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cat at filled food bowl's empty center: "WHY IS IT EMPTY?"

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ICE QUEEN PART 13/17

JAY PARK

As a proclaimed “ice queen” you had made the executive decision to avoid relationships. Jay being a proclaimed “play boy” has set you in his sights. At first it seems that he genuinely seems to care. But you can’t quell the fact that everyone sees him out partying every night, or the fact that his “best friend” is a little too close to him for your own comfort.

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omg They made more colors! The black and white cats looked cool, in theme with the robotic-looking Chitocerium girls But this is really cute. And I want to collect them all.

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Frozen VS Frozen 2 by  MsMojo

(Rant below.  Please don’t read.)

So Frozen 2 premiered on Disney+ yesterday, I watched it, and it reminded me why I didn't like it as much as the first Frozen movie.  But I can't be the only one.  I'm not just crazy, right???  So I started browsing for video essays and reviews comparing Frozen 1 and 2.  

But man, it's so hard to sift out the people who hate the Frozen franchise because the marketing over-saturated the world a few years ago.  Fortunately, I'm a homebody and I don't go out into the world, so I never got that fatigued slapped onto me.  And when I'm online, I mostly stay in the otaku/anime spaces, so I didn't even see much Frozen saturation there.  Yet, almost every video that comes up in search results, is clearly from someone who is sick of Frozen.  

I’m not trying to find people biased against Frozen in general. I'm trying to find people like me who liked Frozen 1, but not 2.  Someone who can articulate what I'm feeling, so I can verify if it's just my crazy idiosyncrasies.  ...But then again, that describes just having a normal opinion, and I probably shouldn't call myself crazy and invalid for that.  -.-;  

Basically, I felt like Frozen 2 didn't follow "show; don't tell".  Sure, it was telling me mostly through song, but I still felt like I was just being told a thing.  I wasn't shown scenes to make me experience along with the characters, until I could feel what they felt, and thus, feel their actions and the movie's resolutions were totally justified.  Consider how many scenes from Frozen 1 set-up Elsa's fear of anyone seeing her real self, before she had any songs about those feelings.  There were so many previous scenes of just watching her be afraid, of hiding in her room, and being so repressed during her coronation party.  And yet, Frozen 2 expects you to feel like Elsa's ultimate end, living in the forests, was the need to a want she had in that movie?  When did that movie establish her feeling so out of place in the castle?  Again, outside of a song just _telling_ us that information?  Most of her scenes in the castle before she starts her journey towards her ultimate life change, don't show her feeling out of place.  Maybe that very brief balcony moment when a servant surprised her, calling her to speak with people about presumably governing issues, and she accidentally iced the balcony railing, was supposed to show she felt out of place with governing dealings, but honestly, all I felt was that it was a quick joke about how everyone is just accustomed to her ice magic by now and how she doesn't even hide it anymore.  In the other scenes before the quest, she is shown surrounded by feelings of warmth and support, playing games with the people she loves.  Her only discomfort demonstrated in those scenes is her distraction by the mysterious voice.  But if her supposed feeling "out of place" isn't first established through relatable, recognizable emotions---scenes of never seeming to say the right things, never feeling her well-intentioned actions can adequately reciprocate her family's love, never feeling she's good enough for the people she cares about, and just recognizable scenes that everyone in the audience has felt before that made them feel out of place, even when surrounded by love---then that voice is just a magic voice.  It's not the symbolic culmination, giving a face to a character's growing issues.  If those issues aren't first blatantly established before they manifest into a supernatural symbol, then that symbol is just a plot point of unrelated magical phenomenon.  

I guess I was really disappointed with Frozen 2. ;_;  

Re-read my previous post-movie feelings after I saw F2 in theaters:  https://mysticdragon3md3.tumblr.com/post/189731646702/so-i-just-came-back-from-frozen-2-and-it

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finally watched Dr. Stone ep6

[There’s supposed to be a cut here. *glares at Tumblr mobile*]

2:35 PM 12/3/2019

Dr. STONE Episode 6 – Two Nations of the Stone World

Oh, so Senku was the one who purposefully put Taiju in the cave.

"Rolf"?

I like how they're addressing loop holes.  Why just swallow birds and humans petrified?

"I"m standing in the face of an uncharted branch of science."  This shot looks like a motivational poster for mad scientists.  And I love it.  ^____^

"What's the difference between me and the rest of them?" Please don't say "shonen protagonist". LOL

I like this whole scene just showing Senku thinking through the petrification problem and trying to solve it.  It's got as much tension as a mystery or a battle tactics series or something.  But also, since it's a flashback and we already know how he solves the problem, it's relaxing for me, someone who doesn't like tension/drama.  So what's the point of this scene?  To show how difficult the challenge is to problem solve, like a duel in a "battle anime"?  Are Taiju and Yuzuriha going to have to go through the same process?  Can they do it, without being geniuses like Senku?  Maybe that's the point of this flashback.  Or maybe it's characterization portrayal for Senku.  

Maybe it's supposed to show the Resolve needed for most Shonen battle anime. That's a common theme in the genre, and I love it.  

"You don't know when to give up!"  "I'll believe in you and wait for as long as it takes.  I"m hopeless without you!"  There we go.  The characterization.  And I like how they split the screen to show parallels between these 2 friends and transition into the present.  

"I’m sure you know not to, but don't go thanking me for every little thing. I won't thank you either."  I know I shouldn't think it's cool to act cold, but that sounded cool.  I don't even like the preformed abrasiveness of tsundere!  And I certainly hate the trope of "shojo love interest is attractive because he's never nice, always cold, and unemotive except for anger and possessiveness".  I hate that stuff.  But maybe because we already know Senku is a good guy (regardless of his intentions), these lines don't come off as just abrasive cold.  

I remember Kikyo saying something like that in Inuyasha.  I thought it was logical, but Kagome's reaction framed it as really offensive.  I'm glad Taiju and Yuzuriha are such cinnamon rolls that they don't take Senku's "cool act" the wrong way. 

3:09 PM 12/3/2019

Well, commercials made Crunchyroll crash again.  I guess I'm done watching Dr. Stone for now.  -_-;  

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5:54 PM 12/24/2019

Dr. STONE Episode 6 – Two Nations of the Stone World

The subtitles aren't working again.  While I was just watching Ascendance of a Bookworm, I'd just have to pause and unpause the vid, and the subtitles would return.  But it's not working with this Dr. Stone ep.  Luckily it looks ilke a recap. ...Or have I seen this ep already? 

Yeah, I've seen this ep before and the subtitles still haven't returned even after 10min.  

I reloaded the page and the subtitles returned.  But after the commercial break, they're gone again.  The universe really doesn't want me to watch Dr. Stone right now.  ^^;

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7:19 PM 12/25/2019

I think this is my 3rd time trying to watch Dr. Stone ep6.  Let's hope Crunchyroll doesn't crash this time...or have that glitch that made the subtitles disappear again.  

7:40 PM 12/25/2019

Finally made it to the 2nd half of ep6.  ...but I might have to stop watching because I've got other things to concentrate one.  Meh.  I think I can watch for 15min more.  

I can't figure out if her eyes are too far apart or something else is wrong with her character design.  But something seems off about her face to me.  

Ah, she saw the hostage situation.  

Woah.  Vocal song.  

Oh, Senku is the "sorcerer gentleman".  LOL

This music takes me back to Bleach.  Is this the same band?  

Ah, greasing the gears.  

Here it comes.  Everything about her character design says "love interest for Shonen manga/anime protagonist".  ~.~;  Now she's stating her awe of Senku's characteristics....  And...There's the love confession.  

Omg.  I don't think posted about this before, but I've finally gotten tired of this trope.  Not just the "Shonen series female who exists primarily as a love interest/sexy eye candy", but the whole "sexy eyecandy female character" thing.  Which is weird because I've been trying to be sex positive for a few years now, and for decades I liked the sexy eye-candy character designs.  It's fun, cheeky, and cute.  And I can see the confidence as a female, owning her own sexuality. So I really don't understand this sudden feeling myself.  ...But more often I've been thinking:  If MCU fans can get tired of the "sky beam portal" trope becoming cliche after less than 10 years, then I'm allowed to become tired of the "sexy for no reason other than to lure in the Shonen series target audience" after FOUR whole decades.  And it's not like the "sky beam portal" limited to only superhero movies.  But the "girl sexy for no reason" cliche is in EVERY genre, every medium, and ads all over the place, in real life, the internet, etc.  It makes sense that I've gotten tired of it.  It probably makes less sense that I've been ok with it all this time, watching harem anime for decades and such.  ...But maybe I haven't been ok with it all this time. I mean, the trope of "female character who primarily exists in story to center around romance and her crush" has always been a tired cliche to me. Not just because that made her shallow, uninteresting, and most of all unrelatable to me, but also because it heavily alluded to the misogynist aspects of society, who already want to insist everywhere in real life that females are objects solely for their benefit and not autonomous people. If I’m reading/watching/listening to a fiction story, one of my reasons is to get away from all that type of ugliness in the real world.  Maybe “sexy girl” tropes wouldn't imply all that, if such phenomenon wasn't already so prevalent in real life societies.  Meanwhile, female characters owning one's sexuality and wielding sexual expression as power and/or pride, and part of one's identity, has never been a problem with me.  What's bothered me is that implication that the sexuality is more about making them objects in service to someone else, vs for themselves.  And let's face it, it's been many centuries of fictional characters where that has eluded most officially published authors.  ~o~;  It just makes me tired.  And I'm at that age where I'm going to get tired.  I think after 4 decades I'm allowed to get tired of a cliche.  Especially compared to how short the "sky beam portal" lasted before it was vilified.  

But hopefully Kohaku will prove to be more an autonomous person who happens to respect Senku while coincidentally being sexy.  We'll see which aspects prove more prominent.  

8:03 PM 12/25/2019

Well, after 3 tires, I finally finished ep6.  No crashes or long/frequent buffering this time.  And the times the subtitles disappeared, all I had to do was pause/unpause and they returned.  

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Wait.  Best Performance is getting this side presentation????

Mads Mikkelsen won.   I wonder if someone without big clout won, if then it would have been an award presented on stage.  ;~;