#bad criticism

[autisticzenitsu]

"At the beginning with Urokodaki was the only time Tanjiro's indecisiveness was alluded to"

Oh, so I guess this moment:

just doesn't exist then.

Can we PLEASE force the entire KNY fandom to take like 12 media literacy courses. I AM BEGGING YOU ALL TO GET SOME MEDIA LITERACY.

[sapphiresaphics]

The number of people who conflate “bad writing” with “I didn’t like how things ended up” is deeply distressing. Additionally the number of people who say “the creators hated X character” because they didn’t get as much screen time as another character is also distressing.

Jesus fucking Christ guys, you’ve gotta find a way to work through your emotions without immediately resorting to BLAME and HATE. It’s okay to be upset a character didn’t get as much focus as you would have liked, but that doesn’t automatically make the writing “bad.” Especially if that’s not the main focus of the story being told.

Pick your battles kids.

[dudesome]

By this point, if I see someone claim Cait gassed random civilians in Zaun and not the Chembarons, I am NOT listening to what they have to say about the show.

Really sucks how my favourite show gets criticism for things that didn't happen.

[crazmix]

Helluva boss criticizers are the new Steven universe Cristal and are worse than Lilly orchard when it comes to nick picking most of their arguments are just read told Steven universe critical points

Stolas 🍇ed biltz is just the sardonyx arc is about SA point with a different show

stolas is a abuser is the lapis abuser point all over again

The claims that the creator is a racist with little to no proof

And the blitz is innocent in all this is the part when no one ever criticized no one dared have pardot criticized area

It's so funny seeing history repeat itself

[kittenfangirl20]

Spoilers for the new Helluva Boss short.

Some of the complaints I have seen about it are stupid, the main one is that it was hypocritical to kill a man who didn’t do anything wrong when he spared Karen’s husband in Sinsmas. They seem to have forgotten that Blitzø is a demon from Hell who is a killer for hire, this probably isn’t the first innocent person he killed and it probably won’t be the last one. Also the whole reason why he spared the guy in Sinsmas wasn’t because he was a good man, it was because he saw himself in the guy and he imagined himself, Stolas, Loona, and Octavia in the same situation. How hard is it for you to grasp? Do you need things like this spelled out for you? I guess I am expecting too much from some people to understand the show don’t tell tactic used in media.

[thirstypanda87]

So Lily thinks she's fucking psychic, I guess. Because she can magically read the minds of anyone who's a fan of her Scrappy character du jour.

(I did declare Gus to be my child in the first episode I saw him in, but that's more about my affection for him than infantilizing)

Just like the damsel in distress trope, having a Black girl in the role of a brooding abuse survivor breaks more stereotypes than it pushes, regardless of how you think fans would react to her (I'd personally find it comforting since I know firsthand what it's like to deal with that struggle as a Black girl/AFAB person and I know it's seldom taken seriously). But since Lily doesn't understand real people any more than she understands the media she consumes/critiques, the fact that anyone else might find such a character comforting or intriguing doesn't even occur to her.

[hellyeahheroes]

I Want Shorter Games With Worse Graphics by Lextorias

[tlaquetzqui]

Please stop pretending it’s unrealistic for a work to have no LGBT characters. Humanity is 96% straight. The remaining 4% is half gay and half bi. Statistically, half the bi people can be assumed to be in an opposite-sex relationship at any given time. So there is a 3% chance of any character being in a same-sex relationship—so if there are fewer than 33 characters, it is not unrealistic that none of them are.

Of course, fiction doesn’t have to be realistic, and protagonists are not statistically typical people. You can have whatever demographics you want for them—you can write stories about albinos, who are a lot less than 3% of the population. But other creators can have whatever demographics they want; you can have all the representation you like, even overrepresentation, but others have the same freedom. Even including underrepresentation.

Nobody is actually required to represent any group, even if statistically a representative would likely show up; you can absolutely have a work set in America with no major Christian characters at all, even though Christians make up 13 Americans in every 20. Nobody has to have LGBT characters even if they have so many characters that a same-sex relationship is statistically likely to happen among them. (And not only because portraying a gay couple in a manner that doesn’t exactly correspond to some Twitter troll’s wholly arbitrary prescriptions, known only to them, is asking to be harassed. Though that is a factor.)