#seems okayish enough to post

[ssaalexblake]

                             ~These legs definitely used to be longer~

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

I'm looking at the forecast for JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX, and I also saw how low the attendance was at my cinema job yesterday, and... It got me thinking again about where big comic book/superhero movies are at in the post-COVID outbreak world...

And how JOKER 2 - along with films like QUANTUMANIA, SHAZAM 2, THE MARVELS, and THE FLASH - sorta fit a weird group of pictures that probably would've made boffo bucks in 2019 but not now. Backwash, you could say, from a bygone era that's only like five years ago...

Meanwhile, we saw the recent successes of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, superhero movies that were more than just your usual garden variety superhero movie. They had some kind of vision or passion or spunk behind them. DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE is, I feel, the anomaly to this, as I felt it to be a fairly vision-less movie. Just a big budget parade of your favorite characters and action bits and lots of cameos, but done well enough with a sense of fun that kept audiences coming back after it made over $211m on its domestic opening weekend. I certainly had a fun time with it, but I wouldn't say it's anything other than "here's some fan favorites and some bloody action."

And then smack-dab in the middle of all this is MADAME WEB, which by all accounts was hacked to pieces in post-production much like how MORBIUS was. A film that could've stood out amongst the superhero pack as a period piece (2003 as a period piece, that's frightening to me lol), but ended up being molded into your usual schlop with lots of noticeable ADR.

Then you have two other Sony Spider-Man-adjacent movies this year, out within two months of one another. VENOM: THE LAST DANCE, out in a few weeks from now, should do good business because of the campy buddy comedy appeal of these particular movies. KRAVEN THE HUNTER, which was delayed multiple times, I have no idea. That might get a little lost in the Christmas season feeding frenzy. I have no idea how much further these Sony movies will go, outside of the VENOM movies. Remember how they wanted to do an EL MUERTO movie and then it got canned?

It seems like it's all a slow, prolonged sea change in comic book movies. I think they'll still get made, but something will have to change... as even a sequel to JOKER - which prided itself on resembling a '70s/'80s New Hollywood Scorsese-esque project - isn't cutting it. The idea of the new one being like a classic musical and a courtroom drama sounds really cool on paper, but in 2024, it's just not enough. The first one seems to be of a specific time, and belongs only to that time, it could be argued. A Trump-era slog about a "misunderstood" lonely guy who eventually ends up killing people, that devolves into a cacophony of violence... Its most controversial aspects were outside of the movie itself. I remember all the pre-release worry about the film possibly being a rallying cry to shooters... It came out and nothing happened, but it got tons of people to flock to the movie. It just hit at the right time, the noise around it created an appeal of sorts. It being this R-rated gritty street level movie and not your usual comic book movie.

But in 2024, now it's just "Eh, a new JOKER movie?" Add in the extreme genre shift, and a chunk of the audience was alienated.

Next year... CAPTAIN AMERICA 4... Looks - to me - like the most anticipated movie of 2015, honestly. THUNDERBOLTS* also looks too little, too late and also kinda just... There... James Gunn's SUPERMAN could really go either way, it could pull a MAN OF STEEL, or it could really break out. Maybe a BATMAN BEGINS-esque performance is in the cards here, where it opens kinda okayish because of a general fatigue w/ constant superhero movies (not to mention Henry Cavill's Kal-El not being that far behind) but has great legs. FANTASTIC FOUR Again, maybe this new take does the same? Maybe it's just more MCU fluff that gets a handful of fans on opening weekend and just fades away afterwards. There's an untitled Sony Spider-Man adjacent movie set for summer 2025 as well, but I wouldn't be surprised if that gets nerfed from the schedule. By now I think we'd know what it is, unless it's some kind of surprise project. Still, you'd know about it because it'd be filming or wrapped up by now. Speaking of which, BLADE is definitely not out next year, I'm surprised Disney and Marvel haven't changed its release or removed it from the calendar. We'll have to see where it all goes...

Ya know what comic book movie sticks out among all these 2025 entries?

DOG MAN!

Which I expect to be a respectable success for DreamWorks, come this winter. Its animation and visuals were outsourced to Jellyfish, much in the same way CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS was to Mikros. Jellyfish got SPIRIT UNTAMED out for $30m, I'd imagine this didn't cost anything more than that. Plus it's well after SPIRIT's timeframe, which was when vaccines were still rolling out, and this new movie is based on the Dav Pilkey CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS universe so it should do pretty okay. But to me, this is probably the most distinct CBM of next year, in a sea of big budget spectacle. A little cartoon movie about half man/half dog from a comic book written by fictional children that plays out in the way a comic drawn up by a kid would.

Leave it to animation to save the day here, lol. We need something to hold us over in comic book movies until BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE, whenever they decide to release that.

2026 is home to what looks like the usual array of late 2010s CBM backwash... AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY with Robert Downey Jr. returning to the MCU, possibly a fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man movie, two other untitled MCU movies (BLADE will likely take one of those slots)

There's also Gunn/Safran-verse DC's SUPERGIRL, but we gotta see what SUPERMAN looks like, first, before I can say whether their new DC shared universe feels like it belongs in the past decade or not...

You also have another animated entry with the MUTANT MAYHEM sequel, the first one - from last year - being a great and fresh new spin on the TMNT property. And THE BATMAN - PART II, the first one got a very strong response back in 2022. I would say THE BATMAN and MUTANT MAYHEM are of this new post-ENDGAME superhero movie era, the first SPIDER-VERSE arguably kicked that off in late 2018 before ENDGAME was released.

Again, it's a real "we'll have to see". Tracking this stuff can be fascinating for me.

[mohabbaat]

i never denied she isn't one of the wrong thing she does and I'm not a swiftie and im not your beloved redacted either but I've been on your blog long enough to follow as an enthusiast and turn around bitter how pathetic you are with your instances and earning the ever loving didi badge. your asian kids write albums and are edited and probably cut down to their throat multiple times by their label and are just as commercial as you call taylor put up by a label and thrown on the face of the world to choreograph and dance because their life depends on it. I wonder your kids ever expressed themselves truly without taking every step panting because it might just ruin their professional image. Im not hating on bts but it's just hypocrite of you to support one artist because they're so uninvolved with their personal life upfront and hate on other because she choses to be transparent and write off each of her wrongdoings on paper. AND NO honey i do not want to fuck an elder woman than me who has no better job but to be pathetic about a celebrity on the other corner of internet but maybe you just seem eager to hate fuck anyone who comes to your ask box youre so down bad. maybe reflect how much hate filled you are by your own shortcomings because a person isn't falling into your oh so perfect artist category and btw not everyone who sends you anon is obsessed with your narcissist self it's also called putting an opinion that's why tumblr put the anonymous feature here

i have a few points:

your punctuation and grammar are a little off. i appreciate the long, entertaining ask but it's quite difficult to read properly. so work on that.

you are literally indian, why are you using asian as a derogatory term? 😭

i never did say bts are perfect. i barely talk about them on here. infact, i have repeatedly said that i am unhappy with their current behavior and their silence on palestine. you just weren't around to see those posts i guess?

i, somehwat, agree with your personal comment honestly. see, i don't know shit about bts' personal life so i can't comment on whether their music is about their own experiences or not (some of the songs clearly are. pls check out indigo by rm). but everyone knows about taylor's personal life. and when you listen to the songs knowing the context they just leave a bad taste in your mouth (for example, guilty as sin is an okayish song. but it's also about her cheating???? so ew). so, knowing about her personal life makes it worse not better.

[cartoon-yuri]

Finally, I have the courage to write this...! This one is a tricky post, I will admit it. It will be both about the weird german that was used in World Dai Star — the anime, since as far as I know there wasn't a lick of this language on the game — and about a little critic I have about the english translation. Please, bear with me.

Well then... we have this scene here:

Bist du gut in Japan angekommen?

Erzähl mir bitte wie deine Vorspielen war.

Ich verspreche mir sehr viel von dir.

This is what is written in the text that Kathrina's mom sent. There is only an english translation about the first two sentences:

Did you make it to Japan safely?

Tell me if you pass or fail your audition immediately.

Which is understandable, since the third sentence is the weird one — something that I discovered after trying to work on them with my very basic german knowledge. Yes, I am not a german speaker (yet) and my level of this language is barely scratching the A1; but I did start studying it before, so I do think I should comment about it. Anyone who has more knowledge about me in german can correct me on any error I made if they wish to do so!!

And why am I even talking about it...? 'Cause it misled me about the daughter and mother relationship that Kathrina and Theresa have. Or, being more specific, the translation misled me. After reading it, my first thought was that Kathrina had the typical relationship that rivals characters have with their mothers in anime: a very bad one. The first question seemed okayish, but the second one? It gave me the impression that Theresa was strict, unsupportive of her daughter's wishes and distant. It seemed that she only cared if Kathrina was good enough as an actress.

Of course, we know by now that this is not true. However I must admit I was pretty surprised when I found it out. When I saw that Theresa cared for her daughter? When I watched her being worried for Kathrina, being understanding and supportive? I couldn't understand why she was like that — and I blame my confusion on the translation of the text.

Look, I do know how hard it is to translate something. I am a language nerd, and translation is one of my favorite topics — still starting to study it seriously and all. That's why I will be critical over it, especially if it changes how I am supposed to interpret a character. [And that's why I said to bear with me...]

Thus, here is, more or less, my translations about the first two sentences. It is definitely not a great one, but it's more in character, that I assure.

Did you reach easily in Japan?

Relate me please how your audition went.

See, way less demanding...! I tried to translate the third one, but in german it simply doesn't make sense. It became something like “I promise me much much as long for you” — this is me translating german to portuguese to english, now. Can you hear me crying? No way I will try to translate it straight from german to english after finding results like this from translating machines when I first tried to.

Seeing as the last one was weird, I asked my friend if she could translate the text for me from japanese to portuguese. At first she thought there wasn't a japanese version of it, but she soon found it!

It became something like this — just a note I am, again, translating from portuguese to english:

Did you got safely in Japan?

Send me the audition result as soon possible.

I am awaiting with anticipation.

Very different, no? It also made me realize that the anime translations were, most definitely, also from the japanese version. Seeing as both of them have the second sentence mentioning Kathrina to tell her mother the results the fastest she can, it makes sense for it to be from the same language. Also, doesn't the third one make way more sense now?

Theresa also sounds more like a supportive and kind mom here than she did on the first translation. If I was introduced right at the start at this, I would definitely not be surprised when she shows up later. Being honest, I would expect something like she pulled off on the anime, hehe.

That's why I am criticizing the translation; it can help us to understand the character or it can drive us away — or, in my case, misled me from what the character actually is. And as also a literature nerd, this hurt me, since I will make all the wrong connections based on the little I know (the translated subtitles) and then, when I am proven wrong, I will not understand why since the first piece of information does not correlate with I am presented later. Which also makes me interpret things in a way it shouldn't. That's why I am a big supporter of having a variable of translations about the same source!!

Anyway, that wasn't supposed to get this big. I hope you enjoyed some part of this, since this is my first meta post, and that I made you think a little more about how complicated translation is...!

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Hi! I saw some of your yuumori posts and if it's okay I got a few questions. So in 1 post you mentioned how even though the plan was successful, yet there is still the queen who is a ... negative simbol? What did you mean by that? And it seems to me that you're not really fond of Albert. May I ask why? Gotta admit that he is one of my favourites, so I'm a bit biased. But I admit that I don't really like Liam... and Sherliam to me is just okayish... Sorry for my english. Thank you!

You're going to have to link me to that one, because I don't remember saying this or why I would say it. But I've written a lot of things, so...there's a lot to go through. I don't talk about Queen Victoria that much, because I don't find her that interesting, but a couple people have asked a few times, so it might be from one of those things

I don't dislike Albert. I just, historically, haven't found him all that interesting compared to the others.

I was discussing this with a friend the other day, actually. Albert doesn't really have an arc in Part One. We learn a lot more about him after the time skip, and I thought that was all good and interesting, but...he doesn't change as a person. He doesn't grow. He's guilty and regretful the entire time, basically, and then he decides to atone with his brothers after like two seconds after someone else suggests it because he couldn't even come to that conclusion on his own. Apparently.

William, I'm a sucker for, because he's exactly the kind of character I like: awkward, introverted, geniuses who care wayyyy too much and have no idea how to handle it, and also angry traumatized characters who react poorly because trauma. He got both of the smashed into one, and I just. Love that. But I've written enough posts about why I love William. I've written enough posts about why I love Louis. Probably enough about why I love Sherlock.

And I think liking Liam is fine. He's the protagonist. I'm supposed to like him. I think most people who like the series like him.

I think Albert does a lot of interesting things for the plot. I think he does interesting things to show other characters in various lights. I think he's a good character, and he can be interesting in the story. I've written a lot about his mental illness because I find that fascinating and really well written.

But "Handsome jerk who never seems to flinch and never seems to lose," is just...not...really my type.

[herrscherofmagic]

Fr, the HI3rd writing has been kinda wonky.

It's great when it comes to characters and emotions, but the worldbuilding and logic is all over. This game really needs a story rework to re-organize some of that worldbuilding and fill in the various gaps T_T

That being said, I've still enjoyed the story and I think the post-Moon story content has been getting more coherent and well-thought-out. Plus I believe there's a very solid set of rules/logic underpinning the whole setting; the issue isn't the world's logic but rather the poor presentation of said logic.

I've been brainstorming ideas for my own HI3rd AU fanfic/story/art series, and a lot of this brainstorming has led me to ask questions about some pretty fundamental stuff like Stigmata, "Herrscher Personas", Imaginary Space, bubble worlds, consciousness mapping, and so on. As I've reviewed the story time and again and put in countless hours of thought into it across the last couple of years, I've noticed a lot of connections between these different ideas. There's definitely some excellent worldbuilding in this story but it does take a huge amount of work to uncover it, and that really should change.

It's also helped me to consider both Genshin and HSR as well. For instance, dreams, memory, & wishes seem to function fairly similarly in both Genshin and HI3rd, but Genshin has done a much better job of presenting those concepts. Understanding how those things work in Genshin made it easier to figure it out in HI3rd, basically. Even GGZ has helped me a bit but not to the same extent.

@hiraethsdesires, if you've got any big questions about the HI3rd & greater Hoyoverse setting, feel free to let me know!

I've spent way too much time thinking about this stuff so there's a good chance that I might be able to help you navigate some of the messy bits of the story and worldbuilding.

And since I plan on making my own HI3rd-centric fan stories, I've also put a lot of thought into how these ideas need to be presented and explained in order to make sense. I can't say I'm an absolute expert, but I think I've at least done an okayish job so far ^.^

As a side note, I followed the first link in your post (the reddit one) and I was so surprised to see my own comment there ahfjl;adfhd;ahadfklh it always throws me off when I find my months-old internet discussions >.<

side-side note: I'm sorry but that Gamerant article really doesn't do much of any proper explanation of the Imaginary Tree or Sea of Quanta. Maybe it would work for someone totally unfamiliar with these games but anyone with at least some basic understanding of any of these stories would probably need more than just that article to figure it out.

If I had to explain the Tree and SoQ to an HSR-only player, the simplest explanation I can come up with would be this:

The Imaginary Tree is the source of all worlds. Imaginary Energy flows through the Tree and forms "leaves" on the branches of this tree, each one an entire world of its own. However, the Sea of Quanta is an opposing force to the Tree. If a world "detaches" from the Imaginary Tree then it will sink into the Sea and slowly dissolve into nothingness unless it finds a sort of "anchor" to stabilize itself. These are so-called "bubble worlds". Thus the Imaginary Tree and Sea of Quanta exist as two opposing and all-encompassing forces, the former being a force of creation and the latter being a force of destruction.

There's obviously a lot more complexity, but that explanation should be enough to cover the basics for someone familiar with HSR but not with HI3rd. I think? Idk x-x

so,

based on the hi3 shit ive been researching in wikis, blogs and reddit for stellar chasm (my hi3 x hsr crossover story in the making)

hi3 writing is all over the place and that hyv writers prolly- partially gave up on some parts/arcs that leaves some hi3 players unsatisfied, is what i'm barely understanding

(discussion about hi3 x hsr crossover story im making, along with hi3 topics under cut)

i do however finally understand quite a lot though (except for the math and... numbers... shinanigans)

i'm just hoping my hsr following is aware of hi3 or even the basics of the imaginary tree + sea of quanta, cause ima be involving it a lot of hi3 things for the prologue,

just for Herrscher!Reader's arrival to make sense, establishing her personality for you readers to be aware of, her relationships with hi3 characters, and just an overall introduction

then again, stellar chasm is for avid hsr and hi3 enjoyers, but for the pure hsr readers... hmh, i wouldnt know how they'll react, but i can assume theyre aware of hyv's other games

i haven't reached the final chapters of hi3 plot in game and i also dont mind being spoiled from the information im researching—but what i can say is that i believe hi3 lore enjoyers feel robbed about the overall writing progression in the canon story, which is honestly really sucky and i feel quite bad about it

not to mention, we still have yet to know how our beloved welt yang of anti entropy ended up in the universe of honkai star rail, but honestly i can feel their love for hsr, so we might get that aspect explained in the future

nonetheless,

the frantic mess and unsatisfied feelings towards the hi3 writers who're in charge with the storyline in hi3 remind me that ill have to step up my game for this crossover story i'll be creating for you all, i want a good story because i am someone who craves a good universe that can scratch our brain's itch in the right places, so why not write instead? for myself and you all hi3 and hsr lovers.

anyhow, thank you for reading until the end, i would love to hear all of your thoughts within my inboxes or just overall interact with me about this (while i plan, edit and write the prologue of stellar chasm and the 2nd chapter of TMW)

for the ppl who wanna be informed;

hi3 arc summaries reddit disccusion link

imaginary tree + sea of quanta explained/disccusions reddit

[sword-of-summer]

All of them answer every question fuck you

ahahaha no i respectfully deny your "fuck you" and i accept the ask and so-

i am 5'10", and i don't wish to be taller or shorter- i am the perfect height for hugs and messy hair, and yep, i like it here-

dream pet would be a mix of golden retriver and a husky called Holly and a chonky cat called Loki- yes ofcourse my future kids have names everyone should name their future pets-

ripped jeans/black pants with a Darth Vader tshirt or a Ethnic Fusion Kurta with black sneakers/artificial leather slip-ons, and if it's cold, a black jacket open obviously- and a black wristwatch i love my black wristwatch.

favourite video game was Clash of Clans and going even back, GTA Vice City and, the og- MARIIOOOO

three things/people are Oreos, Nutella and Pizza. The Holy Trinity-

"Beware me my fingers are smeared with chicken popcorn grease"

you didn't mention an opinion, @chunkybirb, so imma give my opinion on Vanilla ice cream and Nutella- ANYONE WHO HADN'T COMBINED THESE TWO COMBINE THESE TWO THEY ARE FUCKING AWESOME

im either phlegmatic or melancholic bruh idk maybe ik or maybe not

im v v v v ticklish

not an allergy, but an intense hatred for ketchup- i vomit if it gets too close to me fuck you ketchup

im heterosexual

any between tea and coffee but full milk coffee (ik, kill me), never had cocoa- but i love a chocolate or nutella milkshake

both. both is good. (cat and dog)

i would be an elf cause hell yeah, knowledge and wisdom

favourite youtuber is Samay Raina, a stand up comedian turned youtuber who is just awesome-

as i mentioned in 1., i am 5'10"

i would not change my name cause it's the coolest fucking name ever, i am Tanay, and Tanay in Hindi means Son, and my parents literally named their son Son, and hell yeah i like it

i forgot how much i weigh- last i checked it was 75 kilos, but ive gained weight since 2019 so yep, gotta walk in the mornings

yes i believe in metaphysicality cause one- it seems cool- second- me and @theclassyghost discussed a metaphysical life theory that i really really like and metaphysicality gives preservation of knowledge so i believe in spirits

SPACE. SPACE. SPACE.

im not that religious, no

pet peeves no well nah not really

nocturnal def nocturnal i sleep at 4.50 anyway hehehehe

fav constellation is Cassiopeia

fav star is Sirius tho

what the fuck are ball jointed dolls

i do have a fear of losing people that's just anxiety i guess

yep, global warming is real

never thought that much about reincarnation tbh but maybe, i do

fav movie is Spider Man : Into The SpiderVerse and Inception and The Dark Knight Rises and Revenge of The Sith and yes, for my indian gang, 3 Idiots and Gully Boy

yep i get scared v v v easily

i have had no pets but i plan to once i grow up

@chunkybirb 's blog is fucking cool awesome and *chef's kiss* a masterpiece

blue calms me. i love blue.

live in Norway cause pretty lights, snow, and less people than this overpopulated country i am in

born in Mumbai, India

v v v dark brown like it's almost black but no it's dark brown

introvert

horoscopes and zodiacs, i do read them, never believed that much tbh-

HUGS I LOVE HUGS

i really wanna visit my brother i haven't met him in a long time i really wanna play cricket w him just like old times

my sister- she's annoying but well i care for her

nah

tattoos idk bruh im okay idk may get one or may not get one

nope, smoking is ewwww *vomits*

ah my crush- she's cool [ if she exists

when the chalk doesn't write on the board but goes iiiiiieeee I HATE THAT

a sound i love is rain pitter pattering i just hhhhhh sends me into happiness

nope fatass here

nope fatass here

favourite actors have to be eddie redmayne, oscar issac and pedro pascal- and margot robbie and winona ryder in the actresses section also yes, elliot page

bruh already answered in 30.

im okayish!! spotify and tumblr, cool combo-

my hair are okay being black for me

yesterday, monday, from 6.40 to 6.50

music

uhhh naah not that i know of

well in Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase books, the sword of Frey aka Sumarbrander TALKS and demands to be called Jack, so here i am

bakwaas, music and comfy

yep, i believe in evolution

unfollow on hate and when they dm me sending nsfw pics ugh why are people like that

follow, well, i like people and they seem cool, so i follow them

fav kind of person is the one who'll sit with me for hours not even talking and just vibing to music

fav animals are beavers, doggos and cats

three fav blogs are @chunkybirb, @theclassyghost, @little-boats-on-a-lake, @aredhel-of-gondolin, @sue-me-imbadass, @alleenkaas, @my-ackerman, @brrrrrrrrrrzone

fav emoticon has to be ☹ this me seeing my stupidity outrank others

fav meme has to be Butternut is a master of psychological manipulation

INTP

Libraaa let's go

no dog, i have

black darth vader tshirt, black pants, black sneakers and black wrist watch

i have no selfies my phone has no cameras i live in eternal darkness

what the fuck are platform shoes

i, uhhh, i remember weird things like what i drew in class in 3rd while i was supposed to be doing english

lazy ass here, no front flips possible

i like birds they fly

nope i don't Iike swimming i like blankets

wrapped up in blankets reading books sounds better than both

ketchup

hyperspace travel

nope none

reading writing eating sleeping

my friend

tumblr seems cool

i have around 60-70 idk

yes i can run but why

yes they do but what's the fun in that

nope I'd fall over

sapphire let's go

koala bear or panda

sunflower or the one on a lemon tree

ketchup store

one cup of coffee is enough, tysm

read minds that sounds cool cool yeaaahh

nope never wore it a black clothes guy here BatMan

winter winter all year long

i don't know and i don't wanna try

i don't know and i don't wanna know

everyone cause they are better than me

bookstores cause bookstores any bookstores

sneakers, black onez

apparently some gas bitches mixed up to form a planet

non vegetarian but i partake meat just twice or thrice in two weeks

i don't know they don't seem like liking

naaaaaaaah

bugs ew

spiders ew

about the fact that i come off as arrogant and overconfident while in reality it's just that my communication skills suck

i can draw averagely whenever im in a mood

this thing im answering but i like answering it

uhhhhhhh brain freeze- idk bruh questions are good they give knowledge

yep, while sleeping

ahh yes calming, they are

cloudy days cause fucking cool vibes

hehehe wouldn't you like to know, weatherboy

CumuloNimbus i really like it's name yknow nimBUS

dark blue, dark blue always or black

naaaah no freckles

fav thing is when they laugh and it's just happy and we're both laughing like shitheads but who cares we're rebelling against depressing life and we laugh

both. both is good [ fruits and vegetables

sleep but i have to answer 170 questions cause @chunkybirb

sky sky sky it's my blog's header duh uh sKy

sweet and sour candy. SWEET AND SOUR CANDY.

dim lights it makes me feel cool

ahhh so here we go- Mooncalfs, Thunderbirds, Phoenixes, Sphinxes, Dragons that seem to be Space Nebulae, and more and more and more

i really feel like a boomer sometimes

i love everything about this site/app it makes me feel happy cause i like the people and the posts

uhhhhh i think too much about everything cause i just do. i like thinking

"He's dead, guys. For the sake of The Force, please watch Star Wars now he wanted to discuss it with you" actually no i would just say "A big shoutout to Garlic Bread he loved Garlic Bread"

myself cause i should be sleeping but sleep is for the weak and i am the weak and the strong i am a paradox-

that i obsess too much on things and try involving people it never works out

nope. had braces for 4 years, that beat out teeth showing smiles

i prefer computer-tv ahahahahaha

never tried them, so IDK

naaaaah not motion sickness- never travelled by sea so idk seasickness

lobed ears

yep i believe that deeds do count in life and beyond

idk bruh i don't believe in physical attraction too much- bodies are fake- mentally/metaphysically tho, im a 7

ahhhhh many many Stupid Genius, Tani, Tanu, Tanya

i still do-

i really want to talk to a therapist. converse. and discover.

im both, i am both.

10:1 is the ratio- giving 10, receiving 1

uhhh nothing just when i am right and people use the old "disrespect" argument

3, Hindi, Marathi, English

girls

uhh no i am not

my hair i love them everyone says things about my hair but i love them

knowledge vibes i give, someone tells me- and that's all i ever wanted

anyone i know tbh, my mutuals, my friends, my discord friends

ahhh no i wouldn't but i wish i was born 20 years earlier

bleh bloo, neither like nor dislike

i don't know if i have one

i don't know, haven't had physical contact in a long long long time in a galaxy far far away

the above point stands but i would like to ig

anything i write, 3 hours later, i instantly hate just idk why

anything i write

that i am normal no i am not and i am not okay hahahahaha

65-70 ish people

somewhere around-

many many many don't ask please but okay if you do ask

somewhat

uhhhhh idr exactly but i won't tell in public duh uh

mediummm hairrrr

last year lockdown i became harry potter

i don't know buddy i seriously don't know

yep i do cause knowledge i like knowledge

naaah never tried

no i definitely cannot stand on my hands or my head for more than 30 seconds

yep, im pretty sure i answered most of them correctly-

og link-

[almaasi]

reaction post typed while watching SPN 15x18 “Despair”

WOW TODAY SURE IS A DAY, HUH

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04:40pm

Y’ALL

I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS

I KNOW WHAT’S COMING

BUT AM I PREPARED?

my post leading up to this: https://almaasi.tumblr.com/post/634003656411381760/i-have-seen-the-spn-spoilers-okay-okay-okay

i found a faster torrent and there are 7 minutes until it’s done I’M GONNA GO WANDER AROUND FOR A BIT BRB

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04:51pm

window is blacked out

i am as ready as i can be, i think

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04:52

HERE WE GO

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omg so much has happened irl i fully forgot what happened at the end of the last ep so THANK U RECAP

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BILLIE JUST

BOMBED THE EMPTY

WITH JACK

:0

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05:00

just as i was thinking “aaah billie’s probably lying, jack’s capital D Dead” THERE’S JACK

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JACK’S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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05:05pm

nice shot

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05:07

CHARLIE’S PARTNER IS GORGEOUS AND THIS IS SO HAPPY

they better both make it to the end and out the other side or istg

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OH NO WHERE DID BABE GO

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babe is named stevie

BRIng STEVIE BACK

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05:09

THIS PLACE IS CALLED KIM MANOR

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we’re like 1/3 of the way into this episode?? damn

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cas and jack hanging out on the hood of the impala like the brothers did all those years ago

good family talk spot

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05:13

high quality face

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05:15

cas: WE DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE USEFUL OR--

cas baby yesssssssssssssssssssssss

these are the words cas can say because he knows them for himself

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05:19

THE DOTS ON SAM’S PHONE CHAT WITH EILEEN

DISAPPEARING

OH...................

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05:26

DONNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

oh i wish we’d had more donna and jody :/

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05:29

dean’s gonna lose cas and then it’s gonna be the sam+charlie+dean “i just lost my lover” club :c

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05:34

just thinkin about the ending of the final episode

the only two endings i really want are:

everyone we love is somehow alive and they drive into the sunset

they all die but wake up in heaven and there’ll be peace when you are done

or some combination thereof

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05:37

billie: i didn’t hurt your friends

yeah i thought not

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bobby vanishes and my eyes flood with tears

that last look between him and sam........

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wait when was donna from another universe??? or did she die at some point

WOW I’VE FORGOTTEN A LOT

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05:42

dean: “what do we do, ca--- my heart”

.......

yep

i’m not ready for whatever’s about to happen

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I’M SO !!!!!!!!!!

BECAUSE THE FACT THEY JUST WON’T DIE

AND THEY ALWAYS COME BACK

IS THE SEMI-BOSS FIGHT

I’M LOVING THIS

EVEN THOUGH I HATE IT

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05:46

this sure is a screenshot huh

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05:49

/mutes discord bc this needs all of my attention

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05:51

cas’ eyes are starting to tear up and he’s smiling as he starts to talk and ohhhhhhhhh here it comes

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05:53

there’s.

literally.

a wall.

between them.

talk about SYMBOLISM

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jensen’s pupils are so wide right now holy shit

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“you are the most caring man on earth”

dean looking at these words like it’s news to him

;~;

cas

thank you for saying these things we’ve all been yelling at the screen for years

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05:58

DEAN HAS CAS’ BLOODY HANDPRINT ON HIS JACKET

........i can’t let myself believe that was it

THERE WILL BE MORE

SURELY

like

in no conceivable world do the writers get this far, give us THAT, and have it never be mentioned again or properly resolved

hello yes i’m waiting for the magic ritual where cas’ bloody handprint plays a part

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06:02

yeah i mean

if they saved the whole world multiple times over

everyone’s gotta go

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oh dean................. oh no

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GOD

THAT REALLY WAS SOMETHING HUH

i feel like my full reaction is reserved 

because this was half a story. this was one-sided and it was just cas’ monologue. dean has things to say

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT OVER

i know people (misha??) has said it’s a permadeath but i do not believe that, and i don’t believe anything anyone says about what’s coming tbh

i got an anon in my inbox a few weeks ago who correctly predicted this, saying they knew someone on set, but like......... the real ending would be top secret and anything that gets out would not end up in the inbox of some fic author along with a bad vibe. (i didn’t answer it, not wanting to stir up shit.)

that anon said cas isn’t in the last two episodes. except that can’t possibly be true because we, the audience, can see people in the empty, and cas still needs to yell at the empty, and death is in there too... and the empty just wants to sleep so we need to see that too, and cas would be there.

THERE’S MORE TO COME, KIDS

two episodes left

i’m wary of the next one because it’s the deadly duo writing, but they seem to be okayish these days so maybe it’ll be fine

but the finale..... fingers crossed <3

fingers also crossed for a blue georgia, north carolina, and pennsylvania <3

/goes back to cnn livestream because I WANNA WATCH WHEN GEORGIA FLIPS

also. back to spn for a sec. i’m a leeeeeeetle bit mad that the gay black woman disappears first. like i know everyone died but. haven’t we had enough of that??

10/10 even so BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN BETTER

eh. this show is what it is, and i just gotta accept that, BUT ALSO I THINK WE’RE GENUINELY GETTING SOMEWHERE WITH DEAN AND CAS HERE

but only so long as this actually has a conclusion

which it must do

because this is very much an emotional cliffhanger. cas just emotion-dumped and then fucked off so dEAN’S GOTTA PROCESS AND THEN CHASE HIM

OBVIOUSLY

BECAUSE THAT’S HOW LOVE STORIES WORK

we didn’t watch 15 years of this thing only to be given half of what we wanted in the closing moments, and then get left left high and dry. the writers/producers are clearly willing to give us canon love confessions, and they're not gonna get as far as this, with a finale as tense and dramatic as this, and be like lol dean's straight and only likes cas as a friend........... after he’s dead and died for the joy of their love........... that's beyond madness

and dean needs to SPEAK. there are so many things he’d never said. and he needs to say them to cas. he was basically silent in this conversation and you can’t just say that’s their ending. it’s not their ending.

AND LIKE

IF THIS SHOW AND THIS FINALE AND THIS SEASON HAS PROVED ANYTHING

IT’S THAT NOBODY STAYS DEAD

AND WHATEVER THE WRITER INTENDS, THE CHARACTERS HAVE THEIR OWN DESIRES AND DRIVES

AND FOR THAT REASON, GAY LOVE WILL PIERCE THROUGH THE VEIL OF DEATH AND SAVE THE DAY

[wonderlandco]

you asked me to come back, here I am! the anon asking for a buddy. Anyway, i understand you're not up for it! I think it would become competitive on my side too so i kinda need someone who's ok with that and yeah so. It's okay you don't want it! My ed has worsened lately after being okayish for a few years?? It sucks but at least now i'm on the right path again. Maybe not the healthiest, but a path. Keep being awesome honey i root for you!!! 💕����

(Also im not sure this is coming on anon so if it isn't then please donr post it!) Love u bb!!! 💖

Yay you’re back!! Same, I’ve always struggled with weight and disordered eating but it transformed from disordered eating to an eating disorder at my lowest point in 2019, then I went full crazy during the beginning of COVID and lockdown and that’s when my eating disorder became a full blown eating disorder.

I’ve been okayish for a few months but yeah i guess I’m the same as you that I’m back on this path but trying to do it in a more “harm minimisation, risk management” way so I don’t go completely back to my worst point with my ED mostly bc people are starting to get suspicious so I gotta slow it down a bit lol - which I guess is the main reason I said no to being your buddy and why I think you shouldn’t find one, bc I really think that having a buddy can take you down a very dark path that will be hard to come back from, and you seem very nice and lovely and you don’t deserve to go down that path.

I hope you feel comfortable enough soon to come off anon! But still feel free to message me on anon if you like ❤️❤️❤️ keep safe lovely!

[artisticly-autistic]

April 5th: What was school like for you, or what is it currently like for you if you are still in school? Elementary, high school, post-secondary?

Primary school was fairly normal... It took me a while to get "neat enough" handwriting and I had to do extra practice, I remember being taken to see this Dr and an occupational therapist bc my parents had suspicions about me being autistic, I go taken out of class to pick up coins of a desk etc and practice motor skills but I actually had friends and played with other kids like??? I did get bullied a bit. Looking back I'm kinda astounded.. I feel like my autism got worse. I did pretty well though. I guess that's why I didn't get diagnosed at this point bc I seemed to be doing okay.

Secondary was worse. Most of the peoe I knew went to a different secondary. And 2 of the ones I knew in mine were on a different side if the year so we had no classes together and the 1 remaining in my side of the year ditched me for other ppl as well as apparently making fun of me behind my back. I got bullied more. Year 9 I started to make some friends and had a group to sit with sort of but I was kind of on the outskirts. I got my eating disorder in year 10 so kind of faded into the background because of symptoms and having to go o t and for treatment and eventually getting in patiented. I finally got diagnosed after this. Year 11 was okayish. I did pretty well all the way through.

A level was better, people had matured a bit. I ahd a few sort of friends. Spent most breaks and lunches in the art room. Got pretty good results 😊

I am currently at uni. Some of the people on the course are really nice but they are closer to each other and don't talk to me outside of class. So yeah. Not doing too bad grades wise tho... Hopefully I can get that 1st

[etraytin]

Quarantine, Days 208-209

October 5 and 6

I didn’t post anything yesterday because I was feeling completely lousy all day and went to bed at 9:30 to sleep for ten hours nearly straight through. Today I’m posting very late because kiddo felt lousy today and that meant no sleeping for him and no rest for me, alas! Getting sick these days is a hell of a trip, even if it’s not particularly COVID-seeming. I mean, if you look at the symptoms list for COVID, basically every possible symptom of every common illness is on there somewhere. I was tired, had nausea and diarrhea, muscle aches, and a chest hurting from reflux? Ta-da, they’re all symptoms, congratulations! I never ran a fever or had a cough and I feel much much better today, so I’m assuming it was a stomach bug. The kiddo has been feeling the same way today, except he’s running a very slight fever as well, and also has a canker sore that makes everything ten times worse. 

Feeling lousy would have been enough of a bummer for him for today, but he also got put in digital time-out this morning for playing Among Us during school, which he accepted but did not enjoy. He was still okayish until he realized that I wasn’t going to take him to Cub Scouts tonight for the first meeting since March, the last meeting for this dissolving troop. It was the first time he was going to see his buddies in person since March, and he couldn’t go because he was running a temperature. That kicked off a meltdown that went on with brief interruptions for most of the night. It’s hard to blame him, but goddamn am I tired. There’s just not much you can do against a disappointment like that in times like these. He’s able to communicate by text and Facetime with two of his scouting friends now, so that’s something at least, but it’s a very little something. I also told him that he didn’t have to do school tomorrow; if tonight is a sick night, tomorrow can be a sick day. It’s only fair. I just hope he wakes up feeling a lot better. 

[soyouareandrewdobson]

Digging through the archives 1: The ReBoot drama

Hello and welcome to one of the first “subsections” of posts I am going to make on this tumblr for the sake of an easier overview. This one is titlted “Digging through the archives”, because it will always relate to something I will find by literally looking for some of the oldest “opinion” or personal related stuff about Dobson that there is. So think of this here less as me tackling his comics and more of my own version of what the Hypocrisy of Andrew Dobson does.

With that explanation out of the way, lets just briefly talk about Dobson and his idea of fan entitlement; If you have followed Dobson throughout the last year or so, you know he has a very low opinion on fans of the original She-Ra and He-Man, 80s cartoons in general and Star Wars, to the point he thinks the people behind it are all potential alt righters (link red flag comic) or basically man children.

 To anyone who knows Dobson however, it would be no surprise now to learn that he has a tendency to be the same kind of way to other people and creators. Like when he whined to an actual writer on a Frozen related property about the necessity of giving Elsa a girlfriend, which even resulted in Aaron Sparrow being involved at one point, a professional animator and comic writer on the Boom Comics related Darkwing Duck issues. A prime example on how Dobson will literally make himself also unsympathetic to the people he wants to work for/with.

 But then there is what I found in relation to a little animated series by the name of ReBoot and that is really where both his entitlement and egotism kinda shine.

For those unaware: ReBoot was a computer animated adventure show produced by Mainframe Entertainment and ran from 1994 to 2001. It is actually listed as the first fully computer animated cartoon out there and is fondly remembered by a lot of people. Unfortunately, I myself have never watched it so I can’t give a “valid” opinion on it. All I have seen so far are clips on youtube but I will admit that what I have seen in them looks fun and intriguing, even if the animation at parts (especially in season 1 related content) has not aged that well. But hey, early computer animation, that is forgivable. And any media that manages to make an episode that is also in a way a huge tribute to Evil Dead of all things in a children cartoon is a big win for me.

Now, how is ReBoot connected to Dobson? Dobson has been a fan of ReBoot, a fact he made publicly known when in 2007 rumors of a continuation of ReBoot emerged. Something Dobson, again, the man who is pissed about the entitlement of She-Ra fans, has not been very happy about.

But Dobson, what is so wrong about being “different” from the past? After all, let the past die! The original show had terrible artwork! And not everything back in the day was good, right?

 Yeah, it is pretty obvious how his complaining and stands against “modern” fans ring pretty hollow when he himself acted as the entitled brat he thinks critics of new She-Ra and Thundercats Roar are, back in 2007 already. Also I honestly feel that at the very least the creators of that idea gave their fans still more “control” than Rian Johnson did. And we all know how much Star Wars suffered in terms of reputation because of it.

BTW, this webcomic continuation mentioned? It is actually not just a rumor that went nowhere, but one of the most fascinating aspects I found when reading up on ReBoot via Wikipedia. The idea was that of the five potential pitches (so again, there was variety given that even could have been expanded on) people could choose one that would be further adapted. Additionally the people behind the idea were looking for more active input by fans, giving people the chance to apply as artists working on it if they decided to submit samples people could vote on. Something Dobson jumped actually on. And tried to manipulate in his own favor

 The thing that catches my attention at first is how hyperbole Dobson is. Claiming the fate of the show is in their hands and treating voting on this thing like it’s a live or die situation, with pointlessly writing stuff in caps as if we are reading the headline of some trashy newspaper article. It just comes off less as someone who is a fan and more of a fanatic of the show. Second, I just find it hilarious that of all the plattforms online Dobson decided to post that “VERY IMPORTANT” information people should act immediately on, was deviantart. Did he genuinely expect people would flock to what he wrote in order to immediately do something about the vote? Deviantart even back then was mostly for posting fanart, few people read journals and even less people cared for ReBoot. I don’t know if the /co/ board of 4chan existed back in 2007 already, but he would have had more success posting on there and get the information out, than on dA.

 Lastly, the shameless self promotion. Stating he does not care which pitch wins, when only three day prior he whined how they all suck and he wishes the show would be done justice by someone. That someone obviously being him, the person who is so hardcore as a fan, because he already waited 8 years just to watch season 3. Damned be any other artists or pitches that may be better or more popular than him, HE is the true messiah and that is his chance to shine. So don’t be “neutral” and judge fairly based on actual competence, talent and effort, just vote for him blindly or else Trump wins the second term and your beautiful nation turns into the fourth rei- I mean,  Dobson will be a very sad guy who has come to terms with the fact he is not talented enough to work on a reboot/continuation of his favorite children show.

Well, it seemed to have had some impact though, as four day later he posted this

 And obviously Dobson is pissed his favorite pitch did not win and instead of being grateful for the good ratings some of his artwork got he focuses instead on the fact that his Enzo and Megabyte pic had the lowest rating. Which in my opinion it kinda deserved. I mean, look at those artpieces:

Enzo is okayish looking but the rest? That is not Megabyte and a genuine background, it is a cola light version of the entire Ripley disaster with the Samus Artwork commission. Also, Enzo’s hands just look weird. His fingers more alien than they need to be and the position of his legs not really adjusting to how the hip is supposed to move. The comic sample page that Dobson drew being okay overall, aside of the fact that Enzo in one panel HAS FOUR INSTEAD OF FIVE FINGERS ON ONE HAND DESPITE HAVING FIVE FINGERS IN A PREVIOUS PANEL. I am also not really a fan of how Dobson puts emphasize on the word “FAN” and “PAGES” in the post, indicating he thinks he is a better and bigger fan than any of the people who submitted their entries too, off handedly praising them but also making it obvious he thinks he is the most fit for the job, because he can also “copy any artstyle” and adjust to the needs of his superiors. Yeah, sure. That’s why you are nowadays and with even more time and effort put into your work so “good” at imitating Ladybug, your comics look exactly like in the show…

 Now considering that Dobson does not have ReBoot under his resume and likely tried his best to bury any enthusiasm for it, you can imagine how this chance at being an official artist ended up.

 Not even much of a follow up or introspective in why he may have not won. His enthusiasm died within two days.

And honestly, I am surprised that as a result he did not fake depression and rage quit doing comics for a month or so as he did here and there.

And that is pretty much the end of the ReBoot drama, at least as far as I know.

If you are interested what happened with the comic project, here is what I managed to gather:

The project did actually not die in development, but “ReBoot: Arrival” would be reimagined under the name “Code of Honour” and be published online in three “issues” over the course of the next few months. The comic’s status as “canon” continuation of the show is however very much in the air, as quite a lot of people think it is something of a fanfiction, others think it is a good enough continuation that unfortunately still does not deliver on an “ultimate” ending of the franchise. That said, with additional plans like a movie trilogy never been realized and the “reboot” known as “ReBoot: The Guardian Code” having been perceived as an insult by fans and a disappointment by most audiences (which Dobson was surprisingly silent about) this comic seems to be the best thing fans can still hope for and read.

Yeah, I am not even kidding. The comic is still up. Here, have two links to independent pages if you want to either read it for the first time or revisit it for the sake of nostalgia.

As for Dobson, if he reads this, I just have one thing to say to you: Don’t you ever again try to whine about how entitled fanboys are, if you felt entitled enough yourself you tried to manipulate a competition in your own favor in the hope to become a writer and then exploit ReBoot for your own agenda and benefit.

[warwaged-archive]

raerns replied to your post: Does being in the presence of a Black Dragon make...

Like what does that say about the rest of the Black Dragonflight that she’s deemed amiable enough to be an ambassador?

the way I make her attitude work without having to change it or consider the dragon aspects are just damn stupid is that she convinced them she’s not insane/corrupt, but she never tries to convince them she’s not aggressive or resentful. instead she shows herself to be very much so, all the while laying the blame at them for what she is (because she’s a young dragon, young enough that she couldn’t have been actively a part of the black dragonflight’s betrayal of the others, but she suffered the consequences just like the rest of them, grew up being hunted by the other flights etc). 

in the end I think her presence there would heavily rely on alexstrasza allowing it more so than the others, and if she played alex’s guilt right (which accusing them of being guilty for how she had to be to survive would successfully achieve, because alexstrasza will never stop feeling guilty of what happened to the the black and blue dragonflights), alex would allow her to be there to allegedly recruit help for the obsidian dragonshrine, as long as she sincerely believed nalice wasn’t under old god influence.

so if she’s there because she needs help, isn’t one who took part in her flight’s betrayal, and doesn’t seem to be corrupted, she’d be allowed there, and if she’s shouting ‘alexstrasza is a hypocrite’ and ‘korialstrasz sucks’ and ‘lol y’all goddamn stupid to just leave me here because of honor or some shit like that’ they’ll still let her because she didn’t act like an active threat, and her hatred is kinda justified if they believe her to be as innocent as she claims, which I think they do. 

but yeah, the standard for black dragons is really low. if you’re willing to not kill everyone and interact with the other flights in an okayish way you’re it I guess

[billgavemeextrachips]

ankle update

If it seems like I’m posting constantly, it’s because I don’t have much else going on in my life.

Saw the ortho yesterday and yep, I re-fractured the old injury from 1996.

It’s in a place on my ankle where I can bear weight while it’s still healing, pain permitting. But ‘pain permitting’ is a huge caveat right now.

I’m off percocet and in minimal pain when resting. (Sleeping through the night okayish, thankfully.) But movement and elevation changes feel pretty nasty right now. I can set the broken foot (in walking boot of course) on the ground for balance when standing or using the walker, so I’m putting some weight on it but not a lot. Even that’s a trade off: endure some foot pain to reduce pain in hands, hips, other leg, etc.

Nothing new under the sun really. I was last in a walking boot in 2011; last time with the old wheelchair-and-walker routine was 2005; and as mentioned, I fractured this same ankle, in the same spot, as a kid back in ‘96.

I took the rest of the week off work. I feel bad because I’m “okay enough” to sit up at a computer, so shouldn’t I at least be attempting to work from home? But I have the attention span of a gnat rn so...

Things I currently cannot do unassisted: take a shower, enter or exit my own house, go shopping

Things I cannot do at all: drive, go up and down the stairs (pain in the ass bc my bedroom is upstairs), walk without a walker, take a full step on the left foot without shrieking in pain

The adventure and adrenaline of the initial injury has worn off and now I’m just cranky, bored, and sick of the lack of privacy that comes with living in the family room.

But enough about that. Back to giggling and squeeing over Good Omens.

[namyks]

Just beat the Golden Deer’s path and wanted to gush a bit. So I’ll be posting spoiler things under the cut, but as a non-spoiler this game was fantastic. Although I would say it’s not a great first FE, as it’s so different from all of the other ones.

First things first, is this game a post-apocalyptic story? Cause that’s really what it seems like, and the twist of fighting giant robots at chapter 23 I think blew me away like nothing else I’ve ever experienced.

I feel like villain-wise nothing really came close to Berkut, but maybe Edelgard will change my mind after I do a BE run.

Dmitri really didn’t do much outside of just kinda showing up, and getting a 17% crit on Claude, but that’s understandable I guess.

I saved Dedue and Bernadetta, and I’m sad the game never acknowledged that.

Anyways, on to the characters, both as a unit and as an actual character.

Claude: As a unit having a bow/wyvern/axe lord is the hypest shit, and you can bet your ass that was half the reason I went Golden Deer in the first place. As a character, he is so god damn refreshing, especially after having played Sacred Stones and Fates right before Three Houses came out. Like, sure he’s a shifty bitch, but ultimately all he wants to do is preserve his home, and stop racism, and I have no idea how they’re going to make him villainous in the other routes.

Hilda: Hilda might have been my most used unit, cause damn did she have excellent growths as a wyvern master.  I liked her more than I thought I would, but as a character she’s nothing to write home about. Her support/ending with Marianne is cute as fuck tho. Sad we never got to actually see her brother.

Raphael: Easy War Master pick, for whatever reason my Raph got dodge lucky, he was constantly dodging high 60′s and low 70′s. His personal skill sucks tho. He’s a nice, wholesome character; kinda wish the game went more into his parents but, eh it’s still not bad. His ending with Ignatz was great, and I’m sad we never get to see Maya.

Leonie: My wife! I was struggling with what exactly to make her, until I finally settled on Falcon Knight, and holy shit did she wreck shop. I didn’t even give her any crit boosts, and she still crit almost every fight she got in. It sucks that her support is locked for so damn long, but her supports with other characters were pretty damn good. Her Claude supports were pretty good.

Ignatz: Kinda outshone by Claude, and the fact that so many master classes needed riding skills, and I just couldn’t get them high enough left him stuck as an okayish assassin. In early game he was a beast tho, and I took down the second Death Knight encounter with his high hit rate so that’s neat. Going in I didn’t at all care about Ignatz, but hot damn is it nice to have a character who’s just kinda nice, and the fact that the actual wallflower that wasn’t created through trauma is a dude is nifty. His support with Raphael is great.

Marianne: I can’t believe they gave someone Physic so early, but here we are. Made her a holy knight, though it kinda sucks that none of the magic classes can use mounts until Master, and she does not have good enough physical stats to work as a cavalier. I was kinda annoyed that it took so long for us to learn about what her deal was, tho I expect some werewolf Marianne/Hilda after her paralouge, cause that’s all I could think of when her crest was called the Mark of the Beast.

Lorenz: Get this man into magic as soon as possible, although he’s decent enough as a physical unit; he’s a pretty obvious dark knight option. Outside of Laslow, I think he’s my favorite flirtatious character in FE, as he actually has some what of a reason to do it. I still wanna dunk him in some respecting women juice, but most of his supports were surprisingly fun.

Lysithea: There’s nothing quite like murdering the Death Knight with a wooden sword, but damn did it feel good when I finally did it. I went Mortal Savant for her, with a splash of white magic, and she seemed pretty good outside of movement. I didn’t care for much of her supports outside of Claude and surprisingly enough Felix’s. Like, her support with Felix was so surprisingly wholesome and cute, that I’m now no longer dreading using Felix in my Blue Lions run. Also she’s non genocidal Edelgard so that’s neat I guess.

[diloph]

Pardon me, but it seemed from some of your posts on KOTM that you didn't like Mark Russell that much. I know he was a cliche everyman type, but what exactly made him any worse than others in these movies?

I apologise if this isn’t my most coherent answer. I’m a little bit stressed at the moment, trying to finish the next chapter of IIID and create relevant, if poorly assembled memes before the Invader Zim movie is released.

To be honest, some of it is a bit tongue-in cheek. Making fun of the most visible character in the film, considering that he hates Godzilla with a burning passion, is just a little bit of fun. It’s like how I refer to Rick Stanton with disdain sheerly because he’s somewhat based on Rick Sanchez, who I don’t dislike either.

The film isn’t about Mark: King of the Fathers anyway, so if I completely despised him, I could just zone out during his scenes, or skip them when the DVD comes out.

But… some of it wasn’t so jokey. He’s still an okayish protagonist, I’ve got nothing against the actor himself and his acting is fine. Still, Mark was loud, abrasive and hated Godzilla; you know, things that grate on my nerves when it comes to a 2+ hour Godzilla movie and that made the character… trying.

We’ve had them before, but Godzilla was generally more villainous and obviously, we feel sympathy and camaraderie with him as the title character and we are here to see him do cool things. Having a human protagonist who hates our cool monster protagonist makes sense in universe, but ultimately, it’s not what we’re here for. We can tune that out.

As for what makes me dislike Mark… for starters, he’s kind of a prick. I once saw somebody describe him as the type of guy who thinks that if he speaks loudly enough, shouts enough, he’ll get his way. I can’t say I blame them, in that first meeting with MONARCH, he’s downright hostile.

He’s also, for whatever reason, the guy that everybody turns to in the crisis. He might have a background in bioacoustics like his ex-wife and animal behaviour besides, but apparently nobody else at MONARCH is capable of doing things without the express instructions or approval of everyman Indiana Jones. Military procedures, common sense, the desperate plan to revive Godzilla; everybody seems to defer to him really quickly.

It took me out of the movie. I understand that he’s meant to be our relatable protagonist, but it’s a little bit jarring and it happens multiple times. Mark is either issuing instructions or is along where he shouldn’t be, given control of a situation where by all rights he shouldn’t have any other than spur of the moment hero stuff.

It’s like he believes that nobody has any common sense and frustratingly, a couple of times the narrative agrees with him or at least proves his actions right. For example, when Colonel Foster tries to brief MONARCH on the actions of Jonah and the terrorists, he shoots down her theory and proceeds to go on a rant as to why we should Destroy All Monsters.

He’s right, as Jonah wants to free King Ghidorah, but he has this frustrating “protagonist only” habit of noticing threads that other characters really should (nobody seems to notice that the Titans are attacking capital cities or at least very densely populated areas until he points it out), then speaks about it like it’s the most obvious thing in the world.

Which when MONARCH is meant to be staffed with scientists of multiple disciplines veers back into the incredulous. I can suspend disbelief when it comes to giant monsters, I don’t excuse people not seeing what’s in front of them.

And as for the moments where he really shouldn’t be issuing instructions, take a look at when Rodan is freed by Emma Russell. Serizawa instantly defers to him (I think that Mark might have been his senior before he left MONARCH and BOY do I want to talk about that plan later on) to cook up a plan instead of… himself (Director of MONARCH, or at least I assume so) or again, Foster, who controls the planes and men he wants to send at the giant pterodactyl that just shrugged off a molten lava flow.

Given his characterisation as an angry, driven father who is desperately looking out for his family after being bereaved by monsters and is butting heads with the scientists at MONARCH, I think it was an attempt by Legendary to recreate Joe Brody. Bryan Cranston’s character in the previous film was killed off too early and was featured in a lot of the trailers, giving a wonderful performance. When he died to be replaced by his son, Ford, it caused a backlash as a result.

Mark being that angry, snarky character definitely shares some similarities. But while Joe was a crusader for the truth and more than a little bit obsessive, he was trying to pierce the veil as to why his wife died, without realising that it drove his son away from him. He was trying to reveal this great coverup to the world and spent the rest of his life doing so with such conviction that he appeared crazy.

Mark… doesn’t have this driving force. He lives in a post-San Francisco universe. Monsters Exist and everybody knows it.

Now, that’s not to say he doesn’t have reasons for acting as he did. He lost his son and has driven a wedge in between his family via his drinking problem (but let’s face it, compared to unleashing the Titans by starting off with Space Dragon Satan, he’s taken it comparatively well) but he acts as if he’s the only person who has ever lost something to Godzilla and the rest of the monsters.

Even when that happens to characters in the film, Mark still acts like that and it doesn’t make him look like the grim, determined hero, it just makes him look like an obnoxious dick. It isn’t his way of coping with the trauma of loss, he just… does it.

Part of me does get why he’s annoyed and angry with MONARCH’s attitude towards the Titans. He’s correct that they’ve been keeping secrets, dangerous ones at that, but equally the kaiju are living things. They’re dangerous and unpredictable, yes, but MONARCH have been taking precautions; killswitches are present in even the supposedly benevolent Titan’s chambers like Mothra and as far as they know, all of the Titans bar Godzilla are dormant and those that aren’t are kept in check by him. Had the Ghidorah Crisis never arose, we may never have seen any other Titans for the rest of human history.

But he treats everybody around him like an idiot with little to no prompting. Mark is brought on as a consultant and he then proceeds to dominate the scene, either through his decisions in universe or the part written for him out of it. He gets the last word, the last say on a plan or a witty remark or whatever.

And some of that costs lives. Actually, no, a LOT of it costs lives.

So, to start off, when the operation in Antarctica goes tits up, Mark grabs a handgun and goes into Outpost 32 by himself (though what he and the central nervous system of MONARCH were doing on the ground and not supervising from the Argo remains to be seen, but I digress). He stops Jonah and the terrorists on the walkway… screwing up Foster’s attempt to take down Jonah, forcing her to snipe his henchman in order to save Mark’s life.

This leads to King Ghidorah waking up. Not going to extend him a great deal of blame for this one, as with a sniper present, Emma or Madison would have been forced (or “forced” in the former’s case) to retrieve the detonator and the Six-Eyed, Six-Horned, Flying-Golden-People-Eater would have gotten loose regardless. Hell, I spotted clues that he was gearing up to wake up without Emma Russell’s help.

In a narrative sense, its his character that also sets up Vivienne Graham’s death. If he hadn’t been stuck in the tangle of wires and metal aboard the Osprey, she would never have needed to stay behind to help and subsequently got singled out by King Ghidorah.

I’d definitely agree that this is more of a personal thing on my part, as I’d wanted to see more of Vivienne’s character thanks to her actress’, Sally Hawkins’ work in The Shape Of Water and that in the previous film. But in a way, he is still sort of responsible for her being written out and replaced with the vastly less interesting replacement characters of Rick and Mor- erm, Sam.

That said, I know that Ghidorah is 100% to blame in universe. He killed her because he was a bastard and I wanted to him to be a bastard, so the monkey’s paw curled a finger there, so that’s egg on my face. It certainly did wonders for establishing him as a monstrous villain who we love to hate.

I’m not wholly unsympathetic to Mark. Like I said before, the pain of loss over the 2014 attacks hurt him badly and the film doesn’t shy away from this. Mark’s descent into alcoholism is noted by both himself and his family as a rough time for all involved, part of the reason he left MONARCH in the first place. Having his daughter and ex-wife seemingly kidnapped by dangerous ecoterrorists who plan to unleash giant monsters to mass-cull humanity also wears his patience thin, as you might expect it.

But he keeps this… horrible attitude throughout the movie. The world is literally going to shit, another monster is about to be unleashed and he asks if MONARCH have had enough common sense to evacuate the town of Isla Del Mara and if Rodan has had a cutesy name all picked out from mythology for him ahead of time.

Fuck me, if I was Serizawa, having just lost my protégé and quite a few well-meaning soldiers who were trying to rescue somebody who turned out to be a massive ecoterrorist nutjob, I would have floored him. There is a time and a place for snarky comments and it is not after at least twenty people you worked with are dead and BILLIONS MORE MAY FOLLOW.

But now, one of the points that really got me disliking Mark Russell follows here. The scenes that start at Isla Del Mara and the luring of Rodan to King Ghidorah, all the way up until the detonation of the Oxygen Destroyer.

Rodan emerges from the volcano and asides from spreading his wings and roaring, doesn’t do much. He spots the incoming Argo and its entourage and narrows his eyes. Uh oh! Surely, at this point, the dastardly destruction god would leap from his perch in an attempt to chase this challenger from his territory?

Um… no. No, actually, he stays put.

Now, I get that Rodan might not have stayed that way for very long. From the ensuing chase scene, I can gather that the Monsterverse’s version of Rodan is a bit of a dick, but he still didn’t start the fight.

Instead, what happens is that Serizawa asks Mark what they should do and Mark comes up with the plan to get Rodan to fight King Ghidorah in the hopes that one will kill the other and that would at least solve one of their problems.

Sound in theory, yes, but it is not sound in execution. At all.

So, that little town that Mark kicked up quite a fuss about? As you might have noticed, it’s lying between Rodan and the Argo and is part of the reason that the big ol’ bird should be lured away, to complete the evacuation.

Mark’s brilliant plan has the jets surrounding the Argo to blast Rodan and 180 the superplane in order to get him to chase… without factoring in THE TOWN BETWEEN THEM AT ALL.

I get King Ghidorah was closing in. I get that Rodan is a wild, unpredictable animal who could go off the chain at any moment. But there was absolutely no time to get the ARGO to move a little ways around the island before beginning the attack? At worst, Rodan would make a dive for them anyway, but that’s what the jets are sent in to distract him are for. To grab his attention and then lure him to the Argo, which would then take him to Tricephalopathic Terror Town anyway.

As a result, Rodan utterly OBLITERATES Isla Del Mara simply by passing over it and so many of the people they were trying to evacuate die a horribly pointless death. It never once passes his mind (or let’s not beat him down solely) or that of anybody aboard the Argo that a creature with wings that size that can fly would generate an unbelievable amount of force simply by flapping once to create lift? He’s also dripping lava, so even if the hurricane level winds that follow him weren’t an issue, having something with that amount of residual molten rock passing overhead doesn’t seem like a healthy thing to expose Isla Del Mara to.

Further dislike ensues when one of the miraculously surviving Ospreys issues a mayday during the Rodan/Ghidorah fight and the cargo doors are jammed. Mark the Hero leaps up with gritted teeth and desire to get things done, asking the way to the hangar. After all, he’s had miraculous problem solving abilities so far, why not?

“Which way to the hangar?” he asks.

Sam, a character who I’m even less fond of, stands up and offers to show him the way. Fairly brave, considering that the Argo is rattling like a leaf in a thunderstorm as two daikaiju battle nearby. I found the character annoying and sort of… pointless, but I admire that bit of bravery.

“Anybody else?” Mark asks, making a face.

Dude. The man just offered to help you and people need that help. Get off your high horse, swallow your pride and just go without comment. God knows how many people your stupid plan just got killed.

The two run to the hangar and a crewman explains the door is jammed. Mark decides to drop a hanging Osprey onto the doors to get them off… without suggesting it to the crewman. He just fucking goes for the buttons, expecting his usual “my plan will work” attitude to succeed.

At last, one of Mark’s harebrained schemes is met with reasonable resistance for the first time and the crewman attempts to wrestle him off, before Mark Is Proven Right Again. But even suggesting it, getting a refusal and then doing it is more heroic than just going for the damn buttons like a lunatic.

He would have looked damn stupid if the weight of the Osprey wasn’t enough to open the doors and it instead just blocked them. The falling aircraft also almost hits the airborne one with its civilian payload as it also wasn’t warned, so again, he took an unnecessary risk that came off lucky because he couldn’t find the time to say “I have an idea”.

To round out the trifecta of what makes me dislike Mark in these scenes is what happens when the rest of the scene plays out:

Gravity Beams spew from Ghidorah’s mouth and blast Rodan into the ocean, defeated. Not satisfied with just this victory, the Golden Demise locks his terrible gaze on the Argo and with a sickening, gleeful cackle, closes in on the plane and its freshly arrived civilians.

All are stunned into a horrified silence. Even Mark, who has been having Unreasonable Protagonist Luck up until this point, bricks it.

“Oh, God.” he pleads.

God answers and he erupts from the ocean.

With a deafening roar, the mighty form of Godzilla slams into King Ghidorah with the force of a collapsing mountain. His dynamic, mid-air leap is enough to drag the foul hydra into the depths of the ocean and Godzilla proceeds to hold him there.

Ghidorah attempts to resurface and fly away, or at least lash out at the Argo in spite, but there Godzilla is again, yanking the head back underwater, biting and rolling like some mountainous crocodile, pinning the alien dragon under his weight.

Unbeknownst to our hero (Godzilla, obviously), the military has deployed the terrible Oxygen Destroyer in an attempt to Destroy All Monsters, giving only a cursory warning to the Argo to get out of there and fast. Mark makes his way onto the bridge and is informed of the decision.

“But he… he just saved us!” says Mark.

No, wait, he didn’t say that. Hold on…

“They… they didn’t even let us get clear?” says Mark.

Uh, no, sorry, trying again.

“Well, it’s not the worst idea.” he says.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK. YOU.

I get that you’re mad with Godzilla. I get that as the title character with a long history, we root for the kaiju more than anybody else. I get that he took your son from you, but twice… TWICE NOW, he has saved you and the people around you with PERFECTLY TIMED ENTRANCES. Even if it was just a coincidence, I’d be at least slightly more forgiving of the lion that killed my brother by accident if it jumped in front of a tiger that was slaughtering people left and right before it leapt at me.

Twice.

There’s not even a hesitant “oh, but he did help us”. Not even a shocked disbelief that the military has a weapon that they think will kill not just one, but two (because I’m willing to bet he thought Rodan was dead) Titans, much less them firing it without warning right on top of their position. Just a “well, fuck ‘em” shrug.

Godzilla nearly dies, Ghidorah seizes control of the Titans and sets about starting the apocalypse. Finally, Serizawa says what I’ve been thinking for quite a while and says “Well, it looks like you got your wish, Mark.” with a mixture of anger, sadness and disgust.

I could go on; the Titans are rampaging and Mark goes to leave Castle Bravo to strike out on his own and rescue Madison, despite the fact that he knows that Emma will probably try to keep her safe in whatever secure hidey hole she and the Kaiju Cultists have holed up in. In the novel, he’s outright going to steal one (also his first instinct when confronted by an alpha wolf in the novel, is to blow it away with a sidearm, before realising that’s absolutely callous and horrible and tries submissive behaviour tactics instead. So hey, Movie Mark is a slightly better person than Book Mark).

Mark suggests the nuke plan and goes down with Serizawa, Chen and Rick Sanch- Stanton. Everything goes sideways and he doesn’t even fucking blink when Serizawa decides that somebody’s gotta do it manually.

Back aboard the Argo? How does he break the news to Sam, the only member of the MONARCH team that wasn’t there? Shoving Serizawa’s notebook into his chest, saying that they better not screw this up and not even fucking pausing to tell him what happened.

Mark’s self-centred attitude keeps coming back and it gets people killed. My second time viewing this film, during the two confrontation scenes with Godzilla, I wasn’t getting the “There is a massive threat in my territory!” vibe from the King of the Monsters, I was getting a “Who the hell is this asshole and why does he hate me so much?” feeling from Our Glorious Boy.

It’s a recurring theme too. Mark experiences loss, but he feels as if his loss is the only one that matters. Both he and Emma do this to Madison and it makes me mad that in trying to cope with their own loss, they shunned the one remaining child they had left. By the time they realise that, the world is literally about to end and they’re still bickering at one another.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m very vocally critical of Mark and Emma’s treatment of Madison. Both she and Mark decide to put their own ways of coping with their son’s death (constructing a device to allow for the orchestration of mass human death and convincing oneself that it’s the correct course of action/drinking booze) above Madison’s own well being.

When the chips are down, of course, they care for her and ultimately risk their lives to save her, but… congratulations for the bare minimum parenting, guys? Physically, they want her out of harm, but mentally she should either fall into line with Emma’s thinking or be there for Mark.

Godzilla and Mothra feel more like her bloody parents in this film (Godzilla saving her life when she was facing down the literal fucking devil and Mothra’s gentle interaction at the temple and reviving her from death when she appeared to have died in the novel) than the other Russells do. Both fill the archetypes of “Father” (tough, stern, but ultimately your protector) and “Mother” (gentle, nurturing and wonderful) better than the people do.

…yeah, alright, that one is a stretch, but I had that idea a while ago and I wanted to put it to paper.

In short, I’m mad at Sad Mad Dad because his character shoves the waaaaaaaay more interesting, compelling and sympathetic characters of Serizawa, Graham and his own daughter (and the actual goddamned non-monster hero of the movie), Madison out of the way of main character-ness, just so we can have somebody who is about as pleasant to interact with as a cactus.

King of the Monsters is a film that has a lot of sacrifice in it, good and bad. Emma wants to sacrifice most of humanity to save the planet. Serizawa sacrifices himself to save Godzilla and thus, the planet. Mothra sacrifices her own life to save Godzilla from King Ghidorah and so does Emma, to save her family and as redemption for her sins.

Even Madison was also ready to at least risk her own life to distract the Titans and King Ghidorah if it would even slightly disrupt his efforts to conquer the planet. She goes against terrorists, her own mother and a demonic, nigh-omnipotent being of malicious intent and faces him down with a defiant roar of her own when it looks like the end.

But Mark doesn’t sacrifice. He wants his daughter back, but he never takes a hit. Other people die for him, as a result of him and he doesn’t even recognise it. The world is at stake and he keeps his focus on his own desires, ignorant to the people around him because only his loss matters.

He might not be the genocidal monster in the film that Emma was, that Jonah and of course, Ghidorah certainly were. But he has a very narrow and dispassionate world-view and outside of certain cartoons with comedic circumstances, I don’t care much for that at all.

TL;DR: Madison should have been the central protagonist, because I like her more.