Thinking how I've been wanting to write a klavier centric fic based around this mashup and explore in more depth how the aftermath of Turnabout Succession affected him for some time noe.
Because, as much as I am a klapollo truther and still stand with my post of Klavier moving to Khura'in and healing from everything and getting together with Apollo properly, I also believe that whatever happened between him and Apollo between aa4 and aa5 was mutual and not only from Pollys's side. (Side note, dislike the tsundere!apollo fanon take, and hate how widespread it is btw).
I can see Apollo trying to approach Klavier and help him, but Klavier using his suave rockstar façade to assure the attorney nothing is wrong and that he'll get over it, causing Apollo to, at some point, stop trying to pry Klavier's shell open and let whatever they had going on dissolve.
I can see Klavier berating himself for what he's doing, for burning one of the few good bridges he's ever built and that adding to his already preexisting issues of how he seems unable to not involve himself with the worst of the worst and what does that say about him. The real him and not the rockstar persona. Man...
...I'll always be angry at how wasted Klav is as a character. He could've been not only a perfect foil for Apollo and a counter to Edgeworth (character wise), but he could have been one of the most complex characters to come from the saga next to Athena and the Feys. Instead, we got the 5th and 6th installments revolving around Phoenix and his overarching-chewed too much to swallow plots, depriving the main cast of AA4 proper development and rushing the plotlines and character beats of the main casts of said sequels.
TL;DR: Klavier will always remain my fave Ace Attorney character in spite of how mixed my feelings of the games and fandom are, I'll always hate Capcom for wasting his potential and one day I'll try my hand at exploring Klavier's depth. Because he deserves it. Deserves more and better than the flanderization he recieved.
A Nice Little Love Note to The Dingus Critics and General Public Who Seem to Not Get These Fabulous Movies and Story in General 💋:
I bet the people calling It Chapter 2 “bad” were actually expecting a straight up horror movie and not a movie with like, oh idk... actual depth, characters who love each other and bond, and an actual story to it and not just death and blood?? WHAT A DAMN CONCEPT, MY GOD.
Like the horror is THERE but it ain’t the main focus ma’am.
PENNYWISE IS JUST A FUCKING SIDE NUISANCE TO THE BIGGER PICTURE. THE BIGGER PICTURE BEING THE ACTUAL FUCKING MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEIR DYNAMIC AKSKSK
Like oh fucking SNAP we have to actually watch characters with a backstory? And get to know them with character development? That don’t just fucking die brutally? Ugh, lame.
IT 👏🏻 IS NOT 👏🏻 ABOUT 👏🏻 PENNYWISE 👏🏻 OR 👏🏻 HORROR 👏🏻 (and Pennywise ain’t even the actual entity anyway smh like do people not even— anyway, I digress).
I saw one review on the book complaining about how they’re “over half way through it and Pennywise hasn’t even appeared yet.” Wait, hold the fuck on a damn minute here—
I’m sorry ... is THAT why some people read the book and watch the movies?! I watch it for the friendship dynamic and feels. Oopsie, SILLY ME. 🙄🤣💀
Like how often can you say there’s a horror movie where you actually feel something for the characters, and to the extent of these characters. Most horror films I watch they have the main characters as throw away Mary Sue’s or John Doe’s that are literally just there to die. I don’t get attached to them at all. I mean yeah I guess it sucks that they die or whatever, but these were the first horror movies where I was like wait, the fuck?! Characters I’m falling in love with? In a horror movie? WHAAAT
So yeah IT definitely holds a big and special place in my heart and will always remain very unique and wonderful to me, thank you for coming to my completely pointless and mind numbingly long TED talk. 💀
PS, this obviously isn’t towards the IT fandom it’s basically just me talking into the void to the dumb critics that will never even see this aksksks
Love all of those "you don't need to constantly produce to belong in a fandom" posts. They're so blatantly untrue it's painful. Unless you're producing art (and high quality, multiple days work art. Not stick figures or chiken scratches) or writing fanfic (and again high quality fanfic, not 100-200 silly drabbles) then is as if you do not exist in fandom.
And this doesn't only happen in new fandoms of new media that are already corrupted with hyper consumerism and programmed obsolescence thanks to corporations turning fandom into another profiting tool, I'm seeing this on fandoms who existed before this consumerism/corporativism frenzy. Back before all of this dystopic development, one could post their silly hc of their blorbos and wake up the next day with hundreds of notes and other people branching off of them. It felt like a community who shared the same tastes. Do that in nowadays fandom culture, you'd be lucky if it ends up reaching 20 notes.
It's either producing and producing and PRODUCING high quality stuff and manage to create a small community around it or better stay in the sidelines consuming, consuming, and consuming. Because your contributions will never be enough to satisfy this horrifying mindset that has been installed in our minds thanks to subtle yet insistent propaganda:
And sadly, we probably won't go back to the good old days in where your silly 100 words crack drabbles of your blorbos could become fandom classics, or when a silly doodle would end up sparking a whole AU within the canon material. We are part of a disgusting and depressing corporative internet, and sadly, we're here forever. And it becomes more and more true with the death of livejournal, the disappearance of dreamwithd and kink memes and with the turning of fanfic.net into an adware farm.
Maybe I'm in the wrong, and things will end up changing in the future. We may end up creating another internet like the one from the past. But with how the world is regressing and how corporativism, programmed obsolescence and hyper consumerism culture are praised to high end, is hard to have hope.
TL;DR: Fandom has turned into another "you're only good as long as you're producing high quality products" industry thanks to rampant corporativism and the capitalization of fanmade media. And with it belonging to the corpotrative internet, it will stay like that for a very, very long time.
Wow, my last post aboth this got quiet a track huh. Maybe I didn’t word my self well, but it was more just “on the moment” rant after finally finshing this movie that I had to watch in snippets and with bad image and sound quality for 2 months. This are more my collective thoughts and criticism with all the AsuMari/Kawoshin situation and this movie and franchise as a whole now that we won’t get more canon/official material (I guess?), so take em with a grain (or a ton) of salt.
As always, warning of spoilers for both Evangelion 3.0 and Evangelion 3.0+1.0.
It saddens me seeing western fans supporting bad decisions when it comes to LGBT representation in countries that are still fighting for LGBT rights, such as “We are pairing these 2 men, one who could be bisexual and the other who’s gay, with women at the end bc being gay is just a confusing phase, and with time you end up dating/marrying someone of the opposite sex like normal people do” or “This two dudes have co-dependant relationship like this hetero couple do, but the hetero couple gets a happy ever after and the gay dudes get hit with the bad relationship hammer”. Makes my blood boil. You don’t have to end with someone of the opposite sex (hell, you don’t have to end up with anyone at all) to be happy in life. There’s nothing wrong with being gay/lesbian, bi, pan, ace or aro.
And this isn’t only about Kawoshin, AsuMari (And especially Asuka), were used in this movie mostly for the sexy chicks making out trope and as pieces of meat to oogle on (Or did you think that their rainbow costumes and they piloting an EVA together like Kaworu and Shinji that had and holographic figure that resembles a heart in 3.0 was a coincidence? Especially after what they did to the guys in this very film?).
I was a fan of Evangelion bc I loved the idea of a Mecha anime that also tackled controversial stuff: That showed the effects of bad parenting and trauma and how they could affect someone’s psyche and well-being, when talking about mental health is still taboo in Japan. That they weren’t afraid of showing a man telling another man that they loved them, to the point of sacrificing themselves for the other’s safety, when gay marriage is still illegal in Japan. That in EoE, they showed two women in love reuninting before dying. That they weren’t afraid to poke fun at otaku culture and the gross hipersexualization of teenagers in media, especially teenager women.
But what the rebuilds have shown me is that maybe Evangelion wasn’t all that special, and all those controversial topics it tackled back in the 90s Anime were mostly there for shock value and to woobify the protagonist. That maybe the religious symbolism was just there for aesthetic and that if you want something different from the Mecha genre then go watch something else. That maybe the hope they ignited in japanese queer fans when one of the protagonist could be openly bisexual and the other gay, was there to milk their wallets and nothing more.
And not only shippers and western queer fans are dissapointed at how Evangelion ended as a whole, there’s also tons and tons of lgbt japanese fans that feel used and upset, that they were given false hopes after 3.0, that they were queerbaited for nearly 30 years, but are afraid to speak up bc of their situation. If it was going to end like this, especially after a movie in which Kaworu reafirmns his feelings for Shinji and they are the only 2 important characters, needing to be perfectly sinchronized to pilot an EVA meant for couples, and Kaworu takes Shinji’s burdens in the form of a necklace that’ll kill him and puts them on himself, saving him once more; then I would have preferred for the Rebuilds to never have happened and let the franchise die with EoE.
If Anno wanted to do meta comentary about shipping and how it’s not everything to a show, that the protagonist doesn’t need a harem of people to be paired with for the story to be compelling and interesting, he could have done that sure, by leaving everyone single at the end. Leaving them in a new happy world, were angels are no more and EVAs are gone, and where they can start to heal from their traumas and get better. Where they can start being happy.
When Shinji and Mari are climbing those stairs at the end and they see what their friends are doing, let Shinji be alone, watching as Asuka is maybe enjoying herself buying the clothes that she wants, let him see Rei tending to the farm and smiling, let him see Kaworu playing the piano next to the sea with an audience. Let Shinji see them walking into their paths to recovery and being that what makes him more confident to start his own. That, for me, would’ve been a perfect ending, even if I didn’t enjoy what it comes before it. Bc Shinji wasn’t tied to any more time loops, that he could, finally, start healing and loving himself. Leaving the possibility of all different ships and pairings out in the open, the possibility of anything can happen now.
But it was clear as day when I saw Mari taking Shinji’s necklace and destroying it, making a parallel to Kaworu doing the same in 3.0, “an act of sacrifice made from selfless love”, that Shinji and Mari were the end game couple (that and Mari saying a line to Shinji that Anno’s wife told him irl after they started dating), even if they barely interacted with one another during this timeline and Mari only had contact with Yui, Gendo and baby Shinji in the Manga. What is done, it’s done. Kawoshin and AsuMari will never be canon, and that’s that.
Anno wanted to say goodbey to this franchise so badly, that he made a movie that in general is... meh. But it saddens me that a product that back 20 years ago wasn’t afraid to show a deconstruction of the Mecha genre and Anime as a whole, now was exploited to the point of becoming what it was criticising from the start: a product made for horny otakus that get off to nude drawings of teenager Asuka and big booby Mari, that Shinji ends up with the big booby and “motherly” waifu and with implied conservative commentary telling you that doubting your sexuality or not being straight is “just a phase”.
But sure, Star Trek JJ Abrams Reboot bad bc they made clearly queer coded character Spock straight and made a gay actor kiss a chick (I think that comes with the job of performance and being an actor, y’know... acting?), and Supernatural and Destiel bad bc the gay angel’s feelings weren’t reciprocated and was sent to superhell, but having the possibility of Kaworu’s sexual orientation being always hidden or used as a joke by other characters by implying that he ends up with Rei is ok or gets justified. Whatever helps you all sleep at night. I’m done. I shouldn’t be getting so angry at all of this, there are more productive things I could be doing with my life. And yet, here we are.
I’m baffled i’m having to say this in this day and age but... please fucking learn fandom etiquette.
I don’t know why, but today seems the day of “Everyone’s going to shit or mock the ships you enjoy on the ship’s tag” and I’m fucking tired. You prefer the hetero couple over the gay couple and don’t headcanon a character the same sexual orientation as me? Great, don’t fucking tag the gay ship in your post.
That you prefer the gay ship instead of the hetero one? Cool, good for you, don’t tag the het ship that you dislike, or tag it as “anti x ship”. And this apply to all combinations.
I, for example, I’ve done 3 post complaining about queerbaiting in the new Evangelion movie and I talked about how I don’t like Kaworu/Rei and Shinji/Mari being endgame. And you know what I did? Not tag those 2 ships in my post. And you know why I didn’t tag them? Because fellas, just because I don’t like those ships or they’re my NOTPs, I’m not going to ruin the fun of those who do enjoy them. Is basic respect and politeness. I’m not gonna get in their sandbox when they aren’t bothering anyone.
I don’t know how many users I had to block today just because of that. Are you trying to start a ship war? Or are you so bored that you need to start drama by flinging shit at the ships you don’t like on their main tags just to anger some people and start a petty fight that’ll go nowhere? Bc I’m gonna be honest, that’s just pretty fucking stupid.
If you have NOTPs or ships you dislike like everyone does, rant as much as you want about them, but don’t put your posts and rants in their main tags or tag them as “anti ship”. Have some, even if it’s just a tiny bit, of common sense.
You know what really sucks? People say all the time that vegans are so pompous and conceited. And those people are so wrong. I literally cannot go to a single meal out with my family without hearing, “oh she’s vegan” and a bunch of bull about it. I am so sick and tired of being asked about my protein, how “good” fish is for me, and having my family revel in it. WHILE HI, HELLO, I AM VERY UNCOMFORTABLE/MAD/SAD/HUMILIATED. I asked you if I should get a veggie pizza with no cheese or pasta with tomato sauce because I was torn at HAVING TWO OPTIONS ON A MENU I COULD ACTUALLY EAT THAT WEREN’T SALADS. I DID NOT ask you to start a tirade to tell everyone how “awful” they both sound and promptly start on my being a vegan. Like where is the respect? We are sitting with people we don’t know, surrounded by people we don’t know, and served by people we don’t know. I’m not ashamed to be a vegan but I sure as hell don’t wanna have to defend myself for it to a bunch of ignorant strangers. If I choose not to mention something and innocently ask you a question, I just want a fucking opinion on my god damn pizza, not my life choices. Do I meet strangers and say “hello, this is my _, _, she has *blank problem/disease/not easily reconcilable difference from you. SHE DOESN’T EVEN EAT HONEY!” SHUT. UP. I did not asked to be fucking attacked or to have to remove myself from the situation and be forced into solitude for the rest of the night. Why can my sister be the god sent child who is a researcher at a med lab? Why am I the vegan, and why the fuck is it a bad thing? I’d rather be Finland or America girl again actually. But you know what would be so amazing that the world might stop spinning?? If y’all didn’t make me the bad guy for being ethical. Maybe I too could be the good guy, for having supported myself in a different country at the age of 15, and supporting myself consistently since then as a minor able to afford plane tickets across the world? Why am I not the soon to be doctor daughter planning to study neuroscience abroad in the most medically advanced country in the world? Why the fuck am I just a vegan and who the fuck gave everyone the idea that it is me who won’t shut the fuck about about it?
Anxiety is the worst I literally am making myself suffer over absolutely nothing it's so ridiculous & then when I calm down I feel like a complete idiot because what I was getting worked up over wasn't even that big of a deal & then I end up feeling sorry for myself for feeling stupid It's so exhausting. & I'm sure the people who are watching my whole mess go down are exhausted by it too. My boyfriends seen me do this a few times now & I just feel so bad about it & I get so apologetic I don't mean to put him through it If there was something magical that got rid of anxiety I would totally use that magical something and rid myself of this stupid burden I don't mean to blow things out of proportion and make things worse for myself than it's really is I don't even notice it's happening until I'm in the middle of crying or after I've calmed down I only get like this when I'm stressed out and I've been stressed out recently & I'm trying really hard to fix it and im trying my best to not let things get me down & I'm just trying so hard but it doesn't feel like I'm doing enough. I know I'm doing my best and that's all I can do but it just doesn't feel like enough. Ugh I just wanna get out of this rut and not be so sensitive all the damn time.
