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If you don't like the choices a writer/content creator makes for a character, you're not obligated to hate the character. And although you can't argue that it isn't 'canon,' you don't have to only see the character through the lens of the bad thing you don't like. If you think the writer/content creator didn't make a character change or character arc convincing, you don't have to pretend that it was believable, and base your perception of the character off of something you thought was badly done or hard to believe.
I'm gonna give an example from the Office. The character of Andy Bernard started out as a meant-to-be douchey, meant-to-be annoying character, and then went to anger management and when he came back started being portrayed as more likeable, though still very flawed. This continued on for seasons, but then in the last season (though arguably starting with the season eight episode 'Welcome Party') Andy started being written as a bad boss early Michael Scott style who his coworkers didn't like. I did not like that direction, thought it was unnecessary despite some funny moments and good plot points coming from it, it sometimes wasn't done very well, and I felt like it was a mistake. I'm not obligated to hate Andy because of the choices the writers made, and I can say 'this felt out of character and it was a bad choice that I think shouldn't have happened,' and other people getting mad at me for not seeing Andy exclusively through the lens of who he was in season nine would be ridiculous. If I made some kind of statement like 'Andy was a pretty good boss at the start of season eight' and someone was like "yeah well he was horrible in the ninth season so he was clearly just pretending to be a good boss" it'd be ridiculous. And if I said 'I just skip over a lot of season nine Andy so I can enjoy his character more,' and someone responded with 'I can't believe you like a character who did such bad things, clearly you're an idiot,' it'd be ridiculous.
Why do people have this idea that if the writers decide something for a character (no matter how late in the game) you have to base whether you like or dislike a character on that alone? If you think something is badly written, if you think that something is a bad choice, if you like a character that's a villain and want to write them as a hero instead, you should be freaking allowed to just clip clip cut out the things you don't like.
I like the character of James Ironwood prior to shooting Oscar, I don't have to say 'well the writers decided he was a completely evil irredeemable villain and therefore it wouldn't be moral of me to like him and now when I watch the Fall of Beacon in volume three I'm morally obligated to seethe about what a bad person he is, better never write fanfics where he's a good guy ever again!' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've written fanfictions where I have certain characters just be better than they were in the universe because that makes me enjoy the universe more. I've written fics where characters who do bad things that the writers treat as acceptable apologize for their actions. I've looked at characters who have never been anything but villains and then written fics where they're just flawed good guys because I wanted to explore that universe and loved the character concepts. I've disliked whole movies in a series and decided 'in my mind the franchise cuts off here.' There's some pieces of media where I have to adjust everyone in order to enjoy writing for them, but I still enjoy the characters. I've loved badly written characters since I was a kid despite thinking the writer choices were off, and put Pixie Hollow Disney fairy books on my Christmas wish-lists even though my dad reminded me Tinkerbell tried to murder somebody because I could just ignore that. The very first thing I ever wrote was a Star Wars fanfiction when I was six and I didn't like that George Lucas made C-3PO a scaredy cat so I made him into a brave hero instead. I'm not going to just base what I like or don't like on whatever thing the writers wanted or intended. Why would I have to do that?
And honestly, I'm not posting this because I have a real problem with people who do throw out characters when the writers want them to, or only portray or see characters how the writers want them to, or anything like that. But for the love of God I would like them to stop getting angry or judgey when other people are just like 'huh, I don't like this change. I reject it for my own headcanons. This isn't how I see the character.' Like... Why the hell does it matter so much to other people that we must only see fictional characters the exact way the writers intended and therefore must hate the characters who the writers make do bad things. Also this always comes with hypocrisy, because the people that try to police who other people are allowed to like always like other flawed characters or even villains lol, and always adjust their favorites to be better or ignore the mistakes of their favorites.
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desperation at the postal service
#the neighbourhood's main portal linked up to a player branch down at the chunkloaders. as accidentally found by false#etho pressed the panic button lmao#hermitcraft#hermitcraft s10#hermitcraft season 10#tangotek#tango tek#ethoslab#etho#tangtho#he...he needs him...#hermitchat#extra context...false stream 28m30 is when she lands in the mail system. and then 2h54m30:#etho to false ''yeah we just encountered a major problem and uh...trying to figure out how to fix it''#then tango stream 0h8m (twitch timestamp):#(after exiting etho group) ''etho needs me? I already talked to etho yeah. we found a problem in the chunkloader system down there. it's#not gonna be...a critical problem but it's...definitely an annoyance''#also poor impy with post office fomo 🥲 (impy stream 2h53)
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the professors shen are fighting again
#scumcum#jiuyuan#cursed scum villain academia au#shen jiu#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#both of them...#scum villain#svsss#sj is like 54 sy is like 31. 27 at youngest#sj was sy's grad chair for his phd but now they are colleagues and share an office it's the worst fate for them both#sy is trying to live up to sj's name as his mentee bc#sj has given him every opportunity in his career#(not on purpose but bc sy is good at using his proximity to sj to his advantage)#but sy also criticizes everything sj does#meanwhile sj hates this little freeloading parasite who has attached himself to him and is riding on his laurels#but cant escape him#and sy is so beloved by the department sj would look crazy if he complained abt him
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THE OFFICE 5.14 – lecture circuit pt. 1
#the office#theofficeedit#tvedit#tvgifs#sitcomgifs#chewieblog#usersitcom#userstream#userbbelcher#underbetelgeuse#dwight schrute#rainn wilson#my gifs#me taking constructive criticism
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hey wait y’all I’ve had the most important thought about the potential for a Vox Machina oneshot; it would mean new character art for them for the first time in like five years
#critical role#cr spoilers#vox machina#not counting the portraits in Tal’Dorei Reborn those are different#I’m specifically thinking of the Dalen’s Closet thumbnail art cause that was done by Kit Buss#the offical artist of C1#but like. Hannah art of them#I would simply die
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my favorite takeaway from the most recent Critical Role episodes is that apparently the combination of age and having children and a job has turned Percy de Rolo into a certified Morning Person
#critical role#percy de rolo#critical role spoilers#when tal said he's up working in his office at seven am to get things done before the craziness of the day i screamed a little#but also Same Percival. Same.#i too used to stay up until absurd hours of the night and was grumpy upon waking when i was 24#and now i have a Job and the thought of being up until 4am fills me with dread
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all my favourite characters are just me seeing them and going "damn you sure do clean up well but I'd much rather see you grinning with blood between your teeth"
#also known as the 'i could fix them but its so much funnier to watch them go feral' phenomenon#i just want to see somebody who's usually composed covered in blood on their knees- *i am shot and my body is dragged offstage*#mizu being happy for one (1) second with her husband VS a fucking demon cutting people apart stopping at nothing for revenge#percy de rolo as a prim and proper lord VS possessed by a demon with a thirst for vengeance and burning orange eyes#james flint as a clean shaven british navy officer VS with a full beard and no morals beating a man to death with his bare hands#ellie williams as a sweet innocent kid VS a bloody tattooed woman on a self destructive quest for revenge knife fighting to the death#vi having a good day VS in a drag on knock out fistfight with another woman (i need her in a way concerning to feminism)#jason todd as robin VS the fucking red hood (he is covered in blood and half his mask is gone and i am going insane)#surprise! they're all on a quest for revenge#blue eye samurai#critical role#black sails#the last of us#arcane#batman#mizu#percy de rolo#james flint#ellie williams#vi arcane#jason todd#andis thought geyser
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Eri's touted as sort of a 'Tenko But Things Went Right', which isn't wrong, but I feel like her save relied a lot of luck too. And luck shouldn't be a determining factor in child welfare??
It was by pure chance that Deku and Mirio first encountered her. 100% random bump. Nighteye had no idea about any child in the Shie Hassakai compound, despite having staked it out for at least a few days already.
The rescue effort was launched to save Eri, yes, but only because the Heroes had that one lucky detail to connect “DNA inside bullets” to “visibly injured child”. Without that...who knows? If Heroes had no compelling evidence to storm the compound, would they have just continued a routine drug investigation? If they raided the compound but didn’t know about the child beforehand, what would’ve happened to her? Shunted off to an orphanage because she’s ‘a criminal/yakuza’s child’? Place under HPSC supervision because of her relation to the bullets?
The manga itself stated that Eri was going to be sent off to an orphanage, BUT her out-of-control quirk was cause for concern and fortunately there was the one (1) guy who can suppress her quirk and help train her - who happened to be a teacher at a private educational campus run by a multi-millionaire who can afford to take her in as a ward. How amazingly lucky!!!! (And everyone themselves said that they were hoping to teach Eri how to use her quirk so that she can cure Mirio. How nice that her quirk is deadly but also has this miraculous healing ability that lends this additional incentive to take her in.) Eri is still only in custody of UA because her last living blood relative, her grandfather, is still in a coma. Would Pops ever want her back, if he ever wakes up? Would UA let him? Good thing UA has the resources and connections to win a custody battle, in this case.
Plus, before all of that, Eri was already another abandoned child, way before the Heroes ever learned of her. Her mom abandoned her; then her grandfather took her in, but when he fell into a coma, she ended up with the worse possible caretaker. Yeah, Overhaul is Overhaul, but a relative falling ill and being unable to take care of a child is something that can happen to any family.
Eri was abandoned by her mom because she killed her dad. What on earth was the police doing then? Did her mom is not report this? Five seconds after the dad disappeared, the mom immediately plopped the toddler in the car seat and drove her off to Pops? Or is it more likely the mom screamed and panicked and called emergency services, but it turned out that there’s nothing to be done about the dad… and then emergency services also apparently did nothing about the mom or Girl With Newly Lethal Quirk or the beginning of quirk counseling so that the mom could understand the accident as ‘mutant quirk’ and not ‘curse’??
There were points where Eri could've been saved, before she ever bumped into Deku, before Overhaul put Pops in a coma and started cutting her up.
Similarity, saving Tenko shouldn't have just been 'Hero happened to be in the area and wasn't busy and was able to spot this injured child and go help him' (if it doesn't turns out AFO was behind this too lol), or 'if only there could've been a Hero 15 years ago who could handle his quirk, hold his hand, and give him relief'. It should've been 'first person who saw this injured child called the police or took Tenko to a police box'. It should've been 'Kotarou's last act of parenting was not to pick up garden shears and whack his kid with it, but know to keep calm and know what to do in a quirk emergency' or whatever. It should've been 'the three other adults in the household had enough conscience to not let Kotarou bully his toddler'. Hell, it should've been 'All Might and Gran kept tabs on the Shimura boy'.
idk. I just don't think 'Luckily a Hero noticed!' is good enough.
#Eri#unfortunately they live in a quirky society#nalslastworkingbraincell#i'm very critical. that's true#but it's not even that i'm just looking to nitpick Heroes#I just have a fascination with the mundane aspects of saving#i wanna see a 'So Your Child Manifested A Troublesome Quirk' pamphlet they offer at doctors' offices#and unfortunately this just fuels my skepticism of Heroes
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Can't stop thinking about the idea of CATFA as a propagandised version of the Captain America story which exists in-universe and Steve seeing it and being absolutely livid about how 90% of it represents him.
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Examples: being furious that it doesn’t mention his mother (his moral compass) anywhere, or his socialist politics pre-war, implies he only wants to fight to be like one of the guys and get a girlfriend?! (barely mentions Nazis),
implies he simply cannot have had any romantic attachments before serum, yet skims right over his disabilities as if his only problem was just being short, posits that Bucky would’ve spent his last night in Brooklyn off on a double date with two total strangers rather than with his own friends and family, (no mention of the Barneses anywhere?),
has Steve scoffing at the idea of working in a factory (when he’d consider himself lucky to get a job in the times he grew up in), almost his whole relationship with the Howlies relegated to a single silent montage, none of the details of their missions shown except one, not a single girl in his USO tour gets a mention or name, ditto none of the women of the SSR/Army/that the Howlies met in the field, and wastes most of the screen time on that creepy violent nepotism-hire who was convinced Steve had given her some kind of secret signal he wanted to date her (at the time he just thought she’d taken the hint and was trying to beard him??),
also puts her, Stark and Phillips in places they never went (why would a scientist, an old CO and an intelligence analyst be in Italy, or in the middle of a battle?? that’s not their job!),
says Steve would waste his last precious moments of contact talking to a woman he’s not dating rather than saying goodbye to the men who’ve been fighting beside him for over a year??
And that he wouldn’t even bother to look for Bucky’s body?? (Only thing it got right was how much Bucky mattered to him / being a big part of why he wanted to fight!)
#catfa meta#steve rogers#antisteggy#antipeggy#cynthia glass#p*ggy meta#mcu critical#steggy is hydra trash party#meta#mcu meta#antiendgame#endgame steve is a skrull#mcu#my meta#dat's me#peggy carter *sexually assaulting steve* *firing a gun at steve* *hiring nazis*#*being a repeated-flake nepotism hire w/ delusions of competence* *knowing about TWS and doing nothing to help him*#*knowing about mitchell carson and doing nothing about him or quitting her job* *telling an SS officer and torturer his work is valuable*#*knowing about the red room and doing nothing about it*#*having every bucky scene stolen & given to her to prop up a steggy romance that didn't exist; cuz if it did they wouldn't need to do that?*#stans: you dare to criticise her majesty?? a WOMAN! OHhh! misogyny!!#🤪
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Me on my way to jail since according to this fandom you aren't allowed to dislike the Main characters
#ARREST ME OFFICER!!!!!#I committed the horrible crime of not liking the main characters#acotar critical#anti ic#anti inner circle
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To no one's surprise, I have more thoughts on Ashton's feelings about faith and begging for divine intervention and never receiving it, because... well, look at what's in their head.
I tend to take the view that the Luxon as a divine entity does not necessarily have conscious intent in granting divine favor; it is closer to a foundational force of reality, with the rather nebulous thought that might accompany a living entity associated with that kind of force. So not inert matter, but not exhibiting the will and motivated action that the Pantheon or even the Primordials do. The Primordials are closer, in that they are active, but I think they are less willful. This isn't particularly relevant to this discussion except as evidential comparison, though, so I digress.
What this view of the Luxon results in, in practice, is the bestowing of power by seemingly random chance. The beacons are where they are, and any movement of their worship or use is in the hands of mortals who convey that—whether that's the expansion of dunamantic arcana in Aeor and possibly the larger world in the Age of Arcanum, or the missionary efforts of the Kryn Dynasty, or simply one person passing it to someone with ill intent who exploits another worker to expand its use and turn it into a weapon instead.
And what happens is that these smaller exchanges create ripple effects, and the path of this force being conveyed continues, which is how it has come to Ashton—by a series of circumstances that, when looked at individually, look like mundane random chance, but taken as a whole, are so unlikely that they seem meaningful in the end.
I think this gets to the heart of what the Luxon seems to rule—the world may be governed by chance and circumstances, but when those circumstances are accumulated—into an event, or a nation, or a life—they create not destiny but meaning.
Ashton's circumstances are a series of misfortunes that feel almost fated in how perpetual they are—when he spells out the course of his life, and says that he can count on his fingers how many genuinely good days he's experienced, the weight of that misery feels like an oppressive fate.
But within the amalgamation of that misery, they've also happened upon—one might say were bestowed with—power. This is the power that lets him decide to be a hero and decide to save his friends. And, by some accounts in Exandria, it would've been granted to them by a god, without even asking anything in return. It's not verbal, so it's not a concession or meant to be placating, which wouldn't do much in the long run—it's the means by which Ashton has been able to wield control over his own destiny.
So if there's any meaning to circumstance, maybe it means that when Ashton prayed, something already answered.
#this just in: marble tomes office of export controls actually just the missionary arm of the kryn dynasty.#luxon blogging#critical role#cr meta#cr spoilers#ashton greymoore#me: meta doesn't have to be super polished or formal stop worrying so much about it#also me: if I don't explain my methodology for this analysis I'll fucking die.
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I used to doodle the M9 so much at work that I still find random old drawings of them. O.o
#critical role#the mighty nein#m'art#ink#literally ballpoint pen on printer paper#back in ye olde days in the office
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I will never understand why folks will insist that the Workplace premise of Helluva Boss doesn't matter and that the characters and their development is more important even though there are several shows that manage to combine those two things perfectly.
#pc thoughts#helluva boss#stolitz#helluva blitzo#helluva stolas#millie and moxxie#helluva loona#helluva boss critical#star trek lower decks#the office#Brooklyn 99#inside Job
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Imogen would be the worst micromanager in the office
#cr spoilers#critical role#c3#c3e79#op#imogen#office team: has issues#manager: deploys monitoring software
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Rough Character Animation I did on top of Ashe Jacobson’s storyboard! I was super excited to try my hand at it and I hope I did this amazing storyboard justice🥺
#I can now draw Nezha and Wukong in my SLEEP#this thing is about 600 frames and I had to adjust each drawing for the camera movements#I probably won’t clean it up tbh#that takes a lot of time that I don’t have#but I’m pretty happy with where it is right now#ANYWAY WORKED HARD ON THIS HOPE YALL LIKE IT#If anyone has constructive criticism I’d love to hear it!!#CONSTRUCTIVE PEOPLE!!! CONSTRUCTIVE.#sun wukong#lmk nezha#lego monkie kid#lmk#my art#my animation#<- I feel so offical omg
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i am reminded of that time my mom went
mom: oh god, you're turning into one of those people who read for enjoyment only
me: what?
mom: one should not read only for enjoyment!
me: what should one read for then?
mom: for personal growth. knowing new perspectives. expanding your world. for the art of literature itself
me, artless: oh ok
#that's all fair by the way!#but by now if i'm not enjoying myself *in any way* by the first couple chapters i just go do something else#no matter how incredibly good the technical skills on display. good for them good for them. but i'm out#'in any way' being very loadbearing here. this is a very broad range. still#there's plenty of other little enjoyments out there waiting for me that i'll go spend my days on#time's not infinite after all#for things that bring me no enjoyment there's office work#probably related: why every art exhibition description that's not in relatively plain language makes me jawn#i heard enough timewasting inflated speeches about art as a kid while going with my grandparents to art inaugurations#bring your little kids to art exhibitions. they'll spend their time criticizing the technical skill and getting jaded about meanings#man this got long
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