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This thread is dedicated to all and any fandom discourse. Global rules apply: don't infight, report and ignore bait, etc.
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> Proshipping vs Antishipping> Ao3 Censorship and TOS> Slapfights between slash, femslash, and het shippers> Carrds, DNIs and Call-out Threads> Whitewashed/blackwashed/colorist fanart drama> ‘[Insert Sexuality/Gender]-Coded’ Characters> Debates over death of the author> Stalking/harassment experienced by actors/creatorsRelated threads:
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>>1978406Fujocoomer cringe:
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>>2220128 No. 2258513
>>2258454>You know nona that you have to be attracted to real, made of flesh and blood, minors to be a pedo, right? ntayrt but what about men into lolis?
>It's like thinking that fujoshis are actually vouyerists who will enjoy watch two real 3d human fags fuck.tbh the slash shippers and real person shippers are like this though, especially extreme ones like Larries
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>>2258513men into lolis are attracted to irl little girls what dont you get, men cannot differentiate reality from fiction and it has been proven numerous times.
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>>2258538Because schizos are literally unwell, of course they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between fiction and reality
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so can we all unanimously agree that whether or not lolicon and shotafag actually matters boils down to how the individual handles "proship" tier content? It's either, "it's just fiction", or "fiction can be taken too seriously by schizos and can lead to consequences IRL, therefore it's bad". That's it. Until someone busts out statistics, it's all a matter of personal taste and opinion.
No. 2258573
>>2258554and me calling you a pedophile are just words wonder why so many of you get
triggered by it..
No. 2258608
Fandom becomes a different experience once you realise how much of it is cliques for adult women who never got to be part of "The Clique" in middle school.
>>2258572Projection is a significant part of it imo, for most of them it's the closest they'll get to a real gay relationship to pair their 2D husbando with whatever uke they want to imagine themselves as.
No. 2258620
>>2258608Fandom are no longer about enjoying the original material but more about using the material to boost your own ego and parasite off of other's material.
People nowadays choose what series they're going to make fanfiction and fanart based off on popularity and sex appeal rather than genuine interest. They creat entire identities around franchises they don't even really like because they get to be a big fish in a small pond.
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>>2258620I want off this fucking ride. Watching retards making fun of people having genuine interests and destroy the community is so blackpilling.
No. 2258708
>>2258645A big part of the revival was young female fans discovering the series through HLVRAI, an improv/satire/roleplay stream of HL1. This understandably annoyed a lot of the original fans because the Half-Life groups/tags were suddenly flooded with content for something that completely changed the plot/characters.
The strangest part is how this stream garnered such a serious fandom. You see a bunch of fujoshis trying to turn goofy, nonsensical meme videos into a tragic, deep romance when the dark themes of the original story would work better for their fan works. Some of the HLVRAI fans did later get into the actual game, so it was good for bringing more women into the male-dominated HL fandom.
>a lot of them are dudes and you don't normally see them participating in shipping but they show up for Gordon/AlyxMy speculation is that men get into shipping when they can self-insert onto the male protag and pair him with the female character they find attractive. I’ve also seen this in the BNHA fandom, where a lot of male fans rabidly ship Deku/Uraraka and despise the BakuDeku fujos. So seeing these ships become canon = getting the girl for themselves (the male protags they see as themselves).
>the characters never getting together because time travel shit would turn the love interest into a freaking baby>It's such a doomed pairingWhy? Before the timeskip this was the case, but now they’re close enough in age to be together. Or are you talking about
HLA time travel shenanigans?
No. 2258713
>>2258708I think video games present an easier way for a lot of guys to care about the characters. Alyx fights alongside you/Gordon so it's like you're doing things with her. I have noticed the same with some other video game series that have female npc companions like Mass Effect or Prince of Persia. Mass Effect fits your theory very well because players are invited to control Shepard's reactions and dialogs (they become 'you'). Prince of Persia doesn't fit because The Prince has fairly strong characterization. I mostly agree with you though.
>irt baby AlyxOne of the writers released a rough plan for the next Half Life game (Epistle 3) and it was concluded that the Combine were too powerful to stop so the only way to save Earth was to stop Earth from ever being discovered in the first place. But if that means that Gordon would be sent back in time to prevent the Resonance Cascade then the events of the games would never happen. Alyx would be alive and safe, but she'd still be just a small child with no memory of him. This isn't expressly stated in Epistle 3 it's just the only outcome when you decide that they need to stop the Resonance Cascade. Epistle 3 was of dubious canon and has since been retconned by Half Life Alyx but if the next game revisits those ideas it's possible the pairing still doesn't get a nice outcome.
I'm gonna go look for HLVRAI, I haven't seen it yet though I have heard of it. They ship him with Barney right? I hope they do give the actual series a shot, you're right it would fit their fan work better but I wonder how they would react to Alyx?
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I hate the woobification of criminals in fandom spaces, I understand it doesn't matter in a fictional context, but it becomes so preformative. The worst is when they hate the police and praise criminal groups, it just shows that they don't know what lawfulness is
what's funny is that the people who are literally the first to collaborate with fascists are usually criminals
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>>2258713Huh, I read Epistle 3 a while ago but never thought all that through. Thanks for explaining!
Though didn’t it end with Alyx being taken by the G-Man and Gordon being sidelined and forgotten?
>I'm gonna go look for HLVRAIEnjoy. The humor is pretty cringey and the streamers behind it are annoying (and at least one of them is a TIM), but it’s an entertaining thing to watch if you’re bored. They’re planning to make a sequel with HL2 this or next year
and I hate that I’m looking forward to it, kek.
>They ship him with Barney right?They ship him with Benrey, a bastardized clone of Barney on crack. Some people ship him with Barney in the original game too.
>I wonder how they would react to AlyxApparently some of them thought Gordon/Alyx was a
problematic/pedophilic ship since Gordon, being friends with Eli, would hypothetically have known Alyx when she was a child before the timeskip. I wasn’t into Half-Life back in 2020 (new zoomer fan kek), so I don’t know how widespread this view was.
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How do you deal with idiots accusing you of things like "queerphobia" for really mundane fanmade content? I'm talking sfw cute art and OCs. I'm such a sperg and I know people are just jealous and want to be spoonfed their precious uglified qweer content instead of things women like but it's it's still really bothering me.
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>>2258536>>2258537>yuripedo>oneeloliThe only thing I've picked up from reading through the recent shota wars is that there's a bunch of factions that are all hating eachother but are ultimately united by their shared love of anime that looks like kids. You are all icecream just different flavours. What the fuck are these words?
No. 2259161
>>2259143I have a female fan character and doodle self indulgent mary sue tier stuff where I put her with whatever male characters I like. I ship some m/m stuff too but don't really draw it. I'll be the first to admit I'm cringe but I don't like the accusations. I'm literally just a nobody and I don't know why some people are so upset.
>>2258933 has the right idea.
No. 2259165
>>2259061People on tumblr already call gordon/alyx
problematic and pedo
Ship discourse about half life games is very strange to me
No. 2259184
>>2258735I thought Epistle 3 wasn't supposed to be the end of the story just the end of the next game. But if the characters thought they needed to stop the Resonance Cascade from ever happening you still end up with Gordon and Alyx unable to never be together.
>>2259061>>2259165There have always been people who thought Gordon and Alyx was weird but it comes down to whether or not Gordon had ever met Alyx as a child and if so how well he knew her. We don't have any any indication he'd ever met her before the Resonance Cascade. Eli also gave his blessing so that kind of helps (though it seems to reinforce the pairing being weird for other people). I don't remember these complaints going past grumbles and eyebrow raises though, at least not with OG fans. Like people would say it was weird, accept it was weird and moved on and didn't make a big stink about it.
I wouldn't be surprised if this became more of an issue with younger fans though because they are more sensitive. And if people are coming to the original story from HLVRAI they might be biased, fujoshi can be prone to throwing female characters under the bus in favor of their ships. They'll say Gordon/Alyx is weird and that she needs to be liberated from the pairing to girlboss. In the hypothetical case of the characters being genderbent I think there would be more subconscious sexism at play because people might more strongly assume that Gordana should feel maternal towards Alyx.
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>>2258705hoyoslop fans are in an entirely different world, I cant imagine how hard it is to mischaracterize a game so easily digestible and simplified yet they still manage to bastardize the character into shitty ooc coomer tropes like HOW? theres hardly any character to "mischaracterize" in the first place??
Honestly I'd rather the tiktok zoomers stay in their containment zone that is hoyoverse slop rather than have them shit up other games with their media illiteracy and shitty trope-ification of characters (e.g. mouthwashing, silent hill 2 remake)
No. 2259211
>>2259061>>2259184I never cared too much about this pairing but I do feel like I should defend it a little in this case; Alyx is 24 to his 27 and an age gap of 3 years isn't bad at all. Gordon also never actively reciprocates. The pairing to a large extent depends on the player's interpretation and preferences so if you'd rather believe that Alyx has a crush that Gordon is respectfully declining to encourage that's
valid too. Overall I think it's an interesting example of how mute protagonists can actually be a benefit to a story. Without overt characterization the writers are able to avoid things getting too weird or cringe, players fill in the blanks. I think the fan content is funny (and still a bit cringe) but overall not too bad, some of it is kinda cute.
Something similar happened with Portal, Chell is mute but fandom has developed characterization for her despite that. I buy her grit and tenacity but IMO from what I've seen of the Portal fandom I like their output less. Wheatley feels like such a dated character to me, he's absolutely of that era and not enough time has passed for me to be nostalgic. So much of the remaining Portal fandom is fixated on Wheatley and I just can't get into this whole thing where people try to make Wheatley an attractive twink. IMO Portal doesn't lend itself well to this sort of fandom at all.
No. 2259735
>>2259580Honestly, I respect genuine genshinfags that admit to spending in the gacha for the characters they like and are genuine enough to say "I like this arc, I like this storyline" more than ironic fags that act like being in it for the coom and their own headcanons is the only way to like something so "intellectually beneath" them like a
gacha.
No. 2260171
>>2259211>>2259184>fujoshi can be prone to throwing female characters under the bus in favor of their ships.Real. I don't like gordon/alyx but it pisses me off when people say shit like "gordon and barney are alyx's uncles/fathers/older brothers". They find a moral reason to dislike the ship, they are like family and that's why it's problematique and gross. They get her out of the way of the yaoi not by villainizing her, but by making her into a stupid child. It's like they are trying to virtue signal that they disapprove of the ship. They don't even care about her, they just post about her once a year to say "wow i love alyx such girlboss she's so silly". Alyx is a grown woman with an actual father and actual uncle. It's ok to dislike the ship but can't alyx just be friends with gordon and barney?
Anyway, i'm excited for the upcoming hl2 anniversary update. Wonder what valve has been cooking for it. And the news about hlx are very intriguing. Feels like half-life is back
No. 2260184
>>2259761I don't understand how can you be a fan of something if you don't actually watch/play/read it.
It's weirdly common in comics fandom, especially with batman. People literally write fanfiction based on fanfiction. They say that comics are hard to get into but they somehow read confusing 300k word fanfics about characters they don't know. They act like all comics are stupid and badly written
which they are without actually reading them. They say that comics don't have a canon or continuity so it doesn't matter if something they write is wrong or out of character. They say they love batman/batfamily yet they don't read batman comics, don't watch batman movies/series/cartoons, don't play batman games, they don't like anything about batman except their fanon uwu version of batman characters and act like their interpretation is morally superior to canon
No. 2260195
>>2260171Pretty disappointing because she's a cool character. I get when fujos dislike badly written female characters but it always seems a shame when they ignore good female characters. I think it might be a symptom of age or how fandom has changed because I think it's weird to be into non-romance media primarily due to ships and I think that's the appeal for a lot of people now whereas before being a fan of something meant being a fan of all of it, or most of it at least. She's such a huge part of it and is as much of a mascot for the series as Gordon and they don't genuinely care about her? Sad.
And yes it's a good time to be a fan seems like stuff is actually happening irt HL3 and if not well there's a bunch of interesting looking mods and fan games that are being released.
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>>2260254I can't think of a good reason to dislike the character. Her partner AI is still top notch, she never gets in the way when playing. As a character she is useful and resourceful. I could plausibly see someone preferring Gordon being a lone wolf, her inclusion cuts the solitude and tension (
valid I guess) and reduces the power fantasy feel (possibly sexist).
I don't think fujoshi hate her they just don't care about her for the same reason any fujoshi ignore any inoffensive female character in that their interests are simply male-biased. If they do dislike her/hate her it's because they're stupid enough to interpret her behavior as being romantic and getting upset with their own headcanon. Gordon never reciprocates but he's breathing in the same vicinity as a friendly female comrade, that's enough. They're there for new blorbos to use as trope dolls for yaoi-fic and cutting themselves off from appreciating what's being provided.
I did end up looking into HLVRAI because of your comment and I hope that fandom doesn't bleed over into any new Half Life content. I don't want to see trans Gordon EVER AGAIN.
No. 2260311
>>2260292Not to start a another debate, but I've noticed this trend where not liking a character a certain way means you must be some type of phobic because otherwise why aren't they devoting every moment making content of said character? That must mean their homophobic or a
terf when really, they have priorities outside of fandom, something these fans can't seem to rationalize hence all the callout post and doxxing. In their mind, I can't be a fan unless I love them without question which is maddness imo.
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>>2260429It may be smaller but it's filled with the same bullshit fans nonetheless. How do they manage to be so loud and
toxic when they're such a small group is beyond me.
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Nonnas, out of curiosity, have you ever been part of a fandom that was huge but turned inwards on itself after fans universally started to hate every part of it? I seen this tweet the other day and all the QRTs are things like Doctor Who, Supernatural, Marvel, etc. which were juggernauts in terms of having a gigantic fanbase. It's always interesting to see when this happens
No. 2260616
>>2260290>I could plausibly see someone preferring Gordon being a lone wolf, her inclusion cuts the solitude and tensionI think this is the reason. A lot of people just don’t like NPC companions; people had similar feelings about Wheatley in Portal 2 (though he is obviously more annoying than Alyx).
>they're stupid enough to interpret her behavior as being romanticHuh? You can interpret it how you want, but it’s pretty heavily implied that she has a crush on him.
>I did end up looking into HLVRAI>I don't want to see trans Gordon EVER AGAINKEK yeah, it’s like a magnet for underage Aidens. Though, like a true farmer, I do enjoy looking at HLVRAI fan art just to laugh at it.
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>I am very bitter that her sparkledogs make more money than my sparkledogs
No. 2260677
>>2260673To be fair I was like 16, although that ship was one of the first ones I had so I'm still attached to it kek
What amazes me nowadays are the 23-year-old retards who were very unhinged about it at the time. It was funny how crazy they were about "le age gap with a minor" in Sheith and later turned out Keith was 18 and Lance 17 kek
No. 2260678
>>2260677I was also 16 though, maybe you just got poor taste as a teen.
I don't really see people complain about voltron anymore though, I think they moved onto seasonal shounen anime.
No. 2260710
>>2260592I will never fully understand the BBC Sherlock fandom despite kinda being in it long ago. I watched the first season on TV not knowing what it was beforehand and enjoyed it a lot, made a tumblr account for an unrelated reason, saw how crazy everyone was for the show, then I watched the second season on TV and enjoyed it a lot and opinions became very divided on the cliffhanger. But these people were too obsessed with the show to calm down, and then controversies happened because it turned out that the director was bigoted or something, and I swear to god everyone hated the series when the third season got released, yet posted spoilers as soon as they could. Like what's the point in being that much of a hater? Move on and watch something you actually like instead? Just say "I used to be into that show but not anymore" instead of sperging on a daily basis to prove you're not sexist for not noticing that the female characters are just secondary in most episodes?
One iconic moment was when Shinee was on hiatus and then released video related, and fans talked about it on tumblr which pissed off the BBC Sherlock fans because both things were just tagged as "sherlock" so the tag was full of unrelated posts. That was funny as hell, I wish I had screenshot of teaboos and koreaboos insulting each other over absolutely nothing.
>>2260670A friend of mine followed the series during the first seasons and gave up halfway through, but she provided context for all the fandom drama I kept seeing at the time. It got me curious so I checked the first two seasons and I will never get how grown women, or even late teenagers were so invested in the ship war between the two popular gay pairings. It felt like a very childish show to me. My friend and I found the reactions to the last season hilarious, but I don't remember much from it aside from Shiro(?) marrying some random guy who looks like some guy from Macross.
No. 2260766
>>2260292This mentality is so strange, people will act like you’re misogynistic for not constantly glazing a female character/having her as a fave even if she’s poorly written. They think liking female characters is a paragon of feminism especially if she’s hated
for good reasons usually. No I do not have internalized misogyny just because I don’t care for some irrelevant character from shonen manga #45938. In fact these people don’t even care about misogyny either they just want an excuse to police others.
No. 2260810
>>2260710>I don't remember much from it aside from Shiro(?) marrying some random guy who looks like some guy from Macross.That was a huge reason why the ending was so hated
>Exec producers swear for like 2 years they are planning on putting gay rep on the show>After season 6 is released, they confirm in a convention that Shiro is gay and has a boyfriend named "Adam" >They hype Adam and say fans will "meet him" in season 7>One of Season 7's alternative cover in Netflix has a rainbow flag and the show has the "LGBT" tag>Turns out the gay rep is a "blink and you'll miss it" moment; Adam aappears only in a flashback of 5 minutes and you can easily believe his relationship with Shiro is just a friendly one>Adam is killed in another flashback. Shiro mourns him in a scene of ten seconds and move on>Everyone hates that subplot>In the season finale Shiro marries some random background character>An instagram post gives proof to the theory this was pretty much a last minute addition as a way of damage controlThe fans were insane but the creators also baited everyone tbh
I honestly have a lot of stories about that show but I'd be here sperging all day kek
No. 2260812
>>2260592I was big into sherlock when it first aired. I'd watch the new episodes with my family and then go fujo out on tumblr, it was a blast. There was some controversy, I don't remember the specifics but the showrunners started being outspoken about how much they hated johnlock and the fandom.
I want to say they even added an obvious "fangirl" stand-in to the show just to bully her but I could be thinking of something else… the plot was starting to go off the rails too. That's about when I remember leaving. They literally fujobaited, rode off the success and attention, and then turned on their fans kek. Tried to rewatch the show recently and it's so painfully corny I couldn't do it. Would never have been nearly as popular as it was without tumblr tbh
>>2260670I was never into Voltron but had friends who were and I learned about a lot of the drama from them, what an insane time that was
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If you think your fandom or favorite ship from back then was more annoying than klance no it wasn't
https://archive.is/JhXCo No. 2260850
>>2260841>>2260835Allura was done dirty on so many ends. Apparently the creators originally planned that in the finale, Allura would become a baby and Lance would raise her wtf
She should have ended up with Lotor, forcing a relationship with Lance didn't make sense for any of the characters
No. 2260851
>>2260673There was a lot of dictatorship in the fandom to try and prevent people from shipping what they wanted, so Klance could remain supreme and untouched.
>Calling Sheith problematic/pedophilic so people wouldn't use Keith for something else>Shipping Shiro x Allura, even if they didn't care for the ship, to prevent both from being used with Keith or LanceOf course there was genuine Shallura shippers, but I saw all the Klance shippers supporting it for disingenuous reasons.
>>2260830>interactions played in slow-mo>the color palettes of certain scenes>taking any rival bickering as romance bickeringHaving Shiro outed as the gay character was only good for the Klance cope and meltdown.
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>>2260850>She should have ended up with LotorAgreed, they just don't want women to have anything so they pair them up with ugly farmers instead of bishounen purple elves.
No. 2260925
>>2260891>>2260899I hate 90% of Harry Potter fandom analysis on YT because their creators often have a five-minute disclaimer about how they totally are not transphobic and JK Rowling is "
problematic"
Vidrel is especially bad. I was curious about the title because JK is not very fond of Draco as a character, but half the video is about crybabies coping that J.K. Rowling is a
TERF instead of staying on-topic
No. 2260956
>>2260950I'm a fujo but I always found 'guys who hate each other and don't really have anything else going on getting together' to be the laziest form of shipping possible.
I get it for just general hatefuck stuff but whenever people try and make it deeper than that I just roll my eyes.
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>>2259208lmao, that pic is literally this meme without any irony, and you're right, it's weird how genshintards will take two characters that literally have the exact same body type (like they have the same character model just with different hair) and portray one of them as a uwu-feminized woman and one as hyper-masculined to varying degrees
No. 2261235
So, I'm not sure how many of you are into Interview With the Vampire (the 2022 TV series) or the books/movie in general, but there was some recent controversy in the fandom where, from my understanding, a group of British fans took a trip to New Orleans and visited a slave plantation where they not only took pictures of their funko pop figures of Louis (who's a slave owner in the books) but went on a haunted plantation tour and took shipping photos in St. Augustine Catholic Church, one of the oldest Black catholic churches in America that has a dedicated history and memorial of the freed slaves who built it (tried to upload some pictures of the whole ordeal, but kept getting server errors, but if anyone's interested, I'll try again later). Since then, those involved have tried to apologize, but the damage is done and are currently being torn a part by the Twitter and Tumblr fandoms. I also think it's a good example of how brain rotted some people are in fandom, to the point they forget how the real world operates.
No. 2261276
>>2260956So basically you hate bad written enemies to lovers? But then you say you roll your eyes when they do
try to make it deeper?
No. 2261322
>>2261278I think the issue people had was the history of free and enslaved African Americans surrounding the church, as well as it also standing on a site of a former plantation. So while there's nothing wrong with taking pictures, I think the fact that they chose such a place specifically to reenact a scene in the show for their ship fodder is what got to people. Also, the fact they visited so many places involving slavery to do so is…odd.
>>2261299I remember someone mentioning that as well in relation to this. Crazy stuff.
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I remembered the dumbass attention this show got from random zoomies in 2017 for being "graphic and super creepy" for a kid's show. When I watched a few episodes, I didn't think it was really out of place for a kid's show. The only real different this show has between the average American cartoon with slapstick comedy is that Japan isn't afraid to show kids blood. Why is the United States so anal about showing kids depiction of blood in their cartoons, again? Why do do American parents think that would be so traumatizing?
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>>2261299Yep, what a Tumblr classic
>>2261338British people speak English just like Americans, I hope they have some clue what slavery was like considering they participated in it as well, or their education must be worse than even the US's. Fictional character or no, it's plainly disrespectful to do that at a site where real people suffered and died.
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>>2261344i liked the cartoon a lot, but its true. the misadventures of flapjack or courage the cowardly dog had more disturbing episodes and scenes than this did, but popee has a really unique and offputting 3D style with a cute male main character (that a lot of the violence was directed towards) which set it apart and made it ripe for a tumblr fandom.
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>>2261372OTGW came out a couple years before Popee blew up and had picrel in it amongst other things. Selective memory maybe but I mean Ren and Stimpy also exists and Animals of Farthingwood showed impaled animal babies so it's just another form of "thing, Japan" imo.
No. 2261569
>>2261344some people are just kinda pathetic tbh, half the time people talk about 'childhood trauma' media (stuff for kids that had anything mildly confronting/dark/depressing/off-looking, often without the intention of being disturbing but sometimes it's horror media for kids) they're either exaggerating or are just massive babies that expect everything to be 100% sanitised when it's for kid's eyes. If you ever want to see a bunch of adults being weenies about media, go check out any random cartoon's 'nightmare fuel' page on tv tropes, and you'll get to see desperate descriptions trying to talk up how a given scene or concept is totes scary.
Tbh I feel like this sort of thing is just a symptom of people trying to uplift kiddie stuff into being secretly more mature or meaningful, instead of just enjoying it for what it is, similar to classic fan theories like 'pokemon is Ash's coma dream while he's in the hospital on life support' kek
No. 2261602
>>2261569>Tbh I feel like this sort of thing is just a symptom of people trying to uplift kiddie stuff into being secretly more mature or meaningful, instead of just enjoying it for what it is, similar to classic fan theories like 'pokemon is Ash's coma dream while he's in the hospital on life support' kekmlp nailed the "man children fanbase trying to feel grown up" vibe that every other preschool tier show gets the same treatment, some less successful than others, while also having spergfits when a cartoon…acts like a cartoon? I still avidly remember a tvtropes page where the caption image has the MC's face bathed in red light on a darken background. If it were satire it would've gotten a laugh from me. But then you realize it's serious.
Animation is a medium, I think even the most normie of normies knows that. But when autist flock around kid's content, I often wonder they don't put their resources in actually mature media? There's a multitude of amazing, niche animation tackling deeper themes, but they get pass over for bluey of all things.
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>>2261426OTGW and even gravity falls both did have similar fandoms at one point with lots of gorey fanart and edgy AUs for both wirt and dipper such as the popular murder husbands and bad end friends trends, every episode where something slightly creepy happened would have people spamming posts about
>how could CN or disney get away with this?? No. 2261790
>>2261602>tvtropes page where the caption image has the MC's face bathed in red light on a darken backgroundkek yeah that's exactly the type of shit I was getting at, and yeah, sometimes you assume it's gotta be satire/someone taking the piss, and then you realise nope, it's serious and other people in the fandom see it the same way.
>I often wonder they don't put their resources in actually mature media?They don't want real mature media, as it doesn't coddle them, they just want to 'uplift' safe media to fit their interests or age-related tastes. Mature media is usually more complex by default, and for some that leads to anxiety because they want simple paths to follow with a lot of hand-holding (just watch how people will chimp out if media similar to mlp actually does contain a more nuanced moral lesson or doesn't end neatly because the slightly more complex topic doesn't logically resolve like that).
>>2261722oh definitely, it was even pretty obvious during the 2000s anime boom that older kids and teens were gravitating towards it because there were more genre options and felt more mature/cooler– kids generally like 'aspirational' media where the characters are a little older than them doing things that are a little more mature or weighty than where they're currently at. Interestingly, there were more western cartoons around that time that were aiming for more of a teen audience, but they either legitimately flopped or were held up to restrictive and dated metrics and considered failures despite good viewership (eg failed to sell toys) and got canned. There's a lot of audience gaps western animation could fill, but for now it's pretty stuck in the twee kids cartoon/adult comedy rut with few outliers.
>>2261760yeah I know the 'trauma' part of 'childhood trauma' in regards to cartoons isn't literal (I hope, at least kek), it's just a common way I've seen the content be discussed by those acting this way and figured anons would get what I mean. And sure, sometimes people are just hamming up how disturbing something is, usually for views, but other people will take that literally and match that same level of hand-wringing, promoting that perception of a scene/etc, and there are others who were already really just that sensitive to begin with and prone to over-emphasising things (especially common in western/american animation fan circles).
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>>2261235Can I just say that I'm surprised those bongs made that trip over to New Orleans all because of this TV show remake of the damn book and movie? The recasting for Lestat isn't even good, the fucker looks like Mr. Incredible from this angle.
No. 2261859
>>2261235To be fair you can't walk two blocks in New Orleans without someone trying to sell you a haunted plantation tour, tons of people take those tours every day. Not their fault people who have not been to New Orleans do not know how common it is.
Lestat is also not real so the people calling him a white slave owner saying it's disrespectful to take his funkopop (kekkk) on a plantation tour are retarded. If these are TV show fans he didn't even own slaves in the TV show, they wrote that out.
No. 2261952
Even scrotes are getting tired of gamer grifters whining about "ugly" female characters
>>2261278its definitely the plantation thing and making a cutesy photoshoot moment kek. Its like going on a history tour at auschitwz then taking photos with a magneto funko pop kek
No. 2261995
>>2261952Asmongold (the balding moid complaining at the start) is a legitimate turbo-sperg who lives in squalor despite being rich
and also ate maggot infested meat on stream. He has a big following of autists who are beyond saving (his chat is special needs incarnate) but I'm pretty sure most gamer scrotes hate him. It's a good thing he's crying about this stuff. Hopefully he embarrasses other gamers into shutting up. Reposting because I forgot to spoiler that certain part.
No. 2262050
>>2261953Ayrt but I mentioned how it is with "plantations" in Latin America, as long as you don't preserve the tools and infrastructure of slavery and turn it into a museum it's basically just a farmhouse, and since they're offering "haunted plantation tours" in these properties it's obviously not being used as a museum and witness of horror where you're supposed to be quietly contemplating historical atrocities, it's being used as a villa with a terrain. The church commemorating black history and thus taking pictures in it being
problematic doesn't make any sense to me; in the IWTV TV show Louis' grandfather was literally an emancipated slave, if anything (as cringe as it may be) taking a picture of your Louis funkopop in it "recognizes" that aspect of him. Churches all over Europe and I'm sure abroad also commemorate all sorts of murders and genocides and I've literally never seen it be considered
problematic to get married in them. Japanese fans also take pictures of their acrylic stands based on real people in shrines dedicated to literal war criminals and nobody is batting an eyelash.
No. 2262071
>>2261952Chasing fidelity is a rat's game, but if it means making more moids seethe then so be it.
>>2262003Everywhere you looked, there was a pony just around the corner, people were being turned into ponies, one third of pfps were ponies. And even now, with MLP out of the limelight, the autist who made that bed are still seething about its downfall. Sorry if this sounds personal, but speaking as someone who liked the show as a young girl, I can never understand why some cling to it in hopes something will fill the void?
No. 2262077
>>2262017>That being said, the person in question owns a FunkoPop, so I will be supporting the backlashKEK
>>2262022the TV show woke adjustments were insane because they made him black and changed him from a slaveowner to a brothel owner and this was somehow better?? iirc he has a moral dilemma over owning slaves in the books but there is no moral dilemma over owning sex slaves in the tv show. hm.
No. 2262154
>>2262050Anon, I don't know what to tell you. American history and race relations are complicated. What I will say is that I'm not going to be the one to argue on whether or not a certain group of people have the right to feel offended about their historic sites being underminded for some cutesy fandom photos to post to your followers on your Twitter about. And in America, plantations are still very much advertised as plantations. They may not be active anymore, but the history is constantly in mention. The grounds are still maintained/preserved as the plantation that it is. Various plaques, stories, and pictures are found throughout them to remind you of what the people there endured. It's not simply "some old farmhouse or villa, " the appeal is that it's literally a plantation and that the "haunted" aspect comes from the slaves that were killed there, which is what gets people interested. The issue is Americans just don't give a shit about slavery, let alone the various other atrocities its committed, that's why you see people having weddings and throwing parties at these places because they genuinely do not care. Of course, that isn't to say all Americans are like that, since there are people who realize how fucked up it is and speak out about it, but the general consensus is that we all should just "get over it."
No. 2262188
>>2261856>>2262017The answer is quite simple: ameritards don't have real problems like we latin americans have, so they have to create their own and identity politics is in vogue with the mainstream now.
Also didn't know that change from slave owner to brothel owner. Guess that when it comes to female slavery it doesn't matter, like any female issue.
No. 2262228
>>2262202Anon probably means that people care more because one issue also involves male
victims, while the other specifically is about women’s oppression as women. Sex slavery is constantly downplayed and brothels are posed as normal, quaint, even empowering in tons of media.
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The Western animation thread briefly touched on nu-Ra, and it reminded me of my all-time favourite sexuality headcanon where this person claims that autism gives you an innate prison gay mentality for inanimate objects (also referring to a living being as an "animate object" topkek)
No. 2262287
>>2262228If you and anon genuinely believe Americans held slavery in greater regard over sex slavery because one involved men then it shows that one, you both are incredibly ignorant of American history, and two, incredibly ignorant of the current and historical attitudes towards slavery in general because I guarantee that they do not align with what you're talking about. I know this website hates men and that's fine but to even argue that another women's suffering under slavery is less important because it didn't specifically involve women is insane. Like I'm sorry slave owners didn't differentiate between genders jesus christ.
>>2262241Glad we cleared that retardation up. Thank you, anon.
No. 2262302
>>2262202You want to be offended so bad that didn't read well what I wrote.
I mean what
>>2262228 says.
>>2262236 I bet they think that, is there any character from the brothel acting like a badass girlboss from "Harlots"?
>>2262287 but it's true, or at least it is what you as a society show us to the rest of the world. Why the vampire doesn't have a moral dilemma with the brothel as he had with the plantation?
No. 2262417
>>2262377I found silly your american centrism, american politics are not the interest of like the whole world, and you are part of an imperialist country so your race doesn't absolve you from being an oppressor. So find a real problem, privileged-chan.
And to stay on topic: american centralism is part to blame of the current state of fandoms. Everything has to cater to american sensibilities, everything has to be about american politics. There should be a segregated space free from murrican bullshit.
No. 2262565
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>>2262278As retarded as it's used here, autism is connected to objectophila, so it's not totally a ass pull
No. 2262567
>>2262565Yeah I also generally hate to agree with any Steven Universe Voltron brand of junk like this but the true aspect of it is that autism does come along with tons of weird obsessions including very high rates of unusual sexual fetishes. Autists focus on weird stuff and form extremely strong one sided bonds with things like Sonic foot inflation art.
Obviously though the stupid aspect of the post is the whole tumblr format where blogs proudly announce what cartoon character of the day is greyace demiromantic polyamorous genderflux with neurodivergent tendencies and PCOS.
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>>2262833It's always pic rel with TIFs
No. 2262879
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Surprised no one has posted this yet but apparently Disney pulled an episode of 'Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur' (never heard of this before lol) due to the election. The episode was leaked online by the crew and is genuinely peak libslop, a poor brown transgirl gets excluded by an evil blonde terf karen and then he teams up with his diverse female friends (includes nonbinary and hijabi representation) to beat the shit out of the terf with a volleyball. Twitter is currently very mad that children won't get to experience this on tv
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>>2262879Stunning and Brave
No. 2262882
>>2262879The hijabi would team up with the
TERF. Immersion totally broken.
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Damn this shit is omega cringe they beat the boogeyman twansphobe gatekeeper girlboss karen to the rhythm of some cringe pop song
Here's a working archive btw:
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>>2262915Is catbox compromised?
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Shit never mind after clicking through 30 links i found a catbox reupload that still works. They drew the
terf karen super fucking thicc, not beating the socialized men and turned trannies after cooming brainrot allegations
https://litter.catbox.moe/wfzpnp.mp4 No. 2262926
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Also, its not just one moid in the team, there is another nonbinary scrote too. Also, this garbage is animated on the budget of a bag of potatoes and a single HRT shot god damn the animation is attrocious i feel sorry for the poor korean animators who were paid peanuts to animate this garbage.
No. 2262939
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>>2262929these two are the main writers of the show for anyone wondering
No. 2262941
>>2262922wow this whole episode is just troon bait ew, cartoons arent for children anymore it seems kek at the hijabi being on the troons side
>>2262939figures
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>>2262922Jfc they have to shove the flag in every 5 frames lest you forget he's meant to be a tranny kek.
>>2262939Not that I don't believe handmaidens could've written this slop alone because I do, but are there seriously no (male) trannies on the team that influenced this? The thicc Pixar mom
TERF couldn't have been designed by a woman.
It's so bleak, we can fight for women to get more positions of power all we want only to end up with the most dicksucking handmaidens in charge writing the same misogynistic slop anyways.
No. 2263073
>>2262922Fucking hell that was painful to watch
Even getting past the troon shit the writing itself was just really unfunny and forced, I can’t imagine any kids actually enjoying this.
No. 2263081
>>2260165Gen z in a nutshell. If I had a $1 for every time I got excited to talk to someone about a fandom, but they only liked the design and nothing else from it. Dont even know the names of characters.
>>2260185That's so annoying. I hate retards who only watch streamers. Random, but now I feel like replaying TEW
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>>2262939I think it could be the VAs this time. Troon on the left, enby on the right. IRL left is a TiM, right it a TiF. Both are they/thems.
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>>2262919They wanna be hip with the kids
I do agree that this trend is obnoxious as fuck though.
No. 2263184
>>2263174All the tries at emulating Sailor Moon's magical girl transformation has made me absolutely sick of it in western animation.
At this point I'd clap if they used literally anything else, even Madoka, as inspiration despite thinking those go a bit overboard.
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>>2263184That or male animators referencing Dragon Ball
I give SU props in that at least they mostly referenced Utena.
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>>2262917I kind of hate the western animation industry because it has too much of this. Adults making shows "for kids" that are actually just for adults and the type of people they have as friends. Even when there were snippets of politics in 90s cartoons, it was extremely basic shit like "hey kids, don't be a nazi!". Nowadays, I feel like the average American "children's" cartoon is more likely than ever to basically be a lengthy tumblr post of retarded, overly SJW takes but put into animated form.
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i miss when fandom activities like writing fanfic or drawing fanart were super niche and not something people would attach their faces to.
No. 2263282
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I wholeheartedly, unironically believe women should not be allowed in the video game industry and I have my reasons. I
Picrel is the CEO of azur lane, when she could've created a video game with cute guys that are also sexy which acts in her own self interest, she decides to be a pickme cunt and create one of the biggest coomer gachas known to man (Azur Lane). I never understand why women do this out of sheer disrespect. She's quite pretty too, does she love sucking dick that much?
Additionally, Stellar Blade was modelled after the creator's wife, who was very complicit in the creation of said game.
A woman also made Rance too. Women in the video game industry never act in their self interest or want to make women happy, they just want to make their precious moids happy. When has a woman ever positively contributed to a video game or make it better for female fans in the past 20 years? Never. Ban women from working in the video game industry, less moidgaze slop. Simple.(bait)
No. 2263291
>>2262949It depends on the game to be honest. If they're very text-heavy, like VNS or some RPGs, then I don't think there's harm in only watching a Let's Play as you won't miss too much outside some gameplay segments. You will get 70% of the content thru those videos or whatever format you pick.
But for games like plataforms or fighting games, then yeah you should play the game. The fun and meat of them is the gameplay.
The former is akin listening to an audiobook instead of reading and the later it's like saying you enjoy to cook when you just watch cooking programs.
I remember after I played P1-3, I wanted to try 5 but didn't had a console for it so I just watched a gameplay. Thought it sucked, but people told me to play it myself, so I did as comanded when the port released and still thought the game sucked kek Wasted 150h and €60, playing myself barely added anything to the experience.
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>>2263282>Azure Lane>biggest coomer gachaThere's bigger coomer gacha than that. I get that nobody knows what these games are actually like because fuck playing them, but the standard of coomer goes harder than that.
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>>2263344
Slutwear….
No. 2263358
>>2263253This person is also conflating a good fanfic with how many kudos it got. In some fandoms, especially those who skew younger, you have cringe high school AU chat fics top the "sort by kudos" rankings.
But I agree with you. Too many people create fics or fanart with the explicit (and often only) goal of getting lots of likes and adoration only, which results in lots and lots of slop.
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>>2263374Even Nikke has their own basic nonsexual units to round out the gacha.
No. 2263539
>>2263494Eh, a ton of black women are pro-tranny because they feel like they need to make up for black men's violent homophobia and play the role of supportive faghag mommies for black trannies. Black troons are also mainly HSTs as opposed to AGPs, so black women peak less due to them not being nearly as degenerate as white TIMs.
There's a lot of based transphobic black women of course, but most seem just as handmaiden-y as white women.
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>>2263499Kekk you're 100% right. If something is targeted towards gendies, they'll nitpick it to hell and back and ultimately deem it
problematic and then go back to watching One Piece all day
No. 2263891
>>2262922>Full episode of tranny outshining the girls like your typical uplifting PSA lol what a joke
This was actually mind numbing to watch holy shit.
No. 2263917
I enjoy reading about HP ships, even though i'm not an HP fan. The fandom sounds so different from the state of modern fandoms in general it's refreshing.
>>2263338oh my god the anatomy sucks so fucking much here
>>2263289it'd be great if animation became a thing for adults again.
No. 2263943
>>2261276nayrt but some of us hate enemies to lovers altogether. doesn't help that most of it is basic and lazily written but it's just not a dynamic i'm interested in
>>2263826a lot of hermione pairings were like that. back in the early days of the fandom (when we didn't know endgame canon pairings), harry/hermione aka harmony was the biggest one. some of the harmony shippers were absolutely unhinged (hp fandom drama back in the LJ era was INSANE) and they were the first ones that made the "evil ron" fics. the pairing isn't that popular anymore but lazy character bashing is still unfortunately common in hp fanworks.
No. 2263981
>>2262922>muh evil karendoes anyone else cringe at the mere fact that they made the evil villain based on a normie misogynistic Xitter caricature? i can't stand the Karen meme, much less a low effort attempt at turning it into a literal children's cartoon tier villain.
also she has such a coomer design kek why is there so much emphasis on her hips and ass
>>2262879what a retard, it's so obvious that the issue with the episode was the whole plot, not the character himself. but no, mUh transmisogyny persecution complex makes more sense
>>2263282ok i'll bite.
the games industry is severely misogynistic, keeping potentially good female developers out, discouraging them from becoming developers, or brutally harassing them if they dare release something big that doesn't pander to moids or if they manage to convince their higher ups of toning down female sexualization or sexualizing male characters. gaymergate only made it worse. if you're a woman in the industry and not just a no-name indie dev, you have to be a handmaiden pickme or at least pretend to be, just to be able to survive. even more than 2 decades ago this was the case, in the 80s and 90s. why the fuck would i want to work in AAA video game studios when all we ever hear about them are sexism and sexual harassment scandals? that's why you only see the pickmiest of pickmes in that industry. the game studios are usually founded by men too because men are encouraged more by all sectors of society to pursue careers in tech and computing than women in most first world countries, and because the system is rigged to favour men so they end up with the most financial resources, or in other words, men are richer than women. now gaymer scrotes on the internet are claiming that anything that wasn't made specifically to make their dicks hard is "DEI slop", meaning that not pandering to their dicks is evil feminazi shit as if video games were supposed to be exclusively violent pornography for the scrotiest of scrotes. they're just mad that women don't have to hide their video game hobby anymore and that it turns out that women and girls are expressing their own opinions now.
If you want to prove something you should stop being all talk and join a big studio to develop a female-pandering game without female objectification. If it's so easy even a retard like you should be able to do it. go ahead, show us how it's done.
No. 2264016
>>2263917>it'd be great if animation became a thing for adults again.Tbh I think we'd be left with the same degen coomer slop anime and shitty edgy flash animation shows like rick and morty we have now. The average adult into animation is too much of a retarded manchild to handle any themes deeper than fucking Bluey, they're more than happy consooming the current lifeless pandering slop they're being served.
>>2263981>the games industry is severely misogynistic, keeping potentially good female developers out, discouraging them from becoming developers, or brutally harassing them if they dare release something big that doesn't pander to moids or if they manage to convince their higher ups of toning down female sexualization or sexualizing male characters.This, thank you
nonnie. I hate when people defend the most misogynistic writing just because
>"ermm did you know a DISABLED WOMAN wrote this??"Yeah, a disabled woman married to a sexist neckbeard writer. A disabled woman who likely has the same conservative sexist views as her hubby and the rest of his coworkers. How stupid do you have to be to not realize if sexist moids are forced to hire women to appear egalitarian, of course they're gonna hire a pickmeisha who agrees with everything they say. And of course the pickmeisha is gonna feel pressured to create the same sexist slop as every man in the company to not fall behind, even if she doesn't want to.
No. 2264032
>>2264016There's plenty of anime that's not coomer, shouldn't be that hard to have bad stuff
and some not so bad stuff for adults.
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>>2263222>>2262917the fans they do manage to attract are ultimately the most delusional groups, take this meme for example, only avatar comes close to the relevance of harry potter, pjo is not popular anywhere outside of america and the owl house has no influence or legacy, only weirdo gendies and porn addicts like it
No. 2264275
>>2264016There is animation for adults that is not American SJW preaching or anime:
>>>/m/430429And also this:
>>>/m/189358 No. 2264281
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>>2264016>>2264275I like primal. It's a silent cartoon about a dino and her friend neanderthal beating zombie dinosaurs, evil monkes, witches and other random crazy stuff. Its pretty unique compared to your animated family sitcom or those boring, poorly animated milennial cartoons about dealing with mommy/daddy issues like bojack and inside job.
No. 2264644
>>2264272>r/EnoughJKRowlingRent free
>The Owl House These people have to be +30 years old and the only media they can think of to rival Harry Potter is an even more childish children cartoon for literal toddlers. Has anyone considered consooming media aimed towards their big age?
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>>2264644tbh nona i find it really hard to even find any media aimed at adults that isnt straight up just braindead porn nowadays, any tv show made after 2014 is extremely sexually explicit and all the drama revolves around situationships and sex.
Asian media tends to be better in terms of content but its generally more conservative and doesnt tackle too complicated character relationships and topics with nuance, the shameless product placement gets annoying too.
No. 2264704
>>2264272>percy jacksonA shittier American Harry Potter. I thought these books were shit even when I was in the targeted age range.
>avatar the last airbenderA completely different medium and genre
>the owl house85% Little Witch Academia, 15% Harry Potter. Tried to ride off of Gravity Falls's fumes.
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>>2264749I guess it comes from the restrictions themselves, you can't have porn (and i say porn straight up because thats the point we have gotten with HBO tv shows, just full blown uncensored simulated sex) on asian tv, so they need to find other ways to engage the audience, hell with most romance shows you wont even get a kiss until episode 20 or something, sure it leads to some goofiness because they come up with increasingly more unrealistic conflicts like serial killers, demons etc etc but the need to compete with western media on top of all of these restrictions make the writers actually put in some effort and create plenty of gems if you get past the wackiness and some cultural differences.
There's also much more effort put into making common and mundane lifestyles like being in the countryside or working at a restaurant seem romantic and cozy. The shows aren't afraid of being slow and having low stakes while making them engaging through cinematography, picrel is a good example, its a japanese show about a girl being a cook for a geisha house. thats it. Theres no romantic relationships, much less sex. But its a beautiful and emotionally compelling show that deals with themes such as professional dreams and vocation.
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Nonas, I just stumbled across this comic on Twitter and now I feel all mushy and gooey inside. I have a feeling that you girls will also appreciate this.
https://x.com/The__Ria/status/1858178348763017615 No. 2264807
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>>2264797I think someone is being tsun-tsun and needs to be glomped ecksdee
No. 2264884
>>2264879It's not
egregiously bad but there are some typical moidisms like the Aphrodite house being full of vapid makeup-obsessed girls until Piper joins because she's a cringe Mary Sue NLOG kek
No. 2264944
>>2264884Samefag, fuck it, I'm going to vendettapost about an irrelevant 10+ year old character but idc. I loved flashy cool girl characters as a kid but even I was like "holy shit this bitch is annoying" kek. One of the most "written by a man" characters in the whole franchise
>Daughter of Aphrodite and a literal A list celebrity>But she doesn't care about her appearance (unlike her peers) because she's just SUCH a tomboy (kek) and she actually looks even prettier WITHOUT makeup (this is pointed out several times)>She also doesn't care about being rich and steals things all the time because "I just want to be normal so dad can give me attention sadface">Somehow avoided detection from monsters and the life-ruining consequences of it even though literally no other halfblood in history has ever managed that>Is hated on-sight by the cartoonish mean girl in the Aphrodite cabin who didn't exist before now, she was invented just to make Piper look better>Is such an NLOG that she literally gags after walking into the cabin and smelling perfume (can you tell a scrote wrote this)>"Oh no I can't believe I told everyone I have a famous dad that's so embarrassinggg">Her charmspeak (mind control) ability is driven entirely by plot convenience, one particularly ridiculous scene is when she uses it on a MACHINE>Demigods can easily shrug off her powers but Gaia herself was easily lured to sleep by them>Uses her powers on her friends to shut them up when they're concerned about something and it's treated as nbd (some instances are justified but still)>Gets into an annoying relationship with a scrotelet called Jason>Like a REALLY annoying relationship>They're fully obsessed with each other, her personality just becomes "Jason's perfect waifu" during this era, but it turns out their few bonding moments were made up entirely of fake memories and they break up (kek)>Was willing to essentially be a side chick after he remembered his real girlfriend but it doesn't pan out. For some reason the narrative acts like Piper was wronged by this>At the end of the series she's shoved into a relationship with some random new girl >They have zero chemistry except "we're soulmates">Is generally just super judgemental even though she's not done anything that great compared to the other characters>Has an amazing singing voice but is just ~too shy~ to realise how good she is>Her wiki page is obviously written by a waifufag who worships her>>2264910Oh yeah, all the characters have a bit of a smug Tumblr kid vibe to their POVs. Riordan knew his audience kek
No. 2265308
>>2264272Yet only one of these has a theme park area…
Seriously though I’m not into any of these series but you have to be smoking crack to think this, at least compare it to some other multi billion dollar franchises like Marvel and Star Wars.
No. 2265367
>>2264272Why are they whinging as if those series aren't incredibly successful? I fucking wish the Owl House was uber underground and unknown so I wouldn't have to see its ugly art style and character design every fucking where I go. Removing the aspect of "men/womenchildren should just read books for adults instead of being fucking speds", why not suggest something like the HTTYD books which are comparatively way more underappreciated (and better than the movies). From what I remember (I was 12 when I started reading the series so I could be wrong) the writing is on a similar level to HP and handles serious topics like abuse and generational trauma and human slavery in a really respectful way, in comparison to Percy Jackson's "my mummy died and I'm retarded" and Mangus Chase's fucking unoriginal fantasy racism and ableism. Not to mention its way more creative world buildingwise in comparison to lazily rewriting and incorporating myths that everyone slightly into Greek history knows. I've seen the Greek underworld and Hades/Persephone story/dynamic handled more creatively in a Schoolastic book fair book about vore for fuck's sake. PJ is gay and lame and deserves none of the shilling it has gotten.
Probably aged poorly as fuck, but less than PJ, but also what about like Skulduggery Pleasant? There's so many fantasy books/media for children that aren't fucking the Owl House or Percy Jackson.
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How do you find other fans that are relatively normal? I've had enough of being surrounded by handmaidens.
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>>2265463Nta but I knew that plot sounded familiar! Didn't know that it got a la adaption, the manga is pretty cute too.
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>>2265367I loved the HTTYD books when I was a kid and I'll never forgive the movies for how they butchered the original characters, story and charming artstyle
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>>2265572so the male version of what happened to most fujos?
picrel
No. 2265644
>>2265528>>2265560I have found my people! I’ve tried introducing fans of the movies to the books (“there’s books?”) but every time they refuse to read them because the illustrations are “weird”. My sister in Christ the main character is called Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third of course he was never meant to be a hot bishie. Shit. These are the same people who spent half their life obsessing over Harry Potter without ever realising the school is named for warts on a hog.
What I don’t get is why none of the ex-HP fans have jumped ship to The Worst Witch. Too kiddie? Not enough male characters to ship?
No. 2265666
>>2265644oh man, The Worst Witch/The New Worst Witch tv shows were some of my favourites when I was a kid (never encountered the books for some reason though). I liked it more than HP at the time because the HP books started frustrating me with how little time was spent doing magic school shenanigans kek (and also because WW episodes would air shortly after my dad'd get home from work and we'd watch it together)
I do remember dumb slap fights over what got to be considered the one true magic school series though that would include WW, which always seemed like strange arguments to have to me since similar premise or concept doesn't equal the same execution, which is usually what causes people to love a story over another anyway.
No. 2265691
>>2265607Kek, I was over simplifying the plot but it's something like, Help! The Easter Bunny Ate My Sister! Basically a rabbit toy teaches MC all about Easter and how it's okay that you'll die one day but you should make the most of your life instead of worrying about it all the time by abducting her and eating her through its skin. The depiction of the Underworld iirc was a rabbit burrow with a large banquet of rotting food and wooden rabbit dolls everywhere and some scary animal stuck in a fireplace. 90s Scholastic books were something else.
>>2265644The illustrations are so charming and full of emotion, it makes me sad that people won't read it just for that reason. The dragon info cards you used to get with the older editions were the best thing ever too.
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i actually love yuri but the more i see people like this the more i want to push harder as a fujo. such ugly behavior
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>>2262882>>2265416>The real gatekeepers would have been the hijabi's parents angry that a moid is in the same dressing room with their daughter, not a white KarenThey missed a good chance by being cowards.
No. 2265756
>>2265738Because they think communism means "free shit doing nothing" while it meant "If you're not fit to be in the working class, you're a waste of oxigene". Even the Gulabs were worse than Auschwitz-Birkenau.
I don't get neither why also GBT are communist too.
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>>2265761that's far too generous an assumption, they like most neurotic fail moids they have pathetic violent fantasies but are massive wimps irl and so they live forever with the idea of a violent revenge fantasy revolution, recently a german socialist activist made a musicvideo about how he's going to castrate men and kill all the homophobes, terfs and racists while pointing a toy gun and safety scissors and it was honestly so pathetic and embarrassing but he and most troons think that's badass
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>>2265750Hilarious. So the shippers survived the sexy bunny, gore, vIoLeNcE AgAiNsT WoMeN, but couldn't stomach shipping a 16yo character?
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>>2265833It's already a cesspit. Why even move?
No. 2265897
>>2265615She's right though, trannies are ridiculously gendered when it comes to hobbies. Tifs are all into yaoi, cozy games, custom dolls or girly gore while Tims are all into Warhammer, Magic the Gathering, autistic vidiya related things like speedrunning, et cetera.
Of course, some troons do break the stereotypes, but for the most part they are autistically obsessed with things that are prominently enjoyed by people of their sex.
No. 2265906
>>2265775Ngl the only thing I remember is getting pissed that the anime adaption didn't use the cool voynich manuscript designs the manga had.
I do remember thinking the chemistry was kind of lame, the mc was a bit too bitchy without the bounce back to make it work, at least imo.
No. 2265983
>>2265968i honestly don't prefer them because the psychological gaslighting they
trigger in me when they call people criticizing them "misogyny" makes me want to tear my hair out
No. 2265999
>>2265968one group you can tell to kill themselves, the other is held up like golden calves and is also actively convincing young girls that their lesbian fetishism is normal. i remember seeing a yuri reading list put together by a 16 y/o and several titles were just blatant gender bender porn, it makes me sad.
if they came across that naturally then it’s whatever but they explicitly seek it out because they think it’s le tgirl representation
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>>2265522>A Touhou pfp is even more of an instant clock than straight up having a tranny flag in your display name at this point, any time a "woman" talks about Touhou it's guaranteed to be a moid.I'm a bio woman that likes touhou, there are dozens of us. Admittedly i do like the yuri of it but i think me shipping terumoko is different from trannies masturbating to suwako futa porn.
>>2265594>hata no kokoro pfpDisgusting. All touhou girls hate trannies.
>>2265738Commie trannies are inherently an oxymoron, troonism can only exist under capitalism and marx would laugh in their faces.
No. 2266082
>>2265572>they were a community that was hit the hardest during the mid to late 2010's trannydemic, much like how crack devastated black communities in the 80's.I'm sorry
nonnie I actually laughed out loud at how apt this allegory is kek
No. 2266661
>>2265833I like the blocklist feature, there's been a lot of
valid criticism over it but tbh at the end of the day I don't want to see some peoples posts and they don't want to see mine, so it evens out. I like it for smaller fandoms because it's easier to see everyones posts at once. I've been having a good time creating content for it and having actual engagement instead of praying and hoping it shows up without getting shadowbanned like on Twitter or Instagram.
Of course it's fandom dependent and if I was in any major ones I'd want to shoot my brains out they seem more annoying on Bluesky than Twitter.