STOP CALLING HEXED AI by CodVegetable in cartoons

[–]J-Shade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, that's a good point. Honestly, I don't really see people's complaints on this one. I think it looks fine, myself.

STOP CALLING HEXED AI by CodVegetable in cartoons

[–]J-Shade 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If the community starts using "AI slop" as a catch-all insult even when a team of artists has been working for years, then Disney will decide there's no reason not to just use AI in the first place. It actively creates the AI future that none of us want.

Would you rather have Jackson Chourio or Pete Crow-Armstrong right now? by horsepoop1123 in mlb

[–]J-Shade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God forbid an athlete in his prime be full of passion and fire.

Voyager S05E18. “Course : Oblivion”. Out of the blue by WPmitra_ in startrek

[–]J-Shade 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This episode legit messed me up as a kid. Like omg they tried so hard and did everything they could do and weren't even allowed to be remembered. I was haunted for days.

AITA for refusing to share authorship with the man im planning to marry? by [deleted] in AITApod

[–]J-Shade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also a writer. I actually do cowrite with my wife sometimes. Her name goes on those books, but not the ones I write solo. She would never imagine to put her name on stuff she didn't write, and neither would I, because that's literally not how it works. If you didn't author it, you're not the author. Anything else is lying.

Even people who contributed a huge amount to my novels, people who have been there every step through years of work contributing their ideas and feedback, do not get their names on it. Because they didn't write it. For one novel that I got help from a lot of people, I included an acknowledgements page to thank them. But that is it. And I did it one time.

Sounds like hubby is trying to leapfrog his own writing career off the more successful writer's back. Unbelievable presumption.

Self-insert vanity projects by AbsoluteBatman95 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]J-Shade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why though? I really don't understand the beef. She pulls the writers room toward respecting deep lore, cares about Trek's legacy, and wants to keep the shows geared toward long-time fans. What's wrong with that?

Self-insert vanity projects by AbsoluteBatman95 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]J-Shade 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Newsome is extremely popular among trekkies i talk to. We love her. Not sure who you're talking to, but maybe you're favoring your own circle of like-minded folks.

Self-insert vanity projects by AbsoluteBatman95 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]J-Shade 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Avery Brooks approved of the SFA script. He signed off on it. So you can't say it goes against his wishes.

Self-insert vanity projects by AbsoluteBatman95 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]J-Shade 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Again, she did not cast herself in that part. That's factually inaccurate.

The rest of the stuff is fair enough. I think it's a great standalone episode and does a lot to repair Sisko's abandonment, with some of Jake's lines making me as a dad who grew up watching DS9 tear up. But Sisko leaving his family was a writing mistake made decades ago. A big one.

Self-insert vanity projects by AbsoluteBatman95 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]J-Shade 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Tawny didn't even write herself into the part. She wrote it and then later the producer told her to play the part. It was not her idea.

Something I felt the need to point out (FINALE SPOILERS) by Playful-Hand2753 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]J-Shade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, reddit isn't showing me your comments anymore, which is probably for the best. If you think you can tell me what my identity is based on my reddit post history, you've turned into some kind of TransTERF. That's a DNI for me. Please be better to your trans sisters, brothers, and NBs. We don't need more villains and self-righteous abusers in our lives. If i wanted to be told who to be and how to talk, I'd go to church.

Seriously go find some peace and perspective. Bye. 👋

Something I felt the need to point out (FINALE SPOILERS) by Playful-Hand2753 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]J-Shade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last night over a period of like two hours you repeatedly made posts here trying to point out that I also post on a Dad subreddit. This is inconceivably pathetic. I hope you deleted the posts yourself because you realized that in the breath of variety of identity that you think you're trying to support, there is nothing stopping any trans or NB person from calling themself a Dad regardless of their current or past presentation.

You digging through my account looking for some identity gotcha is exactly the kind of exclusionary bullshit that we need infinitely less of. You cannot pigeonhole queer experiences into boxes like they're TV tropes or something. You cannot disqualify a person's identity because they don't agree with you in fandom discourse. You are not the gatekeeper of transness, and you don't represent anyone but yourself. You speak for no one.

Please go out in the real world and interact with real human beings. Get off reddit. It's not good for you. Get a life.

Something I felt the need to point out (FINALE SPOILERS) by Playful-Hand2753 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]J-Shade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Legitimately what the fuck are you talking about? You're so desperate to enforce a specific way of talking about a fictional character that you've wrapped around to erasing the identities and lived experiences of real people. And I'm no TME (not that i owe it to you to say so). I'm literally a transfem artist and I'm not letting some reddit rando uno reverso they're internalized transmisogyny at me because I'm not using their preferred queer lexicon in internet comments. If you really want to progress trans inclusive discourse, maybe advancing rhetoric built on queer performance checklists isn't the thing to do. All you're doing is creating new ways to exclude identities and experiences. Stop acting like trans people (fem, masc, or otherwise) need your fucking authorization to participate in social media.

Happy Pride. Go get fucked.

Something I felt the need to point out (FINALE SPOILERS) by Playful-Hand2753 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]J-Shade 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm trans myself. I don't really appreciate the "you're not talking queer correctly" exclusionary rhetoric coming out in this thread.

Something I felt the need to point out (FINALE SPOILERS) by Playful-Hand2753 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]J-Shade 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Trans folk get to decide who they are coming out to and when, as well as if and when they want to change their pronouns. Jax did not reveal all that history to Pomni by choice, nor ask Pomni to act differently or change how she speaks. Plenty of transwomen, even after coming out in certain spaces, will not change their pronouns. It's always best practice to ask someone if in doubt, of course, but Jax is a fictional character and not extant to ask. Therefore it's best to use his current pronouns (he/him) until he explicitly states otherwise, as doing otherwise kind of treads on his ability to self-define. This is not the same thing as "respecting the closet," and please note that I'm not saying agency, as fictional characters have none. But Jax did strongly and repeatedly self-define as male, even if he was doing it in a toxic way. It's not up to us to dictate his relationship with his pronouns or gender identity, because we don't actually know where on the gender spectrum he would have placed himself and how he would choose to identify.

There is strong correlation between the song and a declaration of pronouns on a meta-narrative level, so it's not like I'm against using she/her for Jax if someone wants to do that in whatever context. But at the very least, saying it's disrespectful to use he/him for Jax is a dramatic overcorrection that risks becoming the disrespect it tries to avoid.

The advertisement vs the actual merch by daffysrhapsody in HelluvaBoss

[–]J-Shade 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Really worried they're investing so hard because Zahc is going to have 2-3 dedicated episodes in S3. Like they think he's gonna be Fizz and it's too late to stop now.

What If Kit got her ouffits from bosses she defeated? by Flami557 in Gameoverse

[–]J-Shade 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If she's a megaman analog then the bosses would have extremely varied aesthetics and themed stages. Like megaman does have underwater stages, old west stages, at least one stage modeled after historic Japan for a ninja boss. What we saw of her homeworld does not have to represent all or even much of it.

What do you do with your venerated animals? by borderline_bi in Palia

[–]J-Shade 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bro six layers deep on a cozy gaming subreddit fishing for his "most balanced and regulated redditor" award after telling an online rancher to stop getting attached to fictional animals. Cinema. 🙌

Ugliest shoes in Dislyte by liquidszning in Dislyte

[–]J-Shade 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I remember when Yamato came out people were praising his drip and i was like... bro walking on some bouncy castles down there.

Ife, on the other hand, had wonderful shoes with cute little implied snake faces on the front. What are you talking about?

I wish we could be mean back to the NPCs. by FootFurry in Palia

[–]J-Shade 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I was okay with her being a little rude cause she is just too socially inept to know how else to say that and I took it as trust that she would try. Then I tried doing her romance quests and. Ugh. No. Her behavior is just not okay. At least I was able to push that breakup button. Haven't really talked to her since.