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"I genuinely wish there was an actually SANE version of ii neg." - anon on @ii-neutral-confessions

yeah thats right

This is ii-critical-confessions, a blog where you can criticize and critique the show we all know (and probably love, but here it's subjective), Inanimate Insanity!

Here, our goal isn't to spread negativity or awareness - we're simply here for you to talk about a detail in the show you dislike, a character you dislike, maybe even talk about disliking the show itself! Judge the show and point out things that you think need improvement! We're a safe blog for you to express and vent your feelings - it's healthy to do so! We want this community to feel safe and welcomed here! We DO have criteria, however! See the important stuff below:

IMPORTANT STUFF:

Don't just spout on and on about how you hate something. Give us a reason! Why do you dislike this? Why do you think this makes no sense? Go into detail! This way your reasoning behind your criticism is justified, and makes sense. This blog is meant to be civil. As long as you have a justified reason as to why you don't like something, you're good to go!

Positivity isn't banned here - you can still be critical of a show and like it at the same time - it's just that it isn't the main focus here.

Criticism is welcomed, obviously, but critique is encouraged! Evaluating both the good and bad qualities of the show is very much appreciated here! It would be nice to see how you think something could be improved. After all, the job of a critic is to point out flaws in something to help it improve, no?

Stating little quips of something you don't like is also welcomed - but in-depth analyses of the show and critical thinking about said thing you don't like? Absolutely encouraged!

Please, only talk about the show. Don't bring any outside dramas here. This blog is meant to let you be critical of the show, not everything surrounding it.

Basically, in a nutshell:

"I hate this character!" = bad

"I hate this character because [insert justified reason here]!" = good!

"I hate this character because [insert in-depth analysis of said character with lots of reasons, etc.]!" = great! But you don't have to do this if you don't want to - it's not an absolute necessity.

i feel like an english teacher. sorgy. anyways the rules should be obvious if you're a decent person - no harassment, be respectful, no leaking private information, no death threats, etc.

Happy critiquing!

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Not going to lie, the creators are walking on thin fucking ice for the II reboot. They need to evil EP some actual character development, and keep him around. Hell, consult someone with actual DID to get him right. Just keep Evil Paper in.

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I have very conflicting feelings about the season 1 remaster

On one hand, I feel like it’s great that they’re remastering season 1. There were some problems with how some of the characters were treated COUGH COUGH fan COUGH COUGH bomb COUGH COUGH evil paper COUGH COUGH, & even if they were kids at the time it still leaves a sour taste in peoples mouth, mine included. But now that they’ve grown, they’re able to remaster the first season, not make fan a racist stereotype, not treat bombs stuttering as a joke, & expand on “evil” paper as a character & not as a “spooky murderous did alter oooooo”. Plus, making a remaster gives the opportunity to add more foreshadowing for the twist & I wanna see how they’re going to execute that!

BUT☝️ on the other hand, I’m afraid that the remaster isn’t going to have the same charm as the original first season. I want to see nickel shit on baseball, I want to see the bfdi cameos, I want to see walmart, I want to see mephone have the Chris McLean voice but only for one episode, I want to see the 2010s humor, even if it isn’t funny anymore, it’s the CHARM that matters. Also, the original season 1 was mentioned in the series & it was said that it SUCKED ASS. Not just because of the issues mentioned above, but the animation as well, I don’t want to watch the first episode of the remaster & see a 24k squared ultra mega hd realistic mephone4 & see his equally 24k squared ultra mega hd realistic contestants. Not only because it kills the mood & kills the charm, BUT BECAUSE IT ISNT ACCURATE LORE-WISE.

TL;DR: A good s1 remaster IS possible, but it’s incredibly easy to fuck it up oh dear god please don’t fuck it up pleasepleasepleasepl

- 💻🎀 anon (<- also the same person who made that one nickcase confession)

this was sent before the s1 remaster was posted. oopsies

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The Grand Slams Alliance arc was the best part of this series writing wise and it's not even close. I was not at all interested in the plights of MePhone4 and Cobs, and only had mild interest in the other contestants.

I want to see these 4 be focused on more in the spinoff-type content, please show how Suitcase and Nickel are still butting heads, maybe explore how they reluctantly have to work together on things. Have Baseball and Nickel talk about what happened, and have Baseball hold both himself and Nickel accountable. Balloon introduce Suitcase to his friends on the Season 3 cast, etc etc.

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so will this goober become part of atom society

uhhh nope. honestly i wanna keep this an actual confessions blog where people can actually submit stuff. it would probably be frustrating if this blog turned into an rp blog when it was meant to be a critical confessions blog

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hey is this blog still running?

it is now

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Kinda sad that ii neg confessions was deleted but I'm glad you're here to carry on their sentiments! (Minus the extreme communism)

II has a lot of problems but the community just glosses over them in favor of defending their "perfect show." I'm really glad the community is warming up to criticism

Thank you for what you do <3

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reviving this blog because i just got a really cool confession. i should really have this blog be more active. my honest bad. too busy with angst </3

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i don't kno how to criticize ii is too perfect for me. Only if there was more cabby x man ship content but that's a fandom issue

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I feel like Silvercandle was a bit forced and didn’t have enough development for it to work

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I will never understand nickcase ever.

During the show nickel constantly showed to never care for suitcase. He called her a complete wimp, he claimed that nobody would notice if she was gone, & overall tried to find as many negative traits about her as he could so he could only see her as negative traits. Not to mention the fact that nickel manipulating suitcase into stealing the battery caused her to start hallucinating. So, headcanoning them to be dating during the game would just be WORSE, that is VERBAL ABUSE.

Even headcanoning them to date after the show finished is just superrrrrr questionable. Because sure, she does say that she & nickel can try to see eachother, but she also says that they will never be friends. Heck, suitcases arc was all about her standing up for herself, standing her ground & making choices for herself. So them dating post-II is both very OOC (mostly for suitcase, but nickel is pretty ooc nickcase as well) & ignores suitcases growth as a character.

But let’s be far, nickel did say in his exit interview that he hopes to reconnect with suitcase. That is fine, great actually! It shows that he knows that what he did was wrong & that he wants to fix it. But just because nickel wants to reconnect doesn’t mean suitcase wants to, nor does she have to. It’s her choice whether she wants to forgive nickel or not, & her saying that they’re never going to be friends again most likely means she isn’t going to forgive him.

TL;DR: how does nickcase even exist. like. as a concept.

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honourable mention

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I will never understand nickcase ever.

During the show nickel constantly showed to never care for suitcase. He called her a complete wimp, he claimed that nobody would notice if she was gone, & overall tried to find as many negative traits about her as he could so he could only see her as negative traits. Not to mention the fact that nickel manipulating suitcase into stealing the battery caused her to start hallucinating. So, headcanoning them to be dating during the game would just be WORSE, that is VERBAL ABUSE.

Even headcanoning them to date after the show finished is just superrrrrr questionable. Because sure, she does say that she & nickel can try to see eachother, but she also says that they will never be friends. Heck, suitcases arc was all about her standing up for herself, standing her ground & making choices for herself. So them dating post-II is both very OOC (mostly for suitcase, but nickel is pretty ooc nickcase as well) & ignores suitcases growth as a character.

But let’s be far, nickel did say in his exit interview that he hopes to reconnect with suitcase. That is fine, great actually! It shows that he knows that what he did was wrong & that he wants to fix it. But just because nickel wants to reconnect doesn’t mean suitcase wants to, nor does she have to. It’s her choice whether she wants to forgive nickel or not, & her saying that they’re never going to be friends again most likely means she isn’t going to forgive him.

TL;DR: how does nickcase even exist. like. as a concept.

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(this is fandom crit)

look, I know mil is full of shit and all but when they mention a "cult of personality" towards animationepic...... they're kinda right??? idk let me explain

I don't like the fact some II fans are reaching dream stan level of parasocial, role-playing as adam, brian and justin (No, not the robots, THE ACTUAL PEOPLE) and making weird drawing and even SHIPPING

I came across some weird ass accounts on bsky that I wish I could unsee.

This is honestly extremely scary. The Key 3 are REAL people. Please don't be weird and respect their boundaries

– 🪴 (the name's houseplant anon and this is my signoff)

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This isn’t a confession but more of a question about this blog, is RESPECTFUL critique against the Inanimate insanity fandom allowed ? or is it just critique for the show itself

yeah! go for it

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i don't like nickloon AND HERES WHY

nickel in season three was way too mellowed down. he was a BITCH in season two and i liked it because he gave suitcase and balloon (and possibly baseball) an antagonist for their own personal stories. him and balloon's relationship was so rushed in season three and COME ON, balloon of all people convinced nickel to change??? they were at eachother's throats last week and not in a sexy way

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are we allowed to criticize the fandom as well?

oh yeah! go for it. as long as you stay civil, of course - ⚛️

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I think the II crew would definitely benefit from one or two sensitivity writers

Some stuff in the writing *are* problematic, especially with the ableism towards cabby and others, but I am POSITIVE that the crew didn't do it out of malice, but rather out of ignorance.

I believe that AE is full of good people and I believe that the Key 3 want the best for their fans, so, although the ableism, old transphobia etc. hurt, I KNOW that they are willing to change stuff and a few sensitivity writers would really help them to avoid iffy tropes

– an II fan

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