#tho I admit I feel like I've fall into thinking too deeply of some of my characters

[bottledupcomic]

How is it that you manage to write 16 characters who all have more personlity than most Western comics characters?

I dunno about that but nice that you think my characters have a lot of personality. I follow the rule of K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Stupid

[scripted-downfall]

Hello! I am the rambling anon, bc I'm an Anon who loves to ramble about everything and nothing all at once.

Allow me to make a comment on Jpeg's acting please (even tho there have been countless).

I've always loved acting and the art of it, I still do, and I've never done professional acting, only theater acting as well (theater kids 4 lyfe!), and I'll admit, I'm can't really act. But Jesus Christ, there's times I watch Jared act (on SPN, I haven't ever really cared for Walker) and I cringe bc for fucks sake, even I can fucking do better than that. (or at least I hope and pray I could fucking do better) it's EMBARRASSING. It astonishes me how Jpeg stans say he's a good actor when Jensen just BLOWS him the fuck out of the fucking water. And it's sad that Jensen was always overlooked and was handed the shitty Bloody Valentine movie, while Jared was the golden child essential and got the Friday the 13th remake role. It's such bullshit.

You seriously mean to tell me that you couldn't find ANYONE else who could act Sam out than Jared? And do a better job? I doubt it.

And you're right, acting college major. Jared's acting in the early seasons was better, but that being said, not by a whole lot. It's just........ Sad.

Hello, rambling anon! Welcome! (Also, loving the theatre kid representation; it's always nice to find another :) )

I definitely agree with what you've said, at all points. I haven't had any on-film acting experience, and I don't consider myself a vicarious expert in assessing acting skill, but I'm not a complete novice either; I did speech back in high school, and I've done a decent amount of theatre acting in my day, too. So, expert? Nah. Complete amateur? Also no.

But it takes very little experience to see that Jared is just... bad? Like, to the point that I don't understand why anyone thinks he's a good actor, much less a good enough actor to stan as violently as his do. (Also, they don't seem to realize that they're actually making it less likely that I like jpeg? Like, I didn't feel half so strongly about being anti-Jared until they launched a whole-ass campaign against me, and now I'm deeply anti.) And it truly is, as you say, embarrassing to watch. I was watching s12 of Supernatural with some folks and I was sitting there, watching Jared, and cringing the entire time, praying they wouldn't judge every element of the show by Jared's standard.

I kind of understand why people say the whole "you don't need to raise up your fave by tearing down another person's" idea, but also... that statement doesn't take into account how much worse Jared looks through the juxtaposition of good acting and bad. Jared is bad already --- Cry_Wolf, Friday the 13th, House of Wax --- but he's not anywhere close to the worst actor in those, so it's less noticeable. He's about 15x more painful to watch in SPN because he's so close to good acting and falling short.

I definitely feel like there are a great many people who could have played Sam better. I just... the list is great.

Thank you for the ask, and welcome to the blog :) I hope you'll reach out again as things spring to mind; I might be slow to answer at times, but I always appreciate hearing from folks! Be well!

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My miraculous ladybugoc awakening review

(spoilers ahead, proceed with caution)

Okay I really love this movie

The soundtrack, cinematography and general character development is astonishing

It's MAINLY Ladynoir which I personally LOVE (although I'm a bigger fan of marichat)

I like the use of a temporary, less threatening villain to introduce how the two work together before marinette eventually says no to being ladybug

And obviously retracts that when her friend Alya is put in danger (similar to the actual series)

Marinette hasn't used the lucky charm yet and we only see a couple examples of the cataclysm which I'm not too happy about

They work incredibly well together though "stronger together"

Also they're so in love my dude

I like the use of Chloe tormenting marinette to show (when she saves master fu in the start) she'll help people even when in danger

I also like how tikki picked a smart, capable and selfless owner who proved herself

And plagg picked some random kid

I think that's really in character for either kwami

Also Chat calling her a watermelon/his sidekick at the very beginning makes me giggle my dude

I enjoy the usage of the two villains as one of the larger bads just so we could see how well they work as a pair

The singing is beautiful and in "you are ladybug" (and to be honest most of the songs) they used the melody of the original theme tune at one or more parts and I think that's ingenious

During the time lapse kinda thing we see newspapers and one had the bubbler on it, I enjoy how they've used villains and acumatized victims from the og show

Marinette being clumsy as fuck Is always really cute and Adrien helping her is sweet as hell

Also Chat bringing ladybug to a place he holds so dear and cherishes so deeply makes me so happy. He trusted her with this and then she proved herself as a like

Worthy love by recuperating that love with some of her own (although only a little bit) you can tell she likes chat to some extent romantically but is too in love with Adrien to notice that love like in the actual show

In one of the songs she admits she has feelings

"What is this feeling, I can't fall in love with him"

And chat noticing this, leaning in for a kiss and being rejected breaks my heart

"I'm sorry, my heart is already someone else's. We can't see this through"

"Wait don't go, just give it time to grow. We could be great, I know. I've fallen for you"

Before ladybug leaves and chat getting all sad

They use humour to lighten it but it's so heartbreaking

He also backtalks to his father and jesus

God I might be sobbing soon

Also die Chloe

Adrien rejecting Marinettes invitation to the ball EVEN THOUGH SHES THE ONE HE LOVES

Ugh this movie might destroy me

May need to dye my hair blue to become marinette

Also DJWifi moments 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

AND MARINETTE WITHOUT HER JACKET MY LOVEEEE

I wish we saw a bit more of the love square instead of basically JUST Ladynoir for most of the film.

hawkmoth acumatizing himself really did take me by surprisei didn't expect him to do that

But he was a good major,final villain

Chat fucking like

Sacrificing himself

Get that boy some stupid therapy istg pooks.

He is going to die one day bro

Ladybug being so defensive of Chat noir makes me Judson happy

Also fuck YOU hawkmoth

I hate how he just

Tosses her aside

But Mari gets up like the queen she is

We love marinette being unafraid to fight even without the mask

Hawkmoth rejecting the akuma because he saw it was Adrien makes me just

CHEFS KISS

The angst and heart wrench

"My little boy"

SOBS

I love them dearly

Adrien does deserve better tho

Just get married to marinette so you have tom as a dad pookums

But Gabriel does realise his wrongs and notices he fucked upppp

So that's good at least?

We get a heart warming scene between the two

Also reveal jhfrsvjkteb🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Love this movie dude

I love it

All in all it's a 100/10 movie

There were small little parts I didn't like (like how instead of a lucky charm restoring everything she just magics with her hands???) But they were overshadowed immensely by all the incredible, well thought out and in depth beautiful moments and genuinely just the overall idea and how it's executed

It's a brilliant movie and I HIGHLY recommend it

No movie is perfect but this is pretty close imo, it's actually really cute and just heartwarming

And there is some LESBIAN tension between Chloe and marinette in the ball scene

I love this movie deeply, it's heartwarming as well as heart shattering and the depth it goes too is brilliant

It's a phenomenal movie and I

I just love it dude

Please watch it if you haven't already

Honestly the soundtrack and singing alone is breathtaking

The plot is so brilliant

I love it so much bro

It's awesome

(Marinettes dress in the ball is to die for btw)

I did cry at the end because I didn't want it to end but I'll just watch the Paris special after school and rewatch the show, movie, Paris special etc

However I DO think it was setting up for a sequel with how it ended. Possibly with Natalie as the main villain. I'm excited to see if there's a second movie in the future!!

[hurtyknees]

I think Josh Sauchak is one of my favorite examples of Explicitly Autistic Characters In Media.

Obviously, he's not a *perfect* example, because at the end of the day there are still cliches he falls into (being white, cis, pretty young, etc etc etc) but IMHO he's not insufferable, or an offensive caricature (like Sheldon - even tho they have a lot of basic similarities- or Sia's Music ™).

All that being said, here are things i appreciate in the way Josh's character was made:

1. He's an actual adult.

A lot of people who are much smarter than me talked about how shitty it is to infantilize neurodivergent people. And they're right; it annoys me to no end when people who are close to The Autistic Character™ treat them like a child, with no agency of their own. WD2 doesn't do that!

(some could argue that Sitara does it. I'd disagree; It goes with how her character is set up - she cares deeply about her friends, and goes out of her way to make sure they're okay. She's protective. Not just towards Josh, but Marcus, the Unnamed Friend from the Moscow Gambit mission, off the top of my head.)

There's only one person i can think of who explicitly infantilized Josh and treated him less like a person, and more like a pet. And that's Lenny. Y'know, someone who game tried very hard to let us know we're NOT SUPPOSED TO LIKE.

and - SPOILER - it did bite her in the ass at the end, didn't it?

2. He's a full, well rounded character.

I'll try to keep it short and sweet- the difference between Josh and Sheldon - the unholy staple of autistic characters - is that Josh doesn't feel flat. At least to me.

He does admit in one of the side missions that autism does have a huge impact on his personality. Now i couldn't find an exact quote, but after Marcus asks him whether or not he'd take part in the "experiments" being held that could supposedly "cure autism", Josh's answer is something along the lines of "only if I could go back from that. I like who i am, and i don't know if I'd like myself without it (the autism)".

Side note- it's genuinely so uplifting to see an autistic character and people around them not treating neurodivergency like some fucking curse. It happens way too often.

But yeah, going back to the point- Josh has a full, fleshed out personality. He's passionate, self aware, can be absolutely hilarious, and doesn't let other people walk over him. But he also holds himself to very high standards, and can be really harsh on himself if he doesn't meet them.

3. How he's treated by others.

I touched on that briefly before, but i simply love every interaction Josh has with others.

They treat him so normally, that in media where neurodivergent people are more often than not treated like aliens this felt extremely refreshing.

Dedsec members don't baby him as mentioned above, but they also don't get mad when he doesn't understand something, or - in his head - fucks something up.

(And honestly, that applies to everyone in Dedsec. I was so scared that the writers are gonna go for the lowest hanging fruit- do something that will make the group temporarily fall apart. But they didn't. Not when Marcus had his big fuckup at !nvite, not when Ray showed up. They stuck together. And didn't dwell on each other's mistakes.)

TLDR; it fascinates me to no end how media that treat themselves so insanely seriously fail at being inclusive, but Watch Dogs 2 - the game that took a giant U-turn from being that, after seeing how first game was received - has had some of the most genuine, heartfelt, casual representation I've seen in a long time.

Again, it's not perfect. But it's honest and down to earth. It didn't treat marginalized communities it included instrumentally.

I just love this game so much.