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Okay so long story short I think people get too caught up on him being all, disgusting and violent and edgy, while totally disregarding like, the motif behind it, so the image of Remus they have in their mind is just a chaotic "lol random" asshole
For example by focusing more on what he's saying instead of why He does say a lot of random shit, true, but he says it with intent, whether it's to bring awareness to how bad Thomas's mental health is, or to rile Logan up and make him confront his feeling, or challenge Thomas's black and white thinking, and I feel like ppl gloss over that too often for my taste
This is some of y'all with Remus
#logan rambles#there's pbby more to say abt it but#thinking hard#but tl;dr it was brought up by a post I saw#which basically boiled down to#“well intrusive thoughts are horrible. so remus is too” while saying he would be bigoted#ts remus#discourse
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the more i look at it the more i realize human domestication guide stuff is really just "what if a species of benevolent but *extremely* patronizing aliens doms invaded, and their master plan was (in equal measure) cherishing and infantilizing autistic trans girls with problematic kinks (who love it)"
and wouldn't you know it, turns out i'm in the target demo
#read one fic written by autistic trans author which basically boiled down to:#“hey. we know you're really trying hard to be 'high functioning'. everyone sees it. you did good. how about you rest now and we take over?”#except. you know. kinky plant aliens imposing this on her cuz she had internalized capitalist and ableist shit and thought she had to just#keep burning herself out because that was what was expected of her. cuz other people could handle it even if she couldn't. so here comes th#kinky plant alien dom to gently force being loved and supported and cared for (and fucked by kinky plant alien doms) down your throat.#and after reading that i had a literal “ohh. i get it.” moment
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Let me assign you an affection language.
A Knife Called Grief You have left your house, you have left those people behind, but what are you going to do about the memories which have taken root in you? You can run but not without them. You want someone to sit with you on this cool marble floor while the sun burns everything.You want them to cut your rotten heart and theirs too. You want to sit with it in front of you, let them see you with all your flaws, which haven’t been your fault but you have been made to believe so, and you want them to love you anyways. Because you know you’d do that for them.
[yoinked from iobartach]
#[inch resting]#ooc#dash game#[reminds me of a post I saw about Miguel's infidelity-- I can't find it anymore but basically it boiled down to#his betrayal of Gabriel and Xina being a sort of betrayal of himself. Now the OP was also trying to make sense of the comic's writing as it#also mischaracterized Xina (per their words)‚ but since Miguel knew Xina since they were young and she protected him from bullies‚ and#Miguel grew up shielding Gabriel from their parents‚ his betrayal and subsequent estrangement from them for someone new‚ someone his brothe#loved‚ and also apparently supported Alchemax whereas Xina was much quicker to criticize it‚ can be seen as Miguel trying to shove down the#vulnerable‚ hurt‚ HUMAN side of himself to make way for the idealized version he tries to protect as a corpo snob.#Which is an interesting viewpoint considering post-forcible-genome-splicing‚ comics!Miguel was also desperate to prove his humanity. He see#himself as an abomination‚ a freak. So how do we reconcile this with movie!Miguel‚ who we admittedly don't know much of his mental state#other than he is basically having The Worst Fucking Day Of His Life Constantly due to grief and leading hundreds of Peter Parkers?#I guess in my own characterization‚ Miguel is trying desperately to shut down that vulnerability‚ BE the inhuman juggernaut‚ the leader‚#but at the same time time‚ esp post-BTSV‚ is so ridden by his mistakes and sins and endless list of shortcomings‚ ALONG WITH the grief for#his daughter that he doesn't seem keen to heal from‚ that he's simultaneously trying to REconnect with that. Figure out what and who he is#outside of work‚ outside of Canon Events‚ outside of everything that Miles took and shook upside down. But that's difficult when#you're so determined to shut that down too‚ huh? Spider-Man can't do both. Not this time. Miguel is going to have to learn one day that he#needs to allow himself to FEEL human instead of constantly shutting it down or drowning it out. Maybe then he'll BE human again too.]#[🍻 if you read this far; I fear this was largely incoherent]
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I need to not think too deeply about how camp jupiter/new rome could function at all based on the roman republic/roman empire because by all accounts. It shouldn't function at all
#it's about the intricate laws around social etiquette which basically boils down to corruption and nepotism#it's integral for rome to ever exist at all i tell you#and i knooow it's not that deep but agh. it's about contexts
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I think Viewing Monika as some Kind of evil Mastermind does her character a huge disservice for multiple reasons but also Just cause it ascribes her a Level of competence she simply does Not display
#like i just watched a video essay critizising ddlc#and they had a ton of complaints about the plot most of which boil down to greatly overestimating how powerful monika is#like no she is not in fact a god of her world who created the game she is just another character#forced to deal with the fact she was given self awareness#monika not having a route isn't her own fault for not simply writing one for herself#she actually tries to do that#in act two monica isn't keeping up the charade of this being a normal functional visual novel for shits and giggles#but because she's kinda trying her best to keep it together#and iirc she didn't stop with that cause she got fed up but cause she broke most of the rest of the game#and saying she goes from 'basically hitler' to contrite is just not fair to her#she was a teenager who got forced to deal with her reality being fake and then given one 'real' thing to cling to#and a power she didn't really know how to use properly that could change it#sorry that just kinda annoyed me#idk man#ddlc#doki doki literature club#monika ddlc
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some elaboration on Pokemon AU, toying with ghost’s design a lil and tossing in some extra designs (now with lore!)
as you can see, the vessels are fucked up little ghost-types. probably not the most fucked up ghost-type pokedex entries out there, tho.
#hollow knight#hollow knight gijinka#hk gijinka#hk#hk ghost#the knight hk#shade lord#the hollow knight#thk#pokemon#phantump#honedge#lampent#trevenant#fanart#doodle#someone actually kinda picked up on the implications of ghost's shade being a phantump while ghost is still walking around! a little bit!#so yeah the undead kid wandering around is arguably not the same person as the phantump who used to own that body#or maybe they are! i have very complex thoughts on the nature of identity in just this sort of situation#which basically boils down to 'do they remember being this person'#and ghost sure isn't answering that question. so i guess we'll never know.#anyway this is one-part pokemon au three-parts an excuse to come up with new different gijinka designs. but not too different.#and you CAN'T stop me#hk pkmn au
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Zane... Ooooooooh boy...
I really really like the Wyldfyre shorts, they're a great way to explore Wyldfyre's grief without having to dedicate screentime from the main show.
At the same time, excuse me Wyldfyre, what did you just say he told you?
I am annoyed more so at the writers and not the character, tho his character is a close second.
The ONLY good thing about his character from Crystalized just got thrown out and into the garbage for... No reason?
And this isn't like, Wyldfyre being an unreliable narrator, because she's literally quoting him, even if it's in condensding manner, and you can't tell me Zane doesn't know the difference between Humans and Nindroids... Like- ugh...
I'm just upset, S1 of DR had his character pretty well I'd say, but S2 has just NOT BEEN IT in the slightest, they seen to be doubling down repeatedly on his robot self and not his human self, and I'm sorry but there's not even any comparison between the two when it comes to which one I like more...
Zane's whole thing was that he was a very very VERY human machine, a person even, and it seemed like he could function as a machine while still maintaining his humanity and personality.
Now, with what we've had since SotFS and now this line, it feels like that balance has completely gone out of whack, it feels like he's favouring his robot self over his human one, and there's nothing inherently wrong that.
Unless... You repeatedly literally don't do anything with his character and just keep building up on the fact that he's "Silly nice robot man :p", and especially when you use his 'Cardboard Cutout' character during the Wildbrain Era as a sort of justification for his current character state.
Mind you, that Cardboard Cutout didn't go through a single character arc up until Crystalized to justify making him feel so much more robotic, and it's hella infuriating when you remember they TRIED to give him an arc after SotFS (Tommy said that they previously wanted to have a Zane PTSD/Depression arc for Prime Empire that was scrapped).
If you can't tell, I'm not happy with his current currently in the slightest...
#zane julien#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising spoilers#ninjago dragons rising#Sorta vent post...?#If you're wondering where I got that line about them trying to justify his current character using his WB era character#It's from a doc tweet#It was a reply to a question iirc#His answer basically boiled down to something along the lines of 'Why wouldn't Zane be accepting of his robot self?'#Which#I don't think Zane ever denied his nindroid self to begin with#Or has tried to not embrace it#There's a difference between 'accepting you're different from everyone' and 'denying one of your halves'#HECK THAT'S WHAT NINDROIDS ARE ALL ABOUT!#THEY'RE HUMAN MACHINES!#When you 'embrace your robot self' so much to the point that in universe the public starts setting false offensive stereotypes for you#And irl people start being really upset with your character#You've done something very VERY wrong#That's not embracing who you are#That's favouring one side of yourself#If the writers wanna say that he's starting to embrace his robot self more so now#Then I'll say they've completely neglected his human self and did the exact opposite of what they set out to do#Zane was 'More human then robot'#But in their attempt to fix it they've literally just broken it and did the exact oppiste of that statement#'More robot then human'#It's an issue that frankly#From my own POV#Shouldn't have even been 'fixed'#Because frankly it was never an issue#If it ain't broke don't fix it
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getting over my fear of drawing robots by doing my own designs for the '86 Transformers movie cast
here's Hot Rod and Arcee to start!
#my art#maccadam#tf reconstruction#transformers#hot rod#rodimus prime#arcee#i think next is gonna be magnus and kup and then springer and blurr#then wheelie and grimlock (doing them in pairs for funsies)#anyway. these two are t4t and butch4butch#i have Thoughts about transness in this au as well which basically boil down to idw's take but also with my own sprinkles on top#idk if i'll make a post about it but. ehh
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I don't hate my job or anything, but man, being a float educator is so fucking thankless
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I have some thoughts about why some of veilguard’s writing is the way it is and it comes down to development hell and corporate meddling which is perhaps too generous for some problems but also feels right for a Lot of the things I think
Thoughts in the tags
#veilguard critical#basically it boils down to two ideas#1- this game is the stitched together scraps of an mmo#and 2- ea really wanted this to be mass effect with a dragon age skin#thoughts for 1 - the simplified and repetitive writing just fits better for a game#that has you spending hours grinding with your friends#learning lots of vocab and worldbuilding doesn’t make the gameplay loop fun for gamers you’re trying to pull from other live services#that game would not have been for da fans but for trying to grab literally anyone playing a live service#so you get lots of reminders about what things are and why they matter#with little depth because the game doesn’t need that for the main loop to work#also ea doesn’t value the writing team so there’s that#for 2 - this game is very much taking its plot beats from me2 and to an extent me3#which i actually like to an extent#but the collectors/reapers don’t have the same goals as solas#so just transferring that plot doesn’t actually work#it does for elgy and ghilly but not solas#also uh the darkspawn are the me3 reapers#I can’t unsee it#they’re just red instead of blue#ea doesn’t like or know what to do with dragon age#so they push making it a medieval mass effect because they know mass effect does well#hence the plot the mobs and to an extent the dialogue#anyway this game feels like three different ones had to get stitched together with fabric glue#just good enough to run a red carpet and not fall apart#and yeah it looks cool and it’s fun to wear#but if you start picking at the seams it’s gonna come apart#I love this game for what it is#but I also mourn what it might have been if they’d been allowed to make a single player dragon age game without meddling#bioware as a studio has its issues#but a lot of this feels like Corporate Nonsense issues
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i am become connor roy, lamentor of broken families
#speak friend and enter#did you guys know? the thing about having a family that doesn't love you is you learn to live without it. 👆🔥💯#im having a dilemma but as i am loath to talk about my family im not gonna explain. revel in the mystery of your favorite blogger's life#but basically it boils down to whether or not i want to keep up appearances or like. do a total break and go no contact across the board#which is extremely tempting i cannot lie. it would hurt for sure but. well. the poison drips through just like kendall said
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not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall
#my quest to find agreeable creators on booktok and booktube leaves me v frustrated sometimes#!!! i accept no criticism of this book#but even without stan goggles on how can say with your entire chest that tsh takes itself too seriously#when it literally makes fun of 'dark academia' types TO YOUR FACE#which is ironic for the book that spawned the entire genre#it's a comedy of manners at the very least#'this book that contains copious amounts of absurdly comedic situations and makes fun of pretentious twits obsessed with aesthetics#could use more absurd comedy and is not satirical enough'#recognising those basic building blocks of the text does NOT even mean to have to like it??#i hate to be bringing the Reading Comprehension debate again but good lord. and this person claims to have a phd in literature too 🤦♀️#i am so over this pretense at criticism that basically boils down to 'i didn't like this thing so i can't be seen to admit it executes#anything well. so instead i'm going to pretend basic obvious techniques in the text don't exist and peddle it as groundbreaking critique'#stuff like recognising basic genre. what happened to that.#i don't like The Hangover either but it would be very strange to call it anything other than a comedy#the secret history#donna tartt#again you don't even have to like the book!!!#I'M SORRY BUT IT MADE ME WANT TO RANT SO BAD#livresque#booktok and booktube are satan's garden
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We ought to write more Pokemon fic some time. We want to recreate the Pokemon Manners/Human Manners cheat sheet that we made a few years ago we think that this site would like the Sliding Scale Of Politeness When Greeting A New Pokemon You've Never Met Before.
#we speak#writing#we grew up with pmd games and we feel like the way that pmd pokemon's dialogue tends to be excessively... direct?#should be a feature and not a bug when any pokemon that you meet might be totally unfamiliar with your species and biology#it's probably very polite to start up front with some basic facts about yourself so they know how to act going forward#the very upfront feel to dialogue also very much helps with keeping the dialogue feel more... pokemon#people mock the series for weird npc dialogue a lot but we think that taking these things literally makes for more fun society building#it doesn't all have to fit with socially acceptable for our world we think. polite in our world isn't even consistent by household.#sometimes a polite interaction sounds like “hello! i'm poochyena! i like to chase people and bite!”#name and immediately socially useful information. now you know about the chasing people and biting so you don't assume it's rude#of course poochyena bites and chases people. it likes to do that. you can say you don't like that and it might stop doing that to You#but it will not stop biting and chasing people because that's what it likes to do and it will probably only befriend people okay with that#it makes a very specific dialogue feel that's very fun to do. we like how the pokemon world tends to treat any sort of like#disability or “weird” things as something that you just say out the gate and everyones like “oh okay”#and then treat that as Part Of Interactions going forwards. there are a surprising amount of parts of the pokemon manga#that are dedicated to working around a character's disability after one or all of their means of dealing with it get taken out#admittedly we aren't that caught up on newer content but we find the way that it tends to be just Accepted as very refreshing#making the dialogue this direct does also tend to make it read as more “childish” in english and particular because a lot of Maturity's jus#learning how to dance around what you're saying or phrase it in different ways to get your idea across differently#whereas here everything is just as direct as possible. “i don't like charmander”. “i like roasting berries”. “i want to dig things up”.#all pokemon dialogue tends to go towards being exceedingly simple and it makes for some very distinct writing#especially when you have to tackle complex situations with characters who probably dont employ that sort of vocabulary#though we personally enjoy doing this sort of stuff your mileage may vary ofc#we are biased towards this sort of thins because we find it MUCH more fun to build up what we're talking about from blocks#than to like. try and use more indirect wording that may lose things in translation#unfortunately this is not fun in irl conversation. everyone has to be on the same page and you need to use the same playbook to communicate#we REALLY wish people said what they meant though. we're really tired of being asked shit like “is this accessible”#when what they mean is “can you climb these stairs” a question which depends on the day our energy level and how things have been going#there are a lot of things we could say that would make us feel like some sort of anti sjw type guy and a lot of em boil down to just#"for the love of god dont dance around a Sensitive Topic just get to the point and ask us about it this just makes things harder for everyo
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The exact anniversary of it went past without me noticing, but this month marks five years since I last had to go to an ER or urgent care!!! :D
Still don't know what exactly is wrong with me health-wise, but I am doing so much better than I used to be it's a little ridiculous. I was in an urgent care or ER every summer for severe allergic reactions for years, and now I hit that late June/early July mark and don't even notice
#the person behind the yarn#hospital mention#okay this isn't quiiiite true#I did have to go to an urgent care last year or the year before#but that was not for allergies or severe dehydration#that was because I had to get my potassium levels checked and my primary care doctor didn't have the ability to do bloodwork on the weekend#but five years!! oh my gosh five years!!#I had a doctor visit today that basically boiled down to 'something is wrong with you. don't know what though. definitely not RA'#which on the one hand is good news! I do not have an autoimmune disease that will get worse over time!#but on the other hand means I'm back at square one. again.#but oh my gosh FIVE YEARS of no hospital#sometimes it feels like I am making no progress towards a diagnosis#but realizations like this really help. five years! five years. I am getting better#I might have moments where I don't feel well and downward slumps but I have to remember#I am doing so much better healthwise than I was in 2019 even on my worst days now
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I don’t know if you remember but after Sapnap’s visit Sam changed the protocol of retrieving visitors. He stopped using the harming potions (such as in Tommy and Ghostbur’s visits) to get a visitor out of the cell. I know that for Quackity there was an obvious reason but for Tommy? No.
see, the thing is, he does use the harming pots in order to retrieve c!tommy from the cell after he's revived (4:30 in this vod) -- his reasons for not retrieving c!Tommy has nothing to do with his having to go there with the bridge in order to get him out (which is something that he actually is kinda misleading about to c!Ranboo in the conversation they have after c!Tommy dies, tbh), but instead has to do with him being too paranoid about security to let c!Tommy out of the main cell, through the harming pots or not. To be honest I don't think we see how c!Quackity left the prison except for in one case, where c!Techno had just disappeared through the stasis pearl, where c!Quackity does use the bridge in order to get across the lava. And c!Tommy comes back through the bridge during the Ghostbur debacle because c!Sam never puts down the netherite barrier, and you know, c!Tommy is trying to get into the cell to kill c!Dream with the axe he's waving around so that might have to do with that decision.
technically you can probably argue that c!Sam changed protocol for prisoners leaving the cell with c!Quackity, not c!Sapnap's visit, but honestly after c!Tommy dies the only real "visitor" we see that isn't c!Quackity (who operates by his own rules, obviously) was Ghostbur, who I still don't think Sam let into the prison just in order to visit. c!Techno was a ploy in order to trap him in the cell, and we know that c!Sam banned visitation after c!Tommy died and that he continued to disallow certain people from entering the prison, such as c!Sapnap. So honestly just the protocol around visitors in general kinda gets fucked over when c!Tommy dies, not that he wasn't fucking with it before. he doesn't use the harming pots after retrieving c!Tommy post-revival but that's also because c!Dream doesn't have a single normal visitor after the whole thing with c!Tommy, so.
#my asks !!#my thoughts with why he lets ghostbur visit basically boil down to#1) he was proving to dream that the torture like. isnt a secret theyre not scared to let someone visit he doesn't have anything against the#look it doesn't matter they'll let someone visit in the middle of quackity's sessions etc#(which makes ghostbur an ideal choice considering how he's you know. famously forgetful especially when upset)#and/or 2) he wanted more information abt revival#considering how c!dream had given them nothing for a month and they were probably starting to get pretty damn frustrated#maybe a combination of these factors#anyway
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Everyone needs to drop everything and watch moon girl and devil dinosaur right now!!! It's SO GOOD y'all! The animation is smooth, snappy, creative, and fun! (And it's done by the same studio as rottmnt!!!) The characters all feel fresh while being incredibly likable and charming. And the soundtrack is seriously god-tier!!!
Plus, that's not even mentioning all the representation! All the main characters are POC and there are multiple moments of LGBT+ rep!
This isn't even scratching the surface! The show has so much heart and clearly has a TON of passion poured into it! I literally can't recommend it enough! If you're at all interested, go check it out! The first two episodes are up on Disney's YouTube channel for free!
#plus they've already made a dig about disney's live action remakes 😂#that's just the cherry on top haha!#it's also got eyecatch cards which is a person love of mine since we hardly ever get them here in the west#i really want this show to do good because we need more shows like this!#i want more creative 2D animated shows like this!#i also wish marvel would start to go more in this direction but i know that's just a pipe dream 😅#I'm rambling now haha#i just have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this show#and they basically all boil down to PLEASE WATCH THIS SHOW!#moon girl and devil dinosaur#disney#disney channel#marvel#rottmnt
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