#karmakaze

[earthnode]

🎵your misplaced aggression is gaining a momentum🎵

[vaspider]

karmakaze replied to your post “How do I join the "Vaspider is my new parent" club b/c it seems rad...”

Can I be the Cool Aunt?

Sure, why not? We have a couple of those.

[stephensttrange]

Scott had one of the "better" reasons to dislike Stark because everything he knows came filtered through Hank Pym's longstanding grudge. As far as him coming along, the mission was supposed to be shady but not permanent incarceration shady. As a felon, he's having a lot of trouble finding work, and the Avengers are apparently hiring. Hawkeye (who fetched him) had been able to be an Avenger and a good dad. Until the airport, the kerfuffle looked salvageable even to Steve and Tony.

ehh, i understand what you’re saying but i really don’t have any sympathy for any of his actions. he’s already been incarcerated in the past, i don’t understand how he can be so flippant to say ‘eh, what’s new /shrug’ when captain america explicitly tells him that they’re outside the law on this one. i don’t understand what led him to make a distinction between normal shady and ‘permanent incarceration’ shady. he of all people must know that if you don’t follow the law, you have to bear the consequences of your actions. then i don’t see why he blames anyone else for the very predictable consequences of the decisions he himself made as an adult. 

but mostly i don’t understand how he could leave his daughter behind. like, his whole motivation in ant man is to become a better person for his daughter, spend more time with her and be someone she can look up to. now captain america bats his eyelashes and he’s ready to put all of that on the line? for what exactly? he isn’t even told about the other winter soldiers etc, he’s just ready to fight a bunch of avengers because captain america told him to? how can it not cross his mind that going against the law might keep him from potentially seeing his daughter again and even worse put her in danger if people are out looking from him? i don’t understand his decision to leave his daughter behind and to go against the law for essentially an adrenaline rush. i’m sorry but i can’t respect his actions at all. 

[allyitis]

karmakaze replied to your post “i”mms ro fucking drunk plz end me questions”

Why is a mouse when it spins?

why this

[tikishades]

FYI, the complaint you about Mary Sues is not about self-inserts per se. The OP probably understands what a Mary Sue is just fine. The complaint is that almost any time a female character is shown as heroic, parts of fandom will complain that she is a Mary Sue, when the same traits in male leads are not criticized the same way. The OP is complaining about the way the label is applied. I should also note that Mary Sue is not a gender neutral label (c.f. "Gary Sue", "Marty Stu".)

I've never liked the idea that Mary Sue isn't gender neutral. I see no reason to make up new names just so it fits a preconceived notion of what a "boy" name and a "girl" name are. "Mary Sue" is named as such because of an actual character who was named that, and exemplified the trope. We use the term "trenchcoat" for overly Rule of Cool characters with poorly defined depth, even if they don't actually wear the eponymous trenchcoat.

Back on topic: If that's the complaint, then the fandoms don't understand what the trope means. Its an author insert that is meant to boost their ego by making them over-proficient in numerous tasks (usually by being naturally good at them) and having nearly zero flaws to compensate. There aren't really "Mary Sue" traits. A Mary Sue is the end result of a culmination of traits.

I guess I didn't understand what they were complaining about, because I've never seen it myself. A Mary Sue is a Mary Sue, regardless of gender. They're almost always bleedingly apparent to me.

My apologies to OP. I've made a goof.

[moniquill]

karmakaze replied to your post: Command! You make level-headed and logical arguments and I think you'd be a good problem solver.

Only if you are wearing captain’s pips. If I were you, I’d just go ahead with the admiral’s rank insignia as long as you’re at it.

Well of COURSE I'd have the pips.

I don't feel that 'Admiral' rolls off the tongue the way that 'Captain' does. Also, there's far less mention of admirals in poetry by dead white dudes. How am I gonna tie it into a theoretical lesson plan? How am I gonna get kids to quot Dead Poets Society at me?

[thefreaklovesmusic]

That Handsome Devil - Karmakaze

[ridingtohellinahandbasket]

Trivia matters

karmakaze replied to your post: No Re-blog

I figure some of it is that it’s trivial to save the image and reblog manually or reblog with a screenshot.

Yeah, that's why I said "secure as you can."  It may be trivial to you and me to do such a thing (being as technologically adept as we are), but I have a hunch that it isn't trivial to many users of Tumblr.  And why would we want to make it easier for such a thing, anyway?  I know I've been burned more than once by the reblog feature, and I'm sure that many others have, too.