#the wasted potential

[sharlmbracta]

if he had kept his glasses Feat. @ask-ozai

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Me @ whatever the fuck episode 8nwas:

[thrwne]

I kind of see why there was no real reaction to Felix seeing Mathias and Erik cuddling when the boys had all masturbated together before like wtf

Lmao this is true

I'm angry at the writers for not including a post-cuddle scene. Even if it was just Felix processing it the day after I'd be happy tbh

[newtmas-supremxcy]

So I've been watching voltron recently since I started shipping klance years ago without ever watching the show and I only have one comment :

Lance fell first, keith fell harder

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[ferretsarefurryappendagedsnakes]

The disappointment of finally opening the book you’ve been looking forward to… and knowing from page 1 it won’t meet expectations. Even sticking it out to the end, and it just wasn’t what you hoped.

[strawberry-milkbunny]

Momo from BNHA would be 1000% more interesting if she was born poor. I wanna see this girl cause inflation and single handily fuck up the economy. I wanna see her make drugs to pay for rent and confront the system of poverty and capitalism and how she still chose to be a hero because she’s a genuinely good person who has to do demoralizing things just to afford a decent quality of life. Or how she and Ochako have to confront the fact that they chose to be a celebrity cop realizing that she’s not actually helping her neighbourhood but enforcing the fact that she got “lucky” because of her quirk and having a meaningful discussion about the correlation of crime and poverty. Idk If I found out a UA student had a creation quirk AND was a nepo-baby I also would’ve became a villain.

[snowyjay]

reading the Pretty Little Liars books again and the show’s complete and brutal disregard for everything that made Aria and her family interesting characters in the books will never cease to confound me. Aria is often my favorite of the four in the books, but that is never the case in the show. (Namely, because they just make her obsessed with Ezra and it’s basically her only personality trait, and also because nearly everyone in her life just becomes another version of Ezra, like how both of her parents are English teachers in the show despite Byron being an art history professor in the books and Ella only working at a gallery, or Aria can’t interact with them for more than five minutes like with Jake. Aria isn’t even very big on literature or writing in the books, instead focusing on hands-on artist expression.)

[againstboredom]

The Wasted Potential of Bleach Female Characters II, Chizuru Honsho

I don’t like Chizuru, because perverts of any sex, gender, race and sexual orientation make me uncomfortable. But that must not necessarily be so.No, not me not liking perverts, that must and will always be, but Kubo-sensei could have made her not a pervert, or at the very least make her grow out of it.

I have a special place in my heart for the first arc of Bleach, and that’s when she was most present. In that arc was also implied, that every one in Ichigo’s school gang will get powers, and we’ll have an awesome urban fantasy series.

Just like her more iconic friend Tatsuki, she only gets enough the power to see the supernatural, enough to be put on the radar of predatory entities, but not enough to save themselves. I would have loved to see them both fighting,alas...

I would have loved to see her go to Hueco Mundo to save Orihime, become a competent fighter, and a more rounded character.

We know that she was really important to Ichigo, as she is one of the persons that Aizen keeps awake and hunts, with the specific goal of making Ichigo go berserk, and transform into the perfect enemy.

Chizuru is used for comedic relief, only it’s not funny, sorry. I feel insulted as a women by the way this girl is treated by the author.

 And things don’t stop with the manga, oh no, in the anime, during a filler episode, where they could have flashed her character a little, they chose instead to double down on it, and now her one character trait is dialed up to eleven, and she is the ultimate weapon against conventionally beautiful female arrancars.

Do I even need to explain why this is insulting? Does Chizuru has any hope and dreams that don’t involve Orihime naked? It would have been nice to know. What are her spiritual beliefs, what gave  her the courage to be out, what does she plan to study, what is her dream job, does she really love Orihime or is just a crush?

Then, unceremoniously she just disappears from the story.

And the final insult, at the end of the manga when all the friends reunite, guess who is missing, literally, from the picture.

Is there any wonder then. that most yuri fanfic authors, prefer to write about more fleshed out, and less prone to assault female characters like Tatsuki Arisawa, Rukia Kuchiki when they want to pair Orihime with someone?

I am not one of the people, that think  an oeuvre, needs to have ‘’one of each’‘ in it, to be good. But if you include just one character representing a minority, maybe you shouldn’t make them perverted butt monkeys.

I think that many people would be less upset, if  Bleach had a second explicitly gay woman, that was a fleshed out heroine. I wonder what men would think if all the male characters were like Keigo Asano or Marechyio Omaeda.

Yes there is subtext in many relationships, Tatsuki/Orihime, Yoruichi/Soi Fon and even Rukia/Orihime. But that is subtext, and can be interpreted in other ways, meanwhile the only lesbian, gets vanished from the story. I wonder how the lesbian girls that grew up with Bleach feel about it. Don’t want to speak out of turn, but I think it’s pretty safe to assume, that they don’t associate a lot of positive feelings with it.

[thebellearchives]

There was this ONE Solomon shot i had written a long time ago that i really wanted to edit and fix but past Belle deleted it AND THEN WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND DELETING IT FROM THE TRASH TOO SO I COULDNT EDIT IT IN THE FUTURE

Past Belle you’re a bitch, it wasn’t even that bad bro you’re such a crybaby ugh

[heeahheeya]

They could have the same relationship as Tommy & Alfie's. I wanted to see their business partnership

— PEAKY BLINDERS S01E06

[emmeriex]

girls when they remember that sally named percy after the only greek hero with a happy ending and beryl named jason after a hero who died alone and unhappy to appease a wrathful goddess.

[nnobodoodles]

Huh.

So I randomly remembered Croc is pretty much Italian.

[unreversedumbrella]

everyone has talked to hell and back about viviziepop's character designs. the skinny twinks, the suits, the bowties, the sharp teeth grins. but i have yet to see anyone mention the neverending layers of crap around this guy.

he's a cannibalistic serial killer radio host from the 1920's who died in a hunting accident and got turned into a demon with both deer and radio motif. his actual superpowers are 'summon goons' and 'black tentacles from magic portals'

[yasyassie]

can't accept that we will never see the six crows together on screen

i do hope everyone knows how much their work in bringing these characters to life has meant. freddy, amita, kit, jack, dani, and cal you will always be famous <3

[desos-records]

suddenly struck with thoughts about the devastating concept of Jason Todd

because he was good. because he had a bleeding heart despite every reason not to. he loved school and was good at it. he was the first to be adopted, with little pretense of guardianship. he did everything he could to be a perfect Robin and live up to an impossible ideal. he only ever wanted Bruce and Dick to like him.

because he met Bruce in the same place and on the same day that Bruce's parents died--the single defining moment of Batman's existence. and he made Batman laugh. he hit the Dark Knight, Terror of Gotham, with a tire iron. he wasn't afraid of the man who turned fear into a weapon.

because he couldn't save his mother from herself, but he tried. because he was too good not to try and save the woman who gave him up. too good to play the Joker's game. the crowbar didn't kill him, the bomb did. he died knowing he wouldn't make it and tried anyway. he died a hero.

because other Robins have died, but none of them put an irrevocable tear in the mythos of Batman. because Jason Todd always dies, in every universe. he dies for the sins of his father. he was put to death by popular vote, sacrificed by the crowd. doomed by the narrative and doomed by the audience. the boy who only ever tried to prove he was good enough--wasn't good enough.

because he has every reason to be angry. because he didn't ask to be murdered, didn't ask to be brought back, and when he did everyone acted like he was better off dead. Bruce tried to kill him and nearly succeeded. he's blamed for his own death and blamed for his resurrection. he can never come home because the house is haunted by his own ghost.

because he's been the hero, the victim, and the villain. because his family and his writers and his universe don't know what to make of him. they don't know how to look his tragedy in the eye. and how can you?

it hurts to look at the hero who cannot be good enough, the victim who will only ever be angry, the villain who can sometimes be right. the audience hates to feel complicit and, in this exceptional case, they are.

[om000o]

"straight" "male"