i was just making a fun silly little post about how i like jegulus and idc what anyone else thinks about it. at the end of the day i dont give a fuck what media anyone wants to consume. do whatever the fuck you want just leave me out of it these are my views and my opinions so if you dont like them then stay off my blog (not targeted at u guys just saying in general)

“well you cant do that because in canon-“

canon is fake too. i dont know who needs to hear that but it is no realer than anything else. published media does not validate it any more than unpublished media. its still fiction. it doesnt exist. everything is in your head so if i want to make james potter gay for his bestfriends brother then god damn it i will and theres nothing you can do about it. i do not care if its impractical. or improbable. i like it and i will do it and you can all deal with it.

thank you for listening to my ted talk

[pepprs]

hey so u know how today was supposed to be like an amazing day and i was supposed to make a ton of friends? yeah me too

[jasontoddiefor]

you know people can oppose the death penalty in real life and also want the FICTIONAL catharsis of seeing a character who's been predatory to multiple women get killed, right?

Bestie, I understand catharsis writing, it’s my entire coping mechanism, and also not what my post was about.

Besides the fact that I wrote it as a frustrated ramble at 4-something-a.m. my post was specifically about why I think Batman as an already established character shouldn’t kill. And on top of that, how many people genuinely don’t seem to understand this is a boundary he set for himself and how frankly speaking upsetting it is that they speak so frivolously about it. Because very often you don’t hear “oh, the Joker made Batman/Bruce Wayne personally suffer so much, so Batman deserves to kill/hurt him” but “the Joker hurt X and I want Batman to do something about it”.

The post wasn’t even specifically about the Joker. You could make it about Ra’s or KGBeast or Scarecrow or Mad Hatter - they’ve all hurt people.

And yes, I understand the catharsis of seeing a representative of painful actions getting hurt/dying in turn. I win so hard at minority bingo, trust me, there are enough people I wish would experience the pain they inflict on me just once in their miserable fucking life.

But my post wasn’t about that kind of catharsis.

You know what my post was about? Respecting boundaries. Something that I also don’t experience too often. It was about boundaries specific to the genre that Batman as a character inhabits.

Perhaps using “none of you fuckers understand why the death penalty is bad” was an ill-fitting exaggeration on my 2 minute rage written tumblr post I didn’t expect to get more than a 100 notes from my mutuals who know my taste and takes on media, but tbh? If you look at the notes, the number of takes going “well Batman shouldn’t kill but the state—“ is kind of,,, weird too? Because again, Batman, as a fictional character in a very specific type of genre, believes I’m second, third, and fourth chances. Believes in telling even the Joker “you can get better if you try”. Believes that there shouldn’t be more killing, no matter how heavy the guilt.

And I find that very comforting.

So yeah, I am, in fact, very well aware of how what you want in fiction differs from what you believe in real life.

But im also very tired of people dragging Batman through the mud because he refuses to harm himself even more and believes that people can in fact get better even when they don’t believe it themselves, or don’t even want to.

I don’t need a hero who hurts everyone remotely bad in his vicinity. I want to read about a character who wants to save everyone, who believes everyone is worth saving.

So yeah, uh, genuinely, go read your catharsis Joker beat down fics if that helps you deal with whatever bullshit capitalism and the patriarchy throws at us today. Consume the media that makes you happy, just, don’t act as if there isn’t a point to Batman?

[mylols16]

lines from poems ive written that i love

buy your happiness or have none at all

bittersweet nostalgia

melancholy happiness

incense and nail polish

icy glass christmas lights

im screaming at the sky to save me from myself

aestheticize my mentality encourage my downfall

i live for the casual intimacy

watch the world end while i sit beside you

lets kiss as we watch the destruction

now its my own selfish desire

to destroy whats left of me

too afraid to do anything else

but desperate for something more

the intimacy

without the responsibility

pull the lever

fall

fall down forever

leave this life

and everyone behind

love songs about how i want love to be

comfort and conformation

that ill be okay

is all i really need right now

i wanna smash the mirror

the person looking back at me

shouldn��t be here

would you hold me as im crying

kiss me as im dying

tell me you love me

even though i know your lying

im acting like anythings going to kill me

when truly

im just hoping something will

its a contradiction

i get that

but most things are

like a sentence that sticks with you

no matter how hard you try to forget

as it keeps repeating in my brain

both the phrase

and the thought

feeding off something dead to become something beautiful

ill continue to sing others writing till mine goes away

ungodly hours of the night that pull on my unaware mind

im forced to face this reality

the reality that i let it get this bad

that i could’ve stopped if i tried

but why would i

im just a copy of everything ive ever read watched or written

media consumes my identity

that every thought i have

doesnt need to have potential

she kissed the scars on my skin

what song am i living in

[clinicalcuntetiquette]

hello! thank you for indulging in my thoughts and humor me just a little bit more cuz I have this urgency to make sense of the media I consume (it’s a disease). op I swear I’ll try my best to explain but im not good at this. and disclaimer I am not a writer nor do I qualify to analyze shit. just my observation.

none of the lions choose their paladins for no reason. I saw a post recently made by someone here -maybe I’ll tag you in it after this- where the blogger explained a writing rule that kind of eased my mind and I’m quoting her here cuz I can’t remember the exact wording of the rule “the writers have to pay forward what they set up in the beginning” something the writers of voltron fail to do not just when it comes to the lions and their paladins bond but also the characters dynamics, relationships and development.. they set them up so you as a viewer would have an idea where the story is going but then end up NOT delivering a satisfactory resolve.

it happened with lance, shiro, lotor etc. it even happened with allura (you say that she had no development but I couldn’t disagree more, her growth and development happens through out all 8 seasons. there isn’t a plot where she is not involved. beautifully well written until the fuck ass unnecessary ending and s8 in general)

for me, no matter how you slice and dice the show the reason it is hugely flawed is the lack of cohesive writing. there are many many fragments in there left unexplained, at my first and second watch those threw me off so badly I started to lose interest and take out my frustration on the characters I truly loved.

biggest example is shiro.. he had elements of a flawless natural leader, from the very beginning he worked hard to establish his bond w black. throughout season 1-2 he is in a constant fight with zarkon to take full control of black (it is shown that zarkon is still connected to black bc he uses what’s left of his bond w black to track voltron) AND JUST AS HE FINALLY TAKES FULL CONTROL IN THE FINAL BATTLE IN S2 NOT MINUTES AFTER HE FUCKING DIES. this whole escalation comes to an end. bc when he “comes back” it’s a clone not him. and somehow black let’s keith and the clone pilot so the whole idea that was set up in the beginning about the lion it’s special bond to the paladin is flushed down the toilet. from there on out nothing makes sense. it’s infuriating.

in season 7 allura infuses the clone’s dead body with shiro’s essence and boom.. he is back.. not as a leader, not as a paladin, no fiancé, he is now a background character that controls the atlas with a whole bunch of new people we as the viewers do not have attachments to. and the bond between the paladins and shiro that was established in season one disappears suddenly. SAME TIRED ASS DEVICE.

^^that is one example of MANY^^

about Lance, I can tell you love him so much and want what he initially wanted which is to be a leader..but.. just because he isn’t the leader it doesn’t mean he’s inadequate. that is what lance struggles with most, his confidence and worth compared to the other paladins and he voices those struggles out loud and NEVER settle those issues. each time he goes through a situation where you expect that his character would develop after..he comes out the same. again it’s a writing flaw not at all the character’s (I luv him too but definitely not on my top list due to his immaturity when dealing with other characters)

holy shit I don’t think about romelle at all I feel like she was there to expose lotor but after that her character is just bland and pointless idk she doesn’t sit right with me 😂

at the end of the day what I try to do is push down my biases and give each character the respect they deserve but never gotten by their own creators. after all, the reason that vld is still alive is because of the damage control that the fans apply in their art, fanfics, analysis..etc.

truly a wasted potential.

I like how the black lion is literally doesn't give a fuck about who is it's paladin. It took a battle to get zarkon out of it's system, it took no time for shiro to pilot it, and then like 5 seconds for it to accept keith. I bet that if lance was actually serious about being a leader and it wasn't just for show, black would let him in.

That brings me to the fact that the show was building up for lance to lead voltron, but then they decided that actually no, keith should be the leader (insane decision, actually unparalleled unhinged behavior, especially at that time)

Keith is a hothead, he's reckless and a loner. The fact that shiro wanted for him to lead voltron was pure nepotism. Lance has great spacial and emotional awareness, he always thinks about the team before he thinks about himself. Yeah he boasts and he's annoying, but he's the sanity of the team, he's the shoulder everyone can rely on in their time of need.

Don't get me wrong, this is not a keith slander post, i absolutely love that emo little shit. But at that point in the story, he was in no way fit to lead and he didn't want to. Lance was better suited for that role, but because of the writers' biases of "he's a comedic relief character" he didn't get to be a fully fledged out character.

[ophiuchus-interactive]

You made some fair points on originality in IF works, but I'd like to ask, what was the intention of putting your work out there? For others to read, isn't it? That means you and other writers are opening yourselves for feedback and ultimately criticism. Whether or not they are what you hoped for, it's going to happen unfortunately. And when there are similarities in terms of specific things (ie. supernatural detective stories) it's natural for others to draw connections. Maybe the author was inspired by another and created their own spin on the story, or maybe they saw how those elements made the story so well received they wanted to do the same for theirs. Either way, when that level of similarity (no matter how superficial or basic) crops up, it's going to be a point of interest, especially when the earlier work is so popular. It's sad when people accuse authors of plagiarism but it's equally sad to be told off for drawing comparisons when you see them, moreso when it's plain to see. You say you're doing this in your free time so you can share your passion projects with others, and that's great, but please understand not everyone is going to like what you put out and, more importantly, aren't obligated to stick around when it's something they believe isn't as up to par as another work.

My criticism of these comparisons that people draw are not a deflection of people actually criticizing works, but instead the false accusation that is being thrown at authors for having similar stories.

This nowhere near drawing comparisons between works. Stories that have similar tropes or beats or elements are part of a genre. No one is criticizing pointing out similarities- it's when people decide that these comparisons must mean that someone was just copying off of another person. And yes, you are absolutely correct, and I agree with you 100%- no one has to like what you put out. At all. They don't even have to give a reason as to why. What people like and what people don't like- even with the stuff I create and put out there in public- is none of my business. You don't like my story? Cool. You're never going to please everyone, and you shouldn't- focus on the people who do like your work, and go with that instead. But what I was talking about in that post are primarily anons who- most notably with TWC- will often outright attack authors for having stories similar to it. This is not criticism. This is just saying that the author is committing a rather egregious form of theft and claiming it as their own property, when the author themselves have put time, sweat, and tears into the story that they wrote without copying anyone.

Take my anon for instance, who accused me of just ripping off characters I 'liked' from somewhere(?) and bastardizing them into Thane and Rosalie. This is not criticism, this is just them claiming that I have stolen the work of someone else and used it. It is a false claim of something I take very, very seriously as a writer, and it is not amusing to be told that you are just some kind of lazy thief who's mooching off of other people's work. It is not amusing nor helpful at all.

What I am attempting to point out with that post is that not only is this just not criticism- i.e, "im telling so/so you stole their story" or "just admit you wrote this because xyz" it is a rather poor understanding of literature and how people are influenced by things they surround themselves with. There are things such as tropes, and storylines, and genres or ideas that are often used and expressed through media. They may look and feel and go for the same moral, but depending upon the execution of the media- the innovation of what the author brings to the table- it may be a total different product by the end of it.

And that to me, is the most important part of that entire post. It is not the silly and often times false accusations of copying, but rather the lack of acceptance from creative communities- both creators and consumers- that in order for something to be good, it needs to be original. But what the hell does that even mean? Do I have to be like Tolkien, and create entire languages and maps and charts for my world? Do I have to avoid tropes at all costs? Do I have to have the entire story from a different point of view? Does it have to be avant garde?

It can be with these elements, of course, but I think many forget that simple stories with simple tropes and dynamics are okay. It's okay to be simple, and no, it's not copying off another person's because it has similar beats that can be see throughout the entirety of human literature as we know it. You don't have to constantly attempt to have twists or worry that your story isn't "original enough" because it goes from plot A to B to C.

This seems to be flung out the window by those few who think they have some kind of God-given right to make the claim of someone plagiarizing another's work, just because it features vampires or death or whatever the hell is similar to something else.

Accusations are not criticisms. They are precisely what they are- accusations. It is best, in my eyes, to not confuse the two.

[qqquib]

rant below:

bruhh i’ve been seeing like dsmp anti stuff all day (don’t ask me why i have NO idea.) and the most annoying part about it is how stupid it is! why hate on someone for liking content? why hate on someone for finding a POPULAR YOUTUBER funny?? it just doesn’t make sense!! and yes, i know some of the CCs have said/done something that doesn’t exactly align with whatever pedestal you’ve put them on, but it’s because they’re also HUMAN!! i bet every single person who a) uses twitter and b) uses social media has done something offensive or bad that they haven’t apologized for. content creators are there to be funny and comforting to people who want to watch that content. they are not perfect angels who have never done something wrong in their life. everyone makes mistakes and everyone fucks up, what matters is their apology and taking accountability for their actions!! which they have done! at least the majority of them! i dont see why you hate on people and tell them to kys for enjoying some form of media :( it just makes me sad to see.

and then, how hypocritical it is to be so agressive and so cruel which is exactly what you’re hating on content creators for! ah! im so annoyed by this shit! i don’t personally enjoy anime but you do you! i’ll listen to you talk about it all day! i don’t care for genishn impact but im not going to sit here and doxx you because i don’t like the game? none of it makes sense to me. yes people are cringy when they enjoy something but does that really matter THAT much?

i’ve been in thousands of cringe-worthy fandoms and i’ve been hated on it before in the past. my friends know about it even! let people enjoy what they want to enjoy. it doesn’t affect you personally. it doesn’t affect you at all what stranger #1626728383 is doing with their life. so here’s a tip! stay in your own lane and worry about your own life and the content YOU consume. there is no point in worrying/being mad at what others like.

[lassieposting]

Hi i havent read the books post-resurrection so im kinda lost on why you dont like phase 2 val? She was easily one of my favourite characters ever, she was flawed (and the books took time to acknowledge them) and relatable and still really admirable (intelligent, brave, loyal) and i really liked her and really appreciated that she wasn’t perfect unlike every other young adult heroines. What went wrong😢😢😢😢

Okay I'm gonna put this under a cut because I very strongly dislike phase 2 val and I know it bugs people who don't feel the same, so. Dead dove dont eat

Okay so first off, phase 1 val and phase 2 val are completely different people. literally. phase 1 val was based on an ex-friend of lardo's who used to apparently be involved pretty heavily in like, editing the books and "she'd react like this" or "val wouldn't say that", and that val she was one of my favourite fictional characters from when book one came out to the release of resurrection. phase 2 val is based on his whiny little girlfriend who likes to start shit with 14yos on twitter, and you can absolutely tell she is no longer the same person. so the long story short of "what went wrong" is "the original irl val's friendship with dirty laundry ended for whatever reason and he decided to retcon her entire personality to suit his gf"

Phase 2 Val, in my opinion:

Weak, like won't even fight back when she gets jumped bc boo fucking hoo she's so awful, bitch get up already, nobody signed up for ur pity party

Whiny. So fucking whiny. All the time. And she's the POV character so it's inescapable.

"Pacifist" but in a really pathetic virtue-signalling kind of way like "Oh, I've done such terrible thiiiiiiiiiiings I'm so awfulllllllllllll look how good I'm trying to be nowwwwwwww pay attention to meeeeeeee" kind of way, it was both boring and a massive eye roll. It's a book about magic and asskicking. Kick some ass. We're here for escapism not "realistic" whining. Yes, irl she'd be a mess. As an author it's his job to strike a balance between the "realism" he wants to portray and making his readers so depressed and done with his heroine that they quit reading, and in my case, he absolutely failed.

Everything must be about her at all times. Skug is having personal problems? Fuck him, they're about her now. Everything is about how it affects her, and her feelings, and be damned to the person actually having the problem. Fucks phase 2 val cain gives about anyone except herself: 0

Bitter and jaded. Which yeah I get why but it's like jesus christ what do we get out of reading about this? It's not even good bitter and jaded where it makes you empathise or admire her strength in adversity or whatever, she's just become a really nasty person with no redeeming features that I could see. Which? Landy outright said she's based on his gf? If your boyfriend is gonna drag ur entire personality through the dirt like that and write "you" as just a collection of incredibly negative traits...yikes.

Really ungrateful about the awesome life she leads? Which bugs me bc I fucking hate mundanity and knowing that all there is to life is fucking working and bad mental health. I would kill to live her life. All she does is moan about it. Like? Quit then. Fuck off back to being a mortal if it's that bad and live the shitty life you wanted to get away from in the first place. That way we'd get no more books, and quite honestly, thank fuck for that. But anyway, she needs to pick one, stick with it, and stop complaining about whatever she chose.

The girl wallows in self pity. And if someone else isn't indulging her enough, she'll wallow harder and louder and more obviously. Yawn.

Her POV is now so depressing to read that Resurrection literally tanked my mental health. I'm not kidding. I fell off the self-harm wagon, the suicidal thoughts came back, reading her dissociating would make me dissociate, I just did not cope whatsoever. Being in her head was just like being in my head during my worst points, and I hate myself, so naturally, I hate her too. Like I get why some people like phase two val. I get that her depression is "realistic" and that trauma does just make some people completely dislikeable and self-pitying, and if people want to read about that, then...sure. you do you, my dudes. But I live that reality, I am that person whose trauma made her a dysfunctional, isolated bitch, and I hate, passionately, having it infest the media I consume to escape.

Essentially if I wanted to engage with a bitter, spiteful, depressed piece of shit in her 20s who pushes everyone away and sucks at everything, I'd live my gd life. Yall see me tryna engage with my real life? Hell nah I'm on tumblr dot com burying my head up the ass of whatever fandom will force my brain to produce some s e r o t o n i n and that is what I need this series for

Also? The dynamic she had with skug in phase one? "Until the end"? "You save me, I save you, that's how we work"? Forget that, it doesn't exist anymore. I stopped reading after Midnight, because she was written like he was a coworker she could barely tolerate. They went from "Lardo confirms on twitter that they talked on the phone a bunch while she was in america and he'd always ask her to come home" to "she comes home and proceeds to blank him for five months while she sits in her fuckin multimillionaire's mansion feeling sorry for herself". Their friendship completely disintegrated, they were totally separated for most of the book, she's written as not giving a single shit about him. She treated him like dirt, and their dynamic basically felt like it was becoming "Local Man With History Of Gravitating Towards Abusive Women Makes Same Terrible Choices For Fifth Time" and? that was the point of no return to me. he supports her unconditionally, no matter what he's going through at the time, he's walked on broken bones to try and get to her when she was in danger, she can tell him anything and he'd never use it against her. I did not, for one second in phase two, believe she felt the same about him. tbh it felt like she could - and wanted to - drop him at the first opportunity and not even feel bad about it, and that's not the dynamic that made me so emotionally attached to phase one. i signed up for "until the end", not whatever bullshit phase two has going on.

Apparently she's "less depressed" now and their relationship is "better" in the books published since midnight, which! might well be true. but I haven't read them and don't intend to, and she's gone from one of my favourite fictional characters ever (which! was impressive! because i almost never bond with the female lead - i normally get attached exclusively to the character i crush on, which would be skug here. val was the first female lead i actually cared about since xena! so im deeply salty about losing her!) to a character i? honestly prefer to pretend doesn't exist. i live in war era dead men/generals crackship land because that way, i don't have to acknowledge her or the fuckin character assassination phase 2 pulled on her.

so yeah, no hate towards phase one val at all. phase one val was awesome and flawed and gave me something to aspire to despite my shitty mental health and trauma, and if she'd kept her original personality she might still have been those things. but the original "real life" val is no longer involved (and doesn't talk to landy at all anymore, apparently), and the val based on landy's insufferable gf? i cannot get behind her at all ever, four for skug and none for phase two val cain bye

(tldr; you're not missing anything by quitting after spx)

[askanautistic]

im very hyper empathetic and i get emotionally attached very easily. my special interests mostly have to do with books or anime or games, etc. and when i get into them i get into them DEEP. i get super attached to the characters that i forget its all unreal. whenever i remind myself that none of it is real; that I'll never get to meet them or see them, it pretty much puts me on the verge of a meltdown. i freak the heck out. how can i get over this? or be less affected?

I’m not sure if this will help, but I like that the things I’m into exist in a bubble where I can always access them when I want to (I can re-visit the media, I can seek out extra info, I can daydream about it), because in real life that’s not always the case. I can’t always go to the places I love, physically, and I can’t always hang out with the people I might want to hang out with - reality gets in the way, but imagination doesn’t. 

Characters are constant where real people aren’t. If characters were real people, there’s the risk of disappointment, or of them changing over time, as people tend to do. Fictional characters, if we could meet them, would be like celebrities - we feel we know them, and we know things about them, but they don’t know us. 

Some things that happen in life are very final - if people die, that’s it. With fictional worlds/characters, we can go back to an episode where they live, or replay a section to save them, or just head-canon that actually... no, they didn’t. 

Fictional worlds and fictional characters are always there for you, really. All you have to do is pick up the book or turn on the games console. As the reader/viewer/player of something fictional, you also kind of get some ownership over that world and those characters (people write fan fiction, or have head canons). You can find fan fiction where perhaps alternate events occur that changes the outcome of something you’re not happy with. You can use your own imagination to play with the story, or make up extra bits or change bits. When consuming fiction it doesn’t matter so much if you decide that you’d like to imagine things differently, whereas in real life you can’t re-write events, because reality is what it is.

Plus, there are also sometimes immersive experiences and the like which can give you a bit of a taste of living in that world, or events where you can meet people cosplaying characters. I went to an immersive Secret Cinema event (Stranger Things) and that was brilliant.