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arttrampbelle · 8 months

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Controversial and cringe as it is.

Imma do it.

I'm gonna f/o a disney villain.

But not just any Disney villain.

No imma f/o arguably the darkest,and most greatest Disney villain in the history of Disney villains (again this is entirely based upon preferences and personal opinions. So don't come at me)

Jean-claude frollo.

Yeah you heard me.

This guy

Yup.

Maybe if he got laid,had a wife,he'd stfu and leave my girl esmeralda alone. Maybe he wouldn't be an insufferable prick. Maybe if he got pegged,he'd behave his fuckin self

Oh sorry. I went off. My apologizes.

So yeah i have a Disney villain f/o officially and yeah....so new f/o and self ship to play around with the narrative.

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 11 months

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Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jin guangyao #qin su #The parallels to the mulderskully comic were genuine scripting coincidences that I kept in for the irony.#wwx and mulder both have a strong need to show their beloved (investigation) partner the cool thing they just found.#Much to their chagrin and concern.#For as much of a mess the plot gets in The Untamed...one of the things it does probably the best of all adaptions is setting up JGY.#specifically how we spend time getting to know him as a *Regular Guy* around our deuteragonists' age.#I love how he's present in the cloud recess arc! I was rooting for him as a character! The twist villain reveal felt so heartbreaking!#Here in the audio drama (for as much as it does well) we pretty much get 2 scenes tops with this guy before he's villain monologuing.#before this we know him as 1) the guy NMJ yelled at a lot 2) a suspect 3) leader guy Jin Ling was partially raised by.#The elements are there but but not with any particular depth to make him...interesting (in this version).#Sure we get to learn more after the fact but it just falls so flat in comparison B*/#ohhhh noooo the guy we are pretty sure killed a guy is gaslighting his wife and has a secret torture chamber. And he's a politician.#not much of a mystery to it all innit.#Feel free to disagree or bring up differing points btw; I love media analysis convos and this truly is just my opinion.

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turtleblogatlast · 5 months

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Every day I’m haunted by the fact the boys happily swim in sewer water

Even if it’s filtered somehow there’s no way it’s not still nasty 😭 Bet they can defeat any of their villains just by accidentally giving them diseases I swear

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #bless their hearts but they’re nasty #it’s funny because like #each and every one of them has moments #where they’re a typical disgusting teenage boy #and then the next they have STANDARDS #can’t blame Leo for being so determined to go to a spa #even if he nearly licked his own foot that’s prob cleaner than anything else the boys have been up to in years 💀#thank you shelldon for all your hard work cleaning after then 🙏#they’re all gross teenage boys!!!#even Donnie he is NO exception here #bro was DRINKING A BEVERAGE while wading through sewer water he is just as gross as his bros #bro also talks with his mouth full he is no more refined than his equally gross bros fr and I love it #but yeah no way that water isn’t disgusting even filtering it would still leave grime on the walls of the sewer for yearsss #pros of them moving into an abandoned subway system is fixing their sense of smell enough to not be as gross #100% that’s part of why they didn’t mind being so filthy pre shelldon #because I mean they were literally raised in the sewers and they’re teenage boys like that’s a double whammy #THEY ALSO DONT WEAR SHOES #the few times any of them do the shoes are discarded before heading home 💀#I love them tho they are endearing anyhow #April’s immune system must be godlike just being around them fr #honestly no joke Mikey’s probably the cleanest of them all #just by virtue of being a chef #Leo I see as a mixture since he no doubt loves to pamper himself so he’s clean like #a percentage of time before he goes out and ruins his own hard work #Donnie is similar in that he’s just VERY SELECTIVE about what he thinks is too gross #Raph may be more on the stinky end but it’s not his fault he has his stinks and eats things of dubious origin(esp since his bros ate poison)#Donnie and Leo really have the gall to be sick about Raph eating the origami salami but they have no room to talk #all their villains are prob like please stay away from us we have salmonella now

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wacky-wonders · 10 months

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fnaf fandom learn how to not be misogynistic

#fnaf fandom continues to piss me off #ppl will say how much they love mike and how he's done nothing wrong then turn around and violently hate on vanessa #and calling her the villain... like did we even watch the same movie here #im just so tired.....#[had to redo my tags i misspelled smth whoops]

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worstloki · 11 months

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Isekai where Darcy/Jane hit Thor with their van and Thor wakes up as a precious princess character of some fairytale world. Things progress as they tend to in isekai with some poor romantic interest villain character inadvertently ending up around him. Thor wants to get out of this world so bad and is subtly trying to drop hints for the villain guy to spill info on how to dimension hop. It soon becomes evident that Loki was also isekai’d and is stuck as the story’s villain.

#Thor: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I AM A NOBLE’S DAUGHTER THIS IS A DOWNGRADE I AM A MIGHTY WARRIOR—ooo I have a personal serving maid >.>#Thor goes for a walk in a forest or something gets lost trips on some thorns and is bleeding and lost bumps into the typical isekai villain #Thor hearing the guy’s name after some maids were earlier talking about how this guy keeps trying to ‘snatch her away’ or something #Thor like OH NO. NO. NU UH. and misreading every single attempt of the guy to help him #the guy is actually Loki and has no knowledge of this history #Thor keeps thinking this is the plot of some twisted dimension trying to give him a love interest #Thor eventually saying something that gives him away and Loki just stares at him like ‘......THOR??’#thor sobbing like how come you get to keep your magic and be a guy and Loki is like I am the BAD GUY. everyone here HATES ME.#Thor: at least you have your dignity T-T #Loki: I tried going to the local market to ask around for info and random people threw rotten vegetables at me -_-#also this is Thor1core so Thor has to get less arrogant through this and Loki has to spill how he feels about the adopted lied to things #they have to make up before figuring out a way to go home #Thor like so you still have magic right so we can go home???? and Loki is like. no. this isn’t my magic. and I don’t know how this happened

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themyscirah · 6 months

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Suffering more than Jesus atm (being a fan of 80s/90s Suicide squad in 2024)

#god amanda waller what did they do to you....#i KNOW i never shut up about this but GUYS ITS SO BAD #fucking WHY would you take the interesting antihero protagonist and then strip her of any redeeming quality and use her as this horrific #unforgivable villain who is treated as a hated antagonist in her own comics #WHERE SHE ISNT EVEN THE MAIN CHARACTER MOST OF THE TIME #like why are you trying to make me sympathize with fucking harley quinn or smth when the actual main character is right there. why are we #turning her into this horrific villain w a million master plans making deals with the devil and shit.#we are supposed to like her. like maybe not all dc fans do because shes almost always an antagonist in other books but in her own shes the #main character!!! there should be some aspect of interest or sympathy for her. as opposed to just making her like badass or whatever #so sick of this #and its in freaking EVERYTHING right now on god i cant read other comics that are otherwise good (like ga) and enjoy them without the #obligatory intense demonification of one of my fave characters #like shes my no 6 in locg for a reason i genuinely love waller like yeah she sucks sometimes but shes INTERESTING.#this is not interesting or creative in any way what theyre doing with her #this genuinely could have been any government baddie like honestly #dont flatten 3 dimensional characters into 1 dimension (or at best like 1.5) to tell a story you tell the story around the 3d characters.#why do i need to say this. basic competent storytime #blah #amanda waller #istg i throw out another waller rant every freaking tuesday on here #suicide squad #you know what. at least we had the movie #you heard me. higher hopes for the new gunn dceu series than actual comics for the forseeable future #viola davis save me...#need to do a bit of 00s reading still to verify but on god watch this all come down to a fucking new 52 thing. like not to say that i think #thats where it all went wrong bc i need to read more to verify but i have an idea of what rlly did it and i think it was a nu52 decision #but then again maybe im stupid

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wren-likethe-bird · 1 month

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wren rambles about the borderlands movie in tags

#so I went to the movie assuming it would be nothing like the games and be super shitty in general #I’ll preface with the statement that I’m generally pretty easy to please when it comes to movies #I go with the intention of enjoying myself and usually end up doing that #but my expectations were really low here #I genuinely really enjoyed this movie #some of the characterization fell short of the games but I expected that #the plot definitely deviates from the games #assuming this is meant to be Borderlands 1 timeline #but I liked how it came together #I found that the character differences made it easier to see this as its own story and not trying and failing to keep to the canon #the villain was eh but that’s because it wasn’t handsome Jack #frankly I find the first game very eh to begin with and this was certainly more interesting than that #as for the stuff I liked a lot #the cgi man #the settings and the creatures and the little details #really made it for me #I loved how the movie nods to things that it doesn’t need to for the story but did it anyway for the atmosphere and for the fans #the skags and the raak and the threshers were so cool #and just treated as part of the world and not something that even needed a ton of emphasis #like oh yeah watch out there’s threshers around here #the stickers on Marcus’ bus and the posters and graffiti did so much to build the world and atmosphere #I feel like it really matched the Borderlands tone of not taking itself seriously #and the world felt fleshed out rather than something we were being introduced to for the first time #overall I really liked it and will seek it out to watch more when it’s available #oh and claptrap wasn’t too gratuitous so that was nice #all his humour was really in character and not just showing off that they got Jack black to voice him #shit wren says #wren rambles #borderlands #borderlands movie

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bylertruther · 2 years

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i wish some villain enjoyers could just be regular about liking villains. a character can be tragic, incorrigible, piteous, and abominable all at the same time. i mean, a majority of the time, it's that exact mind-boggling dichotomy that makes them so alluring! reducing them to a dull "uwu abused little neurodivergent minor babyman who isn't actually evil 🥺" is just... so boring, and tame, and not what that fictional cunt in question would want you to do lol.

there's nothing inherently wrong with exploring evil and morality through fiction—it's the same as exploring any other topic or theme. liking cersei, the joker, azula, hannibal lecter, chucky, and so on and so forth doesn't mean you're going to go out and commit war crimes or kill people lol. just like liking spider-man, eleven, jessica day, or finn the human doesn't mean you're going to protect the elderly from getting mugged or save the world.

like... all i'm saying is at least do it with your chest like everyone else does with heroes. you don't gotta close your eyes and pretend that the genuine evil these characters have committed doesn't exist because all of a sudden that goes against your sorry bastardization of them. i promise you that no one is going to come into your room and punch you in the tit for daring to acknowledge the entirety of this character you claim to love and their purpose within the narrative.

just.. why gun for a villain if you're not gonna love, accept, or even look at their villainy? what's the point? where's the fucking pizzazz? isn't the whole point of a villain that they do villainous things, at least in the eyes of the heroes? the horror isn't a bug, it's a feature. it's... literally the entire fucking point lmao and you're missing it entirely. talk about cringe!

#like. i LOVE villains. it's their evil tht attracts me bc i just can't wrap my mind around it.#i LOVE when villains are evil and cunty and despicable. without them we have no way to measure goodness and kindness and love.#stop the uwufication and crank up the cuntification i say #like i jsut. WHAT IS THE POINT IF YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS PURPOSEFUL EVIL IN THE FACE AND SAY NO #THAT'S ... THAT IS LITERALLY THEIR ROLE IN THIS STORY...? THIS IS THEIR FATE THIS IS THEIR PURPOSE THEIR DESTINY.#standing outside the gates of Everything with my sword dressed in my pjs breathing heavily looking positively Feral warding off the weak #my opinions on anything fandom related ever is just Say It With Your Chest. put ur pussy into it or go home like why are u even here #if not 2 be insane? 🤨 stranger things especially already has so many uwu babies like #we finally have true evil and we can't even have that bro im 😭#mine

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puzzledemigod · 2 years

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Ok so at the beginning of the movie Pinocchio is kinda scary right? His limbs are too long and he's not wearing clothes and he's half unfinished and the way he moves his face is unsettling (you're used to the mechanical movement of the other humans at that point so the use of replacement to show the emotions leaves a wooden, static effect on his features at all times). He keeps repeating phrases and speaks too loudly and doesn't read the room and doesn't feel pain. It would be threatening or mocking if it was on purpose, and even it not being was at least a bit cringy. It's very much Geppetto's point of view: you tried to bring your son back but he came back wrong and now he's destroying whatever life you had left

And then the movie goes on and Pinocchio doesn't really change; he understands better, he starts to listen to those around him and to see what people need, but he's still gangly and awkward and loud, he still breaks things and doesn't show emotion the way other people do, is still undeniably other.

But he shows he was absorbing everything Sebastian told him; he payed attention to others who were, like him, exploited for being weak. He comforted, protected, saved, risked himself for his father, who seemingly rejected him. For the kid who bullied him. For the monkey who was the reason he was enslaved. We don't know if he was empathetic to these people but he had such a strong concept of justice and of fairness, he was so pure of all the hate being spat in the society he was born in, that he stood against it without a second thought.

And at that point I realised, without him having anything physically changed about him to make him more relatable, that I stopped seeing him as other, as weird, as menacing. He had the same energy and emotions but by then he was just another kid, he was a cute and sweet boy who I'd do anything to protect, who was in danger

And he didn't have to change a thing about himself!! It's us and Geppetto and Cricket and Candlewick and Spazzatura and the world around him who have to come around and accept him. And we do, eventually, and I think that was so beautiful

#guillermo del toro #i love that we're included in the story like that. he wasn't a cutesy child that the villains in the story viewed absurdly as an object #he actually looked like an object. but we STILL come around to him #pinocchio #so often we get a transformation even if subtle to change how we view these characters #softer features or clothes or something to humaise them #in this movie we arguably get the opposite: he has charred limbs and scratches and a decidedly not human body #he breaks his nose off without a second thought and losing his hand isn't a threat in any way except in hindering his swimming #but that whole scene broke my heart #i didn't even realise when i stopped seeing him as puppet #even while he still acted as one in volpo's show he morphed into a child in my head #anyways idk how to say this properly #it's just... in other pinocchio adaptations he basically starts off as a boy already he just has to catch up on the details to be allowed #that title. and here he theoretically already has a boy's soul but has to be accepted as his own person by others #he has nothing to prove he doesn't even see the sprite! it's cricket's job to advise him and geppetto has to come around and candlewick #consider him a friend instead of an object etc etc he is already himself #ANYWAYS

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v-arbellanaris · 2 years

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i think the problem (?) is that the only kind of (fictional?) love that interests me is the kind of love that changes the world. the kind of love that derails the narrative, the kind of love that changes everything -- not necessarily by how special or unique the love is but by the very mundanity of it. the love that grows, not in spite of the barren lovelessness of Before, but out of it. i think that's why I'm always so invested in ships that are two people diametrically opposed to each other, or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, or two people on separate sides of the morality issue coin, because i love it when love... not that it changes a person but it allows the person to Become. the space, the grace, to change. to love the monster, to love the unlovable and the intolerable, is to make it something other than a monster, than unlovable, than intolerable. i love it when being loved at your worst, ugliest, most horrible self is what makes you want to be someone worth loving. like is this ANYTHING to anyone or

#sorry im not here but im thinkin abt fic things and im really just! having some Emotions about things #idk? i see a lot of aspects of myself in villains. whoever you consider a villain. and i think there's a tendency in fandom #that I've noticed for like... years. where when these issues are portrayed in Good People it's always framed in an acceptable way #if they're angry it's never in a way that really hurts anyone - or everyone Just Knows they're going through shit #if they're depressed it's always the sad pathetic kind that makes people want to coddle you and not the kind that made me isolate and #unpleasant to be around #the urge/inclination towards violence to people who did wrong to me is a villainous act #trauma only ever affects Villains in a bad way. and their trauma MAKES them Bad and Evil people who should only ever just die to fix all #the damage they did to people. and idk man! don't you think that's kind of fucked up? don't you think that it's so fucked up to see yoursel #and the ugliness of your trauma and how it impacts you only ever represented by villains. and then the solution is ''they should just die''#and in the rare moments those villains DO get redemption arcs or a second chance or whatever there's a large n frankly horrific portion #of fandom going i want this person dead or (other violent gruesome violating thing) because they're awful and horrible and their very #existence is unforgivable. i think they should die #and it's like i get it. i also get tired of having to see this message constantly blasted into my brain 24/7?#''why do you ship x with x--'' god i dont fucking know #maybe i want to believe we can get better. that people can change.#maybe i want to believe there's no end point where i have to weigh up the damage ive done to people vs the benefits ive brought and decide #i should die. maybe i want to believe that people are inherently good and want to do good and have the capacity for good!!#that we can do better if only someone believed we could!!#maybe i want to believe we're all worthy of love. of someone who will believe in us. who sees something good in us even when we're at our #worst & most unlovable. maybe i want to believe we can still BE loved after all that! idk leave me alone!!#tbd #i added the image bc its how im feelin rn

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t-u-i-t-c · 1 year

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chapter xlvii

#kr saber lb #kr lb #umbrella.thoughts #umbrella.posts #the way kento was taking care of the store for touma...#the way he ran so fast to hug him when he returned #the way he was all smiles as soon as touma reached him #but of course he has to be wearing those pants just can't let them go can they #i think storious was wrapped up well i mean he saw them create a new story which was what he needed to get clarity #every megid death ended with them seeing what they wanted before passing on #once they pass on they seem to lose the immense anger they had so it seems that they were all distorted by the books power and they're #really a bit more level-headed now #i like that we get to see storious recall sharing his work with people and that it had meant something to him to though i still feel #he got buried in his despair and lost sight of how stories affect others and his relationships with others and not just him personally #it may have been a little fast but i've seen a lot of final villains and i really like storious' story #also just love everyone i don't think there was any character i really disliked throughout #with reika she made me mad but she was supposed to and she came around although it took a bit #i like her and i like how committed she is to her duty and i love her fight scenes #daishinji ryo and sophia felt like elders so i don't mind them not developing too much bc they feel like they have already grown into #the people that they are meant to be although they do develop a bit more here and there #yuri felt more like a guide for touma and i think he fit his role well while also evolving past his outdated ideas of what a swordsman is #ryoga was not developed too much but with the elders he felt like he knew who he was but for him there was development more in his #willingness to listen and work with others while also dealing with the issues of the guild and looking out for reika #he may not be very open but he has his own strong convictions and he is slowly starting to open up but just starting #rintaro and mei had a lot of good development though i do feel rintaro's stuff came across a bit much at times but in the end he became #a character who chooses to believe in himself and not run away while also protecting those around him when he used to stick to the rules #completely though he still does follow rules he does more of what is right than what is allowed #mei was an observer most of the time although she was also entrusted with tools that were important for the storyline such as the book #i love characters who don't transform and offer support when needed #mei was always expressing belief in the swordsman and offered a lot of help to them

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munamania · 11 months

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something that makes me feel guilty is the fact that seeing that persons face rn literally makes me angry. they walked into class and i nearly winced. and in all fairness they were quite kind to me. outside of the several kind of odd red flags. girl whatever. to be quite frank i am a horny bastard and vocal proud etc but few people interest me enough to actually want to hang out with and get to know And i have deep seated intimacy issues so it's like. we really dont have a shot unless the circumstances r exactly right on a full moon perfect thursday of a month etc like. well and tbh i probably would have fucked around with this person but i dont... care... about some big relationship w them.. and i know i could be a relationship girl like eventually i have it in me to have a muse that's what im built for i think idc but not rn... rn i need to hang out with my friends and do my film stuff and have people that maybe wanna make out sometimes is that so much to ask for. for a lesbian at a bar to want to make out perhaps. ** for there to be lesbians at the bars to potentially make out with.

#and i am quite lonely yes thank u for asking. yeah someday id love to get to know someone again in the context of falling in love #what about it. so what now. i dont think im meant for our understanding of romantic love but boy do i crave it #why am i having this moment rn. well ok consider im on my period all i could think about this morning was [redacted] and both parties #of my dyke drama were back in class today. and the one gay person that i think has a crush on me but we dont see each other super often #so im just. guessing based on the way awkward lesbians communicate. idk #and i feel really just mean but i quite literally dont have it in me to pretend to be nice to this person anymore #i wasnt like. some villain for realizing we were acting really coupley and being like oh shit because i didnt want to hurt them #. and trying to communicate and put some distance between us when i thought they were probably in too deep. it's unfortch it took me a sec #but jesus christ yk i cant walk around and feel awkward about it forever. and im frustrated by the fact that we're just acting so odd #but again frankly i think it's largely bc they have an unhealthy relationship with dating. THROWING HORIZONTAL PUNCHES HERE.#OK. STONES FROM A GLASS HOUSE. IM AWARE. REAL RECOGNIZES REAL.#and YET. despite my past insanity. ive been kind. i can understand disappointment and a little awkwardness #but jesus would you rather i pretend to be in love with you for months and then really break your heart.#this is where i get mean and make a joke like well hey if we couldve had weird really mediocre sad angry dyke sex abt it #that would have been cool with me. but alas. we're here instead and it's fucking with my friendships too #and like we were kind of ok friends too. what now. its just u me and this brick wall u built between us bitch #now was EYE not answering texts for a minute. we dont need to get into it.#because the thing IS if i dont play things exactly right. and im not good at that without prior planning. i will accidentally say or do #something that i know. again. from being insane myself. would be just enough for them to hold onto hope #and im not trying to do that to them you know. i was trying to help with the detachment. shitty as it may be. i dont fucking know dude #this post is going to make me look kind of. well. whatever u guys have seen me at my worst. mostly. and post #ok one last thing sorry if this makes me sound like i have a giant ego. like wow heres this person who really liked me and im just shitting #all over them. not what im meaning to do but whatever

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batbabydaily · 1 year

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detective comics #49: clayface walks again

#dickie my boy i thought we had moved past villains sneaking up behind you & knocking you out!#i love that their plan was to just split up & walk around aimlessly. these guys are just here for a good time not a long time #detective comics 49 #dick grayson #robin #basil karlo #clayface #golden age batman

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vaugarde · 1 year

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team rocket went from being a nice simple way of extending episodes to a 22 minute runtime to characters that just unnecessarily bloat and derail the episode as of xy tbh

#sm jn era where they show more restraint w them please. please. please. youre nothing #ik i keep complaining abt them but they are literally insufferable in this arc theyre not even funny villains anymore #bc now theyre apparently respected and need to be more serious for that to make sense #it’s literally the issue i had with them in bw (them not being funny) combined w them being crammed into every episode #and again w xy its even more offensive bc its no longer a requirement to have em in each episode #and they dont. but now theres like 3 villains in xyz to juggle #and they STILL have to be crammed into the conflict bc…. its team rocket and people love them #which like i get i love them too but its at the point i literally groan when i hear their theme now #go away!!! just let there be a natural conflict between the characters!!#let team flare just be villains on their own!! let one off threats like the ninja gang just take over for a bit!!#like i actually cant wrap my head around why theyre here at ALL besides ‘’uhhhhhh we like them so they have to be there’’#echoed voice #pokeani lb

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butchlifeguard · 1 month

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primrose's ch3 is GOOD btw

#fucking simeon bro.......#i cant yap too hard without doing spoilers so heres another tag to fill space lalalala #ot1 spoilers #octopath spoilers #ANYWAYYY it starts with primrose coming back to her hometown which is already pretty strong #seeing a guy Fucking dying which is a great way to establish the harm done by the obsidian people and establish their power #.because if they didnt have a great amount of political power simeons entire motivation would fall through #but in the flashbacks he was sooo fucking good the writing (+ eng translation) did a good job of creating a gray area #between 'nice guy who is also courteous because primrose is a noble' and 'creep who might have a slightly overbearing crush on this kid'#bc shes like. 8 right ? and hes old enough to work as a gardener w/o his parents also being in service of the azelharts #so probably 17 at least?#ok um. i just looked up his age on the wiki and i dont know what the fuck is going on there #i didnt spoil myself but why is he 126.#anyway i actually feel like thats worse 💀#and then his breakdown calling himself primroses one true love..#shes so good i love the contrast between everyonee calling her beautiful + whatever the fuck helgenish and simeon were doing #and her showing no romantic interest in anyone. romance repulsed icon tbh #3 people this chapter were like 'lady primrose you have grown so beautiful since we last saw you' and shes like 😐#coming back around to simeons twist villain shit they went OFF reinforcing primroses performer theme #'the crowd gasps' etc etc. DAMN BRO #a lot of her story is theatrical drama coded ime. like with the ending narration saying 'tragic or happy ending'#she does seem like a dark take on a princess archetype which is cool #anyway the actual use of the game is good here too #the dark screen after she gets knocked out with the perfectly timed music??#and the flashbacks and the use of the titles on peoples speech bubbles #because the shift from 'simeon' to 'simeon the puppet master' kind kf made me lose it a little bit #RIGHT BEFORE the flashback where hes just 'gardener' ? yeah thats a banger #overall this is fairly simple good storytelling but it all comes together along w the actual game mechanics to make one of my...#... favorite chapters so far. plus im really excited for her ch4 now.

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ktempestbradford · 7 months

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I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

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