ChazTalk

multifandom fan/shipper, books, manga, anime fan, cinephile

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What is the best Yuri anime?

Bloom Into You

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Adachi and Shimamura

Citrus

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

Gushing over Magical Girls

Sakura Trick

I’m in Love with the Villainess

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…

This Monster Wants to Eat Me

Yurikuma Arashi

Strawberry Panic

Voting ended onMay 11

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Testing out a meme here:

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I just saw Obsession for the 2nd time in theaters last night, the first movie I’ve only seen twice in theaters. It’s one of those movies that works being in theaters because the sound is so important.

Now for my non-spoiler review, it’s an incredible unique original with a low budget with no A list actors in it. The acting is great. The actress that played the main girl deserves all the praise but I also think the actor that played the main guy deserves some flowers as well. The score is amazing. Rock Burwell is probably gonna be the top artist on my Spotify wrapped. I love the way the film was shot, like I even got a shirt with my favorite shot of the film. And the discourse that’s happening around the film makes it all the more interesting. But my favorite part about it is that it’s not your typical horror. It’s not really scary. It’s the kind of movies where the more you think about it and the ideas around it, the more it makes your skin crawl.

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It’ll never make sense to me when a canon shipper “opens up” to non canon ship that had only a few scenes together while they put down one of the most obvious non canon ships with a stronger relationship.

I recently saw someone say “Harry and Luna make more sense as a pair than Harmione”. Canon shippers don’t like Harmione because there’s no romantic feelings between them explicitly shown and also think that people who ship them don’t understand male/female platonic friendships. So how is believing the potential of Harry/Luna any different? The Reddit comment got over 40 upvotes. Do they just hate Harmione that much lol?

Side note: looking at fanart makes me kinda sad because 99% of it feels like it was only inspired by and from the movies when she actually has dirty blonde hair in the books which makes me think love for her character come from the movies.

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The toxic shipping discourse in the Resident Evil fandom is something else. I have the misfortune of seeing such topics on my Twitter. Not sure if it’s bad on this app too. And hopefully that one RE shipper that ended up blocking me was an outlier case.

The RE series/movies/games/shows is not a romance first and foremost. And secondly, the only confirmed pairings are dead. So with this piece of media where romance isn’t a major element and there aren’t any confirmed pairings between our beloved characters, why is everyone at each other’s throats trying to prove that they are in the correct, especially when we could all end up being the wrong? But we probably will never know. And if anyway thinks I’m vagueposting, people should know what groups of people I’m talking about. It’s beyond pathetic at this point.

I’m not looking to force my views/opinions on others, and you shouldn’t try to either. I’m gonna continue shipping Cleon, whether it’s canon, non-canon, or doomed, no matter what.

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The Cleons just stay winning (and I don’t care if this rumor is true or not😆)

From the leaker:

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There’s a time and a place when it comes to debating about certain topics. Tumblr comment sections are not that place. If you actually want to respectfully debate about the topic ask permission to take the debate into DMs.

But if you do the opposite of that: keep replying in the comment section, hurl insults at me, think that you are superior in every thing (intellect, knowledge , critical thinking, etc), and blatantly disrespect what I like, I will block you, and you should feel grateful that I do, because then you yourself can move on with life instead of wasting your time arguing with a wall.

For context, some Aeon shipper got triggered by my latest post (which I just don’t get. If you don’t like the ship, you can literally filter that tag out). Beware of them @ crimsonxe. They take shipping too seriously and use “larp” a lot which is very cringey.

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There’s a certain group of people that aren’t exactly happy about the first one 😂😉

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I have refurbished and edited this quiz, and added more Qs. It should be a cakewalk if you read the books: https://www.sporcle.com/games/Charko/harry-and-hermiones-relationship-quiz

Harry and Hermione's Relationship Quiz

How well do you know Harry and Hermione's Relationship Quiz?

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It’ll never not be entertaining to me when I see someone complain about Romione by saying how Ron is “mean” or a “bully” towards Hermione and then a Romione shipper jumps in and says that Hermione is just as bad or worse towards Ron.

Like, congrats admitting that Ron and Hermione have a unhealthy dynamic 😭😂

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The disaster officially starts

It’s not a big deal to most people because Ginny is only in the beginning of the Philosopher’s Stone book, but the first season is almost a half of a year away from coming out, and now you have to find another actress to play Ginny, have that actress do chemistry tests with the other actors/actresses by next.

And if I’m not mistaken, Ginny’s casting came on pretty early (after the trio and Dudley castings IIRC), for a character that’s barely in it.

The failure of this project is just inevitable. How many other actors/actresses are going to bow out of this project due to “unforeseen circumstances”?

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Stop being an asshole because you're just ridiculing yourself, as any of us actually involved in the project know. Gracie is lovely and has a life and right now that meant they had to step away from Harry Potter, which is sad for her because she and her parents were incredibly excited, but that's life. We'll have a new Ginny by Autumn and Gracie will be able to focus on her personal stuff and go back to filming things when the timing is better for her and her family, who by the way are huge Potterheads so you trying to imply they have something against Rowling is laughable.

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How am I an asshole for pointing out the possibility of other kid actors leaving the project the same way Gracie left? It has such a large cast of child actors. It’s inevitable. And idk where on earth you came up with that last sentence.

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After years of analyzing Harry Potter and understanding the dynamics between the characters, what is your final opinion about Ron?

My final opinion on Ron is that he is a complicated character for just being an average Joe, so the best I can give you is that I feel indifferent towards him.

He does things I like and he does things I don’t like. And his fans are pretty annoying, glorifying him in anything he does, which makes me like him less

And then there’s the complaint that even Ron fans admit: JKR didn’t write Ron to his fullest potential. If you actually think about it, Ron actually does very little in terms of the plot moving along, especially through books 3-6. His supposed chess master skills were never used in the series.

Next, compare how useful he was in books 2-6 and book 7. Because of how useful he is in deathly Hallows is astronomical despite his temporary leave. Being “great” in the horrid 7 potters plan, fighting off snatchers by himself and being able to steal one of their wands, saving a dumbed down Harry in the frozen pond, destroying a horcrux, fixing the radio, mimicking Wormtail, him having the idea going down in the chamber of secrets for the basilisk fangs, being able to speak/mimick Parseltongue when even Harry couldn’t understand him, breaking Voldemort’s silencing charm. I can’t ignore how forced Ron’s usefulness is in DH.

Ron’s good qualities only come in times when he’s a good friend to Harry. Sacrificing himself in PS, saving Harry from the Dursleys in CoS, standing up on a broken leg against Sirius, standing up for Harry in OOTP when Harry was terrible towards both him and Hermione, and giving Harry the push the use the Felix Felicis in HBP.

Ron has his fair share of bad qualities too. The more I think about it, the more I think Ron and Harry’s first fallout in GoF is worse than Ron leaving in DH. In DH, you can at least use the Horcrux to try and justify why he left. But I can’t wrap my head around that Ron, who’s been in the Wizarding world longer than Harry and Hermione, how impossible it was for an underaged individual to have their name called out in the Goblet of Fire and/or that Harry would want to be put in this dangerous death game. And people defend it by saying that Ron’s insecure and jealous that Harry always gets the “spotlight”. Does Ron not know all the spotlight Harry got was super shitty?

But most of his bad qualities are shown with Hermione. I can give him a pass on calling Hermione a “nightmare” behind her back because he’s only 11 then. But still making Hermione cry at the age 16-17? Hell nah. Making fun of SPEW (which he did a 180 on to push the Romione romance forward), giving her the silent treatment in POA for both the Scabbers and Firebolt incidents, the Yule ball fight. And lastly, using a book to come up with compliments to say to her that’ll make her swoon no matter what it is. And I got dogged on for twitter for mentioning it a couple years ago for calling it an equivalent to a pickup artist’s book. The book is called “12 Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches”. How does that not give PUA vibes. And also the main problem with using a book like this, the compliments Ron gives Hermione feel forced, not natural. He’s only doing what the book is telling him to do. He’s not being who he truly is, and he’s saying this to supposedly his best (girl) friend.

A few other things that Ron did that I didn’t like:

-bullying 1st years with his prefect status in OOTP

-punching a girl in the face during quidditch practice

-weird comment respecting Voldemort’s name

-“maybe [Voldemort] murdered Myrtle, that would’ve done everyone a favor”. Myrtle was a muggleborn witch that was bullied and ended up being murdered by Voldemort.

-and slut shaming his own sister

And people say that Ron is the most relatable character in the series. I don’t find him relatable at all after everything he has done. Neville’s more relatable to me.

Ron fans bring up that Ron hate comes from people that hate poor people and find rich people attractive. This is one of the stupidest takes of all time. By the end of the series, the Weasleys are one of the most prosperous families with all of their successes. Ron’s a co-owner of a successful business while his wife is the minister of Magic. Secondly, even before then, I wouldn’t necessarily call the Weasley a “poor” family, especially compared to a poor muggle family. Bridge to Terribithia is an excellent comparison for what an actual poor family looks like as well as the MC feeling neglected by his family. Having to share a room with his little sister and getting hand-me-down pink sneakers from one of his older sisters because his old pair were ruined. That’s real, poor people experience. People with the gift of magic will never be poor like poor people in real life

Now, in Harmione fanfic, I think it’s best to have him as a side character or not in it all rather than bash him as bashing cheapens the romance, but who knows, Ron fans might think Ron not being in the story is also bashing him. There are a couple reasons why I don’t really like Ron as a main character in Harmione fanfic: he creates unnecessary drama and there was one fic I read long ago where Harry learns how to hold hands with Hermione by watching Ron do it with his girlfriend, and that’s just weird af. If Ron’s a main character in a fanfic that doesn’t do anything like those 2, then I wouldn’t mind of Ron’s a main character.

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Dear Harmione haters(composed mostly of triggered Romiones, Hinny, Drarry and Dramione shippers): ain’t nobody cares if you don’t like this pairing. Either don’t leave a comment if you ain’t got anything nice to say or just block/move on. You don’t see us coming to your cringe ship related edits and leaving terrible comments like: “platonic love, fRiEnDsHiP gOaLs and siblings”, do you?? You only are proving who the true toxic shippers are(hint: not the hhr editors. So as a wise man once said: FUCK OFF.

Unfortunately, those comments wouldn’t make sense for the canon ship cuz they are canon. Our comments towards them would be like “they make 0 sense together”, “they have no chemistry” or “their relationship is underdeveloped”. That’s what’s more likely to sting them.

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I feel like I’m the only harmione shipper who is excited about the new series. Not because I think they’ll make harmione canon or anything, but just the idea that we’ll see more of their friendship as it is in the books makes me happy. Anyway, I think your criticism is valid. Especially regarding Hermione’s hair, I thought they would do something similar to Arabella’s hair in Matilda. I really wish it were a little more bushy. But overall, they would have to fuck it up massively for me not to watch.

I understand your viewpoint and respect your opinion but I just don’t see any pros to this project. Some people want to see everything that’s in the books; others think it’s a cool idea to add additional scenes in the show, but what they really mean is that they want certain aspects of the series improved/changed. “I hope they don’t show this scene from the books”, I hope they explore/develop this romance more”, “I want to see this objectively terrible character have character development/redemption arc.” Additional scenes is just one issue to look forward to.

So far, the show wants people to sympathize with characters like Snape and Draco. That’s why they made Snape black, making James and Sirius doubly worse when they bullied him.

Months ago, I saw tweet say that this series is only happening because JKR wants to see new versions Harry, Ron and Hermione as the old Harry, Ron and Hermione actors all voiced their disagreements with her opinions on trans rights. It’s kinda sad how true that might be.

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Alright fellas, I need to come clean about some things. Tumblr is blogging app so I feel inclined to talk about why I haven’t been on here as much as I used to (I almost didn’t post for a month in April). And though, I have made some posts on here since then, I haven’t been on tumblr as much.

Last year, I posted rankings for anime that came out during the seasons. For my anime followers, you don’t see that anymore. That is because I’m hella behind on anime.

I recently bought a PS5 for RE9 and Ghost of Yotei, but the PS5 doesn’t have an internet browser. And I used to be able to watch anime on tv using an internet browser. And several anime sites have been shutting down (wcostream is riddled with constant adds; Hianime and Animekai got merced by crunchyroll agents). So I’ve had no choice but to watch stuff on streaming services, which do not have a lot anime options, especially dubbed, so, currently, I’m watching normal tv shows, and I have become a gigantic cinephile (follow me on Letterboxd if you want: Bchazzie). And I wouldn’t think cinema is a popular topic on tumblr unless it’s something super hyped.

Secondly, baseball season started and baseball is my favorite sport. My team sucks, but I still want to watch who are the best and worst players of the game are, and I like to do the stats myself. Cuz that’s what I do when I watch anything. It’s a really good test to see which one is far more engaging: numbers or what’s on the screen).

And third, and people not like this, but I’ve been playing with an ai fanfic generator purely for curiosity and entertainment reasons. Can ai really read my mind or steal my own ideas? The answer is “absolutely not” in the funniest way possible. It’s just so unbelievably bad and cliched that it gives me confidence in my own writing skills and abilities. Because I do want to become a writer/novelist in the future.

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The disaster officially starts

It’s not a big deal to most people because Ginny is only in the beginning of the Philosopher’s Stone book, but the first season is almost a half of a year away from coming out, and now you have to find another actress to play Ginny, have that actress do chemistry tests with the other actors/actresses by next.

And if I’m not mistaken, Ginny’s casting came on pretty early (after the trio and Dudley castings IIRC), for a character that’s barely in it.

The failure of this project is just inevitable. How many other actors/actresses are going to bow out of this project due to “unforeseen circumstances”?

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I’m so glad Amayo no Tsuki (The Moon on a Rainy Night) is getting so much love recently. I found this manga 2 years ago and it was so good and so interesting that I bought the 1st volume of it. There’s no better romance than a slow burn.