#op rants

[dukb75]

dude i'm slowling losing my mind over the fact that bon clay will appear on the next season!!! im gonna see my favorite friendship on the show (luffy + bon clay) and the character not only is confirmed to use they/they pronouns but they're also played by a queer actor ❤️❤️❤️ i'm super excited!!!

[awaitinganorphanera]

It's genuinely such a shame how Jojolion doesn't get as much attention (especially in terms of fanworks) as any other Jojo part gets.  This is something I just have to get off my chest because it’s been nagging me for so long ever since I've started and finished Jojolion. Don’t get me wrong, I know that a lot of people have already brought up and mentioned how Part 8 is underrated, and I know that there is a pretty strong and healthy community of Jojolion fans out there.

I suppose what I mean by the title more so is how few fanworks there are that showcase the depressing and more emotional nuanced relationships that occur within the part. This is gonna be a little difficult for me to word and explain, but like, I’ve seen so many fan comics and fics of let’s say Stardust Crusaders and Golden Wind that goes in-depth on the past and emotional feelings of Jotaro and the Bucciarati gang, fanart or works that explore the grieving process and thoughts and emotions and feelings that each of these certain characters go through after everything they’ve been through. I’m most definitely glad for all of these fanworks existing; those respective parts and a lot of the respective characters in each have such compelling experiences and trauma and stories that translate amazingly well into re-tellings and are filled with so much potential worth exploring.

And I'm just sitting here like, Jojolion has SO MUCH of that too!! Like, the potential of angst, the complex relationships, the found family dynamics, the finding yourself story-line, romance, motherhood, self-sacrificing characters, morally grey intentions– Just, part 8 has ALL of these phenomenal tropes that make for a perfectly depressing or heartwarming character centered fanfic or fancomic, and like, I have yet to see one???? I personally would love to make my own fanworks of the part, but god my skills have yet to compare to the emotions I wanna showcase and UGHHH. I’m sorry if this gets less cohesive and more rambly but I really just can’t get over the HUGE potential that the story of Jojolion has for so much fanworks. Like, I want to see someone's take on the aftermath story – Do you think any of the Higashikatas harbor survivors guilt after everything? How does Josuke feel in the family now? Does he rethink his place knowing damn well that he just cost them the death of Jobin – the family's eldest son, a caring father, a loving husband? 

How does Joshu feel? Does Joshu rip a new one out of Josuke when he has a shit day? Does Joshu let express his grievances and anger and frustration that’s now grown exponentially now that his biological older brother is gone? Do Yasuho and Joshu ever talk about everything, does Joshu develop and apologize and tries his damnedest to improve?  How does Noiruske feel? Does he swallow every time he sees a family portrait? Does he try to avoid Josuke's knowing looks, shift whenever Josuke now hesitates and bites back his words after developing a habit of calling him ‘dad’?

Does Tsurugi find difficulty in navigating his childhood and eventually transition to adolescence well considering everything he’s been through? How does Mitsuba feel? Does Daiya cry herself to sleep sometimes because she just can't help it? Does Hato ever encounter paparazzis constantly bringing up the death of her brother, nagging her in the streets as she tries to move on from her career of modelling? Did Kei ever grieve Yoshikage properly? Did she try not to flinch each time she encountered Josuke walking around the Higashikita household as she tried to work, because he wears the same clothes and face of the man she loved and cared deeply for and once called her brother while being a stranger all the same? 

God, don’t even get me started on YasuGap. The potential of an intense analysis on both of their pasts and characters – how Yasuho unpacks her trauma, trace her steps from her past and see how much her mothers negligence caused her to seek validation from anywhere, anything: friends, peers, classmates, a charming boy that acts mature for the age he claims to be and calm and knows so much about things and god– Does Yasuho recoil at the memories? Those of her bending backwards to please the people- the men around her? Of trusting and loving a heartless freak like Tooru? Does she miss some of it? How her and Joshu used to get along so well during childhood, until he hit puberty and started acting all weird and gross? Does she express this all to Josuke? Do they talk it out together?

There's just SO MUCH unexplored potential for angst and storytelling that it keeps me up at night. Don’t get me wrong, I adore and am very appreciative of a lot of the current and previously made fan content of Jojolion, but ones that will always hold a special place in my heart are just ones that go into these rambly and in-depth character explorations. 

TLDR: I’m tired of theories and power-scaling, I want some good heart-wrenching and warming Jojolion fan works so bad. 

[firefistacesfreckles]

i hate the "sanji only helps beautiful women" discourse because it's so wrong. that man loves WOMEN, it doesn't matter if they are ugly, pretty, good or bad. stop mischaracterizing him omg.

[dapperinsanity]

It’s “funny” how defenders of Viv right now are trying to cover her ass for Mimzy and Rosie being Jewish stereotypes and that were “reaching too far”. Everyone forgets about her LITERALLY N-ZI sausage party OC. Her defenders and fans choose to ignore it or don’t know about it. If you don’t know about it, that makes sense but if you are aware of her sausage party oc, you really shouldn’t be turning a blind eye. So, no, no one is reaching too far…yall just don’t want to listen to any type of minority nor bother to educate yourself…SMH. For fuck’s sake, I wasn’t aware Rosie and Mimzy were stereotypes at first until someone pointed it out! (I was never taught about Jewish stereotypes but was aware of other racist stereotypes) And you know what I did? I educated myself and did further research. I made sure to listen to what other Jewish people had to stay so that I could be informed properly.

This is the third time defenders and fans have chose to outright ignore minorities voices about genuinely harmful things in HB and HH. Yall didn’t listen to SA survivors, POC minorities, and even parts of the queer community.

Also, now that I’m on this topic…Ive also seen and heard some controversial things regarding Niffty. I was made aware that Niffty is Japanese and idk if that was established before her redesign, but if it was…why did she have yellow skin? Cause yikes.

[artistic-mathematics]

I'm so determined to finish this Star Guardian AU for Cynthia/Diantha but holy shit I'm going to lose my mind like

writing this exposition has been god awful and idk like I've been so mentally blocked from writing it but whatever I'll figure it out eventually

idea is that they kinda follow the original storyline but with a twist. they're childhood friends who kinda just stay together forever, but dw there's angst bc I can't stop myself from doing that to them

[barkjunhee]

me: preserving my fertility isn't a priority for me

dr: but it's a priority for us

[captain-jams]

Thomas Thorne haters when they completely ignore the weird ass comments that Julian makes about women:

Listen,I love them both and I know that Thomas is sort of weird around Alison (especially In s1),but people are talking about that and not all the comments Julian makes? Like......isnit because in the show they use his comments as comic relief????

I would also like to add that Thomas isn't just going to magically stop being how he is one day,the character development in this show is SUPPOSED to be slow because they're not actually meant to be able to develop as characters.

I completely understand why people may find Thomas uncomfortable,but honestly Julian can be just as bad

[sailorgundam308]

My blabbering got noticed by Sam Beart, can I scream in the middle of my class? 😭

wanna grab each of my students by the collar and shove their noses on twitter DO YOU SEE THAT?! DO YOU, YOU LITTLE SHITS?!

Surefire way to get fired. Might be worth it.