#twitter personality analysis

[omg-hellgirl]

Twitter Personality Analysis was really right; that said, FREE VENEZUELA.

[rainofthetwilight]

when you slow down this scene, there's a little detail that–while not really noticable–arin's reactions are a little later than the rest, and his facial expressions shift alot moreso than the others, showing how he's probably pretty unfocused

and with that detail, kai seems to be the one who's the most focused, as even nya and lloyd's expressions occasionally shift (lloyd being the most out of the three of them), while he stayed unchanged the entire time

[jimmyspades]

The Blacklist is the funniest possible show the insane conspiracy theory-ridden alt-right could’ve latched onto but it’s also not very funny is it. Yet still fascinating how a particular group can obsess over something without understanding it at all

[kyouka-supremacy]

Hello there 👋

Can you talk about why you feel the way you do about the female bsd characters? (including the female characters you like) and while I don't think the author doesn't know how to write female characters I think the biggest problem with the female characters is that they're underutilized and barely have much screentime ( the most one we saw recently having screentime currently in the manga is teruko)

Hi!! I love you all SO much but seriously I don't have the mental stability to talk about why the bsd female characters are badly written ahah. Here's my best attempt at it:

I hope it's enough for me to say there's a female / male characters proportion of like 1:10, and no female character has any real repercussion on the plot– literally. Besides from Kyouka and Lucy and maybe Yosano? you could hypothetically erease every other female character and... Realistically, nothing would change. That's just how much irrelevant all but three female characters are, and there's already very few compared to the rest of the male cast. The four main / most popular characters are all males. Dazai is openly sexist and it's just kind of there never to be addressed. Akutagawa is repetedly violent with his female coworker and it's treated as a gag (like you DO realize how repulsive it is to write a character who is obsessed with her abuser and never be intentioned to elaborate on that because I guess that's what women are supposed to do according to author? Like. okay). But honestly the main issue for me is how each of them literally gravitates around another male character. God, it's SO annoying. And I mean every single of them!!! Every. single. Every single!!!! I struggle to come up with even one exception to the pattern. Kyouka has Atsushi as her savior, Lucy has Atsushi as her savior, Higuchi is obsessed with Akutagawa, Naomi is obsessed with Jun'ichirou, Gin literally exists because of Akutagawa, Alcott is just there to aid Fitzgerald, Margaret's only role in the story is to save Hawthorne, Elise is just expression of Mori. Teruko is a person in the body of a child who literally drools over her 50-something superior, like we hadn't as a society come to the common agreement that the “not as old as she looks” trope was disgusting pedophilia apologism like ten years ago (but it's okay though, because pedophilia was established to be okay in this manga at like, chapter 15 or something) (is this the good time to bring up that time Aya asked Kunikida out? No? Okay let's just collectively pretend that never happened). Do I need to go on? I haven't read Gaiden, but do I really need to read it to know Tsujimura gravitates around Ayatsuji? Oh wait, I was just remembered about Gaiden's full title: Bungou Stray Dogs Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyougoku Natsuhiko, and if that doesn't speak of the consideration author gives their female characters, I don't know what does. It's just– no female character is ever going to have their own novel. No female character is ever going to be protagonist. They'll just keep being treated as they've always been so far, like flat and personality-less disposable plot devices.

Now. I love Yosano's backstory, I really do- I think it was the best executed arc of the manga, reading those two chapter still gives me chills. But you do have to acknowledge, Yosano herself has no agency in the entire arc development. It's okay, she was eleven, it's natural; but she is just tossed one way to the other by other characters. That, and I can't stretch it enough, is not a bad thing on its own; not all stories have to scream #womanpower to be good stories. It's a good story. But you need to acknowledge it does nothing to empower female characters' role in this manga; it just speaks once again of it being a systematic problem, how author can't write female characters like they were masters of their fate if their life depended on it. And it's not that just because there's one (1) mini arc that happens to have a female character as its protagonist, author knows how to write female characters with depth, or agenda, or an objective, or personality, because... They clearly don't.

Like. I probably became annoying by now but like. When was the last time you found any bsd fan whose favorite character was a woman? When was the last time you found people describing themselves as a Lucy kinnie? If you ask me, it's not a matter of fans' fault for overlooking female characters; the female characters in this franchise are meant to be overlooked, because they're abysmally less stretched out and complex compared to their male counterparts– because male characters are distinctive and unique, while author can't go outside the range of one-dimensional femme fatale, letal woman (Yosano, Kouyou, Teruko, Christie, Gin / Lucy / Elise too to an extent) and woman who's just there to obsess over a male character (Alcott, Higuchi). But do not fret, because author will sometimes go outside that scheme by making a letal femme fatale who also obsesses over a male character! (Naomi). Also this

(Have you ever wondered why I never talk about Beast Gin? Yeah.)

Okay but you see the problem here? You see how it's impossible to make the same kind of argument for the male characters, because they're all diverse and various and multilayered as much as their little screentime allows? Higuchi doesn't exist outside Akutagawa, Lucy doesn't exist outside Atsushi; but it's not like you can say the same goes the other way round. That is, crossing out the various parallels drawn between male characters, but that only speaks more of how precisely curated male characters are, while all female characters... I'll be honest, aren't written as people. Author really sounds like your average Washington Post best selling psychological thriller author of the week that writes women like an alien species from another planet. It would have spared me having been writing this whole post for an hour (two hours? Which is definitely not the time I wanted to spend on this, man) if only author would have formed the thought, at the start of the serialization: “perhaps! Perhaps I should write women as people instead of writing them as female characters (whatever that means)”. Alas, we ended up with the infamous Naomi description from Untold Origins (what the fuck. who in their right mind would ever think of writing something like that. what the fuck.)

Now, I know if you're here reading this you most definitely like bsd. It's okay, really. Unpopular opinion, but people are perfectly allowed to like things that are flawed (and this is a big flaw). What's extremely important, seriously, I'm on my knees begging you, is to be critical of the media you consume. All kinds of media. Even if you end up disagreeing with me on this matter, really!! Just be able to tell apart the things that make appealing a series for you from whatever kind of agenda / worldview the author is pushing through, and peacefully acknowledge you can like something despite it having issues (because bsd has issues). I don't know who needs to hear this, but someone definitely does: “I love s/kk!!” “the bsd storytelling has many compelling aspects!!” and “I recognize the bsd writing has flaws some of which actively harm an already disadvantaged part of society” are statements that can and should coexist, and if anything - and I know you hate to hear this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry - it should be kept in mind when deciding to support the franchise by buying its products.

One final note is that like... I'm sorry if this comes off as pretentious but I seriously feel like people have NO idea what media with well written female characters look like, because for people to even question bsd being sexist is just insane to me (in the way: do we really need to to talk about it, isn't it obvious like ten seconds in the show??). And this is probably the least good place to advertise things, but please do yourself a favor and read The Promised Neverland and learn what well written female characters read like.

[iindigoeyed]

so I don't typically like chloe. she pisses me off and i think she only exists to drive the plot forward. but i started drawing her as practice and now the more i think about it, i actually really like her and feel like she has so much potential to be amazing. i've never been a huge chloe fan and have never been swayed one way or another before. but i get it. I get why she has so many fans now. You could do SO much with chloe if she was written correctly (which she is absolutely not in canon.) like a rich girl who is kind of a bully but aside from her brash and outwardly cruel behavior has the capacity to do good things and learn if she's given the opportunity? with a clear-cut motivation for why she does what she does and a tragic backstory? she knows some of the most important characters in the show and could do amazing things with her unique situation? she could have very easily been redeemed pre-s5. but they just… don't. they don't do anything with her except keep her where she is. there is no growth.

it feels like the sympathy that she would otherwise get goes to adrien, felix, and kagami because of their similar history. and that's great, i love those characters too. But she doesn't deserve this. she's a teenager who is heavily npd-coded and nobody extends that sympathy to her. even as a villain, she is undermined by lila. she is shown up in every regard and dumbed down to nothing, and only shows up when they need her to do something stupid so the main characters can defeat her yet again. it's so frustrating.

[mari-lair]

I think a lot about your analysis about Aoi and nene and also can't help but think that Nene is not really the kind of friend Aoi need (They are adorable together don't get me wrong)

(For context: Aoi and Nene empty friendship)

I feel the same, I am glad my feeling was communicated there :D

Their interactions can be very cute, adorable truly, but I cannot see it being good for Aoi in the long run. At all. Which is very sad since they value each other so much.

[princeyflowers-archive]

reflection, unseen

[auguryanxiety]

It always confuses me when ed1zzy shippers try to use Stede + Mary's marriage as a parallel to their relationship?? Because look at how that relationship was and how it ended: they weren't happy together, were arranged by outside forces with no love between them, and ended up separating.

Stede closed himself off to her attempts at connection and they didn't really meet each other halfway. Stede not knowing Mary hates the ocean and that she was interested in art because he ignored her, Mary trying to give Stede gifts that he doesn't seem to have much interest in - most likely because they don't connect well (while married). Mary was fine with continuing things as they were even knowing they were both unhappy, where Stede pulled a shit move and abandoned his family to seek his own happiness. After all the events with Ed and piracy, Stede makes another shitty decision and tries to shove himself back into his former life (it involved trauma/near death and his self hatred but that can’t completely excuse him, especially after he’s had some time to think and goes to ruin Mary’s art show), and almost ruins Mary's and his family's newfound happiness. Obviously Mary is justified in attempting to murder Stede because even though I love that man, holy fuck does he suck lmao. At the end, they were finally able have some closure, have a sweet moment together and say goodbye to truly enjoy their lives or to go work/look for that happiness. At the end they left each other and found happiness elsewhere/with someone else!

If Ed and Izzy are a parallel to Stede and Mary, then that means they have a similar dynamic - which you can see in the show. Ed tries to connect with Izzy on Stede's ship by showing him the trinkets and designs that fascinate him (the small boat) and Izzy ignores it and wants to move on with their plans. Ed shows Izzy the shapes of the clouds and is a bit goofy with it, Izzy is not amused and doesn't see the point of the shapes - which you would think as Ed's first mate he'd somewhat understand and wouldn’t flip between believing or doubting that Ed has a plan. Izzy and Ed, like Mary and Stede, are not meeting each other halfway. Izzy claims to help control Ed's mood swings and erratic thoughts and behaviors yet doesn't seem to display that in the show and Ed does not agree and is sarcastic in response. Izzy is fine with following the same plans over and over and being Blackbeard's first mate, while Ed has expressed sooo many times how bored he is with it, how it makes him unhappy, etc. When the flimsy original plans of Ed’s retirement aren’t followed, Izzy tries to force Ed back into the Blackbeard box he's happy with, completely ignoring Ed's feelings on it. Izzy and Ed are separated because Izzy can't and won't allow change, things in canon happen, Ed goes with Stede to the pirate academy and Izzy gets some authoritarian power he's been craving the whole show. Ed is abandoned by Stede and returns to the ship because that's almost a home for him, something familiar and safe to return to. When Izzy's actions and dreams don't work out for him, he threatens and antagonizes Ed once again, who then pushes himself back into that Blackbeard box Izzy approves of. Izzy gets what he wants, and Ed is miserable - he's sobbing and curled up alone in the empty cabin of Stede's (stolen) ship. That doesn't scream "happily married" to me…

Following the Ed & Izzy + Stede & Mary parallel line - wouldn't that then mean at some point Izzy and Ed would have a near death conflict or another kind of conflict that then leads to some kind of emotional talk which then leads to a final separation and finding happiness elsewhere? Ed found happiness with Stede, before the final episode. When Stede comes back in season 2 (maybe even a potential 3rd) and they both work on reconciliation, they will find it again. Izzy is not a supporter of their happiness and love - so what will happen with him? If people want to follow the Stede + Mary parallel with Ed and Izzy…then most likely he will leave for good or have to make some major changes. 

Also, just because a quote by Jenkins says Izzy feels and acts like a "jilted spouse" doesn't mean he actually is one. If you want to keep using that quote he also says right before it that Izzy is “in love with Blackbeard” (notice how it specifically does not say Ed, just Blackbeard) and that it’s a “dysfunctional kind of love”. (Not that it’s healthy or mutual or anything else considered positive) [https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/15/23024365/our-flag-means-death-david-jenkins-interview] It's also something said plainly/without subtext outside of canon in an interview and the tv show itself doesn't show that kind of relationship between them at any point. The only marriage in the show that we do see was also terrible for both people involved, and again if you follow the argument of it being parallel, that doesn't seem to be a good sign for Ed and Izzy. Jenkins also made this show or had the idea for it because of Blackbeard and the Gentleman Pirate, Ed and Stede, and his personal story of their love. 

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

man. racism in fandom is one of those things that brings to mind that tumblr post about realizing there's a spot on the wallpaper and peeling it back to reveal black mold has taken over the entire house.

i was trying to draft a post about the hypocrisy of people insisting that people don't draw wolfwood brown enough, heavy implication that any fanart compliant to his stampede design [and sometimes his older designs, which are not as dark as his fandom design would imply] (including that which portrays him as east asian, which is probably how he was designed and how many east asian artists draw him, but i digress, the colorism thing is a Different Post) is Doing Something Wrong TM and should be treated as such, when "wolfwood must be This Brown, This Hot, This Buff, This Racialized to pass" is a significant contributor to the whole "vashwood, but wolfwood is a sex god papi with massive honkers and an even bigger dick, and vash is a 150 year old blushing virgin whose delicate flower has never been touched by a man" stereotype bullshit, because of how certain fandomgoers especially in slash fandom view brown men.

and then i realized that "the shift in wolfwood's characterization in fanwork [and the corollary effect on vash as his designated white boyfriend] has direct correlation to him being fanon-redesigned into a much more racialized and darker-skinned character than in any iteration" is like. SO many layers deep in the analysis of fandom politics and requires SO much awareness and acceptance of the genuinely fucked up patterns of slash fandom and online fandom in general.

...and most people who are Being Mad On Twitter To Indicate Their Moral Values do not get that far. most people see the spot on the wallpaper and get really mad about the spot, because if they acknowledged the black mold, they wouldn't get to continue to live in The House That Fandom Built without knowing something's wrong with it anymore.

[goldenlandfiascos]

i've been thinking more and more lately about how i wonder if Natsuhi's actually a little bit autistic coded. probably not intentionally, but it definitely seems like she could be in a lot of ways. Maria's the more obvious example, but Natsuhi fits as well.

she has a hard time getting certain jokes & picking up on some social cues (like in EP1 with Battler trying to laugh about just eating all the time). she's very particular & gets really upset when things don't go according to plan, like with breakfast being delayed or whatever.

ep5 i think i remember her getting really frustrated and talking to herself like "why are there so many irregularities this year!?" She runs to her room a lot when overwhelmed to calm down where it's quiet and she can be alone.

on a more extreme example, during the cliff incident, i think i remember her talking about how "the baby's crying was so loud" or something, which on top of her already not being in a good state of mind at all during that part of her life, it definitely could be she got a bit of sensory overload from that. (insert obligatory comment here about how i'm not excusing her actions in doing it in the first place,,,)

i don't remember if she plays with her fingers or anything for stimming, but i did point out a little while back how in EP1 manga she does hold her arm a lot, like she's trying to find comfort with it. It's definitely just a nice little, subtle detail worth paying attention to.

Also worth noting is how her bio specifically mentions how the other adults "don’t understand her very well"

It just all seems very autistic coded to me even if it wasn't intentional (like with her also being very lesbian coded dfkjvnfdkj). Neurodivergent for sure if not specifically autistic.

also someone else pointed out to me how her various outbursts could also be a sign and very much fit the "autistic meltdown" idea. also she's really set to routine. it's just the more i think about it, the more it really makes sense, and i love her 💜

she doesn't really have a special interest, but even then, she's really obsessed with being a proper wife and the family crest and all that 😔

[gaylorarchive]

[navree]

Speaking of targ/dany fans being crazy their currentely harassing a chinese author (xiran jay zhao) who met grrm for committing the heinous crime of loving dany but being anti monarchy??

Oh I have seen that, I love Xiran as an author and when they were still uploading videos on YouTube I always had a blast (I still rewatch the historical ones, it's a great easy access gateway for anyone who wants to start learning about Chinese historical figures, highly recommend). It's especially weird because even beyond the fact that Xiran never said anything particularly outrageous, it's like they said in one of their Tweets about it: they're the one who was talking to GRRM about these characters and their preference for the story, not randos on Twitter. And again: all Xiran said was that they liked Dany but didn't want her on the throne! That's a fair thing to say! I like Dany but I don't necessarily want her on the throne, because I find Robert's Rebellion and the overthrow of the Targaryens entirely just and righteous and would be disappointed if it got overturned. It'd be one thing to say that Xiran's statement was a bit of a copout given that, at least so far, it doesn't look as if GRRM is gearing up towards dismantling monarchy as a whole by the end of the series (to me, I'm not an ASOIAF theorist so maybe I'm just missing stuff), or that maybe Xiran might wanna rethink reading fantasy since it tends to include monarchies a lot (where's that post about fictional monarchies being interesting because of the impact fucked up families have on fictional geopolitics even tho real monarchies are boring and stupid), which would still be kinda dumb and condescending responses, but this is just ridiculous. Anyone's allowed to have any opinion they want about fictional characters and their rights to fictional chairs, it's insane to get pissy that someone doesn't like your fave just because they happen to be your fave.

It's annoying because again, I like Dany, I like a lot of Targs, I'm not joking when I say shit like "i should be allowed to make the conquest show" I say that because I legit really love these characters and wish I were in the position to be able to craft story around them as well given my fascination for the world around them as well as their own dynamics. But the broader Dany/Targaryen fandom is just so fucking ludicrous. Part of it is part of a larger trend I've noted previously in response to some anons, that fandom has really honed in on this idea that it's not enough to just like something, you need to be in the moral right for liking it, and thus people who don't like it need to be in the moral wrong for being opposed to you and the thing you like. It's fandom as morality and ethics that's really corrupted nearly all fandom spaces as a whole, like that criticism you get about how if you like X fictional character than you must also support the bad actions X fictional characters in your real life. And being in the ASOIAF fandom you really see a lot of that, especially with HOTD providing the first new material the fandom has gotten in a long time, and it's turned a lot of y'all into crazy people.

[aceironwood]

One thing that I personally find annoying when people talk about rwby8′s ending is saying that it’s mean spirited or intended to spite people who got attached to Penny bcs like

Since volume 3, the show has been one that balances tragedy and hope for the future. Terrible things happen to people who you care about. But the message of the show is that you cannot be overwhelmed by that tragedy, no matter how close to home it hits. Penny’s death wasn’t intended to say that you shouldn’t have cared about her-- the point is that you did care about her, just like Ruby and the others did, but sometimes terrible things can happen to the people you love. You just have to keep moving forward and not lose yourself in your own pain

I think that for a lot of people, v3 was seen as less heavy than v8′s ending, and that’s because in v3 you get the immediate follow up to the tragedy of the Fall of Beacon. Arguably a lot more tragic things for the audience happen there, but because we end the volume on a hopeful note with RNJR venturing off to try to get to Mistral, people are less likely to call that ending mean spirited or grim. v8′s ending leaves you with the tragedy for longer, and then that gets exacerbated by the long wait between v8 and 9. 

v8′s ending is an ending that hurts, but it’s not a purposeless one that’s there for shock value. It’s there because it’s going to play into the larger themes of the story, we just haven’t gotten to the payoff yet because of the break between volumes

[chartreuxcatz]

Hey guys, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but to give a genuine and honest critique of a piece of media, you actually have to like. Consume it. And interact with it to an extent to get a feel for the context.

I'm getting tired of seeing people say, "This movie/show/book has bad representation because good representation would include (thing that is explored in the media)."

Guys you can't look at a couple clips on Twitter and think that's all there is.

[lupinus-bicolor]

I hate the argument "it's not that deep" because, most of the time, yes it is!! It's valuable to criticize things that don't appear worthy of criticism and it's valuable to push ourselves to get better and to do better but sometimes. Sometimes you don't need to waste your time arguing about kids shows online.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

people in bad's chat were saying it's a really popular theory..... .and also including the grieving arc as if it was all one post but thats NOTTT my words that's @/kadextra's we just got reposted together ....... im being so dramatic on purpose but this is the weirdest thing that has happened to me fandom-wise and it deserves to be memorialized.