#mikey rambles

[m1chael-angelo]

got called a "freak of nature" at school today. Guess us mutants saving the world isn't enough for some people...

[mikeyp16]

Adding onto my previous rant cuz these tags refueled my fire for a more cohesive rant.

First off: People call Planes 2 a Cars 3 ripoff?? HUH??? Where TF is that argument coming from? But I guess it ties into the second point, I've also noticed a lot of people are so quick to dismiss both Planes movies really easily, (not helped by cartoon reviewers who also dismiss these movies)

I’ll state my bias, I personally enjoyed Planes more as a kid, and have fond memories of them. Are the Planes movies perfect? No, but they are just as valid films as the Cars movies. plane kids deserve movies just as much as car kids.

When it comes to critiquing the films there are some valid critiques but most people don't go that route to justify their hatred for the films. First if you’re going to critique the films you should at least categorize it correctly.. Like people calling it a ripoff are not just wrong because of how different Cars and Planes are, they’re also wrong because Planes is a Spinoff. It takes place in the same universe that follows different characters and a different area of the world. Forgive me for bringing up the controversial franchise but that's like calling Helluva Boss a Ripoff of Hazbin Hotel, like that’s just not true??

Secondly, Planes and Cars have very different themes and the protagonists go on very different journeys, and I feel like people calling Planes a copy is a by-product of people missing the whole point of Cars 1. 

Cars 1 isn't about racing. What I mean by that is the film doesn't really revolve around McQueen preparing for and participating in a race like most racing films do. Yes there is a time between the three way tie and the tie breaker race, but McQueen spends that time in Radiator Springs, fixing the road he broke. Along the way he learns to slow down, appreciate the smaller parts of life, that you can't always be a one man show and that winning isn't everything. The King even foreshadows the Lesson Mcqueen is going to learn at the end of the intro race. McQueens conversation with mater and later with Doc are both good examples of McQueen maturing as a person, being less of an asshole and letting people help him. When he loses his mojo and motivation for the race you can literally see it come back when he sees his friends and by implementing what he’s learned from Doc. At its barest bones, Cars is about a celebrity learning to be humble and winning not by physically passing the line, but by being a good sport. That is the theme and message of the first Cars. 

Planes on the other hand is more of an underdog racing film. Being about Dusty trying to overcome what those around him keep telling him to be. Throughout the film Dusty is almost always constantly being reminded he’s a crop duster, he isn't built for speed and that he should stick to crop dusting. He’s told this so much it frustrates him, and you can see this in his conversation with Skipper when he gets chosen. (i used that clip on the previous post)

You can tell in his voice that Dusty is frustrated, he KNOWS he’s a crop duster, he doesn't need people to keep telling him he’s very much aware of that fact. But you can tell he’s un fulfilled, he’s tired of doing the same thing for years as he’s put it, he wants to race because he wants to fulfill a dream of his, in his home you can see the racing posters and figures to show how important this dream is to him. At the start of the film his goal isn't really to win, but to prove he can do it. It's here where the two films’ themes really diverge. 

Like I've mentioned Planes does have some genuine critiques, like the weird military ending (not even I can explain why) or the plot hole surrounding Skipper’s time in the navy yet only having one medal? Even if he did only one mission I'm sure he would have had a few more, considering the age he’s implied to be? Like he would have had to do quite a bit before becoming a flight instructor correct? I do love Skip but i think they tried to re-create Doc’s Backstory when in context it doesn't really work, keeping your racing past a secret is different than repressing your military service, etc, But these are conversations for another day

My point with bringing these up is that some people when critiquing Planes tend to dismiss it as a cars clone and call it a day or pull points that arent relevent to the film, this is especially true with Planes: Fire and Rescue, ( PFR ) and comparing it to Cars 3

First, saying this is a copy of cars 3 is crazy, especially when Planes Fire and Rescue came out first,

Plus while in both films the MC is forced to stop racing, in Cars 3 McQueen keeps trying to prove he can still do it, Dusty essentially becomes disabled since his gear box is out of production and while he tries to go McQueen’s route to prove he still can race at first it doesn't work out.

On a surface level, the films are about how life doesnt always go the way we want it, but they handle it differently. While McQueen tries to continue the Racing life and prove he's still got it and eventually staying with Racing, in PFR Dusty physically cant but learns that even with his busted gearbox, he cant let it stop him from doing something esspecially when it comes to firefighting

This moment with Blade showcases this

This is what makes these films different, at least to me. and yeah my bias might be showing as I am not the hugest fan of Cars 3, but It annoys me that people "analyse" and critique Planes when they only under stand both Planes and Cars on a surface level. Or just go with what the cartoon reveiwers say about them. (Like saying Fire and Rescue is propaganda but we're not gonna go into that)

TLDR: Planes are underrated and people need to stop calling the films cars clones because it proves they missed the point of both

[corpseybun]

Why is there no DID/OSDD fnaf vanny vanessa fics. There's all this healing fluff found family stuff for yknow glamfred, gregory, and vanessa but none that takes vanny into account. Why? Literally would be peak.

I must write it myself, it seems. But. I don't want to.

Aughhhggrrrrgggg the pains of being an artist.

[magic-mikey]

@alphab00tyyyshaker9000

[gukkiebunny]

saw someone's absolutely fucking bonkers teen titans fancast on twt (it was bonkers because they fancasted DWAYNE JOHNSON as cyborg but all but one of their other fancasts was just... kinda boring tbh) so I've spontaneously decided to make my own fancast

Aidan Gallagher as Robin

Jenna Ortega as Raven (the one thing the person on twt got right with their fancast)

Jacob Tremblay as Beast Boy

Avantika as Starfire (you can't tell me she wouldn't be perfect)

Chosen Jacobs as Cyborg

[surohsopsisofclouds]

should i give anyone who asks for one a poll

yes

no

only if they give me fic recs for our current obsession (rottmnt)

Voting ended onJan 29, 2023

[biitchofthewild]

finally changed my blog color cause the light purple i had it as, despite how much I love that shade of purple, makes me think of t*rfs (e) and like... ew

[chiafett-moved]

YOOO!! Finally someone who recognizes my trio of psychopaths Faie, Neyo, and Bacara!! I'm not alone in living these bois!!

Okay asdglkjlk I know you meant this as an acknowledgement of the unhinged men, but you’ve unfortunately run headlong into my newest hyperfixation: psychopathy, dissociative disorders, cluster B personalities, C-PTSD, and the way these can all feed into/mirror each other. 

So now, unprompted, have an amateur analysis of why Faie is actually the only listed clone to whom I think the label “psychopath” applies.

Alright. To be a psychopath, you first must have the genetic underpinnings of one. No altered brain structure, no psychopathy. Second ingredient in psychopath soup is socialization. A properly-socialized child with psychopathic underpinnings can grow up to be prosocial, functioning, and non-psychopathic. An improperly socialized child cannot. So here’s the breakdown. 

Jango Fett: prosocial with psychopathic potential 

This is what lets him be a good bounty hunter. Many military special ops people are of this neurotype, so it makes sense for the Kaminoans to select for this in the making of the clones. 

However, they realized with the first few test rounds that it’s too much work to socialize a child the right way, so they removed the psychopath genes from the clones’ DNA. (science fact? no. science fiction? hell yeah.)

Faie: true psychopath

Faie did not have the psychopath bred out of him. For whatever reason, he was “defective.”

As a young cadet, he showed signs of being psychopathic (poor/no attachment, destructive behavior, flat affect, limited social skills, etc.). Dred Priest saw this and went, “Ah. Perfect for my homicidal maniac crew.” 

Priest trained hella anger into him so now you have this psychopath whose only emotional response is anger. He views his troops as tools, he’s never afraid, and he’s always ready to throw down. Perfect(ly traumatized. You broke a perfectly good child, is what you did! Now look at him. He’s got impaired mirror neurons!)

Neyo: OSDD-1b

Neyo, unlike Faie, has none of Jango’s psychopathic potential. He doesn’t have the genetics, and thus can never be a true psychopath. 

That being said, he was a smart kid with reduced empathy, and Priest saw the potential in him to be something more.

Priest took him and tried to make him into the same thing he made Faie into, but he started too young and went too hard and didn’t realize that Neyo just wasn’t built like that.

Congratulations! Your personality has fragmented! Neyo developed OSDD-1b. 

Now, he’s got a functionally psychopathic Emotional Part that’s triggered by fear and whose only possible reaction is anger. Yay!

Bacara: C-PTSD

Here’s the fun thing about C-PTSD: it’s capable of producing the same array of symptoms as and affects the mind in similar ways to cluster B personality disorders, so much so that some psychiatrists consider most/all of cluster B to be subsets of C-PTSD. 

Essentially, Bacara’s just really traumatized and emotionally/socially stunted, causing him to act like he’s got a cluster B disorder or psychopathy. 

These are all just headcanons, btw. If this sort of thing interests you, I would highly recommend Dr. David Puder’s ‘Psychiatry and Psychotherapy’ podcast, as well as this recorded lecture on youtube. Have a lovely day and may the Force be with you!