#the Warner bros are morons

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

Seriously CW, you’re a moron

Heterosexuality according to Dean Winchester:

1. Checking a handsome guy's dick.

2. Checking a handsome guy out.

3. Staring at a handsome guy's lips.

4. Slapping a handsome guy's ass.

5. Gently caressing a handsome guy's face

6. Getting a boner when looking at a handsome guy.

[browsethestacks]

Superman / Wonder Woman #023 (Looney Tunes Variant) (2013)

Art by Karl Kerschl

[thranduilswifesblog]

When the company *cough* cough* Warner Bros *cough* cough* decided to canceled your favorite francise *cough* fantastic *cough* beasts because they're suck at story telling. and you ended up dead inside. And decided to write a series fanfiction based on that three movies, and now ended up in a very bad migraine and almost throw up for just look at your notebook, and chug the entire ibuprofen

[obaewankenope]

Ableist Language and Why It Matters

I've talked about ableism, disability, and ableist language before in the past and thanks to @nencheese for reminding me to write a list for modding purposes, I'm now writing this. 

Lydia Brown has created a Glossary of Ableist Language and even provided alternative terms that can be employed instead of ableist ones. It is not a full compendium of ableist language nor does it provide the history of the terms listed but for an initial starting point for learning to recognise how language can be used and why it matters what words we use, I recommend it.

Here is the link.

I firmly believe that how we use language is one of the most important things to consider, especially online. This is because all words have a history, sometimes short and simple, other times long and complex. Some words we use everyday are innocent, with no murkiness to their origins, whilst others are more shadowed. A hundred years ago using racial slurs was a normal affair (and still is in some places) but nowadays their use is vastly different. The same holds true for queer slurs, misogynistic slurs and, yes, ableist language.

Some words, I imagine, make sense to people when they come across them like "retard" or "spazz", whilst others may be more confusing like "dumb" and "loony". Afterall, how can "loony" be ableist when there is a whole Warners Bros. show literally called The Loony Tunes? But the origins of these words are rooted in ableism and just because they've been used so much that it seems normal to say/use them doesn't mean they are not still ableist.

You might think that some of these words are rather ridiculous to include here but consider the history of "idiot", "moron", and "imbecile" and their use in psychology to describe individuals with IQs lower than 70. Nowadays we use "specific learning difficulty" for this but in the 20th century a "moron" scored between 51 and 70, an "imbecile" between 26 and 51, and an "idiot" 25 or lower. Depending on where you scored, you either were able to do basic things but never able to be very 'useful' except for manual labour, considered to never be able to pass the mental age of six, and/or not even able to provide any use of yourself for even manual labour. Thus the terms were used to determine the worth and usefulness of individuals, so even with their being replaced in the 1970s with degrees by "retardation" (again determining worth, usefulness, and economic value) the history remains that using "idiot", "moron", and "imbecile" to describe yourself or others is playing into the narrative of determining how 'useful' someone is.

We grow up in our societies, our cultures, and with adults informing us of how to act and react. Those adults experienced the same as children and so on, a repeating cycle of generational experiences and knowledge always informed by what came before. Language evolves the same, just like traditions and social mores. So it is no surprise that words used to separate, segregate, exclude and include come into being. Words based in determining worth and value to a community, a culture, a society, are words that become ableist. Because oftentimes a person is valued not for just being a person but rather for what use they are. And thus we have the value of able-bodied and able-minded established and the lack of value of disability and impairment.

Whilst I believe in the reclaiming of words used to dehumanise, other, and oppress, I am cognizant of the fact that ableist language is for more insidious than, for example, queerphobic language because ableist language has a long history of being used to prop up and further other forms of discrimination and exclusion.

Ableist terms are used in regular conversation because it is normalised. Just as racist terms were once normalised. Normativism does not mean something is okay or harmless. 

Many ableist terms tend to centre on intellectual ability or capacity. This is because the value of a person often was equated to how intelligent they were (which was tied into genetic heritage and the concept that poor, ill-bred individuals naturally lacked the intellectual capacity of the 'well-bred' upper classes) and as such utilised to segregate, sterilise and kill those who were not compatible with the norms of society. 

The Nazi's justified the Aktion T4 programme by arguing that disabled individuals were an unworthy waste of resources that were better spent on the productive members of society.

According to the historian Plutarch, it was customary in Sparta to leave disabled babies, more specifically babies with clear physical 'deformities', in exposed locations to die from the elements. Whilst this may have been an exaggeration by Plutarch, other examples exist of similar acts in antiquity.

In Ancient Rome, the Twelve Tables were the foundations of Roman Law. The fourth table centres on the Rights of Familial Heads which included permitting deformed children to be killed and that children born with physical or mental disabilities were to be killed by their father.

Eugenics and forced sterilisation of 'undesirable' individuals has a long history also. From Plato to the modern day, selective breeding, sterilisation and even pressuring prospective mothers to abort if disabilities are found during ultrasounds all play into the conception of an ideal human. 

When we use words that have negative connotations for ourselves and others, we put them and ourselves down. When we call ourselves stupid, we play into a narrative where the worth of a person lies in how intelligent they are (how useful to society and the capitalist economy because lacking any ability or skills meant you were of no use to the capitalist system) we are using terms that mark us as lesser. 

Regardless of whether it is true, that is what using these terms does. Because, unlike queer terms and racial terms, ableist terms have been the base of near enough all forms of discrimination and exclusion. Queer individuals are "mentally ill" and therefore dangers. Non-white individuals are "intellectually inferior" because of their "smaller brains" and therefore are happy to be slaves. Women who wanted the right to vote, to work, to have freedom, were diagnosed with "hysteria". Of course, this doesn't mean that the history of racism and queerphobia and sexism and misogyny are somehow lesser than ableist history, because they're not. That ableism and disability are part of these forms of discrimination merely reinforces the fact that it matters what words you use and when. 

This is why ableism and ableist terms are such an issue and why it matters when and how they are used. The history of oppression lies in these words that are so normal for people to use they don't realise they are advocating a system that separates and segegrates people based on their physical and mental ability to be useful to a capitalist system. 

[popculturebuffet]

Next up for Cartoon Network era of shows, who is your favorite character from each of the early 2010s Check It renaissance era shows you've seen like: Regular Show, Sym Bionic Titan, Robotomy, The Problem Solverz, The Amazing World of Gumball, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, Ben 10 Omniverse, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe, and Clarence?

Regular Show: CJ... besides being cute she's a fun character and was a good match for Mordecai.. then he fucking blew it in an incident i've never quite gotten over and will cover at some point if anyone's intrested, though till I do Sarcastic Chorus has covered mordecai fumbling the ball well. Overall the show itself is great, aside from season 6. The Romance Stuff can be drawn out when your not talking about Rigleen, but it's got great comedy, good batshit insanity and ends on a high note. It's an all time classic and like adventure time left a mark on animation. It's succesor close enough was even better and go seek it out since it's hard to find offically because warner bros fucking blows.

Sym Bionic Titan: Octus, brian poshen's best role and one of the best designs i've seen. The show itself was treated oh so shittily and i'ts nice Gennendy now has more of a blank check over at cartoon network (Still need to watch more of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal) as they owe him after canceling this. Still a good show and I hope he can continue it someday.

The Problem Solverz: no faviorites, didn't like this one. Almost forgot to include it. Next.

Robotmy: Don't really have a faviorite character but I did last this one. Like Titan deserved better and that's a bit of a theme at times during this era: some shows got the runs they deserved, others died fast

Gumball; Penny. I liked her first design and her unshelled one was a nice twist. She also serves as a nice contrast to her boyfriends nonsense and i'm glad they pulled the trigger on that fast. Carie is a close second. As for this show I honestly need to see more as I simply lost touch when I stopped having cable and didn't catch up on streaming. But it's an excellent show. While I hated it's sticking to the status quo, in hindsight it dosen't: both the boys get girlfriends in stand out episodes, their grandma gets married, richard's dad comes back, change does happen it's just more on the simpsons scale of "it's gradual". I"m happy it's coming back and to see a movie eventually.

Secret Mountain Fort Awesome: I got nothing. I didn't really watch this one, wasn't intrested, what I saw wasn't good. Next.

Ben 10 Omniverse: Rook Mothefucking Blonko. For all the ups and down with the series, he was a worthy partner to ben, a fun character and a nice contrast being the more reserved by the book badass normal to Ben's empowered moron. One of the series best additions, bring him back whenever it returns. Have child him adventure with ben I don't care. As for the show as a whole.. it's a fucking mess. It has some really good stuff like the initial arc, Blox (My faviorite transformation of this era), and some good one off episodes... but also a lot of wacky nonsense. The show tried to restroe some of the og continuity the alien era ignored, which is good on paper but in practice left the franchise a spiraling mess, brought back some characters without properly reintroducing them (Though bringing lucy back was a good move and she was fantastic), and had a ton of ships for ben but settled on the worst option, making him a harem protaganist for no real reason. Some arcs were good, some eps were good, a lot of it is garbage, and the design work is excellent. It's not horrible but it is a hot mess of a show and a weird note to end the og continuity on.

Uncle Grandpa: Pizza Steve. This show was alright: Id idn't like it at first but it grew on me a little, though I just kinda drifted from it. As batshit insane as the idea was, I did like the steven universe crossover as it somehow worked and has some of the best pearl moments series wide. Otherwise the series is alright and probably worth another look.

Steven Universe: Garnet. The series has a LOT of great characters (Pearl and Greg are close seconds and thirds), but Garnet is a throughly intresting character, a kind leader and a good mom to steven with one of the most badass musical numbers in all of animation. Pearl again is a very close second being a nicely flawed character. The series as a whole.. is one of my faviorite cartoons of all time if not my faviorite. It's one I need to rewatch: beautifully animated, paced decently (Far from perfectly but looking at the bigger picture now it's over, not nearly as bad as it's rep was. It spaced out story moments with life just happening). The cast is memorable and charming as hell, the fight scenes some of the best in western animatoin and animation period, and the finale while rushed due to rebecca having to take a seasons worth of finale material and compress it into a few extra episodes she had to beg cartoon network for, is utterly satisfying. Steven Unvierse Future: While this one is a bit later might as well get it out of the way. I love this one. I get why some don't, it's divisive, to me it feels like a valid deconstruction of Steven's trauma, an epilogue that shows what having this savior complex thrust on him, this need to fix grown adults, would do to the poor boy and ends with him finding his own life. It's bleak as hell in places, but it ends on a note of hope and humanity that makes the jouney worht it.

Clarence: Sumo whose some classic tom kenny and usually pretty fun. A weird note to end on as while Steven Universe, like adventure time before, changed animation, where as CN kinda buried Clarence after it's creator's public breakdown and like Gumball I lost touch eventually. That being said.. Clarence is excellent. The crew rebounded well, the characters are charming and it's a nice slice of life show. I wish Jeff was less of a jerk, but otherwise it's a really fun show with a really kind protagonist.

[disneybuddy]

Why I really don’t like “Jellystone”

I remember when this show was first announced in 2019. I was really excited - finally, Warner Bros. was actually doing something with Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, etc.! I love those characters and I think it's a shame that they don't do much with them (I love Scooby-Doo, but it's not the only Hanna-Barbera franchise they own). And the showrunner was C.H. Greenblatt, whose work I really like. And then, in 2021, the first trailer for the show was released, followed a few weeks later by the show itself.

I'm gonna be blunt here. I think Jellystone! is awful. C.H. Greenblatt claims that it's a "love letter to Hanna-Barbera" in interviews, but I'm convinced that he hasn't actually watched most (if any) of the shows that the characters in this show originated from, because it gets the majority of them completely wrong. Yogi, Huck, Snagglepuss, and Wally Gator made it through for the most part unscathed. But the others... they're basically the characters In Name Only. Hardy Harr Harr, for example, bears absolutely no resemblance to his original self. He's supposed to be a loveable sad sack. Here? He's a stereotypical cartoon old lady.

...WHAT? Who looks at this character:

…and thinks "Y'know what we should do? Make this character a stereotypical old lady!". Whose idea was that? I want names.

Other characters fare just as bad. Boo-Boo is Yogi's conscience. He's soft-spoken, kindhearted, and tries to urge Yogi not to do things that "Mr. Ranger" isn't going to like. Jellystone! Boo-Boo, on the other hand, is a loud, obnoxious idiot just as much of a moron as most of the other characters. Half of the characters (Jabberjaw, Loopy De Loop, Squiddly Diddly) have been gender-swapped, which in my opinion is a really bad idea. I know there aren't a whole lot of female Hanna-Barbera characters, but they DO exist. You could've just used them. You didn't have to make Squiddly Diddly a stereotypical valley girl to make the gender ratio more balanced. Quick-Draw is now "El Kabong" 24/7 and his using a guitar as a weapon has been Flanderized into HIM THINKING THAT HIS GUITAR IS A SENTIENT BEING AND BEING IN LOVE WITH IT. Magilla Gorilla is Paul F. Thompkins. Johnny Quest and Hadji are a couple (y'know, despite being adopted brothers?). The Banana Splits are criminals. And Baba Looey... what's the gender-swapped Baba Looey's personality again?

The voice cast was a massive letdown too. I'm glad they got Jeff Bergman to voice Yogi again, and I also like his takes on Mr. Jinks and Wally Gator. Jim Conroy does a great Captain Caveman and an alright Huckleberry Hound. Bernardo De Paula's Mildew Wolf is decent. Everyone else... I like Dana Snyder, but his Snagglepuss impression isn't very good, and he's not even trying to sound like Bill Thompson as Touché Turtle. Much like with the DuckTales reboot, most of the other characters are voiced by celebrities, none of whom make any sort of effort to sound like the originals. Particularly bad is C.H. Greenblatt's horrid Boo-Boo, which sounds NOTHING like Don Messick. What makes it all the more frustrating is that there are so many talented voice actors out there who can do good impressions of the characters - there is no excuse to have Boo-Boo sound like that when we live in a world where Billy West and Eric Bauza exist.

Problem number three: I really don't care for the show's art style. I don't dislike C.H. Greenblatt's art style as a whole, but it really does not fit these characters. It's hard to adapt characters into your style while still making sure they look like the characters - if done poorly, it can just result in the characters looking poorly-drawn. This is one of those cases. The animation just looks crude and sloppy-looking.

And finally, I'm sorry, but I don't find the show funny. In the episodes that I watched, there was only one joke that I was amused by ("I'm a monster! A very handsome monster!"). Every episode is just scene after scene of madcap insanity. Basically what people who don't like Chowder or SpongeBob SquarePants but haven't actually watched either show THINK those shows are like. Those two shows are silly, but they have something that Jellystone! does not: WIT. They don't just have characters acting like spazzes and random weird stuff happening in the hopes of getting a laugh.

For example, there's one episode where Quick-Draw... oh, I'm sorry, El Kabong has his guitar destroyed while fighting the Banana Splits. He tries to find a replacement, but is unsuccessful. So finally he says "I'M the guitar!" and he actually turns into a horse-headed guitar... wait, WHAT?! How the heck does he do THAT? Quick-Draw isn't a shapeshifter, and there's never been any indication that this El Kabong character is either. And it's not like this is just a one-off gag and he's back to normal by the next scene, this is an actual PLOT POINT. I know I just said cartoons don't have to explain earlier, but you need to have SOME logic. Again, Chowder doesn't just have Chowder randomly gain two heads to solve the episode's conflict or have Schnitzel turn into a leopard so he can eat the episode's bad guy or anything like that.

After having to deal with people on Twitter giving me a hard time for not liking Jellystone!, most of them actually trash-talking the original Hanna-Barbera characters and shows as part of their arguments (and claiming that these versions of the characters were more "complex"... I'm not seeing it), I figured something out. This is not a show for Hanna-Barbera fans. Rather, it's a show for people who KNOW about these characters but don't actually care about them or have even watched their shows in years (if ever). Because the show actually requires you be familiar with these characters to find most of the jokes it throws at viewers funny. Boo-Boo saying "I'm being sued for malpractice!" with a dopey smile on his face or claiming that he has experience with a machete is supposed to be funny because you wouldn't expect intelligent, kindhearted Boo-Boo to say either of those things. The Banana Splits being criminals is funny because you wouldn't expect the Banana Splits of all characters to BE criminals. Peter Potamus' sidekick So-So being George Takei is funny because in the original show So-So sounded NOTHING like George Takei. Just have an iconic cartoon character say something out-of-character or do something CRAZY and presto, you've got a joke.

In other words, Jellystone!'s humor is on the same level of intelligence as the humor in that awful Boo-Boo Runs Wild short.

[muddypolitics]

(via Daring Fireball)

CNN FUCKED AROUND WITH TRUMP’S TOWN HALL, NOW FINDING OUT

★

CNN — now owned by Warner “Bros” Discovery, who, as I’ve mentioned, are morons — is learning the same thing as Twitter: there’s no mainstream audience for right-wing media, and no mainstream tolerance for insurrectionists or their sympathizers. Two weeks ago they embarrassed themselves by handing over a prime time hour of TV to Donald Trump. WBD CEO (and Biff-Tannen-in-glasses lookalike) David Zaslav bragged, “Republicans are back on the air.”

Now, reports Justin Baragona at The Daily Beast:

More than a week after CNN’s disastrous town hall with former President Donald Trump, the negative impact the fiasco had on the network’s ratings is coming into clearer focus. Last week, the cable news pioneer suffered its lowest-rated week since June 2015, averaging just 429,000 total daily viewers from Monday-Friday. CNN was also down double digits compared to the same week last year in both total viewership and in the key advertising demographic of viewers ages 25-54. MSNBC more than doubled CNN’s daily audience, drawing 976,000 total viewers, while Fox News averaged 1.4 million. [...]

Since the town hall, CNN has seen several of its weeknight hours — including Anderson Cooper — fall behind Newsmax, the fringe-right channel that has surged since Carlson’s ouster. And on Friday night, the channel’s much-hyped interview show hosted by Chris Wallace averaged only 224,000 total viewers at 10 p.m., drawing 60,000 fewer viewers than Newsmax’s offering.

Losing to Newsmax. Jiminy.

[maguro13-2]

Red : After going on a much temporary vacation in the Bahamas, I can't wait to get back into the final season of our show.

Blue : You said it. Hey, girls of RWBY. What's with the Birthday suits that your wearing? (realizing) Oh, God, no! we're too late! They shut down the studio!

Red : What!? Where'd Rooster Teeth go!? Aw hell diddly ding dong crap! Can't these morons in the country do anything right!? (dials number, a gibberish talk on the phone is heard) Hello, Warner Bros Discovery operator? Can I talk to the ceo of of the company in New York?

WB Discovery Receptionist (via phone) : Hi, this is Warner Bros Discovery Incorporated. How can I may direct your call?

Red : Hi, can you put the Ceo on the phone? I need to talk to him personally. He better tells us what happened to the studio after were we on vacation!

WB Discovery Receptionist : Okay, We'll send your call to our executives.

(dial changes+gibberish talk)

Red : Hello, David, Ceo of Warner Bros. Discovery. Red of Red vs Blue here, did you uh...(more gibberish talk on the phone) What? No! No David! Not shut down the studio! You were supposed to release the studio this month! This month, David! Go to hell, you moron!

Blue : It's all over! Rooster Teeth's gone and there's no final season for Red Vs Blue! We're all doomed! DOOOMED!!!

"And so..."

Red : This stupid country! Always messing up on the hot new things! I can't get enough for one week and that I seriously can't get enough to think that this was stupid that Rooster Teeth and most of all, no final season!

Blue : Don't be ridiculous, we all had tought times at the beautiful state of Texas, we got Funimation in the state.

Red : Uhh, it's Crunchyroll now!

Blue : Well, this stinks! Hey, where did Ruby go? And where'd the rest of Team Rwby go?

Red : They used the entrace to get to New York, just to kill the CEO.

Blue : Wh-what? (we show the secret entrance being opened after Team RWBY left) Oh boy.

(scene pans to to the exterior of Warner Bros. Discovery headquarters in New York)

Woman : Oh my God! There's a naked girl inside!

David : Oh God! What the f**k are you doing!?

(sounds of people getting torn up by RWBY as the Avengers looks at the building)

David : Oh God! No! I won't forget this!

Red : Heh! Guess we were right about it. America had lost faith within us, but this country sure can't do anything right after 9/11. What's the worse thing that could ever happened?

[KABOOM!]

Blue : Je*us smurfing Ch*st! Did they just blew up an entire buidling!?

Red : You think so!? We are so not good for our jobs like this!

(BOOM!)

Red : Hey, boss! What's up!

David : RED VS BLUE! I HEARBY ANNOUNCE THAT YOU ARE FOREVER BANNED FROM WARNER BROS...FOR LIFE!

Red : (looks up into the sky) NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (wakes up from Dream) Oh thank god! It's only a dream!

Blue : So you finally woke up, buster. You've been knocked out for an hour.

Red : We're still literally on vacation.

Blue : Yep.

Red : So...Ummm...Now what?

Blue : Uhh...We could just chill and relax. Nothing to be wrong here. Red, we forgot something. Where the hell is TEAM RWBY AND THEIR BIRTHDAY SUITS! They must've forgot something!

Red : What!? How the f**k should I know!? I didn't know Team RWBY disappeared like that!

Blue : Then where the hell did they go anyway after hearing the announcement?

"Meanwhile in Europe..."

[wind gusting+bird squawking)

Weiss : ...Well this sucks!

[akumaverse]

BUGS BUNNY

First Appearance: Fallout Shelter Improv Collab 7 #3

Dimension: Prime AkumaVerse

Allegiance: Civilian

Bugs Bunny is a cartoon who starred in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944. In 2002, he was named by TV Guide as the greatest cartoon character of all time. Bugs starred in 163 shorts in the Golden Age of American animation, and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non-animated films.

He was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field, famed home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. His catchphrase is a casual "Eh...what's up, doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot. His other popular phrases include "Of course you realize, this means war", "Ain't I a stinker?", "What a maroon" (a subtle twist on moron) and "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque." Bugs Bunny is considered the main character of the Looney Tunes series, and as such, is used as a mascot, both of the Looney Tunes series, and sometimes of Warner Brothers in general.

When Akuma was a child, for some reason Bugs Bunny bit him in the head. This, in turn, made Akuma beat him down. This lead to an unusual restraining order request that states the following: "Unless Bugs Bunny inflicted the first shot, Akuma is to not touch Bugs Bunny at all." This leads to a few standoff moments when Bugs and Daffy do an autograph signing session together (as Akuma is a big time Daffy Duck fan).

While to many he is a beloved icon, for a while he seemed to only really have a self-interest in his own desires. But over the years Bugs has grown mature. Especially after spending some time with Daffy Duck when he was not working for Warner Brothers. This eventually led to Bugs more accepting of losing. Starting with throwing the Big Game knowing it was going to be the last.

Since then, while he still got plenty of work, he is more than willing to sit back and let others rise. From letting Daffy Duck have his own show in Duck Dodgers without a Bugs Bunny cameo to getting on the receiving end of the joke during the Looney Tunes Show. He even apologized to Akuma, who still wants to beat him up because he is just obsessed with fighting.

Sprite Credit

First Version by LightningTH.

Second Version by AkumaTh.

Current Version by AkumaTh

Fun Facts:

The Reason for Akuma's grudge on Bugs is based on an incident where the Bugs Bunny Mascot hit me on the head as a kid with his teeth by accident.

The last two paragraphs parallel how my feelings for him went.

[e-vacstation]

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[the-desolated-quill]

Are we really going to complain about the ‘SJW agenda’ when this isn’t even the first time a non-white woman has been cast as Batgirl? Kimberly Brooks voiced the character in the Arkham games and Rosario Dawson voiced her in the Lego Batman Movie. Not only that, but she and Commissioner Gordon were both black in that movie. So what’s the problem exactly?

so apparently the “redheads are oppressed” crowd is already going after this casting.  Please consider tweeting your support!

[twopoppies]

speechless

🤯

It’s outrageous both on Kim’s part and Warner Bros. No wonder they’re in so much debt—they’re morons.

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

On the topic of hphl - the plot is also so fucking yikes that at first I thought everybody was joking but no, they really did this and I'm just speechless, hphm has its problems with its plot but at least these are only plot holes or just straight up something stupid but not like this holy shit!

Yeah, I got a few responses about the plot, which confused me at first because I hadn't heard anything about the plot, didn't know any details had been released. Did a bit of digging and all I can find is that apparently it's about a Goblin Rebellion. Which does align with a couple of Asks that I got calling the game Antisemitic. Before I go any further, I just have to say...Warner Bros, Rowling, what the hell were you thinking? Like, you have to know this is a sensitive topic among the fandom, right? Were you trying to cause discourse? Trying to get the game cancelled before it's had any chance to turn a profit? Sometimes I think Rowling intentionally trolls her Antis, which I could almost respect (if, y'know, her Antis weren't against her because of the transphobia and stuff) but if you're actively trying to make money, why do this? Why ever touch the goblins again with a ten foot pole?

That said...okay, cards on the table, I am not Jewish. My opinion about this controversy is not the one that matters. But a small part of me is...ever so slightly optimistic?

As crazy as it sounds, let me explain. I don't think Rowling is consciously Antisemitic, she may not be at all. She's tranphobic as fuck, but being bigoted in one way doesn't mean necessarily mean you will be in another, and researching her past tweets...I suspect the way the Goblins turned out was an accident more than anything else. A result of Rowling not doing enough research. Speaking as someone who genuinely didn't know that Goblins began as Jewish caricatures until just a few years ago, I can buy that a writer crafting a fantasy series in the nineties would just see Goblins as another magical creature to include, like dragons and unicorns. I can believe that.

Either way, the Goblins are a part of the Potterverse now. The Goblin Rebellions are part of Wizarding History. There's no erasing that. There's no ret-conning it, (Then again, considering what's been done in the Fantastic Beast movies...) the best that can be done at this stage is to try and fix the awkward parts. I could just be a moron who needs to shut up about what they don't understand, and if so, then I will, without hesitation. But I'm genuinely curious to hear the views of Jewish bloggers and Potterheads as I present the (potential) silver lining here.

Here's the thing - we don't know much about the plot yet. We don't know how the Goblins will be portrayed. Rowling might let us down, as she has done quite a bit recently, but I doubt she's the only person working on the game. While she probably has final say over certain decisions, her co-workers could talk her into a more nuanced approach. Maybe the Goblins will be humanized more. We're seeing one of the Rebellions, maybe we'll see some examples of why they're so antagonistic to humanity? Maybe the game will let us choose to side with them? It's not impossible. The video game platform leaves a lot of doors open to flesh out Goblin culture from multiple angles, and I don't think this portrayal is necessarily doomed from jump.

Maybe it's just because, when I was a kid, I found the Goblins extremely compelling. (I was twelve, I had no conception of how they were problematic.) To me, they were one of the most interesting Potterverse creatures introduced, and for a while, they were my favorite. I remember going through a period of trying to get to know my culture better as a teenager (I'm Native American) and realizing that the Potterverse Goblins reminded me a lot of real world history. Of white invaders stealing and assimilating the culture of the tribes they conquered - which I think is reflected in how Wizards don't allow Goblins to carry wands, and blatantly ignore/disrespect Goblin culture by trading around Goblin-made treasures, even though this is tanatamount to theft. In Deathly Hallows, Griphook "double-crossed" the Golden Trio, but only because he knew they were going to do the same thing to him, and beat them to the punch. Harry ended up proving his suspicions entirely right. Again, it might just be me...but if Griphook was supposed to be the antagonist of this exchange...that didn't land. At all.

So what's my point? That if we get more individual characters like Griphook, and less of the Goblins being portrayed as a collective stereotype...this could be worth it. Could be. Nothing is set in stone yet. And Rowling has disappointed us time and again, so I probably shouldn't get my hopes up. The game could be antisemitic garbage. And on top of that, maybe it wouldn't even matter. Maybe any attempt to redeem the Goblins will only cause more damage. That's a possibility as well. I could always just be a naive idiot hoping that their favorite series can grow beyond it's more shameful parts. But even if they can be redeemed, I don't think the general fandom (to say nothing of the Jewish Potterheads) really want anything to do with the Goblins anymore and would no doubt just prefer they get mentioned as little as possible. It's a sizeable aspect of the Potterverse and I'm sure Rowling doesn't think they're offensive, so she sees no reason to ignore them...but I'm hoping, praying, that the other developers of the game are able to stop her and explain how things could be taken, so she makes different choices or allows for different choices to be made.

[disneyprincessbuffyannesummers]

Please, get an education. If you seriously think misha can get sued, then god help you. For real, look up and investigate what it is you post, otherwise you end up looking and sounding like a moronic idiot.

I wonder if you know what copyright is. In which a piece of media is protected by it's writer/artist/musician.

People & Companies like: Eric Kripke, The CW & Warner Bros., owns Supernatural. Sure, Misha gets money from things with his face on it. However, if were to write a poem (implied to be about C*s), Eric, The CW or even Warner Bros., could sue.

He could say he got inspo from the show, like some say.

However, if he were to get papers from Eric or The CW or even Warner Bros., and he could be sued for using a copyrighted character they own.

It's kinda funny I have to explain something to someone when it's so easy to look what copyright is and why Misha could get sued. That's what I said.

I will admit I'm not the brightest bulb when it comes to certain things.

Then again, google is free.

[popculturebuffet]

Seeing how we've talked about Cartoon Network originals, may as well talk about the shows from Cartoon Network's sister studio, Warner Bros Animation. Favorite character from the first batch of the following Warner Bros Animation shows from before Kids WB and the initial lineup for Kids WB's first year: Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, Batman the Animated Series, The Plucky Duck Show, Animaniacs 1993, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Pinky and the Brain, and Freakazoid?

Super fuckin shooters let's go. Now we'll go ahead and elimiate taz-mania (haven't seen it) the plucky duck show (as I don't think i've seen it) and sylvester and tweety (Which I haven't seen enough of only small piec. Unlike with early disney though this nearly isn't as bad anyways...

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster, great performance lots of fun with Plucky as a close second but simply not reaching the heights of his dad. The show itself is solid, 90's as heck in a good way, fun, and succesfully making it's own minty fresh new cast. A great start for WBA. Also I really dig the reboot.

BTAS: God this is a hard one as they had just so many great villians and an excellent batman (Also to be clear as I didn't realize this for years, the new batman adventures is isit's own show when we get there). It dosen't help i've been binging Serum Lake a lot, a youtuber who focuses mostly on BTAS (and lately caped crusader), with sprints into beyond and superman tas.

So this hard choice goes to... The Joker. I almost didn't as I prefe rother villians episodes.. but damn if hamill dosen't command every scene mr j is in. He is the joker for a reason.

The show itself.. is one i've talked about.. and one of the best animated shows period. I'ts a perfect adaptation taking everything that makes batman work and throwing out the decades of continuity crust that had built up. Watching those serum lake videos made me realize just HOW many villians were redefined by BTAS: Mr Freeze, Poision Ivy, Clayface, Mad Hatter, Two Face all villians who before this were just kinda forgotten but got a second chance thanks to BTAS. The show is a fucking masterpiece in episodic storytelling, making each episode a stand alone masterpiece with the occasoinal sequel or two parter to shake it up. While there were other great shows to come I feel only one directly competes and even it's probably not as good. We'll get there for now..

Animaniacs: Slappy. It will always be slappy. She had the best segments, was hilarious, and was sadly absent from the reboot for the most part. There's no one better

The show itself is fucking amazing though. While Slappy easily won the warners themselves are some of the best cartoons characters ever made, the bugs bunnies of the 90s (Sorry buster but they picked up the schitck better)

The segments all slapped; Pinky and the Brain was good enough to get it's own show, goodfellas like slappy deserved one but didn't get it, the hip hippos are underated, rita and runt break my heart, and buttons and mindy sucks hard and is the worst because Mindy's mom is the worst.

Pinky and the Brain. Pinky. NARF. Rob Paulsen always delivers as this moron. The show itself what i've seen is pretty good, a nice expansion of an already graet series of shorts. It's decent stuff if better as part of animaniacs.. though the series at least gave us pinky and the brain and larry.

Freakazoid: HEY JAKE WANNA NAME COSGROVE THE BEST CHARACTER. Oh boy would i? That gag alone gets him here. The show itself is one I need to revisit as it's simply not streaming for no good reason, but was funny, rapid fire and has one of my faviorite gags in anything, one that's stuck with me since I saw it at my grandpa's house as a kid.

[comingupforblair]

If you blame DC for films/TV shows you don’t like and not WB who actually fucking make Them, I refuse to take anything you say seriously if you can’t be bothered knowing or learning something so fucking basic.