#razz rants

[razzberrydazz]

Maybe I need to stop being so nice

Maybe I should go apeshit

[royalrazz37]

Disclaimer: I love this film. These are just my critics. I know someone else has already pointed these issues out and better than I ever could. Just wanted to get my thoughts out. Feel free to link their analysis

Post Disclaimer Disclaimer: A lot of these may be petty and have no real solution so I apologize preemptively.

Without further ado here is an aging millennial’s concerns with: The Lion King (1994)

Small nitpicks first

Incest

Usually lion prides have a single adult male that mates with all the females but in this case there are two, Mufasa and Scar, meaning, that at best Simba and Nala are first cousins and at worst siblings, getting married and having children.

On the flip side there is nothing more royal than keeping it all in the family.

Say his name

What is Scar’s real name? I know it can probably be found somewhere but i think it’s pretty messed up it’s never said in the movie. Also making someone’s physical feature their name is rude. Its like calling someone Hairy, Big Nose, or Six-Fingered Man.

Sexiest Lion

From what I remember learning about lions, the males with darker manes are seen as more attractive. So why is my man Scar not getting hole? I know its a kids movie but could we at least see a couple dark furred cubs running about? (I know about Kovu)

Choice of voice actors

Why are all the good characters voiced by white people? (Exceptions for James and Madge) and all the bad guys are POC? And its some extra ish when only the lackeys are POC. The big bad is white. Colored folk can’t even be their own boss.

And i know the remake “fixed” this but we’re not talking about the new woke Disney.

Now the real gripes

Monarchy and leadership

While the idea of a hereditary monarchy is bad enough the main plot strongly implies divine right is just and desirable.

Mufasa is supposed to be king and this is reflected by the kingdom being pristine and in balance.

Scar, who is not ordained by the sky daddies, takes the throne and all falls to ruin.

Then the “rightful king” returns, restoring prosperity to the land.

It gives credence to the idea that a higher power has to approve of a leader for things to go right. That those in power are there because that is how it’s supposed to be.

Look, little one. See what happens when you try to break the status quo? Bad things happen. Be happy with your lot in life.

If you try to rise above your station like Scar, well. You saw what happened. (I know Scar murdered fools but you get my drift)

“But Razz” I hear you say. “The reason things went bad is because Scar had the hyenas live in the pride lands and they ate everything. Those slobbering mangy stupid poachers!”

Aha! I say. You activated my trap card.

US History as a Metaphor

I think its safe to say that the hyenas are coded as POC. As such the idea of their integration into the pride lands being the catalyst for its blight is troubling.

It harkens back to the fear of the negro moving into cities during white flight. Hyenas/blacks move in and everything goes to shit.

Thats why we keep them in their elephant graveyards and shadow lands (the ghettos) so the blight doesn’t spread.

And if one of the hyenas do come into the pride lands we send our strong alpha Mufasa to beat and brutalize them.

Also the hyenas are painted as gluttons for wanting to eat. THEY WERE IN A LITERAL GRAVEYARD.

Of course they’re hungry. Of course they’d want to eat everything they could. They were forced to live that way.

Now lets draw a line.

Hyenas are always hungry because they live in a food desert and actual desert.

They live there because of enforced segregation by the lions.

Lions who then blame the the hyenas for being hungry and use that as justification to continue segregation and harsh policing of the hyenas movements.

Sounds familiar.

And the film’s solution to all this is a return to the status quo. Yuck.

Not to mention the sequel where there’s a reconciliation between the lionesses who supported Scar and the pridelanders because Kiara says “We’re the same”. I know I’m probably grasping a straws here but that moment felt like the Irish and Italians gaining whiteness.

Ok rant over.

[razzberrydazz]

Add psycho and psychotic and psychosis to the list of words people horribly misuse and mischaracterize on the internet. And schizo. Schizophrenia already is Sooooo mischaracterized.

And bipolar, it's not uwu quirky to say you're bipolar if you have a mood swing, it is its own condition with a host of its own specific problems.

Add onto that the uwu quirky infantilization of autism and ADHD where the serious life hindering symptoms are ignored or shamed to focus on the 'fun' and palatable parts.

Your toxic boyfriend isn't automatically a narcissist because he's an asshole, he's just abusive and toxic. Having a personality disorder does not inherently make someone a bad or abusive person. Most personality disorders develop due to trauma. Not every toxic conceited asshole you encounter is a narcissist. They're just conceited assholes.

OCD isn't just 'oh I need everything to be clean and symmetrical and I gotta turn this light on and off 5 times every time I enter this room', it has actually distressing intrusive thoughts that if you Don't do that specific action, something horrible may happen or you may do something horrible.

Impulsive thoughts are the ones where you wanna dye your hair or cut your bangs or make impulse purchases. Intrusive thoughts are INTRUSIVE. They are distressing. They can be extremely disturbing. Being plagued by thoughts that you are secretly a pedophile or that you will murder someone you love are intrusive thoughts, and they don't mean the person with those thoughts genuinely wants to do those things. People with intrusive thoughts do Not want to act on those thoughts and may even go out of their way to do preventative actions (such as avoiding kids and animals, washing their hands raw, hiding every sharp object in the house, making someone else give them their prescriptions, etc) to avoid possibly acting on their disturbing thoughts.

Gaslighting has been so overused now as the latest pop psych word fad that people won't take it seriously when used in seriousness. It's not conventional lying (which it's been misused a lot to just mean lying), it's a specific way to make someone question their reality and cast doubt into their mind. I knew a guy who thought gaslighting was like just lighthearted lying for a prank and used it as such and I had to tell him what it actually meant and he was horrified and apologized for using it in such a joking matter.

Delusions are Not Fun. Having hallucinations of any kind are Not Fun. Experiencing psychosis, panic attacks, meltdowns, sensory overstimulation, shutdowns, dissociation, etc are all very distressing. Dissociation is not Just 'zoning out' sometimes, it's Worse.

(I may joke about aspects of my own conditions because I feel I am able to do so from my experience, but I don't think it's in good taste for me to joke about conditions that I haven't experienced in a way that punches down.)

*mom voice* You can get these words back when you know what they mean

[hi-im-razz]

Ranting time!

My school has been pretty pro-ai, not in the sense of accepting it as finished work, but in the ai art sense. My language arts teacher literally recommended an ai “art” generator for our GRAPHIC NOVEL PROJECT! I get that not everyone can draw, hell I can’t draw full bodies quite yet, but there are so many other options! Picrew, Gacha Life, one of my friends used a dungeons and dragons mini maker, etc. My Language Arts teacher is chill out side of class, but I feel very frustrated with her as a teacher. I brought up the fact that ai “art” has issues of stealing from artists and she kinda just brushed me off. It’s just frustrating!

[razzithold]

The fuck is this 1999 tab shit Tumblr???

Nah bitch I'm prone to psychosis don't go around pretending it's a year it's not you bastards

I try to avoid unreality and dissociation shit because it will absolutely cause ME to dissociate.

Like I gotta take a break between playing a game involving driving a car and actually driving my car irl because if I jump straight from driving in like cyberpunk 2077 to driving my actual car I will be dissociating to the point of feeling like my actual car is a car in a video game. Fucking wild and uncomfortable.

[razzek]

Just realized a big benefit to not being in Metalocalypse fandom proper anymore: I don't have to try and force myself to like Seth anymore! 8D No shade to his fans, I like Magnus so I get the appeal of unpopular or shitty characters. But god damn I hate Seth with every fiber of my being. Any time I have a fic bookmarked with him in it, you can bet it's because he's getting his ass handed to him or something else horrible is happening or he's an incidental figure in the story of a character I like. I hope the little fucker died in Army of the Doomstar but it was, like, two weeks after his wife left him and took their kid and he was miserable to the last second.

Although I do have to give props to the fandom treatment of Seth for one thing: in just about every trans Pickles fic I've ever read, Seth unquestioningly thinks of Pickles as his brother right away. It is his sole redeeming quality and it kind of shows a world I'd like to live in. A world where your shitty brother who ruined your life doesn't bat an eye when you're trans, suggesting that it's so normal as to be a non-issue. That's how things should be.

This post made with gratitude to the folks who gave Magnus a chance around me even when they didn't like him. I did my best to do that with Seth and still will around friends who do like him. But also this is my blog and I can shit talk the little bastard all I want. :D

[razzberrydazz]

It's classism and racism, pure and simple. Christian nationalist (fascist) lawmakers and lobbyists cut up the south for fun and use the ignorance of people to grow their voting base of hate. A lot of the prominent hate preachers happen to be in the south. Hateful people like Greg Locke, Pat Robertson, James Dobson (of course hate preachers and christian-based hate groups aren't exclusive to the south, they just happen to have a big foothold here). Called the Bible Belt for a reason. And of course, their follower base usually happens to be white and virulently homophobic and Zionist.

The lawmakers who predominantly maintain power in these places are fellow white christian nationalists. Gutting the states' healthcare, education systems, infrastructure, so their voting base stays poor and ignorant and hateful and suffering. And then they make a scapegoat to blame it on - other poor people, who happen to be immigrants or not white nor christian or cishet or a combination thereof.

I don't want to have to move out of the South to get an improved quality of life and sense of safety. I want to be able to have that QOL and sense of safety where I live now - where I have community and good food and culture! I want there to be environmental protections to preserve the diverse and beautiful places we have here. I want my community to be able to afford necessities and healthcare. I want the hateful lawmakers ousted and the paradigm shift to be accepting of queer people so that they can live without fear for their lives. I want a lot of things.

Lawmakers in Louisiana can hold the diverse melting pot of New Orleans hostage by withholding vital funds to improve healthcare and infrastructure, all because they're so anti-abortion they're willing to ruin lives over it. Southerners are suffering, and the rest of the country points and laughs as if they don't have the same problems.

We shouldn't laugh at other people's suffering.

like you really aren't allowed to say shit about southerners until you have firsthand seen how people live deep in the appalachian hollers because it is fucking tragic. the poverty and the food desert and the lack of resources in general is so bad. the drugs. yall dont understand

[citrine-elephant]

so would it be too much projection to headcanon leon having an insatiable thirst for anything blue razz flavored, or would the color of blue drink truly allure him so hard he can't resist?

[quitepossiblybamboozled]

i love my job i love my job i love my job i love my job i love—

[razzlee-meow]

i caved.

i didn't expect to be showing my art on here, but here we are. (i'm alr at drawing but it rlly depends on the day LOL)

but i wanted to wreck my madness combat oc. and i hope that my friends don't find this bc i've ranted about this oc quite a bit in the server i'm in HAHA

anyways, this is my oc Nike. not like the shoes, like Mike with a N.

he's a mercenary who found himself in an unfortunate accident involving lovable bastard #2 (Tricky) ... (loveable bastard #1 is Hank btw LOL) and ended up getting injured because of it.

not like he noticed; he can't feel pain.

but you know what he CAN FEEL??? *wiggles eyebrows.*

im actually bad at drawing tkl art, but i thought this was cute. i got lazy with his goggles, as you can obv see too LOLOL)

just pretend someone is getting him bc he deserves to be got. >:D he's often quite stone-faced and monotone so he needs to laugh some more.

anyways this is under the cut bc his face is quite... gruesome, even tho its not colored. lol just be careful friendos

please, do not let my irl friends find this-

[aptericia]

[tags from @dazzlerazz reading: “#this is me with osvald ot2 #I actually got a convo between him and partitio about osvald's body type and how in-shape he is #I just elect to believe that isn't true #osvald's got a belly for SURE #he's my blorbo I make the rules #reblog #fandom stuff”]

you’re so real for this. Personally I can see Ozzy being in shape due to being forced to mine for five years, but he also 100% deserves a belly.

What really gets me is that TEMENOS has visible abs if you class him as an Arcanist??? Mr. Temenos “physical labor never really agreed with me” Mistral??? The guy who sits around reading histories or whatever all day??? The guy who can’t do more than 1 damage with a staff by the end of the game???

[razzberrydazz]

Ough mini personal rant time

I know I can't control people's reactions, I know I won't always get closure or know Why something happened or why someone is upset or why they left, but that unknown always gives me such anxiety of What did I do to cause this and is there a way for me to fix it. I know sometimes it's completely out of my control and that I shouldn't fret so much about it but dammit I'm worrying about it anyway.

I try my best to be genuine and kind to others as much as I can be, and everything I do comes from a place of earnestness, but text doesn't communicate tone well and so I can't control whether or not somebody interprets me differently than I intended.

I know ruminating won't help matters but I find myself unable to stop brooding.

Ugh I need to reduce my screen time and touch grass, I spend too much time online.

[r4zzberry]

Guys am I just paranoid and insane or do y’all also feel ur heart drop when u post something bc what if u accidentally posted/reblogged it on the wrong account and now evey1 hates you

[vide0-nasties]

Going to be rambling insanely about Ghost and probably what his feelings on the monarchy would be, coming from one deeply damaged povo to another.

Anyway, specifically around the time the parasite in chief in her idiot hat (thanks Eccleston lub u) died and passed said idiot hat on, I was seeing a lot of (fun and gentle-ribbing, mind you!) posts about Ghost getting razzed about the queen croaking and maybe him being sad about it or something - I don’t really remember bc I have shit for brains and I just latch onto what bits my adhd will allow.

SO. I really don’t think Bruv Innit gave two shits about Liz buying the farm, bc he grew up working class in a working class town to a drug addicted, drug peddling dad, and a fairly nondescript mom who likely didn’t have a way to get her and her kids out of that shit situation (per ‘09 MW lore and some presumption). I imagine dude was dragged around a shitload of council estates and his dad’s friends’ shitty crash pads, no stability whatsoever, where food insecurity was a big ass forever-looming deal, mom had no idea if her 20 year old vauxhall was going to make it another trip to her minimum wage part time job, and school was forever on the back burner bc when it came to school supplies/trips vs eating and keeping the lights on. You can guess which one won.

If we’re also going with him being about 35-40ish, he would’ve been 10-12ish or so around Diana’s divorce and then her death. So, here’s this starving, horrendously abused kid, with his starving, horrendously abused mother and little brother, drowning in a system that is pretty much just letting them sink to the bottom, nothing is being done about the evil sperm donor that ruins everything for them, and he’s obliterated constantly by TV coverage and tabloids and radio DJs talking about this goddamned family’s stupid fucking drama. Charles cheated, Diana left, her poor boys in their fancy private schools with their endless wealth and glowing skin and brand new clothes that don’t stink of consignment shops are sad.

Sorrows - sorrows, prayers. 🫶

It’s a story he’s seen countless times, the only difference is money and coverage. And, realistically, the women in the stories he knows aren’t killed in car wrecks, they’re killed by their infuriated husbands who think they’re owed something catching up. Maybe that’s why his mom doesn’t leave the cocksucker that trapped her, she could’ve ended up another council house Diana that no one gave a shit about.

He grows up, becomes a butcher’s apprentice, joins the army. Straightens his brother out, makes sure his mom is set up nice, finally beats the shit out of his dad. And all the while, there looms the most fucking pointless, parasitic family in England: living off taxes taken from the public, god knows how much land and how many castles, even owning all the fucking swans on the island.

Relics, vampires, leeches.

But, you know, twenty years down the road, he’s pushing 40, his services to the country are done in the dark, the family he tried so badly to save were brutally cut down anyway, and when he goes to Tesco, the price of a fifth of piss Smirnoff is insane, and he’s still got Soap swimming in his head mid-rant bc his mam’s fucking knee replacement appeal has been denied for the third time and she can’t even walk anymore, Gaz is moving for the second time in a year bc he just can’t afford to live close to his parents even on his salary, meanwhile there was a stretch where it looked like Philip was surviving solely by being pumped full of virgin blood and straight stem cells.

So, yeah, if anything he probably said cheers when the news broke and cracked a couple extra jokes that day.

“What d’you call one dead Windsor? A good start.”

Edit: This is picking up some traction. @50cal-fullauto-astarion is my CoD blog if you like my Call of Bullshit stuff, this is my main and I don’t really go into CoD here

[dandylovesturtles]

31 and 36 for the ask game 🏄‍♂️

Okay so I’m going to answer these in reverse because while I was thinking of the answer to 31 I ended up having a whole tangential rant and I’m going to put that part of my answer under a cut lol

36. I think Mikey is the hardest one for me to write. He’s easy enough as a side character, but when I try to make him the main character I have a harder time delving into his flaws and problems and what makes him tick as a driving force of the narrative. It’s something I would like to change, though, because I love Mikey a lot. I’m grateful to the people who write Mikey-centric fics because I can read those and learn more so I can better rotate him in my brain microwave haha

31. So it’s not necessarily that I dislike Donnie’s Gifts as an episode, but I do tend to pretend it didn’t happen most of the time, because I have no idea what to do with it lol. It’s definitely not meant to be taken too seriously and I think that’s fine, and I don’t really like taking it too seriously. But I am usually writing more serious-flavored fics, so bringing up that time Donnie put a shock collar on his brother feels…. well, it breaks the tone haha

I have enjoyed the occasional fic or comic that DOES choose to take it seriously but I prefer to just pretend it’s not there for my own work.

Mind Meld is kind of in the same boat but this is where I ended up going on a whole tangent so I’m going to put it under a cut

The thing with Mind Meld is I feel like they had a good idea but then lost the through line. I THINK they wanted the ultimate lesson for Donnie to be that he prefers his brothers the way they are, even if that means they don’t think and act like he does. And I don’t think this is a bad issue to tackle with Donnie. Overall I kind of like the idea of him using a machine to make his brothers more like him as a thing he thinks at first will be beneficial, so that’s not really where my problem is.

My problem with the episode is… it works? Like, they do the mission properly. And then the bros end up being even smarter than Donnie and better at doing things. So by the end it feels like Donnie isn’t reverting his bros because he misses them, it feels like jealousy. Especially because they start being actively hostile toward him.

If I were writing the episode, I would have them bungle the mission the second time too. And Donnie would not understand, because how could four of him have messed it up! But of course, it’s BECAUSE you have four people who all think the same way that it falls apart. They all get caught up in Classic Donnie Overthink and everything goes to shit. Mikey can no longer razz his tazz around an obstacle and Raph doesn’t want to use his fists for smashing and Leo is thinking straight forward and not in 4 dimensions.

Donnie having to come up with a THIRD plan, one that properly took his brothers’ strengths and personalities into account, and then convincing his Donnie-fied bros to think that way and thus accomplish the mission, would show that Donnie has learned the error of his ways and has come to fully understand the strengths that each of his brothers has even if they aren’t the same strengths Donnie has. Which is what Donnie’s Gifts was trying to do too but if they’re going to do the same story twice anyway might as well do it better the second time.

Anyway in conclusion Nickelodeon should hire me /j

Thanks for the ask!

[lockandkeycake]

HoTD moots I'm sorry again. This isn't my last pjo rant.

I'm continuing the deep dive into the Did Leo Bully Frank allegations, moving into House of Hades, where things get a bit more murky.

I'm not going to fully recap MoA read my other insane nerdy rant, but basically. Last we left them, Frank had disliked Leo, been antagonistic towards Leo, Leo was nervous around him and teased him a few times, they finally talk and become friends. But, everything is kicking off on a sour note. No one is happy.

Right at the beginning of HoH, we don't actually get much interactions between Leo and Frank until these scenes.

I'd like to note here that Leo's birthday is July 7th. so that's fun. He's not feeling too great about all the ghost talk. I didn't include it, but there's a scene of Hazel talking about Leo being angrier and more serious early on as well. Leo is thinking about loss and death quite a lot in this novel.

Then we get to Frank's pov and Boy Is It Different.

First, I'll also point out Frank remembers the whole his clothes getting sent out and destroyed on Buford but very clearly doesn't characterize it as Leo 'throwing his clothes overboard'. Even in the state Frank is in, he knows Leo didn't purposely destroy his clothes.

But Frank still has issues.

You can note that Frank actually starts off this thought process by essentially complementing Leo, but then Mars and Ares pop in - suddenly, Frank is now saying how Leo constantly teased him.

This is one of those things I think people are going to interpret differently depending on your bias. I have a Leo bias, and having shown that Leo was NOT constantly teasing him in MoA, at least from what is written, I think this is mostly influence from Mars/Ares. Leo does tease, he teases Jason in this book I think more than he does Frank, so I wouldn't ever say Leo doesn't tease people, he absolutely can be a little shit; but the difference is that it's rarely maliciously done on Leo's part. When Leo noticed Frank was embarrassed at the end of the last book, he stopped himself from making comments. We've also seen that Leo is also not great at realizing if his comments are being taken negatively, even if he doesn't mean them in that manner.

However, like I said, Hazel noted Leo's been stressed, not sleeping, and angrier than usual at the beginning of HoH. Leo blames himself for what happened to Annabeth and Percy. Leo is starting to think he'll probably die, and he's horribly lonely. Maybe he has been razzing Frank more offpage, and we just don't see it written. But because we do not see Leo explicitly dig at Frank's weight or looks or intelligence, I am personally still more of the opinion that it's the product of Mars/Ares.

We then get this scene

Frank says Leo had stopped making jokes at his expense here, but again, not trying to beat a dead horse at this point, we've not really seen Leo do that at all this book. Frank now has more confidence and feels more worthwhile in his place on the Argo after his Venice battle- I think Frank is now less insecure and those voices are piping in less. Again, I could be wrong, but this seems very similar to last book. Frank spent the majority of the book being very antagonist, then wonders why on earth Leo would be nervous around him. There's things clouding Frank's judgement that clear up, and suddenly, he's getting on with Leo much better. Shocker.

(that being said Frank does suggest leaving Leo in Croatia just for making a pun not even at his expense, so make of that what you will lmao)

Reaching the Calypso chapters, there's a lot I could get into. I'll eventually do a break down on just them and why I don't love caleo, but I'll save that for another day. Still - Frank is someone Leo actually makes a point of trying to help once he finds out Calypso has fireproof fabric.

Frank is his friend in Leo's mind, someone he wants to save too. Leo is big on trying to save people. I wonder why, definitely didn't come from childhood trauma or watching his mom burn to death or anything. Moving on.

Finally, Leo returns from Ogygia, Frank is said to have patted him so hard on the back it made Leo wince. Clearly he hates him.

But in all seriousness I think the slow progression of Leo and Frank's relationship is one of the better done character developments in HoO. It's slow, it's subtle it culminates in Frank hugging him next book, and Frank using Leo and Jason as inspiration for using up his wood piece.

The big scene to finish off this book are these pages. If Frank hated Leo, if he felt like Leo was only ever mocking him, trying to hurt his feelings, this would not have happened.

Frank trusts Leo.

Leo trusts Frank.

They're not afraid of each other anymore, they're not scared. They mutually trust one another and know they'll have each other's backs.

That is why Leo trusts only Frank and Hazel with his plan in the next book.