It's ok I also do this bc I'm a sucker who falls in love with her own characters

wait one more

You're SOOOOO right that shit goes on the playlist

bonus guide to drawing her hair thar i made for myself to reference lol

and you don't even get good rewards for putting up with all this horseshit

and then like two months later James Rolfe went to that dumbass Anti Woke Game Awards thing or whatever because as it turns out he actually is just a talentless hack and Dan Olson was probably too nice to him lmao

LMAO IM SO GLAD the fraught world of ballet is, of course, the perfect analog for the tension between two people who want to kill each other while also being kind of in love lol

which btw "kids have no interiority" is tied directly to the reactionary backlash to the notion that children can understand that they're gay or trans so yeah ok it is The Fascism

I think it's the Fascism. Cultural notion that children don't have interiority that's become more pervasive. They don't want anything and watch whatever is put in front of them so it doesn't have to be good so we can make it Cheap and no one will care. It's cocomelon all the way down.

Ok but truly even Earthspark S1 is only good in flashes when it's allowed to be. It also has The Cow Episode.

It's the difference between Rise of the TMNT (which isn't that old) and the new cartoon where they've got Donnie talking about how cool ChatGPT is. It's a cultural thing, how we view children and their intelligence and capacity to understand stories.

I don't actually think those things are connected here. This is an issue of tone and like. respecting your audience. it's not just Transformers that's guilty of this but Earthspark was the most jarring because of HOW it felt like two totally different shows stapled together

"ok but Earthspark was aiming for a younger demographic" ARE YOU SURE.

Like what the fuck happened culturally? Is it the fascism. I don't mean to be "it was better when I was a kid" but cartoons really used to treat kids like they were smarter. Batman was FOR CHILDREN.

oomf is so brave and SO RIGHT

that one tweet that was like "FFXIV letting everyone be hot is enabling some of the worst behavior from people who never got to be popular in high school" has never one stopped being right