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I've been trying to give Devil May Cry(2025) Netflix a fair shot but I've been skipping like...most of the episodes because they can't fucking write metaphors for some goddamn reason. Shankar can cook on Castlevania but for some reason can't cook on Devil May Cry. Anyway yeah I will be watching the whole season because I'm still excited to see the characters I love animated, even if the writing is...not stellar in my opinion.
My Hazbin hot take is that honestly I think it's better for Husk's development if Crymini is not in season 3 or ever honestly. Because as much as Angel Dust's departure broke my heart as a Huskerdust fan, both of them also needed it because Angel needs to make the active choice to leave Val for his own healing and Husk needs a storyline outside of Angel. Husk has been improving because of Angel and while that's a good start you need to choose redemption for yourself. You cannot stop your vices and heal your trauma by replacing your coping with a person you love, that's not healthy and that turns to codependency. I'm just afraid Crymini will just serve as another surrogate that replaces active choice and instead she'll just be another character for Husk to rely on too much and him to project because like Angel he might view her as savable but not himself. Her role would be redundant and hurt the both of them.
And it's also a little bit because I think Hazbin Hotel has too many characters and not enough time to focus on them all but that's neither here nor there. It's why I wasn't excited when I learned Baxter was gonna be in the show.
AGAIN THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION I'M NOT PRESENTING THIS AS ABSOLUTE OBJECTIVE FACT. THIS IS MY TAKE ONLY.
Cherrisnake is so funny to me because yes to me it did feel like it came out of nowhere to me(As someone who did not follow Hazbin Hotel closely in between the pilot and season 1), yes I didn't think I would care about it, yes it seemed one-sided, yes it seemed to be without much basis since we didn't really know their past.
But does it also make perfect fucking sense to me? absolutely.
LISTEN, if there's one thing a bisexual woman knows, it's that bi women usually fall into the "all women are my type, I have a specific type for guys"
If there's anything I know about bi women as a bi woman myself, it's that bi women LOVE adorable, dorky, nerdy men. What is Pentious? An adorable, dorky, nerdy guy.
Cherri we see you ;) you are no exception. (I do love Cherrisnake this is not a hate post)
I have no idea of I'm projecting but did anyone else find Husk like stammering and then saying "I'll fucking spank you" kinda relatable? Like to me it just reminded me of so many times where I got angry at my friends but I don't want to say something awful so I'm mindful of my anger controlling me and thus control my language and just mumble out something more half-hearted like trying to calm down from saying "I'll kill you if you do that again" to "Please don't do that again"
I don't know, as much as I did not expect Husk to say that, I also can't deny I found it oddly similar to my own life. It also applies since I have a lot of friends with trauma who make jokes about it like Angel and I'm not perfect, I want to like continue as normal as you want but there are also times where I'm too worried about hurting them so I stumble over words and walk on eggshells and chicken out from what I was actually going to say to a half-hearted awkward reply.
Also beyond the angsty fight(which broke my heart a little), I found many of their moments very cute. Especially the blobfish one, I've done that with my friends many many times. It just goes to show under the romantic undertones their also just really fucking good friends and I love that for them.
fellow dc fanfic readers, do y'all have any fic recs that are gen fics about dc characters that are NOT the batfamily.
i fucking love the batfamily to bits but i also love like...the rest of the justice league too and i crave their focus in a fic. i've been trying to find fics for like green lantern like hal jordan, green arrow like oliver queen, and the flash(that have no relation to their cw counterparts) and honestly other JL members too but it always has something to do with batman and i'm lowkey tired of that.
if any of y'all know any good fics preferably without romance and has some angst, hurt/comfort type stuff i'd super appreciate it.
Seeing the reactions to the new episode of the Nevermore webtoon has got me feeling mad frustrated.
Like of course y'all would criticize black characters for the slightest flaws and mistakes while letting white characters get away with anything, I fucking hate how many racists are in fandom.
I knew Duke was cooked as soon as he was put into a position of opposition against Pluto cause no way would fandom ever be more understanding towards a human display of emotion from a black character than the retaliation of a white favorite.
Give Duke a moment to breathe, like chill, let him be imperfect, give him the same grace you give white characters.
Honestly in my opinion the only options for casting Louella McCoy and by extension LouLou is that the actress should've been indigenous, black, or afro-indigenous.
And yet they cast a white actress to play her, cheapening the parallels and connections the story makes about how oppression hits marginalized groups harder by whitening Districts 11 and 12. Perhaps it is not explicit but still Susanne Collins made those districts who were worse off having more poc in them as opposed to the better off districts like 1,2, and 4. And the racist backlash to the fury of poc fans reminds me of Rue's casting backlash all over again.
Safe to say I'm disappointed but I'm also not pathetic enough to hate on a child so Molly McCann, all the best to you and your career and a long and happy life. However, fuck the movie company and fuck their casting decisions because they decided their need to have as many white people as possible robs us of representation, robs under-represented groups in acting of opportunities and weakens the integrity of a true to life allegory.
Ok so I've recently been seeing people online say that Till wasn't sexually assaulted in the scene at the beginning of Round 6 and they say that Vivinos herself confirmed it.
Do y'all have a source pls so I can fact check this? I'm sure you can understand why I can't take the word of random people on the internet. I keep seeing people say that Vivinos confirmed it on patreon in a pay-walled post but like they never link that post...and I understand that not everyone has patreon but you could like send the link of the post even if you can't access it cause even if I can't open it, knowing that it's a real post would be super helpful.
Since Castlevania Nocturne Season 2 has been released I gotta say it was a fun ride. Many moments in that show are praise-worthy and Castlevania Nocturne abso-fucking-lutely deserves the hype. The thing that makes Castlevania Nocturne so unique and so much more interesting than other vampire shows to me(this is just a personal take) is how worldwide and global it is and how creative they are in incorporating so many diverse cultures and using each culture's mythologies to their advantage.
Typical Vampire stories will be limited to the European world because people had a limited view of what a vampire could be(White European). People forgot that the idea of a blood-sucking creature is one of the most universal concepts in many cultures around the world and how much people can play around with that.
As someone who is a huge mythology nerd myself I love seeing the incorporation of Aztex/Nahua mythology in the character of Olrox and the Haitian Vodou and Yoruba mythology in the character of Annette. Mythologies from Africa and other Black disapora or Creole cultures are often underrepresented. Mythologies of Indigenous peoples(in regards to the Americas) are also widely misused and underrepresented. And Castlevania Nocturne is not only largely respectful but they very masterfully and naturally weave these cultures into the narrative they're telling. Also Drolta with the Egyptian mythology. It's nice to see Black Egyptians represented since people were somehow convinced there's no Black people in Egypt but Egypt is an extremely diverse culture with all kinds of people.
It's just amazing, they get so juicy with it. These cultures are not accessories but active parts of the plot and make each character much more interesting. And don't get me started on how they weaved vampirism in with colonization and how they don't shy away from the trauma of racism and colonization on POC.
Link Click Yingdu was so much fun!!!! I was not prepared for the mindfuckery the show would do to me but now I'm so intrigued about the 3rd season.
Obv Bridon left some open ends that will probably be answered later down the line when they become more relevant. It's a time travel show after all but with so many diverse powers and different character motivations and multiple players manipulating oh my god.
Lu Guang killing Vein...that makes sense and yeah we definitely figured Lu Guang is pretty morally gray and willing to do anything for Cheng Xiaoshi. I just find it heart-wrenching because this is just another sign that Lu Guang can't fathom living without him T_T
Cheng Xiaoshi's mother doing the same thing for Cheng Xiaoshi's father as Lu Guang is doing for him is actually insane. God I love thematic parallels that tear my heart. Also I think she pointed out Lu Guang's interference????? wonder if that's gonna cause trouble for the both of them.
ALSO VEIN'S REAL NAME BEING XIAO WEIYING????????? damn bro you less intimidating now, jk jk i love you still Vein. I'm so curious on why Xia Fei disappeared(and why is Jack(NPC ass) disappearing as well?) maybe to get more answers because clearly Xia Fei cares for Vein in some capacity.
Liu Xiao masterminding in the background oh boy. What are you gonna do hat boy? What are you gonna do...
Cheng Xiaoshi keeping secrets of his own is getting juicier cause now it feels slightly more equal playing field on who in the group got the anwers(Cheng Xiaoshi still losing but it's alright my baby I love you, I believe in you)
And how is Qiao Ling gonna play into this with her new powers? How is Li Tianchen gonna play into this with his powers and being manipulated by Liu Xiao???????? Also Vein's still alive too!!!!
Anyway this season was super fun and answered some things but not all of them so I'm really hyped for season 3 and I'm glad season 3 is longer
Rip Angel Dust you would've loved Chappell Roan
With the release of nowhere one lyric I've thought about kind of often is "He's smooth, flexible, quite easy"
While it is definitely referring to how he keeps a compliant and obedient facade for the aliens so he won't be directly abused and how he doesn't outwardly rebel or speak out against the aliens like Till. For some reason this lyric made me think of what society says to discredit survivors of SA.
It is very common for people to victim and call SA survivors "easy" as a way to imply that it was their fault for getting assaulted and that they "wanted it"
It made me think of the banquet scene in Round 6 where it was implied that Till was SA'd and how Ivan was in those same back rooms as him and the art booklet which you had to pay money for(which I do not have) but some preview images drew further parallels between Ivan and Till's suffering in those dehumanizing back rooms. It makes me even more heartbroken to think of what those two might've suffered back there(and how Ivan still went to check on Till even though the same things might've happened to him)
Am I thinking too hard? I don't think I'm cooking but it's something I thought of when listening to the song.
Guys I finished Alien Stage and I'm in pain. Why would they do this to me?
Not to mention the supplementary material and fan content rubbing salt into my wound.
However I have just one question. I keep seeing "Thank you for being a victim of my shallow emotions" thrown around everywhere in IvanTill posts but I can't find where this is even though it's supposedly canon.
Does anyone have a link to the comic or post or whatever? I have no idea where it is. If anyone could help that'd be greatly appreciated.
I'm gonna say now as someone who did not watch the entirety of campaign 1(only an episode here and there) but knows what happens, I still enjoyed tlovm season 3. like yeah do I lack some of the joy and nostalgia of the og campaign, yes, and i understand that will affect my judgment but seeing as how season 1 and 2 was set up i understand some choices that were made.
I've seen people complain about ripley's backstory because "we don't need a villain redemption, she's not supposed to be a sympathetic villain" which I understand because they look at backstories through the lens of "sad backstories must make a character more likeable" but i don't think that's the case, i think ripley's backstory serves to give her more in common in percy and thus cement her place more securely as a narrative foil to percy, like this is what percy could've become without vox machina, they are so alike, smart inventors, ambitious, lost family but one chooses companionship and light while the other chooses chaos and destruction.
and yeah percy choosing to reach his hand out to anna might seem dumb but honestly it didn't surprise me. this entire time vex'ahlia has been asking percy to make sure his mind isn't clouded with vengeance. they keep hammering that he's changed and he wants to prove to vox machina that he's changed and that he's not being controlled by revenge. so him deciding to prove that vengenace isn't controlling him by offering ripley a chance was honestly, not surprising at all and it made total sense to me.
but this is just my take, and i could most definitely be wrong. I just wanna know if other people felt the same or if I was just being dumb.
As a longtime DC fan I enjoy Shazam a lot but as a Greek Myth fan the acronym throws me off a bit.
As we all know Shazam stands for
Solomon(Wisdom)
Hercules(Strength)
Atlas(Stamina)
Zeus(Power)
Achilles(Courage)
Mercury(Speed)
It always confused me why there are 3 greek figures but when it gets to speed, instead of using Hermes they use Mercury which is the Roman form of Hermes(and also Hercules instead of Heracles). But I guess Shazah has less of a ring to it than Shazam. However I also notice that they put Solomon which you know, the christianity kinda disrupts the fact that the others are classical mythological figures so if we replaced all of them with greek figures like say Athena for wisdom.
Athena, Heracles, Atlas, Zeus, Achillles, Hermes so the acronym is Ahazah instead of Shazam
That's be hilarious like imagine if you fighting a guy and in the middle of nowhere they're just like "AHAZAH"
Kataang Week 2024 Prompt Fic Day 5
Kataang Week 2024 Friday August 2nd Prompt: Disguise
Links: AO3 FF
Words: 4,311
Chapters: 1/1
Language: English
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender(Cartoon 2005)
Ratings: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M
Characters:
Aang (Avatar)
The Gaang (Avatar)
Katara (Avatar)
Sokka (Avatar)
Zuko (Avatar)
Suki (Avatar)
Toph Beifong
Relationships:
Aang/Katara (Avatar)
Aang & The Gaang (Avatar)
Sokka/Suki (Avatar)
Toph Beifong & Zuko
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe
Fluff
Romance
Characters Play Dungeons & Dragons
Kataang Week 2024 (Avatar)
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Summary:
Aang wasn’t prepared to play a gnome bard in Sokka’s harebrained DnD campaign but he thinks maybe it’ll give him the confidence to finally flirt with Katara and confess his feelings, even if it was just a fantasy.
A Kataang DnD AU
Kataang Week 2024 | Disguise | Prompt for Friday August 2nd
I'm not a huge expert on Chinese history, but I think "Nezha Conquers The Dragon King" MAY reflect the culture/politics in China at the time. It was released three years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, and (at least according to Wikipedia) it was meant to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. As such, I feel like it might have been a deliberate choice to reframe the Dragon Kings as oppressive monarchs, overthrown by the heroic, rebellious Nezha.
Yeah I'm sure that was a possible case. I didn't talk about it because the post was getting too long and just left it at that and said idk if any historical sources have this version. My parents themselves survived the Cultural Revolution and mentioned that everybody watched this movie cause this was all they got, after years of suffering China was lacking artistic identity and freedom of expression so it was a big influence. Which is probably why this was the version told to me as a child. I have no idea why wikipedia has this version on Nezha's wikipedia page though so I figured maybe there was an actual historical source with this version. I just wanted to be sure cause I'm paranoid like that, I am no authority and never want to make assumptions about whether the version in Nezha Nao Hai is actually documented before. I can only confirm it's not in feng shen bang/feng shen yanyi/investiture of the gods.