#were intolerant or something

[glitchfang]

i know most ppl are probably just gonna go "well its the video game anime for babies, what did you expect", and theyre right to an extent because the way pokeani is produced, i dont think they really have the luxury to think arcs like this through. and like. otherwise, "glory blaze" is a fantastic episode, along with the next few in the lineup. it is serviceable for what it is.

but liiiiike... it reallyyyyy feels like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too with paul abusing chimchar. like, if the message from paul and ash's rivalry is supposed to be "everyone has a different way of living and that's okay", why did they make paul's abuse of chimchar so intense? if it was just supposed to be strict and not suited for chimchar? why include the scene of paul having all of his pokemon beat up chimchar, and then refuse chimchar medical treatment, and show chimchar as all battered throughout the episode, retraumatize chimchar and then berate it and abandon it to die, and then two episodes later, have an episode all about exploring how deeply traumatized chimchar from all this to the point it has a fucking mental breakdown at being treated kindly and flinches when ash touches it and stuff...... if later, youre gonna go "lol well i mean paul should be allowed to do what he wants..... if you think about it, isnt ash just as bad as him....?"

like im not opposed to having an abuse recovery arc in the anime, and for what its worth, its overall a good arc!! i love these episodes!! theyre well put together for what theyre trying to do in the time period theyre in. and infernape still gets ultimate catharsis later on. paul is still implied to have gotten better after infernape defeats him and he IS proven wrong. theres a point to all this. i am not crying that there is conflict in the "animals fight each other" anime.

but like.... its weird to do that and go "but paul isnt REALLY doing anything wrong, he and ash are just different people and you have to respect that!" and its so weird how they insist on that while also showing that infernape is deeply traumatized from how paul treated it and that paul is cruel to his pokemon. ash capturing it is almost portrayed as a rescue.

oh god. here we go

[kuruna]

AZ was unhealthily attached to Floette in the same way Xan was unhealthily attached to AZ 💔 it just happens to be easier to tell when you're on the receiving end of this behavior vs. when you're the one perpetrating it 😔

[bellamygate]

the thing that gets me abt religious ppl is they'll demand u respect their religion & that religion hating your existence but they won't respect ur right to be like yea my belief says god isn't real so thats a dumb reason for hating other people or ye ok then ur god is homophobic thats kinda shitty they go APESHIT like. it goes both ways? like they can say i hate gay ppl bc of my religion but when a gay person says well i dont respect that religion bc it doesnt respect me its ww3. I'm not walking on eggshells for people who are too quick to condemn me to hell

[wizardnuke]

um personally i think that if your girlfriend is insecure over you being friends with another girl you should run far away really fast. but i may be misreading the situation. i don't think i am though.

[undefeatablesin]

Brings me immense joy to see the Classicvania renaissance happening lately. So much fresh love for the old games, their stories and characters pouring in and despite having moved on to the Souls fandoms myself, I just want to say how glad I am that more people are seeing the beauty of the classic CV games at last ✨️

[ratcandy]

ok i'll shut up soon to go to bed but i had boba milk tea for the first time ever today and man they were not kidding that tastes nothing like tea but tastes a fuckton like milk

[impossible-rat-babies]

the whole. eshka and viago dynamic has its base in teach a very angry 12 year old how to use a knife

[vincentsleftear]

SOS. Been around my family for an entire weekend. Things are getting dire.

[confinesofmy]

everything i needed in the grocery store was on sale. 🥲 well not everything. but like 8 things. and that's a lot of things. and gas was 50¢ cheaper per gallon in the city. and i went to i think the only asian market in the city i hadn't been to yet. and me and my cousin finally had an argument we'd been putting off for 9 months, which was stupid because we're literally so good at arguing with each other. and i made plans with my cousins for my birthday and for the beach, later. maybe it'll all be okay fr.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

God. One of my little sisters is such a bitch. She's done me some genuine damage in exacerbating my already social bad anxiety. But when I have dreams where she's been hurt or killed, it's so horrible bc she's still my lil sister :-(

[bluegarners]

bruce wayne the whole milk drinker is a more disturbing, yet somewhat canony, image than i initially thought

[crimeronan]

i keep drafting posts that are just some iteration of "yessss killing and violence biting killing chomping kill kill kill" and then pausing and being like. kitkat. you have a headache. please go to bed.

[chelleisamazing]

My inner circle of friends is so accepting, that sometimes I forget how homophobic people exist and there's still a lot of them...

[judas-isariot]

"You know, she have determination ! Too bad it's for the wrong thing"

-Judas 14/07/2023

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

At this point like 40% of what i like about the owl house is just shit i made up in my head lmao

[corvidiss]

I put a lot of effort into being a very understanding, considerate person.

Upon meeting me, many therefore assume that I have immediately taken Their Side on all matters (when in fact I have only showed them that I understand their perspective on such matters).

They are then rather surprised when they complain to me about something and I am understanding and considerate about the opposite perspective too.

I'm not sure what to do about this.