it should be 100% legal to go in abandoned buildings. like nobody is using it for anything why can't i go in

Isn't this how you get murdered?

no. it's how you get poisoned by mold or crushed by broken floorboards or whatever but there aren't murderers just hanging out in every abandoned building like cockroaches

Oh man i cant wait to murder people. Let me go into a place that is defined by having no people inside to do so

Sorry for who-posting in the year 2019 but the Doctor is actually so named because he wrote and successfully defended a dissertation at an accredited university whereas the Master completed a 2-year graduate program in his chosen field, which points to the existence of a third less-advanced and less-specialized counterpart, the Bachelor

The Bachelor is never seen in the show because he’s still living with his parents on Gallifrey, listlessly applying for jobs and stress-eating

I thought the bachelor was being fought over by 12 women in a big house

galaxy brain:  The Bachelor Tv show has featured the same man for every season but he regenerates like the doctor

obsessed with the idea that the bachelor is ritually killed at the end of every season

Btw someone was kind enough to gift me ad free tumblr and it literally doesn’t work on mobile.

On the main dash you’re free but if you look at individual blogs you still get ads

(Swag Goku)

LIKE IF YOURE GONNA SELL AN ADD FREE PRODUCT YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE IT WORKS @staff

stop focusing on the cool Goku necklace and focus on tumblr being shitty and still showing ads even if you buy ad free

technically its a gogeta necklace

I made a miscalculation.

I don’t think penis Georg would be recognizably human

marvel’s dedication to portraying j jonah jameson as a complex three dimensional character with likeable traits and sympathetic qualities is really funny cuz it’s led to the creation of a character who unfailingly stands for truth and integrity in journalism except for this one specific dude he is absolutely convinced is putting chemicals in the water to turn the frogs gay

you say this but replace “spider-man” with “transgender people” and I think it would describe at least half a dozen actual journos

Parasite and Girl

it’s been one year since i’ve posted this and i still can’t believe the mind-bogglingly enormous response it has gotten… thank you all, i’m glad you liked my silly comic so much

people discovering steven universe in 2023 are always like "this show is really good why the hell were yall so weird about it"

#LITERALLY ME#I could probably find the conversation with my friend where I was like#‘yeah I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop bc I heard all the Bad Show Propaganda and then uh. That shoe never dropped. Good show.’

As someone that was there and started blocking the SU Crit tag because of so many bad faith accusations, yeah I think I can say a bit of what happened. Might be a bit disjointed but these are the things that I remember happening.

First thing was the release schedule. The Steven Bombs. Releasing like five episodes in one week and then nothing for months. This was something that CartoonNetwork had control over and might have been something that they tried to use to get Steven Universe to stop being so popular because it was gestures pretty queer.

If Steven Universe was a show that every episode was a stand alone, this wouldn't have been an issue, but it was a linear story. So major developments could drop; major character reveals/fuck-ups could happen and then the fandom would just sit on those for months. Instead of getting the next part of the story that resolved whatever just happened the fandom could sit there and stew in theories and emotions. So characters messing up would be blown out of proration and the resolution wouldn't feel like it actually enough effort on the one that messed up end.

One example was Cry for Help. When Pearl tricked Garnet into fusing more often. If I remember right, we didn't get to Pearl and Garnet actually talking out what happened there until months after the fact. In story not much time had past but for the audience that was plenty of time for people to be offended on Garnet's behalf and distort what happened.

Anther issue was "Gem Harvest" dropped right around the 2016 election. You know when Trump became president. This was made long before the election, but there were people who took that timing as somehow Rebecca Sugar and the Crew saying stuff that they weren't. I would also say this was when the discourse really took off. If that episode had aired when the crew thought it would, probably a year or months before then, I don't think people would have misread it was much as they did. It was about communication and also Uncle Andy is the one that had to realize that the way he acted had caused him to be isolated from his family. This wasn't Steven had to "make his racist uncle no longer racist all on his own" but "Steven gave him encouragement that it wasn't too late to change". But the timing was terrible and the Crew had no control on that. The Steven Bombs made several seasons last for years when they should have been over in some months.

Second, studio interference that fandom blamed on Rebecca Sugar and the Crew. The scheduling, the ending of the show feeling rushed; those were things that parts of the fandom blamed on the crew not the network. There were people that I recall saying that the crew just needed to change how Steven Universe was written to fit with the bomb format better, when the bomb format wasn't something that the crew ever wanted. That wasn't the show style that they were telling. The show got axed because Rebecca Sugar and the Crew wouldn't drop the wedding. They wanted it there because it was important to have in a kid's show. But because they stuck to their guns the rest of the story had to be speed up, and people thought that the crew should have written the ending better; when that ending was planned to have at least another season, not a week long set of episodes. Steven Universe was set up to be a long term story. One that gave time to each character to unpack their mindset and issues. But they couldn't do that with the Diamonds.

Third, people not understanding the theme of the show. Steven Universe was about family, emotions, and open communication solving issues. Characters resolved their issues by talking about them. By being open about what the issues were. That was the reason Gem War happened; because open communication because Pink Diamond and the other Diamonds just couldn't happen. We see that Steven is at his worst when he bottles up his emotions or refuses to talk about an issue that he knows he has. But despite this theme by the time we got to Change Your Mind, people were cheering for the idea of Steven shattering the Diamonds. Which ignores the theme of the show; communication. There were people that wanted Steven to kill the Diamonds when this wasn't that type of show. Steven always hated when he couldn't talk to another character and had to bubble them. Why would this kid resort to killing? That goes against the themes of this show.

Fourth, the rushed ending. The events of Change Your Mind, was something that the crew wanted to be its own season. I imagine that if the crew had gotten what they wanted we would have spent more time on Homeworld with Steven getting to know the Diamonds and sorting out their issues. Blue Diamond would have been first since we had set up with her character first. We saw her living with the regrets of losing Pink Diamond and now not doing her duties as a Diamond. But because of how rushed the ending had to be at that point the audience didn't get that time that they had wanted. Think about how long Lars's arc was. That was several seasons long. If they had gotten a season with the Diamonds like they wanted people probably wouldn't have thought that the ending was rushed.

Fifth, bad faith criticism and very toxic fandom. As I said I blocked the SU Crit tag because after a certain point people would take anything and start shoving completely off the rails criticisms at the show and expect everyone to take them in good faith. Like people claiming that Sugar, a Jewish creator, was a Nazi Apologist because Steven didn't kill the Diamonds. People projected things onto elements of the story that weren't there. People would take a screen shot and call it lazy animation because a character was off model for a fraction of a second that wouldn't be noticed without slowing it down. There was a lot of bad faith criticism. Some of it was probably from people that didn't like how queer Steven Universe was and hid it as saying it wasn't progressive enough. There were probably people that thought that a kid's show was actually not progressive enough without looking at everything behind the scenes that the creators were dealing with. There were fans that drove one of the story-boarders/writers off the show because on her own Twitter account she posted shipping art of two of the characters (Lapis Lazuli and Peridot). It was just one member of the crew showing that she liked the dynamic between two characters that was not cannon and people started harassing them. There was a lot of entitlement from the fandom.

All of those things combined just made for a terrible time.

TL;DR: The show schedule being all over the place, studio interference, people not understanding the theme of the show, the rushed ending, and a toxic fandom with bad faith criticisms all led to the show having the worst reputation. I would say that the show schedule and studio interference played the biggest part of it since other parts stemmed issues that those created.

Agreed with all of this, but as a sort of continuation of point three:

The danger of adults watching a children's show because "It's so good it could be an adult's show!" is exactly this. Shows that are literally and explicitly for kids have much simpler messaging. One of my least favourite sentences in the world is when you remind someone who is whining about a piece of children's media for not doing what they wanted out of the story that it's aimed at kids and they say "But being for kids doesn't mean it can't still be good!"

Bitch it IS good. 'Good' doesn't mean 'Does the stuff adults want so it feels satisfying and fulfilling to adults'. It means 'Does the stuff the target audience wants and successfully conveys to that audience its message.' Adults are not the target audience. Get a grip and remember you're a guest. Your enjoyment is not the point. You cannot say "The Animaniacs sucked because there was no character development and they would suddenly sing educational songs - I wanted more world building about what these alien things were and how they got into the water tower and what that means for the fabric of American society" IT WAS A KID'S SHOW THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY AND EDUCATIONAL. AND IT WAS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

In the case of Steven Universe, Rebecca Sugar once said the aim was to 'redefine masculinity' for children - the point of the show is that Steven is surrounded by powerful women without ever feeling emasculated, and is properly and healthily connected to his emotions. He's not afraid to cry. He's open with his fears. He goes through increasing trauma, and the moral of that is 'Dont bottle up, talk to your loved ones.'

And, crucially, his first and primary response to antagonism is "Let's talk about this" and not "Let's punch this."

It was adults who turned that into a "Talk to Nazis uwu" parable, and then got mad about it; children, the target audience, did not. Children are people who are very much still learning how to process their emotions and handle conflict on the playground. Young boys are learning that they aren't allowed to cry or have feelings other than anger. Young girls are learning that they aren't allowed power and strength. All children are being told that a family can only look one way, that love can only follow one path. SU provided clear role models to the contrary and was extremely valuable for that.

And then adults projected real world political allegories onto it because that's how adult fiction works, and decided that meant it was bad and that Rebecca Sugar, a queer Jewish enby, was actually a Nazi apologist. Just a trash fire of a fandom

Was just talking about this but I actually think Steven Universe is pretty sophisticated for a children's show in that SU isn't really concerned with moralizing to anyone, but is more focused on examining others feelings and trying to observe the impact of actions in relationship dynamics, and it's kind of insane to me how many adults don't realize that and don't realize how helpful these kinds of stories are for children. One example that I remember is Steven tries to jump a gap to catch up with a crying Pearl and he almost slips and falls, but Pearl doesn't go and help him and instead leaves him to climb up on his own. In Fandom this turned into an argument about how bad Pearl was and how abusive a caretaker, but it doesn't actually engage with the scene. How does it feel to have a caretaker who doesn't care for you, but who you have to care for? What aspects of Pearl's personality and experiences made it so she couldn't care for Steven in that moment? Pearl says she loves Steven and yet doesn't go to help him, why is that? And the show doesn't blame either party, it instead just lets you observe the dynamic and get in touch with the feelings of watching Steven almost fall and having Pearl watch him instead of help. I think it's really good for children to be given scenes like that, where discomfort is invoked, and it isn't immediately settled because it encourages trying to intuit meaning, as well as understanding that sometimes good people do truly bad things and yet that doesn't mean they themselves are bad. It's a really good approach to story telling for kids in that it not only bolsters acceptance of others but also self-reflection and forgiveness. Steven Universe somehow manages to thread the needle where characters are never shamed and ostracized for their mistakes, but the impact of their actions and the pain felt but others isn't minimized either, and it creates a complicated narrative where you're meant to feel empathy for everyone. It is the opposite of a fascist narrative which seeks to paint the world in black and white. But grown adults in the fandom treated every moment of discomfort in SU as a tacit endorsement of all kinds of things like abuse and fascism without ever being able to engage with the fact that maybe the show was trying to make you uncomfortable and to understand the characters flaws without necessarily judging the characters. People say they want shows about Queer people, but when a show hits you with a theme like "it's better to understand where people are coming from and the things that make them who they are, then to just immediately judge them based on shallow readings of their person-hood" fandom spaces immediately go "no I want them all to go to jail." It's very disappointing in Steven Universe's case that grown adults were so unwilling to engage with the show and it speaks to a sad state of media where the expectation is that everything must be clearly labeled "good" or "bad" and there can be no grace for characters who make "bad" choices.

I dreamed that everyone on Twitter was mad at this new Sonic game about alternate universes because it had an adult Maria on it and she looked like this:

Idk boss i'm kinda diggin' it

Here’s the thing. Ivo, Gerald, Nega, and the Chaos Council all look basically the same. This means one of two things: Maria doesn’t look like her family for some reason, or (this is the better answer) Robotniks suddenly start looking like Eggman at a certain point

Which implies Eggman once looked like Maria

He did before he transitioned.

Tell me more about the special Robotnik T that makes you go from being an egg to being an egg

I dreamed that everyone on Twitter was mad at this new Sonic game about alternate universes because it had an adult Maria on it and she looked like this:

Idk boss i'm kinda diggin' it

Here’s the thing. Ivo, Gerald, Nega, and the Chaos Council all look basically the same. This means one of two things: Maria doesn’t look like her family for some reason, or (this is the better answer) Robotniks suddenly start looking like Eggman at a certain point

Which implies Eggman once looked like Maria

remember when this was the craziest thing politicians ever said

Diglett

Diglett

Atlas Technical Project Manager:

“Atlas is no longer involved [in Cop City]…because you guys are fucking nightmares and you broke all of our fucking windows”

Ahahahah, I thought this was paraphrased but that is a direct quote.

Direct action works.

:3

inspirational

In case you didn’t read the article, this was inspired by the Atlanta police executing an unarmed protestor. Atlas and every other cunt company working on Cop City have decided they are okay with Atlanta being ruled over by a murderous authoritarian terrorist group. So, ya know, they deserve everything they have coming

*Murdered, not executed. Executions mean they've been convicted of a crime. The protestor was not convicted, or even charged, or even arrested. They were just murdered.

Fair enough. But I do think the term execution is appropriate when the killings are carried out by the government. The city of Atlanta is ruled over by authoritians who believe it should be legal for the government to kill people without trial. They believe themselves to be executioners, not murderers

Regardless of the semantics, we can all agree this is an atrocity that justifies (this part redacted because I don’t want the FBI arresting me)

collection of a specific dynamic that gets me every time

Tumblr: No NSFW! You know how it is we banned it because of the bots in 2018!

Also tumblr:

lmao

You know how it is then, folks!

my mom loves to lie and like she always swears she was NEVER homophobic or anything to me as a child “i even have a gay work friend” but a really funny memory resurfaced recently where i asked if i could use birthday money i had to buy a rainbow flag when i was like ??? 7?? because i LOVED rainbows. and she said no that means something Evil and god will hate you . so what did i do. but ask my grandmom for a rainbow sweater for christmas and proceed to only wear that sweater for three years when it got cold because i didnt like the idea that god hated colors and i wanted to challenge him

normal 7 year old with religious trauma: oh no god can hear my thoughts and punish me

me: either you are wrong about god or god is wrong and i will fight him and i will be the one to find out

me at 7: he would not fucking say that