#nerd whining

[kylorengarbagedump]

sorry just want to say really quickly that the legacy of vader comics are always validating that I'm right about everything I ever said and wrote about kylo ren and that my headcanons were always right okay thanks

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

When I heard about "shojo superman" I was intrigued, but skeptical. Now, I am a believer.

The fan discourse was right about its shojo sensibilities, but I keep finding dipshit articles people were paid to write calling it "Shonen inspired". This is why we can't have nice things!!!! If they just used the general "anime" it'd be less annoying, but they keep using "Shonen" specifically which is just LAME. It has a magical girl Transformation sequence come ONNNNN.

Yeah, there's a lot of overlap, especially in a hybrid East to West show like this, but GDI it's lame when something cranks up so many well loved features of shojo for a mainstream audience only to be misunderstood as shonen. I guess it's the action misleading people, but the pacing, character moments, and themes distinctly lean shojo. It feels like an episode of Sailor Moon before Yu Yu Hakusho. I'm keeping it retro for the comarisons cuz I think that was clearly the goal in production. The way it showcases tropes usually reserved for femmes characters and consumers, especially for western shows, for a legacy male character is part of what makes it feel so fresh and appealing. It all adds up to a nostalgic, romance hazed, optimistic take on Superman that works brilliantly.

Just on an "aesthetic level" the same way the 90's animated Superman and Batman banked on Art Deco futurism in its environments and settings, this show uses hazy lighting and a warm inviting city reminiscent of classic shojo.

Sorry, I'm not an expert in DC or Superman by any means, and with a character that's been around for almost 100 years, an "ideal adaptation" is kind of a fallacy in its own right. I have zero ill will towards Shonen on its own, only the way the industry prioritizes it at the expense of shojo cuz "stuff 'for girls' isn't profitable" and the cultural fallout from that. My Adventures With Superman flies in the face of that broke brain thinking with its unabashedly romantic, pink tinged success. I just adore shojo, so seeing something really hit a gender flaunting homer with its sensibilities getting mislabeled as shonen is lame.

[daddyrenn]

Fair warning: watching TFA with me at this point is mostly me looking bored until kylo walks on screen and then it’s me looking enamored and whispering “pretty boy” under my breath and then looking bored again when he leaves

[kaseylgifford]

Thoughts under the cut. Aka Why am I such a fucking downer on this why can’t I just enjoy things. Why must I be a nerd like this.

I have been trying to just let this image go because its an illustration out of context and we have no idea what they will look like rendered and moving in universe but there are a couple things really bothering me about this I have to talk about. 1. Why in the ever loving fuck does Danger Deux have a core reactor? Remember in the first movie when they were making their last stand pulling all the old guys out of retirement and the movie made a point of talking about how the Danger having a Reactor Core made it an obsolete model? The Gipsy Danger ran on nuclear power like the older units Cherno Alpha and Coyote Tango and the big glowy center on its chest is basically like a gigantic cooling unit. Its dangerous and was eventually changed because a. Having human pilots in a nuclear robot is incredibly dangerous if the shielding is faulty or something happens and it overheats during a battle. I recall Stacker suffering some repercussions because of that. b. Nuclear Robots blow up and could potentially hurt the environment or civilians. I vaguely recall the Danger doing something like that at the end of the movie. The Striker and the Typhoon were digitized being newer and better models. Its less dangerous for the pilots and for the area they are fighting in. So one would assume these brand spanking new robots are the latest and greatest models right? Thinner, lighter....so I repeat- Why. THE FUCK. Does Gipsy Danger 2:not-electric bugaloo run on a NUCLEAR CORE? probably because it looks good and no other reason and that pisses me off. 2.THEY DIDN’T JUST GIVE IT ONE CORE THEY GAVE IT TWO I AM DYING INSIDE. Actual conversation in the art department. Artist 1: Guys I am working on Gipsy 2:Back 2 tha Hood and I want it to look like the first one but different. How can I make it the same but..different. Artist 2: Mmm Well the first one had that cool nuclear core right? Artist 1: Yeah? Artist 2: How about. TWO CORES.

3. If they made Dangeresque 2 nuclear because of what happened with Striker and the electric pulse why aren’t all the Jaegers nuclear? So. When Newt drifted he gave the Precursors all this info about the Jaegers and Leatherback was able to use an electronic pulse to knock out the Striker and temporarily disable it. If the PPDC assumes this will happen again then wouldn’t they make all the Jaegers nuclear? Then why does only one have any kind of indication it runs on nuclear power? And why only Gipsy Danger 2:this time its personal? The answer is there is no reason. They just wanted people to be able to tell this robit was Gipsy Danger 2:I still know what you did last summer. I feel like Del Toro thought out almost every detail in the first movie  and worked to make each Jaeger unique. This doesn’t bode well. 4.Why did they have to give these Jaegers almost identical color schemes to the Danger The Typhoon and the Eureka? In fact if you look at them for a few minutes you realize it's just the Danger The Typhoon and the Eureka with less personality. why did they remake three previous Jaegers instead of creating new original ones?  You know why? Because they think we’re stupid. They think we’re stupid and we won’t know these are Jaegers 2 fast 2 furious without some painfully obvious references to the original film. Just like they think we needed Stacker to have a son otherwise we might have wandered into this movie and thought we it was Transformers 12:Age of Fucktron and wandered mindlessly away to see whatever Dreamworks movie is out. Why can’t you give me more credit Hollywood. I don’t need to have Khan to be the villain in my Star Trek movie to know that its a Star Trek movie. I don’t NEED to have a fugitive droid on a desert planet to know I’m watching a Star Wars movie. STOP TREATING ME LIKE I’M FUCKING FIVE YEARS OLD. I DON’T NEED A JAEGER WITH TWO CORE REACTORS. I CAN HANDLE NEW THINGS. 5.Look I know they’re just ripping off Manga/Anime Mech and Kaiju movies to begin with but at least the first time they tried to cover it a little better. The Crimson Typoon had a headlight for a head and three arms. The Cherno looked like a nuclear plant that could walk and even the Gipsy and the Striker had a very thick well thought out and original look. They moved ponderously and with weight. They were made too look like a person could wear them as a suit. Even if these are newer models all I can see is someone  looking at Evangelion’s paper copying chunks of it and presenting it to their teacher expecting an unearned A+.I get it you guys took the original designs and threw some Gundam darts at them. You did your re-runs of Macross homework. I’m just...unimpressed and I bet you anything these things will move like they weigh four pounds. Oh god please let me be wrong on this. This leads me to my next question. 6. Why did all of them go on such dangerous diets? Did the Iphone teach us nothing? Making technology thin doesn’t make necessarily make it BETTER. Striker Eureka 2: The Squeakuel is the worst offender on this front. Its got this top heavy box sitting on top of an itty bitty waist. You know what I would go for if I was a Kaiju? Probably that waist. I mean i know its bikini season Striker 2: Back in the Habit but eat a fucking sandwich. 7. It better be just the illustration that has them looking this goddamn clean. Jaegers get dirty and rusty and covered with battle damage.Even Gipsy who was renovated and rebuilt from top to bottom had patches of paint and scratches and chips in places. These goddamn things look like toys. They look like plastic fresh out of box toys. In the movie they had better look at least slightly weathered even if they are new or I will glare at them the entire two hour running time. I will give them smouldering glares the likes of which has never been seen before or since. God please let the movie be more impressive than this. Also as an aside. Why are all the Jaeger pilots so young? Why is no one drifting with their parents? I feel like i’m seeing behind the scenes of fucking Pacific Rim babies or Pacific Rim High School musical. I have a feeling somebody higher up pressured them about using more of the young people to get those sweet tween dollars. But at least they hired a diverse cast. Are all the previous generation dead? Is Herc going to come back and train any of these people? Seems like a bit of a mess at the ole PPDC.

[kylorengarbagedump]

Concept: The whole ST is the same but Kylo wears assless chaps

Sealed and sent.

[kylorengarbagedump]

sorrry im dumb, joe-honnah or joe-anna? or joe hannah 😳😳

I say it like “Joe-anna,” but I’m sure the way I write the name has people pronouncing it differently. Hahahaha.

[kylorengarbagedump]

Abtrusness??? Link please babe??? x

Here ya go!

[kylorengarbagedump]

(Sick anon who is finally getting better) I have been spreading FYA to anyone who will read it. I check my phone feverishly every sunday now waiting for the next chapter. And i am anxious over the next chapter. And everyone who has read it that I talk to, all have the same conclusion, Kylo needs to get his act together. No spoilers.... I get that.... but does he?

Idk man, let’s ask him. Kylo, do you get your act together?

Oh, shit, I forgot, he’s not real. Guess you’ll have to wait until Sunday.