#avatarwill113

[loopy777]

My copy of Shadow of Kyoshi finally arrived. Good stuff, with a lot of interesting details (some enjoyable references as well, answering minor questions that fans have pondered about for years). Managed to avoid all the pitfalls, I feared it might have. However there's one notable thing I didn't like about it. It wasn't a major part of the book all things considered, but it seemed less interesting than an alternative idea that had been presented. More of an annoyance of an otherwise good book.

Yay, I’m finally getting around to talking about SoK! (Best acronym in the franchise, BTW.)

Agreed on most of what you’re saying, but now that the book has been out a month (and of course we’ll still label spoilers for people who have busy lives), what was it that bothered you?

[swan2swan]

Will you still be watching Resistance? Because the latest film has tainted the Sequels for me, so I don't feel interested in watching or reading anything set during them. It's a shame because I feel like the second season will start picking up now.

The second season ends tomorrow. The series ends tomorrow.

I’ll watch without regret. 

The series has done its best, so I’ll see it through to the end. For Neeku and Tam and Kaz. 

[emperorren]

So what do you think the odds are of Palpatine seizing control of the First Order (or at least part of it), forcing Kylo Ren to team up with the heroes? I just don't see him being the Supreme Leader for the whole movie, and this seems like the most plausible way of him losing his position.

welll... I have no idea how this will work in practice, but Palpatine has always been a political evil on top of a mystical one---much more than Snoke, and particularly in the prequels. So if TROS means to bring the story full circle and fix the wrongs originated at the time when Anakin was a young man corrupted by darkness, it’s possible and even likely that we’ll see how much of a seductive influence Palpatine is for those who have a hunger for power (see: Hux), or, alternatively, the practical plans Palpatine has to conquer the Galaxy.

Palpatine can’t sideline the First Order as a villain, and viceversa, so the only logical thing would be to merge the two. There’s also the Sith troopers---there’s no need to introduce such a concept unless you want to differentiate between them and the /regular/ white Stormtroopers, who are kidnapped and groomed human beings like Finn (and you should feel sorry when they die, although admittedly Star Wars has never been great at exploring this angle so far). I know merch leaks say the Sith Troopers only answer to Kylo, but what if they don’t, or Kylo wrongly believe they do?

[skyllianhamster]

I'd just like to say I've enjoyed your art for a while now, and I think your latest one is really great.

Thank you ^^ I’m also thankful to the author, who managed to present a gripping image with their descriptions. Always a pleasure to explore more of Mass Effect’s lore!

[gotgifsandmusings]

Bad News: OllyNodsAtThings has been demeaned to NSFW for Tumblr. And so SafeMode was activated to protect all the children from Olly nodding at things. Good News: I'm pretty sure most of it was saved to the Internet Archive. So future generations will be able to enjoy Olly nodding at things. Well expect for the images and video which weren't saved.

WHAT??

Out of all the shit I’ve posted here, it’s the joke side-blog with actor reaction shots that gets banned?? It’s not even well-lit enough to look like anything!

[bikiniarmorbattledamage]

@avatarwill113​ submitted:

Have you heard that Shelob will be in Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor sequel)?

Ah, Shelob the terrifying giant spider. I wonder what they’ll do with her…

Oh. They’ll give her the ability to turn into a generic sexy women. I can only assume they wanted name recognition, but they also wanted “Sex Appeal” so here we are. Why they couldn’t make up their own generic sexy women, I don’t know. 

Of course we’re at the stage in popculture  when even a giant arachnid has to appear as a “sexy” human woman, even though it certainly wouldn’t go that way if the character was male... Since she was unambiguously a spider in the LotR books and movies, we look forward to seeing what random human character they plan to turn into a spider in the next game. That’s only fair.

Took the liberty of joining this submission with the new Jimquisition episode that discusses Shelob’s sexy humanization (and the compulsory sexualization of female characters in general) in detail. 

Jim’s video makes some welcome references to related topics we discussed on the blog, too:

The inequality of generically handsome male game characters to generically hot female characters

His old episode where the only interesting, unconventional female game protagonist turns out to be a monstrous reptile goddess

The Alien Girl statue

Why having a narrative justification for a sexy lady in a story doesn’t legitimize the shameless pandering

How sexyfying anything even remotely female in your design is the exact opposite of creativity

I’ll leave you with that quote from the episode:

“The way Monolith is doing Shelob has been done to death, basically. Even ignoring anything social justice-y, it’s creatively so very, very done. There loads of engaging and interesting things you could do with a massive sentient spider - shexy Shelob isn’t one of them.”

~Ozzie 

Personally I’m not sure what’s funnier, that not only is Shelob apparently going to fill in the narrative role of Morrigan (a sexy woman who can turn into a spider) but also like they saw the introduction for other famous video game spider lady, Queelag of Dark Souls:

Then decided that perhaps the combination of horror and titilation would be too confusing for their intended audience and decided to go full sexy (and boring).

- wincenworks

[gyakutengagotoku]

Maya Fey 2, 8

2. I’m not particularly picky about how Maya was localized. (Burgers are fine with me when they’re not the fast food variety!) But if I had to pick one thing, it’d be how the team erases a lot of her 4th-wall break moments, namely how she often seems to read Nick’s mind. I realize they’re supposed to be private thoughts, but Maya just has her way to get into his head. I don’t see any particular reason to why they had to do that. It even adds to her so-called “ESP”.8. I’m not sure what this question is referring to, but I can answer if it’s about her favorite food. As Ms. Hsu has mentioned on her blog, the localization team picks a few liberties when what is culturally appropriate and what should be changed to make the characters “feel more relatable” or something like that. In Maya’s case, they wanted an inexpensive food item that was really accessible here in the US, and burgers were the way to go. In context, it would seem out of place that they would specifically target ramen shops when they’re among the more expensive items here in the states.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Now you've finished reading Deltora Quest's first series can I ask for your overall thoughts? What you liked and didn't like, your favorite book, etc,ecta.

Jasmine will be queen in my heart forever. I love her. 

I think City of Rats or Dread Mountain is probably my favorite book. I liked the way Noradz was written a lot, very clever.