I want tumblr to do a Goncharov but with like an actor, like Anya Blanche the 1940s-1960s actress who starred in the background of several films until he debut as a lead in like 1951 or something. Idk I think it’d be a fun twist on the original and a harder creative exercise. 😊
Am I the only person who actually enjoys the batfamily webtoon? I see many people who are saying that the webtoon is bad representation and too fanon. I just think the webtoon it's just the family acting domestic and talking to each one like if no one is trying to murder them.
i also like it and sometimes it gets silly but it also has tackled some big subjects?
like if it's too fluff for someone bc of personal taste that's totes fine, but i've seen complaints, too, and i want to address two of them.
1. it's too silly/fanon/goofy:
it's a batman comic. like, i love angst and trauma and gore, but also, there's a point where you have to acknowledge that "grimdark" is its own kind of fantasy. you know what's silly? most of batman comics. batman on a grapple line is silly. batman having his back cracked in half by a former mexican child prisoner on super steroids is pretty silly. it is goofy, it's just that when characters are all angry and the coloring is dark, we say it's a power fantasy or some kind of realism and that makes it Serious. i love some of those comics. but it's also bullshit. and WFA has an issue where a character grapples with how to talk to a child about parental death because of their own history of trauma with it. it has a depiction of a PTSD flashback and dissociative episode. how are those less serious?
2. The characters aren't like that in "real" canon/don't have relationships there.
WFA has figured out that characters don't have to constantly be trying to kill, undermine, betray, trick, or hate one another. that's one thing hurting so many comic titles now-- it's exhausting and boring. WFA has been letting stories happen while characters actually want to work things out. yeah, it's often relationship driven. that's okay. not every single comic has to be the exact same kind of comic, and frankly, many current plot-driven comics would do better if they weren't trying to deconstruct their own world, tear relationships to pieces, or reinvent the universe.
WFA has been fun for me-- not the deepest title, not the most groundbreaking title. but when did we get the idea that comics weren't supposed to be fun? that they only matter if they're Changing Comics as a Medium, or gritty and dark, or a specific vein of power fantasy Cool?
WFA is doing something right for a lot of people. it doesn't have to be the right comic for everyone, but that doesn't mean it's bad, or failing somehow. so what if it's a lot of fanon? there happen to be a lot of people-- real people, whose opinions matter-- that enjoy fanon for a reason. and batman comics, unlike a series of tv, have multiple titles and genres happening at once. it's not The Only Comic being ruined, like a fan-service season could ruin a tv show.
anyway, WFA might not be for everyone, but i'm sure as hell glad it exists
not people saying that sterek wasn’t queerbait.
pssft. sterek was the most obvious case of queerbait in the 2010s. shipped it or not mtv and jeff davis used the ship and the question of stiles’s sexuality as a marketing tool. more than once. which is what queerbait is.
like they literally had dylan o’brien and hoechlin on that damn boat. i was there gandalf. i was there.
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Jeff Davis during Comic-Con for SEASON 2 literally said answering if Stiles is bi or not would be a spoiler. Then canonically just never answered it. He literally baited us with Stiles’ sexuality the whole show. Which is why I get pissed off when people call him straight. Even if you don’t ship Sterek I don’t see how you can watch the show and come out thinking he doesn’t like men.
i think we need a new word for teen wolf because it did something new and different - it fucked us over in a whole new way with sterek
teen wolf didn’t queerbait because it was full of queer content, there was no teasing about queer characters, and it wasn’t that one guy who walked past the camera once in one episode was gay in the directors commentary [cough marvel] queer - it literally had a queer sex scene that was as explicit as any of their straight ones
so it wasn’t queerbaiting - because they didn’t promise queer content and not deliver - they did deliver queer content - just not the queer content everyone was waiting on
we were shipbaited - the will they-won’t they in sterek [which was always a matter of neither being in the right place at the same time as the other] and ship baiting SUCKS - we were lured in under false pretences but this isn’t supernatural where the queer characters were minor at best and dead at worst - there was queer content - lots of it, just not the stuff we wanted
and yes Davis should have had someone say that Stiles was bi - because people can miss it and it’s so screamingly obvious that it might as well be in pink neon
and derek’s first love realisation is in season 2 [the power of love speech in 210]
we were ship baited because we didn’t get the ship they sold us - but the cruise was still flamboyantly queer so not queer baiting
[i think the result should be the same - sticking the creator in a pit with an angry bear and ask him his opinion on baiting now?“
Grizzly 399 is so cool! I went to her Wikipedia page intending to screenshot interesting facts about her, but I would really recommend you go check out the whole thing for yourself.
Grizzly 399 lives in close proximity to humans but has never caused problems or attacked a human - she has taught her many cubs important skills like looking both ways before crossing the road. She has had more triplets than is normal for grizzlies, and is far better at keeping triplets alive than less experienced mothers.
She had 22 progeny, (though not all survived) including Grizzly 610, who in 2011 adopted one of 399’s triplets along with her own two cubs. 399 previously went viral on social media for keeping her quadruplets alive through two seasons, despite bear cubs only having a 55% survival rate.
A beast crushing it on adapting to become more fit for her environment and passing on knowledge to her progeny. Top-tier animal.
Isaac Lahey in Unleashed (3x04)
Are you okay? Yeah, yeah, I'm just... Not a big fan of small spaces.
Isaac Lahey in Letharia Vulpina (3x19)
There's a card on my desk for Isaac Lahey, and every one of you losers is not only going to sign it, you're going to write a personal message so profound and deep, it's gonna bring a tear to Coach's eye.
Isaac Lahey in More Bad Than Good (3x14)
Okay, what is the point of him? Seriously, I mean, what is his purpose? Aside from the persistent negativity and the scarf? What's up with the scarf anyway? It's 65 degrees out. Look, maybe I'm asking a question no one here wants to ask. How do we turn a coyote back into a girl, when she hasn't been a girl for eight years?
I appreciate the concern, but you don’t have to stay. I’ll be alright. I’ve dealt with this before.
Daniel Sharman as Isaac Lahey Teen Wolf • Seasons 2 & 3
How do you two losers even survive?
Anytime i see people accuse Teen Wolf of queerbaiting i remember that one Danny and Ethan scene in Motel California.
I always feel the need to point out that Mason's and Corey's relationship lasted longer than Scott's and Allison's. The only one that lasted longer was Scott's and Kira's.
The public relations department acknowledging that there were a lot of fans who wanted the Ship Which Must Not Be Named doesn't mean that the show was trying to imply it was going to happen. They would have to spend time together for it to even have the possibility.
Reminder people: you can't be queerbaited if there were actual queer characters in the story you're complaining about.
My take is that "forced diversity" in media very much isn't a real thing but there is a trend of diversity with 0 thought put into how characters' identities affect them & if it makes any fucking sense what they're doing in the story. And also everybody forgot what tokenism is
Like that thing where somebody's trying to write an oppression allegory with nonhuman races but there are also humans in it and you can't have all your humans being white so then they have like a black person calling an elf a slur or something. Why this
Every time I have to sit through a blue person explaining racism to poc because somebody didn't think very hard about their scifi/fantasy setting I just think to myself... why are they doing that
SO, SO, SO fascinated by whatever the hell is going on with this ot3 👀
like the tenderness between all of them 💕 and kurt could tell laura was logan's daughter because he knows logan's eyes and body so well and why does logan care about who kurt is kissing and dancing with meanwhile he's kissing ororo shortly after going on a date to a bookshop cafe in paris with kurt goals tbh and kurt keeps staring at ororo and logan together like he wants to get in between them in a sexy way
tbh i think ororo is smarter than these two and casually dating both logan and kurt without having to try and 'make sense' of it 😂