#still salty

[wraithofmorhogg]

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[oatmealaddiction]

Has there ever been a more frustrating show than Danny Phantom? Like the greatest idea for a superhero show ever, and it's weighed down by its stagnant "wannabe-vector" art style, Nickelodeon's discomfort with mentioning death in any capacity, blatant conservative misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, and a show runner who wanted the show to be Star Wars so bad, he put the planet Hoth in the after life. It does everything in its power to knee-cap its potential at every turn, and people are still making fanart despite all of that, because the concept is just that juicy.

[theranilord]

• '...before I kill you.' was a warning, not a threat.

• Bilbo was the voice that Thorin clung to when fighting the dragon sickness...

• Kili was gonna fist fight Thorin if it came down to it.

• When Thorin apologizes to his company... I didn't see Bofur...

[katherynefromphilly]

Hey Sherlock fans —

Remember how Martin “We’re-All-A-Bit-Bisexual-In-Real-Life” Freeman, playing Watson in the Sherlock “drunk scene”, ad-libbed the line “I don’t mind”, and meant it in a sexy way with Sherlock?

Remember that? Because I remembered it randomly this morning and got irritated all over again at What Could Have Been and also in fact What Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch Could Have Really Done With That Show.

[kiwi-jien]

"And I haven't felt so alive In years The moon Is shining in the sky Reminding me Of so many other nights When my eyes have been so red I've been mistaken for dead But not tonight" (Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight)

[wickedcriminal]

I'm still salty we have yet to canonically hear Sonic call Maddie "mom" onscreen

POSITIVELY CRIMINAL

Like I'd understand if there was nuance to it. Like if Sonic didn't know if he should call Maddie 'mom' because he associates the title with Longclaw instead; but since Sonic called Tom 'dad' I really want to know what Maddie thinks about Tom's role vs her own role, if she wants to be referred to as Sonic's mother, if Sonic even thinks of her as a mother. She tells Tom "let's go get our kid" during the Egg Robot fight in Sonic 2, so it seems as though she already sees Sonic as her son or something similar to it,,, paramount I am surviving off of crumbs

Heck, I don't think they've ever been on screen alone together yet 😭 CRIMINAL

(It should be noted I haven't seen the Knuckles show, so if they get more moments together there I haven't seen it)

[daydaysupremacy]

in honor of team past winning the grand finale splatfast, here’s a redraw i did of the squid sisters🩷💚!

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[deeviews]

Propaganda or genuine journalism? Thoughts on an Article featuring Outer Banks

This article reads like a propaganda piece right from the mouths of the creators of OBX. I mean if they didn’t write it, they could not have asked for a more positive endorsement of their decision to kill JJ and for Rafe to take his place among the Pogues. While the article’s extensive disparagement of JJ’s character and elevation of Rafe’s appears totally unnecessary, odder, is the subtle suggestion that the idea to kill JJ originated in the writer’s room rather than from the creators. Did they not repeatedly assert that this was always their intention? Then again, maybe I’m reading too much into this, and instead, I have simply found a unicorn on the internet – in other words, one of the very few individuals who genuinely loves that JJ is dead, and who believes season 5 will be all the better for it. But perhaps it is I who have been mistaken this entire time and it was the best decision for the show, and so, in the interest of fairness to the article writer, I have considered their arguments.

“JJ’s character arc fell flat, leaving little room for the Pogues to grow as individuals or as a group”. From s1 his arc as presented was to learn that his life and his future was just as valuable as his friends. This arc was fully abandoned by the writers. Instead, they made him a Genrette and subjected him to a curse that fated him to suffer a violent death. So, I guess, his character arc didn’t so much fall flat as it did flatline. As to the charge that he stopped the others from growing. He was no more an impediment to their growth that they were to his. Furthermore, if the writers’ really thought death was necessary for growth, didn’t this treasure hunt already cost them two parents? Did their growth really need more death?

“JJ would have kept the plot stagnant”. How? JJ was arguably the best written character in the series, and with the deepest connections across the group, his presence was genuinely necessary to their dynamic. He was also so interesting. I cannot think of another character like him currently on screen. And there was also so much still to discover about him! How does he navigate a romantic relationship and learn to trust? How does he cope living in his childhood home with all those memories? How does he learn to make less reckless choices? How does he react to the inevitable return of Luke? JJ loved him. How does anyone navigate an adult relationship with their violent addict parent? What would be the consequences of the town hall? So many genuinely interesting questions. As for the plot, it was ALWAYS the same, and it’s still the same in season 5. Find treasure. Loose treasure. Live to fight another day, and eventually win treasure. Except for JJ.

“JJ's character arc ran in place, each antic redundant, from his rebellious nature to his blatant disregard for what his fellow Pogues needed and asked for.” The JJ of s4 was unlike the JJ of earlier seasons; his character was so obviously undermined for the purposes of plot. But even to accept the premise that his actions were entirely consistent with his character, it is wrong to label his actions as “antics” that stemmed from a “rebellious nature”. He was a traumatised kid. He needed support. Instead, he was living in his old house of horrors, and what, that doesn’t affect him? And nobody ever talks about Luke? How it felt to live in fear of violence every day for years? What it felt like to be beaten by your own dad? Your only parent? For that violent parent to also be an alcoholic and drug addict? To literally not have enough food? To have to keep everything a secret? To be looked down on by everyone?  To be homeless and completely abandoned. We saw him suffer panic attacks. He was not okay. The effects of that type of upbringing do not end once a person leaves the family home. These are things that haunt people for years, sometimes lifetimes to come. They affect decision making, relationships and self-worth. He needed understanding, and support. It’s extremely horrible to see a vulnerable character dismissed in this way, but sadly the show led the way on that score.  

“In JJ's absence, Rafe is one of the best replacements”. Why? Because they are both impulsive and reckless characters? I think this commonality is part of the thinking that led to JJ’s demise, as the writers thought one “wild card” was enough for the group, despite the fact these were two fundamentally different characters. It’s painful that the show chose to abandon the kid that had nothing, so that they could include the kid that had everything. But it’s also so very wrong to kill a survivor of abuse to make room for a remorseless murderer. Perhaps this is the show’s attempt to revive their past interest in social commentary – but instead of championing the idea that your future isn’t predetermined, the message now seems to be, there is no escaping the circumstances into which you were born.

Rafe’s integration into the Pogues was unnecessarily done at the expense of JJ’s character. Rather than focus on Rafe’s connection to Sarah, (interesting!) the writers instead chose to connect Rafe to the group through Groff (dull!). Otherwise, what was the point of that character? JJ already had a complex backstory with a difficult parent, and a missing / dead mum. He didn’t need more trauma to make him interesting or to explain why he did the things he did. But Groff made for a common enemy, so JJ got a new dad. Groff also served a second purpose; he is a comparatively worse villain than Rafe, which serves to make Rafe’s rehabilitation less objectionable. So, while Rafe is an unrepentant cold blooded murderer, that has committed numerous other rather violent acts, mostly directed at the Pogues, Groff murdered his wife, abandoned his infant son to poverty and a stranger, framed his kid for murder, attempted to murder said kid, and then murdered him for no good reason. Comparing the two, Rafe comes across quite well, and as the writer of the article puts it “the villain isn't so villainous after all”, and Rafe is well on his way to rehabilitation. It’s disappointing that a genuinely interesting character and his story was destroyed for this purpose. However, something that the writers didn’t consider, (as they were so busy ruining JJ), was the consequences of introducing realism into the show. JJ was killed because the creators decided it was no longer realistic for the kids to keep getting away with their antics. Except, once you introduce realism it permeates the whole of the show. It’s now a lot harder to forgive and forget Rafe’s many murderous transgressions given the high price the show made JJ pay, for well, existing. 

One of the things that goes unmentioned in this article, and I think it’s a pretty significant omission, is the effect JJ’s death should have on his friends in season 5. He was the glue of the group, he was full of life, and everyone loved him. His death was brutal and traumatic for everyone (except Rafe). It should trigger extensive grief. Except the omission in the article suggests an expectation (indication?) to skirt past grief to revenge and redemption. Season 4 already signposted this approach with a 1 minute muted death scene, a weirdly optimistic monologue that skidded past JJ’s upsetting upbringing, ultimately to land on revenge. There was very little grief on display. If this show is really serious about realism, which was the reason they gave for JJ’s death, then they should be serious about grief too. But I suspect they’re not going to spend much time mourning because that would ruin the vibe of the show. Nobody wants to watch a sad show about kids grieving their murdered friend. And that’s why nobody wanted any of those kids to be killed in the first place, because it ruins the vibe of the show. An absence of grief will make it look like JJ didn’t matter at all. Another sad outcome for a much marginalised kid. And skipping over grief doesn’t mean that the audience doesn’t feel it and it certainly doesn’t mean that they won’t be annoyed at the characters on screen when they don’t show it.

So I guess props to the article writer for recognising that character arcs set the tone of the show. I just wished the creators had thought about that too, because by choosing to end JJ’s arc in a pointless death, they reset the tone of their show. It’s no longer fun and happy but deeply sad and depressing.

So no, article writer, I do not agree. You remain a unicorn.

[cherish--these--times]

I don’t know man. I feel like ten years ago Tedbecca as established in season 1 would have been a certainty and now we can’t even bask in a healthy dash of escapism. We must contend with bittersweetness and missed chances because they look at whoever’s shitty take has the most momentum online and apparently now sex is bad so why ruin a perfectly good friendship by adding mutual physical attraction too? Oh no! They adore each other and they want to fuck? Perish the thought!

[arcadialedger]

Wishing everyone who purposefully stepped on and/ or ruined the fairy houses and fairy circles my best friend and I used to make at recess a very ‘73 Yards’.

[spicyspino]

She’s back 🥲

[despazito]

The other month I listened to a feminist anime podcasts review of the soul eater anime as bg noise while walking my dog and they literally only spent one SENTENCE about Marie they just went "yeah uh what's there to say about her :/" then spent a solid 5 minutes talking about Excalibur.

Bro you don't even have to like her if you hate her you could rant about her aspirations being anti feminist or whatever but having absolutely nothing to say about the assigned mom character in your goddamn feminist analysis is wack 😭

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

If Wilbur's apology contained the word sorry nearly as often as he said it in the Sorry Boys videos then maybe we would be having a different discussion right now.

[elcias-diary]

I'm still salty that Emma Watson's Beauty And The Beast had to be such a hot mess of costuming...

When the entire background cast was chef's kiss!

Because of corset myth BS!!

When the Regency Era of soft bodices and less tailored dress lines was RIGHT THERE!!!

When they could have used the Lost Dauphin to place the story in the early 1800s. Still had amazing costumes and kept one silly actress happy in the loosest, lounge-iest of historical formal wear ever designed.

(wouldn't have saved the time wasted on added plot points that went nowhere and added nothing to the story but that's beside the point.)

[chaos-potat]

Protip, if someone says "sorry" with a question mark, they do not mean it

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

I GOT IT

I GOT THE LAST +ANIMA VOLUME I NEEDED

I'M GONNA HAVE THE FULL SET

AS LONG AS THE POSTAL SERVICE DOESN'T LOSE IT LIKE MY COPY OF AGIT