Recently read the greatest estate developer (the webtoon) and I’ve had a thought, since Lloyd was a raging alcoholic and it seems Suho never drank would the sudden lack of alcohol make his body have withdrawal symptoms?? Because the body remembers and all that
Transformers rescue bots is one of my favourite childhood cartoons and because I’ve recently got my little sister into it we’ve been watching it together. So obviously getting to watch the show with a more perspective-ed brain and getting to really understand the characters more leads to situations like s3 ep3 Too Many Kade’s.
I’m mad about some of the characterization so I’m just ranting about it below the cut, feel free to ignore!
I cannot get over the scene where he just walks away from the car stuck under rocks because he is literally a trained firefighter with examples in previous episodes of him putting saving lives first and I’d argue it’s an established character trait. WHY DID HE WALK AWAY. I could be wrong which is fine (I’d at least like evidence tho) but he is a TRAINED. FIREFIGHTER. It has been ESTABLISHED that he does not just walk away leaving people in danger. Ok sure his sister was there, yes two of the bots were there, but I don’t believe he’d bitch about how slow they’re going then just. Walk Away. WHEN HE COMES BACK ON SCREEN IT WASN’T EVEN COMING BACK FROM THE BRIDGE. WHAT WAS HE DOING??
Even if he had said “sure I could deal with that boulder easy” realized he couldn’t, had Heatwave deal with it, but STILL GOT THE WOMAN OUT OF THE CAR. I’d believe it easier because that’s just. How They Do Rescues.
To me Kade’s entire character if you boiled it down enough could be explained in three simple bullet points
1. He’s a firefighter who saves lives
2. He’s an obnoxious asshole with an ego
3. He’s there for his family when it counts
Ok wow I had more gripes than I thought and me being tired probably didn’t make it make sense, honestly reblog or comment if you wanna add to or disprove anything I said because I’m super open to hearing everything anyone has to say about characters because it’s so much fun to hear someone’s thoughts and opinions and the whys behind it.
Generally though outside of That One Scene I think the rest of the episode is fine and the power of friendship and teamwork prevails and Kade learns his lesson until next time they need him to act like the token asshole of the series
If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…
Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.
Including (sigh) the em dash.
There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.
A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.
No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.
You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.
Defend the em dash.
(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)
“you cannot ship these two fictional characters because—” actually I can because they are not real people. they are just toys I play with. you cannot apply real-world morality to fiction or how strangers play with their imaginary toys in their imaginary sandboxes.
you can, however, curate your own internet experience by minding your own business, muting/blocking/scrolling past what upsets you but does not hurt anyone in real life in any way, shape or form.
“ship whatever you want except xyz. there is a limit” so you miss the entire point of what I just said 👌🏻
there is, in fact, no limit. I may be uncomfortable with it, I may even find it unpleasant/disturbing, but my personal feelings are not rules that can be applied to other people, and they absolutely do not justify shaming or harassing other people.
Something that highkey scares me is that, the Dateviators were sold to the military, before thrown into the MC's grasp. When the player puts them on, a lot of the characters, when being interacted with, can be horny/hypersexual. Do you see my concern?
