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If you found this blog there's nothing fun here. Just really low quality doodles and nonsensical (hater) rambling. Good job finding it though

* I don't normally talk about explicit NSFW out of personal preference but will discuss sexually suggestive topics more readily on this blog. If I find out you followed while underage I will hardblock you!

#logs #Just trying to keep this URL busy so it doesn't risk deletion. You know who I am I'm that one guy who makes Locpez stuff.#Hence all the first RBs being my own URL-related art.#Mostly using this blog for RVB stuff I don't want 400 people to see.

That post is long but I struggle to get across that I don't really enjoy fandom, especially one like this, as a safe space to "play toys" in because of the racism and misogyny + it feels like when I say that it's not taken seriously at all. Like usually if I'm criticizing something it's because it feels bigoted or otherwise prejudiced to me in some way. 🤷🏽

#When I'm hating on Felix or L/lix it's not like. As simple as “doing it the right way” it's that no one seems to think about how they--#--might just be espousing harmful real-world beliefs. It's “not that serious” if you're not heavily affected by it maybe but YK how it goes #IDK. I won't ever be able to convince people why I think that shit is racist and borderline fetishistic but it just kind of IS to me.#I'm so sick of seeing brown characters in fiction get demonized and abused and hurt and disrespected by fandommmm.#logs

You can always tell I'm trying to fight the urge to rewatch RVB when I start posting random unwarranted criticisms of it LMAO.

#RVB is my “bad media that's fun to watch and nitpick” of choice and it's so evil. Like why couldn't it have been something more normal.#logs

What the fuck ever

#Second screenshot is Lopez and Sheila <3 Last one is Sarge playing & having fun.#I made this save mostly to make Locpez and I'm planning on never actually playing it and only watching them like bugs.#And yes. Lopez is blue. So is Simmons but NOT Grif which is really really funny to me.#logs

#rvb #locpez #I didn't post this because I was going to reuse the concept for OCs but I got distracted with other shit and now I'm over it.#Locpez forever in my heart but it's so sad that they're from RVB (my greatest enemy). OTL #mine #These are sketches from months ago and also probably the last RVB fan art you'll see from me for a while o7

Greyballina sketch I will never finish </3

#rvb #mine #Still a hater ATM but I've been in a dykeish mood so I was thinking about them. Middle aged women butchfemme (sighing dreamily).

Criticizing random bullshit about RVB again. This is about Shisno & its characters/cast but I don't remember Shisno enough to be credible (and I just don't like that arc much) so a grain of salt is recommended.

I think one of my biggest nitpicks of S15-17 (bar the more obvious flaws) is how much random character bloat there is. Even in a show with probably a hundred characters. Like, sure, the Blues & Reds and the Cosmic Powers exist for reasons, but they're secondary cast members who have no real emotional impact on anything.

PFL saga also has a LOT of characters running around, between the main guys and every Freelancer introduced. But they all tie into the story at least somewhat, between the twins showing the severity of conditions in Freelancer or even just, like, Florida existing to show how orchestrated the Director's control and corruption is (which might be a generous reading, admittedly).

Chorus does it too, with the mercs, the Chorusans, even re-introductions of characters who had no real significance prior. But they're all there for a reason. You get enough time with them to at least understand most of their roles in the plot, then they move away once they've fulfilled that role, they aren't pushed to the front outside of those narrative needs.

But Shisno has all these characters who overstay their welcome, do nothing interesting outside of maybe one decent scene they're in, and get pushed aside so quickly or used too hard for comedy that they just feel like filler to give the illusion of refreshing a show that was already kind of on its last legs.

They exist to make a joke but are introduced like they might be something more and it creates a weird dissonance between their introduction and the fruition of their character. It's one thing to have random side characters who are meant to exist for the comedy of their existence, but something about the Blues & Reds felt dry and needless while the Cosmic Powers were just egregious in number and extremely boring in execution.

The Blues and Reds (outside of Temple and Biff) generally serve the singular purpose of performing a bit that's completely (IMO) said and done after their introduction. They do, of course, have more potential before this, where they're used to frame the Reds & Blues for crimes they didn't commit, but I honestly think the tension and potential of all that falls apart when we find out they're just "evil clones" of the main cast down to personality. It doesn't really make sense, it gets old quickly (because we don't NEED identical copies of the characters we've already spent 14 seasons with), they get built up as a group then pushed to the side when we realize the main villain is just one out of their entire group.

You could argue, I guess, that some of them had their moments--Gene with the knife, Loco's time machine--but I honestly think those "moments" were MacGuffins that felt secondary to the joke that they're meant to be reflections of the Reds & Blues. They have their moment that serves the plot or character development but they're still very disinteresting on their own.

The Cosmic Powers have a similar flaw where too many of them are introduced at once and none of them have ANY staying power but Chrovos and Genkins. They, again, serve a purpose of showing the convoluted AI system they seem to be, but I'm going to be so honest most of the shit surrounding them makes no sense in RVB's universe. They're a little too all-powerful in presentation and needed SOMETHING to justify their existence in the surprisingly grounded (relative to Halo canon) world RVB exists in (in that so much of RVB's sci-fi drama falls in line with military/human corruption rather than otherworldly power that feels like some shit out of a Marvel movie).

And, to be clear, having a lot of pointless characters isn't necessarily a problem in and of itself--I feel like at least a third of RVB's named cast is just random tertiary characters--but it feels like Shisno characters are trying to replicate the pattern RVB presents in its arcs by introducing a new secondary cast to the main characters, but it completely misses what makes this pattern work.

With PFL and Chorus, your attachment to or enjoyment of these extra characters--the Freelancers, the AI, the Lieutenants--usually winds up culminating in some sort of climax and subsequent resolution. They reintroduce Sharkface and Price briefly enough to serve as reminders of PFL's echoes on the Reds & Blues' lives. Even the most comedic of Freelancers choose a side to stand on after the system starts coming undone. Even joke extras like the Zealots during BGC are used with some discretion; they make their jokes and leave, they're not set up to be much more than the bit they were made for.

I think THAT'S what makes the B&Rs and Cosmic Powers so boring to me--their setup was potentially interesting, but after that setup is explained the majority of those new characters fall flat in the way of motive or personality. There's nothing intriguing about Cronut or Surge or Burnstrom or the Fates when they're not on the screen, but the story kind of introduces them ALL with the same gravity that the most interesting of them (Temple, Genkins) have despite them ultimately, individually amounting to nothing.

I'm not really trying to make some statement here about Shisno's writing but I just find it to be a flaw of its design. I don't like the Blues & Reds or Cosmic Powers as a whole for these reasons, which is disappointing with how much potential the Blues & Reds especially had (they didn't need to be personality clones, they're wearing armor, it's extremely easy to impersonate people who are wearing armor...). It just adds to why I think Shisno is the weakest arc of the entire show.

#rvb crit #Some points here are poorly articulated because I wrote this on a whim but you get what I mean.#Nitpicking RVB to distract myself from how annoying people are about Felix again. He's such a big example of fandom-brained patriarchy.#I think criticizing RVB is all I'm capable of right now since I don't feel good platforming it positively ATM even if RT is dead. LOL.#logs

Randomly found a secondhand RVsB DVD at some bookstore today. Thank you bookstore donator for letting me acquire that without giving RT money 🫡

#They had seasons 1-4 but they were expensive so I only got 1.#Infuriating that the nostalgia of this show has its claws in me but at least 2/3 of the merch I own is secondhand.#logs

Have any of 1A tried to take a look at Locus’ sword yet? Or been tempted to, at least?

#Ask 1A #1A has exclusive control of all “specialty” gear including Kimball's + the R&Bs' + Felix's after it's recovered from his body etc.#So having Locus's just makes sense. He has high standards for his equipment maintenance anyway so he's happy to rely on their talent :-)#Though he probably does get a little stressed when their innate curiosity leads to them tearing his shit apart to study it LOL.#anonymous #mine

Oh man. I always feel the need to say this when I get new followers out of nowhere but be warned that this blog is EXTREMELY critical of RVsB + I am very judgemental of Lo/lix shippers.

#Latter point mentioned because I saw some new followers who came from the Locus doodle and well. Y'know. Just being honest.#Like I'm not going to block over ships because frankly I refuse to look at other people's RVsB posts anyway but it's my biggest ick.#& I am basically not joking when I say I hate RVsB at this point. I'm genuinely mostly here for Lopez/my own fanon.#logs

Original (6/10/2020)

#rvb #This was a cooldown drawn while I was shivering cold and falling asleep so I accepted that it was just going to look like this.#I also didn't even want to include the dialogue but it was contextually relevant so if it's inaccurate IDGAFFFFF.#mine #I don't know why my 2020 Locus design was so cuteiful...

Announcing that I'm a firm Red Team Carolina believer and getting tarred and feathered by the masses.

#I actually don't know how unpopular a headcanon it is. But it's a hill I will die on. I've def had people disagree with me before.#I think it's way funnier and more poetic if she gets adopted by the Reds (and better if she leans into it).#Like I could write essays about it. Maybe I should for fun.#logs #And sorry if I've made this exact post before I was thinking about it again.

Freelancer!Locus and AI!Lopez AU, hypothetically this was going to be a full fight scene but I ran out of steam u_u.

#locpez #Not good enough for main (literally 3 panels of Locus brooding identically from different angles + I'm meh about it). Still worth posting.#I was looking back at the snippets I've written for this AU and they're fun. Feels too niche/indulgent to share with anyone though LOLOL.#mine

WIP of some armor because I feel like the details will get lost in the final product.

#Talking about Tucker on main made me want to revisit a draft I made months ago so I'm finally finishing it.#“I hate RVB” ten minutes later “me and the bestie!”#mine

For 1A!!! im generally wondering.. about the relationship between Lopez and Locus. is it funny to watch sometimes?

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#Ask 1A #locpez #Is it ethical for me to put this in that tag when they're just in the background. Do the 10 Locpez fans who follow me here rock with it...#1A like knows what's going on between those two but they're sick of dealing with it. It's more interesting to outside parties methinks.#mine #anonymous

Made the mistake of reading exactly one random person's tags offhandedly mentioning Lopez and had a "He would not fucking say that." moment before remembering the Lopez that exists in my head is not real and in a way I've probably mischaracterized him more than anyone else.

#I'm exaggerating. I think my Lopez extrapolation is canon friendly and accurate. But I'm so territorial over him for literally no reason.#He would not say that. He would never be attracted to that character. He wouldn't ever do that in his life. He's better/worse than that.#I saw a fucking post that was like “We choose our favorites because we see ourselves in them” and thought of Lopez and frowned.#logs

Team ask— Hao talked about how 1A work with Maroon team, but what about how they work the other teams? Granted, there’s probably considerably less overlap with say, Pink team, but in general, 1A’s gotta have fingers in a lot of metaphorical pies here

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#Ask 1A #Bitters in panel 1 if you couldn't tell. He and Hao have a weird cousins vibe going on.#Most of 1A's friends outside of work are average citizens. I think Hao is one of the most social WRT other admin teams.#I like half-deved powder blue lieutenant (Levesque) off screen. She's a bunch of stupid ironic jokes composed into one hotheaded girl.#mine #inbox #anonymous

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