#not really but it peeves me off

[cowboycatdotcom]

YAPPING ABOUT SUPERNATURAL

I just finished the season 5 finale and I am PISSSEDD OFFFFFF this is no hate to the show because I absolutely love it, but the fact that it was supposed to end at season 5 and it lasted 10 MORE YEARS has me a bit peeved

I understand that in hindsight more Supernatural was actually a bad thing instead of "ooo more Sam and Dean!!" but renewing the show for a 6th season when ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IS ESSENTIALLY KILLED OFF is not how you finish off a character arc. I don't have any solid proof of this but I'm betting the show got renewed before the finale aired so they added the little, "look, look, Sam is back!!" thing at the end WHICH JUST MAKES ME MADDD

This whole entire series up until this point had clear character arcs for Sam and Dean. Sam was sympathetic and wanted to have a normal life, he didn't want to waste his life away to the family business, he wanted his own choice. Dean had to protect Sam his whole life, following John's orders like a soldier, always knowing that he would live to hunt until his demise. This is CLEAR FROM THE START

Towards the end of season 5 we see Sam ready and WILLING to sacrifice himself to save the world, ANF EVERN BEFORE THAT he says that he does not incision himself living a normal life anymore. He knows he will die fighting. Dean towards the end of the season is tired, he wants it all to end, to go to the Grand Canyon with Sam, he wants something normal. He has to let go of Sam and let him grow up, not keep him tethered to Dean because he's grown. Dean has a "normal" life after Sam traps himself and Adam in the pit.

BUT THEN OHHH BUT THEN AT THE END OF THE EPISODE SAM SHOWS UP WATCHING DEAN HAVE DINNER WITH LISA AND BEN !!!! it just completely erases the whole sacrifice Sam did to save the fucking world !!! It makes no sense for the show to continue after season 5 CAUSE EVERYTHING HAS BEEN WRAPPED UP !! Bella is dead because of her demon deal, Ellen and Jo were killed off by the hellhounds and bombing, Lilith is dead, Azael is dead, John is dead, EVERYONE'S DEAD !! Castiel was brought back for the second time that season but it's heavily implied that God brought him back so that's fine or whatever, SO NOTHING ELSE NEEDS TO HAPPEN !!!!!

I get that if the show ended at season 5, we wouldn't have gotten all the of the material we have now, but I'm just saying that the ending of season 5 was FINE and we didn't have to have this entire mess of a series finale WITH THE FUCKING NAIL.

[notherpuppet]

it's my pet peeve when someone comments something rude on artists' posts so it's an instant block for me :)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Does

Does Barnaby

Does Barnaby tell the others to get off his lawn when he's angry

psh, who do you think he is, an old man? he'd Bark, like any lively young dog

[spaciebabie]

oh so you wanna fuck that monster huh. make sexy art of them without giving them muscles and/or making them look human

[natsmagi]

honestly the more i hear about engstars and its TLs the more i absolutely dread the inevitable release of poltergeist and what may ensue from it, bc if if the translators themselves are already invalidating arashis identity then i Really Truly do not want to see how theyll translate natsume and tsumugis microaggressions/transphobia towards her. esp since ive noticed a rise in people being comfortably transphobic towards her, and i REALLY do not wish to see natsume and tsumugi being stupid fucking morons be used as evidence to discredit her

and i think this is all the more reason why its VERY IMPORTANT for engstars to DIRECTLY ACKNOWLEDGE arashi and her gender. bc sometimes characters are STUPID and RUDE and APATHETIC. enstars is a story with NUANCED and FLAWED CHARACTERS, and when a character is being a fucking asshole youre meant to PROVE THEM WRONG. but they dont even acknowledge arashi as a girl themselves. so, if you do use engstars, please keep pressuring them bc omfg this is so bad and i can only see it getting worse

[dirtgrubber]

i wanna draw sooo bad but im depressy. how do people do this?? how do persist ?

[wyrdle]

pitiful tragedy

A semi-continuation to my previous Ikutsuki and Ryoji comic, because i'm really wanting to share my blorbo (Ikutsuki) brainrot lol. Ikutsuki... the tragic pitiful antagonist you could've been if anyone bothered/cared enough about you in meta and in narrative lol.

[massiveladycat]

me watching another aroace character gets erased and forced into dating

[gu6chan]

im ngl i love faputa and will continue to love her but genuinely like. It's been on my mind but i kinda sorta hate what they're doing with her now

[tabrisangel]

i never fw’d nyoengland’s design it pissed me off because it didn’t look like it would be him she needs to look like the unhappiest 40 year old mom ever also here’s her wife. sure

[keymintt]

every day people call my coyotes wolves

[moeblob]

Unrelated to the art: I added a song on YT to a playlist I have for OSTs and I've listened to it like two times in full and as i was waiting on it to load to listen to while I colored I saw it had...... 5 views. Total. FIVE VIEWS. And this is the third time I've had it open. WELP. Thank you to the one person who recently uploaded a game from the Wii's OST.

Related to the art: I still love Sharena.

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[cloudcountry]

playing nightbringer again only to realize that barbatos is annoying because he keeps putting words in people's mouths and making what they said sound so much worse

[silkjade]

my 3rd time hitting 3k because i keep removing followers by the droves

[antisocialxconstruct]

oof as much as I'd love to start drama by asking what IFs you have beef with..... I have to go with the less targeted question of 'what are some IF tropes you think are overdone'. personally if I have to see the same four ROs recycled into another game one more time I'll scream

LOL probably a safer question for me to answer too...

ROs are a big sticking point for me as well. Seeing the same archetypes over and over, feeling like someone came up with ROs first and is now desperately trying to finesse a story that can justify all of them being date-able*, someone having an actually interesting and compelling story to tell but bending themself into pretzels to fit in six romance arcs that may not even serve the plot just because that's an expected convention... Also in general I never lose interest in a new project faster than when I see artbreeder RO portraits. Not even because it's """AI art""" but because it's always the same empty eyed model-perfect 20something in different colors.

(*NOT the same as a story primarily designed to be a dating sim. I generally think that's fine as a genre, and some of these people would have an easier time if they were willing to admit that's what they were writing and not some sweeping grand narrative.)

My other biggest issue with a lot of amateur IF is like... excessive and overly ambitious customization? I think a lot of authors don't know where the line is on what they can just allow the reader to imagine without there being a variable for it, as well as what they should frankly just... be willing to decide for the reader when it best serves the story. As far as MC customization, I think this really stems from a lot of people in the community getting their first introduction to IF through CoG and then drawing the conclusion that if some character customization is good, more customization must be better! But if it's not going to come up in-text and be directly relevant to the plot or how the MC is characterized*... it doesn't need to be canonized.

(*by which I mean, like... making your character a specific religion, or disabled, or something like that. Things that actually impact how they engage with the world.)

Branching off of that, I think maybe my most potentially controversial take is... not every IF needs to have a customizable MC at all. It's entirely possible to write a story with a set, static protagonist, and still allow the player to make decisions that allow them to shape that character and the broader plot in a way that still feels personal and like they're an active participant. VNs tend to go this way, or else they have a faceless MC who still tends to have a more set personality, and I think sometimes I read IF demos and I really get the feeling they wish they could be writing someone specific, and they're getting hamstrung by the idea that they need to sand off enough defining features to let the MC be anyone.