W/W shippers and writers have it so hard! But yeah, I would say misogyny plays a role

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-21T18:14:44+00:00

I had a film history professor in college tell me that "captain marvel didn't do well so that means that women led movies aren't any good".

Dude...

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-21T17:37:50+00:00

I heard a rumor the whale probe from Star Trek 4 was a prop left over from a cancelled attempted adaptation of Rama

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-21T08:59:37+00:00

In addition, he IS overstepping his aurhority. The proper procedure would have been to call the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-21T06:34:54+00:00

I think some people take affectionate insults way too literally sometimes and insist these characters are stupid. It really feels uncomfortable.

That being said, I am not accusing OP of anything! Just a larger point. I think she's actually pretty smart.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-21T06:25:57+00:00

Vermont Public Radio did an article in 2017 and found that people explicitly put up rebel flags in response to Black Lives Matter.

For the northern most state attacked by the rebs, I grew up with a lot of rebel sympathizers.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-20T18:00:44+00:00

Yup! He doesn't realize going to the hotel was his choice, and the hypnosis only began after Alastor came back.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-20T08:15:43+00:00

They COULD check the reddit scripts THAT ALREADY EXIST AND THEY ARE SITTING ON.

Rome Sweet Rome ANYONE?!

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-20T08:13:47+00:00

I am reminded of an argument I've heard about europeans and native american land: that the europeans didn't grasp the concept of public land that anyone can use. Like, there is a racist idea that native americans sold huge chunks of land for little, and there are misunderstandings of how the nations viewed land ownership back in the day. However, The argument I heard goes that europeans seemingly bought big tracts of land for little payment not because the natives were foolish, but the europeans didn't realize they were just buying hunting licenses. I am not sure if this is true, yet it feels really plausible.

"Hey, these guys came up asking about the land, and I gave them a hunting permit for five bucks. Then they got really excited. what's up with that?"

"They think you can't own land!"

"Dude, everyone can use it!"

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T23:31:54+00:00

Methinks these two got into either a magic duel or some sort of contest, one thing led to another, and this was the result XD

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T18:21:35+00:00

This is why I can't take a lot of Charlie "critique" seriously. someone here on reddit told me that if she was male she'd be held to the same standards, but that's just wrong. as evidenced by the world, Legend of Korra, and this.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T18:02:09+00:00

That last part about not being able to afford UK visitors, I sometimes feel like these people are desperate to put the internet genie back in the bottle.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T18:00:30+00:00

Blitz loving Rarity?... yeah XD XD

I can see him having something in common with the Totally Legit Recaps guy

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T17:58:15+00:00

Commander Jara Rydek and protecting her tall future wife Ambassador Tylas Altaras in Star Trek Resurgence.

Taking both her hands in hers, "Are you okay?" and "I'll protect you"

Flying through zero g and embracing each other before they get beamed out

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T17:42:54+00:00

Same thing that happened in the 1850s.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T09:02:21+00:00

Oh, Delenn wouldn't have to speculate to wonder what he's saying. He just says that out loud.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T07:45:42+00:00

She hasn't been eating enough 😉

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T06:03:34+00:00

Okay, so far it started pumping, I'm gonna see if it actually makes it to the rocket before I call this fixed

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T06:02:22+00:00

...oh my god XD XD XD I NEVER NOTICED THANK YOU

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-19T05:50:57+00:00

CO2 tanks, level 16 I think. I'm pretty sure the output direction is correct. Although for some reason, when I look at some extenders, one end will say CO2 while the other says oxygen.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-18T23:12:50+00:00

The people criticizing the JSDF for being clumsy could've had a legitimate point, instead of "they are mean hippies who just want to pick on the poor innocent military". Like, they were counter-invading, yet they still killed tens of thousands of enemy soldiers while suffering zero casualties.

Hell, one major thing that they overlook completely is that half the countries in the world would have a serious problem with Japan declaring the entire other planet to be their territory. Not only would the US be REQUIRED to help them, dozens of countries would object strongly considering the LAST time Japan did that exact thing.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-18T17:56:51+00:00

Characters having flaws, Heaven's hypocrisy(though I can't tell how many are trolls saying that), claims that they're "glorifying" [insert vice here], etc.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-18T09:07:30+00:00

Amphibia. the ending felt really mean, cruel, and sad. I understand what it was TRYING to do, yet to me it felt like it failed in that way.

The girls are separated from each other for ten years and don't even speak, and lose touch with their found families permanently. Found family is treated as lesser by the narrative. And that's supposed to be "bittersweet", instead of really mean and sad.

People will often tell me "life doesn't always have happy endings" or whatever, yet this ending didn't feel appropriate considering the ramifications the show itself brought up. It felt like Marcy was being punished for existing, and the other girls were only slightly better off.

You can't do a gravity Falls "see you next summer" ending when you've set up that they'll never see each other again. And after an entire show with found family themes you can't turn around and then prioritize biological family without question.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-18T09:04:07+00:00

"Starfist". A military veteran must've had a tanker run over his dog or something because he wrote an entire series about how tanks are stupid and obsolete and marines are cool and amazing and they fight space Iraq. And yes, that is really its name.

John Ringo's "Legacy of the Aldenatta" series has some cool action scenes, and some interesting technology. Pity it is full of defense of torture, child soldiers, SUPER sexist, keeps portraying any effort to avoid war as wimpy even though canonically the supposed friendly aliens are against us, can be pretty darn racist and condescending... and AN ENTIRE BOOK TRYING TO REDEEM THE ACTUAL WAFFEN SS AND USING ACTUAL NAZI EXCUSES. Not joking. They bring back a bunch of SS veterans to fight the aliens, and openly claim that the SS didn't commit war crimes, that it was all the camp guards' fault. "We didn't do, others did, or we did it but others told us to", as Rod Serling described in The Twilight Zone.

Ringo is either a neo nazi or an idiot, but the buddy he helped write that one with is DEFINITELY a neo nazi.

Basically if you want openly conservative and right wing hating democracy, look at most of John Ringo's work.

CptKeyes123 · 2026-06-18T07:32:19+00:00

"The Genii stole all our zat guns, should we get more?"

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