#personal take

[the-bone-thief]

I think poison ivy should be a carnivore, like full blown eating raw meat and hunting wild deer because it flow naturally with the carnivorous plant motif she is usually associated with. It always felt weird when comics and TV shows made her a vegetarian because her whole thing is that she feels the same empathy towards plants as we do to our loved ones, and she feels almost nothing towards people. So a salad to her would be like a bowl of your parents organs to us.

[clearpurpleskies]

I want people to understand that when I say James Norrington deserved better I do not mean as in he deserved the happily ever after, but rather to live with the consequences of his actions and how his hubris and ambition impacted those who he cared about, and mourn and get angry at himself, (and maybe throw up from crying), and then build his entire new arc into understanding who he is beyond the uniform and then finding a way to *be* between his principles/loyalty and his new morals and this should be very painful and scarring for him, emotionally -> and regardless of choosing piracy or choosing the navy he should work with Elizabeth to obliterate Beckett.

[marlasomething]

Everything they do to Steve is even more anoying if you are a Steve fan, a Sam fan and A PEGGY FAN. Everything they did with Peggy outside Steve (aka both the What If...?s she's in and Agent Peggy Carter & other small bits in canon) made her grow FAR OUTSIDE OF BEING STEVE'S LOVE INTEREST.

I mean, she still loved him, but she was past it, living her own life, and now...now she's a mom (I'm going to especify, because I got some feedback on this, and I get it wasn't well explained: there is not problem with being a mom, BUT PEGGY HAD BEEN SHOWN TO HAVE HAD AN ENTIRE HAPPY LIFE WHERE SHE HAD NEVER WANTED TO BE ONE -I was given the note that she was actually shown with kids in the photos or her past, sorry, still, I will leave my rant because it felt so viscerally like this in the moment and it still feels as the writers saying: look! happy couple! they obviously have a biological child!). And she's not even the slightest concern about the fact that Steve sacrificed an entire universe where he was needed to play house. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

And, taking into account the fact that she was supposed to have kids (which I had forgotten), Steve knew and still...nevermind, I still deciding what is worse: giving kids for a happy ending to someone who had been shown to not needing them to live a fullfilled life, or taking away those she willing have for some character assassination of one of the previously greatest characters of your entire universe (and, in either case, the last part of my rant is still valid).

So yes, in summary: Steve Rogers character assassination and Sam Wilson's absolute disrespectful treatment is also flavoured with some downgrading of one of your most well known female characters.

Congrats MCU

[coilgut]

Speaking of Pixar and that new kids' series they're releasing in 2027. MAYBE hot take: I do not think Pixar is making a smart move with this new Cars: Lightning Racers’ series. And I am not saying that just because I dislike change or because I am clinging to nostalgia.

I am saying it because, from a creative standpoint, it already feels like a very strange decision. Cars has always had a very specific visual identity, and THAT identity is part of why the franchise worked in the first place. It did not need a drastic redesign to feel appealing. So changing the style this much, especially in a way that looks cheap, uneven, or even a little like AI slop, feels less like innovation and more like Pixar misunderstanding what people actually liked about Cars to begin with.

And yes, I understand that this is meant for kids. That part is obvious, Cars was always for kids and family. But that does not automatically make the new direction better. There is a difference between making something accessible for kids and stripping away the visual consistency, change the characters WAY too much, losing their identity completly and the things that made the franchise unique and recognizable. The older fans are not just random people complaining for anything no reason; they are the audience that kept this franchise alive for two whole decades even when Pixar itself was doing nothing super mega interesting with it. So it is hard to take this as some brilliant new move when it already looks like it is pushing away the people who cared enough to keep asking for more.

What makes it worse is the character choice. There are already so many iconic Cars characters that could be brought back and actually used well. Francesco Bernoulli, the WGP racers, Chick Hicks, The King, and plenty of others all had potential that was barely touched or simply make a comeback. Some of them were memorable despite having little screen time, which is exactly why bringing them back would have made sense. It would have been a chance to do something the movies never fully did: expand on characters that already exist, already have fans, and already belong in this universe. Instead, Pixar seems to be choosing new characters that do not even feel especially necessary, and from what has been shown, they do not seem to match the tone or charm that made Cars work in the first place. My point is, there are so many interesting themes and characters in Cars to explore, and they choose to go in this direction.

So, no, I do not think this is some bold reinvention. I think it is a questionable decision that risks weakening the franchise instead of helping it. At best, it will probably be forgettable. At worst, it will end up feeling like a pointless waste of money and effort, because it is solving a problem that did not need to exist in the first place. And I think many people already share this opinion.

I’m calling it now: this series is not going to land the way they think it will.

[maynez]

Ngl... A part me wants to have more serious stories related with Vector and Vanilla. I know this ship is more known for the comedic side, and now with the the Sonic CrossWorld launch, with Cream dialogue, this ship has basically become a meme... but i think this ship can work with a more serious approach, i mean, Vector and Vanilla are basically the two are coded parents of the franchise, you can explore a lot with that idea alone, and you can evolve both characters by doing that, i mean, if Amy can turn to a obsessed lover to a strong female character, why can't Vector can't turn into a Money lover comedy relieve to an actual father figure, and this is something i've been trying to do with my art. i don't know what you all think about this? Am i crazy for thinking this?

[reireignraine]

[alexandor]

The new Pokemon twitter slut that just dropped would be 400% hotter if he was a woman