#danguy96

[angelrinisadork]

I have never played any of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but now I want to play it just so I can romance Dimitri. A tall, blond, and handsome prince who becomes a feral murder hobo you can fix? You had me at “prince”.

Plus, I’m a sucker for anything that makes for a good Beauty and the Beast AU.

It’s a little bit more complicated than that. Tbh I started to resent AUs like that because it paints Dimitri and Byleth with a broad brush. Dimitri and Byleth both save each other. It’s not just fixing a feral hobo man. In part 1 Dimitri helps Byleth slowly open up and discover their humanity. In part 2 Dimitri is a sad broken man and Byleth helps him remember he is a man not a monster. There is a lot of nuance and the fandom boiled it to “I can fix him” ship or constant horny stuff that I don’t vibe with. I used to laugh at some of the jokes 2 years ago but now I actually find it so overdone it’s beyond parody and misses the point why I love them.

No offense to you, I actually had a conversation like this with a friend recently about how much we feel people miss the point about why Edel*eth and Dimi*leth are great ships. And it just rubs us both the wrong way.

Dimitri is actually a really complex character. Too complex for the writers tbh, all the 3H characters are. I love the characters a lot. The discourse and exaggerations I see sadly made me worn out on 3H content. I still have a huge place in my heart for them tho.

[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

Didn’t somebody make an edit of his Star Wars comic which gave the real reasons why the actors were harassed? With them adding in that the media played a big part in Ahmed Best and Jake Lloyd’s harassment? I’m trying to find it, but for the love of me I can’t.

Did some digging and found it. Don’t think I ever made a post on it, it was a reply to one of his Twitter accounts.

Also found this in the KF Star Wars thread.

[corhore]

Do you have those previous panels/pages of where Jen went “Berserker She-Hulk” in the past, but she hated it because it felt like the worst in her? I would like to save those images for reference. I saw them before on your blog.

I got it right here. 

[just-absolutely-super]

So, I’ve finally decided to watch Fairy Tail, so, as a newcomer could you please give me some info and pointers about this show?

Hmmm not sure how much you want me to indulge without spoiling everything, so let me just give you a generalized rundown of the series

1. Fairy Tail is flawed

By GOD is it flawed! This series is my darling, but I’m not blind enough to think it’s perfect. Sometimes the pacing can go too fast. Sometimes something interesting is introduced only for the execution to fall flat. Sometimes characterizations don’t go in a way you were hoping to because Status Quo Is God. Sometimes it’s just not that great.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve been to FT’s TVTropes page, but I wouldn’t be surprised if their YMMV page is a mile long lmao

2. There is fanservice

If you like big anime tiddies then you’re in luck! Mashima likes big anime tiddies too because they sell lmao.

Sometimes it can be too much (I’ve seen people leave the fandom because they just got so sick of the fanservice) but as someone who was reading Soul Eater before picking up FT...it honestly didn’t bother me. It could be annoying, yes, but I had become so desensitized to it I’ve just learned to go with it.

3. Sometimes it’s Not That Deep™

Yeah...the fandom liked to get their hopes up about a lot of things. Like...a lot of things. And then it turns out it wasn’t all that big of a deal to the plot and therefore wasn’t explored to the extent it probably could have. You just have to watch/read to judge for yourself if you actually like it or not

4. The anime can be....eh

The first anime at least (idk the details but they changed the staff around and the anime got a different art style in 2014)

Like...I don’t like the FT anime. It just wasn’t for me when I was initially watching it. I didn’t like some of the things they added. I didn’t like how BRIGHT the first incarnation was. I didn’t like how they handled some scenes. I didn’t like the filler arcs (except Key of the Starry Sky Arc...that one wasn’t all that bad I guess but I still have my problems with it)

However, despite my misgivings for it, it is a pretty solid adaptation, so it’s cool if you stick to the anime and forgo the manga

5. The Power of Friendship™ is real and you WILL like it!

By all accounts and purposes these assholes should have been dead a long time ago but by golly were they gonna persevere because they just LOVE THEIR FRIENDS SO FUCKING MUCH

And the last generalization...

6. Fairy Tail is flawed...but it can be good

Despite the flaws, there are very good messages in this series. Fairy Tail helped me grow a lot as a person just because of Mashima’s heartfelt messages about friendship and love and forgiveness. The characters are lovable, and you can’t help but just...care about the story and where it could go next.

Can it be cliched and cheesy? Oh hell yes. Is it endearing? Well, depends on who you ask, but I think it is.

If you have more questions about it feel free to come back but that’s all I can think of to tell you without just giving everything away lol

Happy watching! (or reading if you decide to read the manga)

[araitsume]

This commission by @chillguydraws​ is a representation of @danguy96​‘s Zayla Ren a.k.a. Ki’ara, one of the villains in his Star Wars Sequel Trilogy rewrite project. When Dan approached asked me to get this made for him, I was a bit skeptical as his Tumblr post was all I had for reference. This changed when he shared enough references (courtesy of EyeOfSemicolon and Midori) and backstory for this character that sold me on the idea. Feel free to hit Dan up for more information.

[tumblezwei]

1/2 A friend of mine said this, but in hindsight, DreamWorks really shouldn’t have made a She-Ra cartoon if they didn’t currently use the rights to He-Man, since it removes half the lore and worldbuilding material, which this show desperately needed, and to paraphrase what they said, it’s like making a Supergirl show, but you can’t reference or explain anything which debuted in Action Comics or a Superman story. Not even Krypton.

2/2 And it’s likely we’ll never get further future elaborations on Eternia or Grayskull, since the next two He-Man shows are being produced in-house by Mattel (one is even being showrun by Kevin Smith), and Mattel barely seems to care about Nu-Rab(the toys are only sold at Target, and they barely promoted the show, which was dumped onto Netflix over the course of a year and a few months). Plus, we were robbed of cute brother-sister interactions between Adam and Adora.

To be real fuckin honest. 

I think that was my biggest disappointment going into the show, was the announcement that it wouldn’t have any connection to the rest of Masters of the Universe. I had never seen the original She-Ra or He-Man before, but when spop was announced I watched a good chunk of both to see what I would be getting myself into, and I was actually incredibly excited. The pacing, animation, and plot were a mess, but the atmosphere was great and the plot could have really been something special if reworked a bit with modern day story and animation quality.  There would have been such a good opportunity to take advantage of that expansive lore, but it had to be entirely self-contained which did not help at all with how small the world felt. And even with the characters they had, they squandered them either on gags (hello Tung Lashur), plot points (hello Flutterina), or were completely stripped of their character (hello Sea Hawk). 

There were a lot of things from the OG She-Ra that would have been great moments in the new show if they were expanded and refined. I liked that Adora was a force captain in the beginning and it took some serious convincing on Adam’s part to get her to question Shadow Weaver and eventually break from her spell. Imagine Force Captain Adora, the woman who has personally oppressed the people of Etheria, suddenly changing sides and needing to actually deal with those actions and convince the Etherians that she’s on their side! Imagine fleshing out the rebellion, that started out as a ragtag group of survivors from Etheria! Imagine it!

But in the reboot we get Adora changing sides almost immediately and never really having to deal with any personal involvement in the Horde’s misdeeds. And the most we ever see of any regular civilians is in the Generic Villages and those three people that work in Entrapta’s palace. 

AND YEAH WE WERE ROBBED OF THAT BROTHER-SISTER RELATIONSHIP!! My cynical theory is that Kyle was created specifically to take a jab at Adam, because for the amount that he’s belittled, mocked, and overall shit upon, there’s no way he wasn’t created to spite someone. 

[chelledoggo]

I just wanted to let you know that I still care about you, and that I love you, even after everything that’s happened. I would miss you terribly if you left. It’s okay if you wanna take a break from the Internet, but please remember that you’re friends are still here to support you, no matter what *hugs*.

-hugs-

thank you 💖

[jaamytarts]

It's funny how "woke" people claim the Captain Marvel movie is, but the film turns Monica Rambeau into a child who is saddled with the stereotype of a black person coming from a broken home, with Carol as a sort of "white savior", in making Mar-Vell a woman, they inadverdantly erase who his two gay children, Hulkling and Phyla-Vell (and his son who struggles with mental health), and made the Skrulls, conquerors who hide in plain, into a clumsy refugee allegory (Unfortunate implications, much?).

Yeah it’s a bit of a mess isn’t it. I didn’t mind too much that Talos and friends were good, but them going oh ALL THE SKRULLS ARE GOOD and Kree are completely evil, kind of just ruined them ya know. But they had to have Carol be 100% right and lmao the kree-skrull war was so not the place for that. I shall forever be upset about Mar-Vell. Complete waste of him/her. That not even getting into the military propaganda the movie is riddled with.