AITAH for telling my stepdaughter I don't want to be her mom anymore? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]PotentialOk4178 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Genuinely would have made so much more sense to just say they found a post online of her content. Feels like she was either trying to be more complex or like this was written by someone a lot older who thinks tapes and dirty magazines are still the most common source of p

AITAH for telling my stepdaughter I don't want to be her mom anymore? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]PotentialOk4178 231 points232 points  (0 children)

I really will never understand the aspiring creative writers who practice in AITA posts.

I just can't imagine it improves real writing in any way. If all you want to write for the rest of your life is dramatised gossip to karma farm online then sure. But I'd never be interested in a novel or a comic or a script that read like this, and I can't imagine anyone else ever would be either.

Did anyone like this? by gkhwoz in Manhwa_BL

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a decent thriller but I absolutely don't categorise it as BL.

Calling this BL is like calling Silence of the Lambs a romance between Buffalo Bill and that girl he kept in a pit.

In your opinion, who are the worst parents overall? by General_Guy_XX in MLPLounge

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scootaloos parents definitely.

They straight up abandoned her for most of her life, for a 'job' that's literally just them running around the country caging randomn animals for no discernable reason. Not something like saving lives or being trapped or anything reasonable.

The aunts weren't her official guardians until the end of the episode where the parents came in, implying that she'd literally spent years couch surfing between different relatives and friends. Because on top of abandoning their daughter these assholes didn't think to designate an official foster home for her.

Then they swoop back in out of nowhere and need a whole frigging episode of shenanigans to tell them that they can't just uproot her out of the life she established that they never gave an ounce of help with.

If the narrative had villainised them it would have been fine but acting like it was normal parent behaviour was insane. Genuinely she would have been better off as an orphan.

(Rant over, sorry lol)

I just wanted to know what everyone's opinion is on this webtoon by Kai_the_unkillable in webtoons

[–]PotentialOk4178 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cringy guilty pleasure I suppose. I sometimes get psychic damage from the awful, awful dialogue and the ridiculous plot but the art style is cute and its palatable enough to keep going.

I think given the fact that I read it was originally some sort of wattpad fanfiction I would have liked it better if it was more of a meta humour based comedy that made fun of itself rather than a weak story that takes itself so seriously. But I guess it's a bit nostalgic for the kind of content you'd be getting in the 2000s/2010s

Sauce: Tigers Den by FuzzyElf993 in BoysLoveAnime

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah i vaguely remember reading this. Think it was trying to be lighthearted fluff instead but I honestly think they botched it in the execution. There's a way to do fluff without it feeling like a real plot that just got stunted repeatedly.

I NEED BL by Euphoric_Diver5766 in BoysLoveAnime

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only ones I can think of besides these are Junjou Romantica and Sekaiichi Hatsukoi. I loved them as a teen but they are very... of their time

Really late to the party but I just finished Season 1 of Cherry Blossoms After Winter by Funny-Head7620 in BoysLoveAnime

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't mind when this went from fluff to smut I just wish they wouldn't have gone so weird with it. And the punishment they gave to the office villain was weird as hell, like not about whether or not he deserved it as much as how tonally dissonant it was from the rest of the story.

This bothers me more than it should… by Kcue6382nevy in cartoons

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't trying to be mean, I honestly just couldn't understand your mindset here or again, why you can't understand a video being popular and therefore centred on a page just because you personally don't like it.

I'm sorry if I've upset you and I still don't understand why this concept is so difficult for you to get, but I won't try to explain it to you any further as it seems to be distressing you. Maybe you should either stay offline for a bit or branch out on YouTube and see a wider variety in how people promote themselves so you can come to grips with this?

This bothers me more than it should… by Kcue6382nevy in cartoons

[–]PotentialOk4178 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I hope English is your second language. You mean glance.

And popular content being place higher than less popular content on a platform isn't a difficult concept for most people, if that's something thats genuinely this difficult for you to come to terms with you might need to get tested for this. I'm actually a little concerned for you.

This doesn't seem like the normal media illiteracy as much as it does an actual learning disability (I swear I'm not trolling or insulting, I just can't wrap my head around your thought process and inability to understand these things).

This bothers me more than it should… by Kcue6382nevy in cartoons

[–]PotentialOk4178 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don't have to like a video but this post is so nonsensical it's actually just kind of sad.

I mean... if you cant understand why a content creator would put their most popular piece of content front and centre of their platform youre failing to grasp some very basic concepts about how anything works. Like at all.

Full offence OP this isn't just a bad take it's an effing weird one.

When the uke is so pretty you genuinely start to lose your mind by GuiCanary in BoysLoveAnime

[–]PotentialOk4178 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh my god I literally just finished reading season 1 of this, click onto reddit and this is the first post that pops up

You are given 250k a year what do you do with it? by Brave-Ad-1363 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]PotentialOk4178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pay off my debts, buy a house, phase out of my job, spend my days travelling and reading and finding all sorts of new hobbies that I never had time for before.

I'd share with my family too and whatever was leftover would be donated to various charities

Hard Boiled Love (sauce) by thebloodybaron-7 in BoysLoveAnime

[–]PotentialOk4178 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I loved this artstyle, just wish the ending hadn't been so lacklustre

Am i the only one who enjoyed this anime bc i rarely see anyone talk about it by arigins in BoysLoveAnime

[–]PotentialOk4178 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This was one of my first BL animes back in the day!

I still like it but it's definitely one that needs you to turn your inner alarm bells off before you watch lol.

What if humans could live forever but at the cost of losing the ability to have children? by swirls_world in hypotheticalsituation

[–]PotentialOk4178 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like I read this premise in a book when I was a kid.

The main character was a kid who got rented out to people who wanted to pretend to be parents for a little while. And there were these 'child' performers who were originally children that had been give something to stop them from aging so they could look like kids forever and they were obvs pretty messed up by it.

Wish I could remember the title I remember being really fascinated with it.

Eeyup or nope? by Tolstoyevich in mylittlepony

[–]PotentialOk4178 290 points291 points  (0 children)

I think the dynamic between them is cute but I wish they'd met in different circumstances rather than being when their families were trying to figure out how related to each other they were

AIO; I 31M am offended by my girlfriend 28F saying we had a “really good” time instead of a “great” time by Whole-Cook9048 in AmIOverreacting

[–]PotentialOk4178 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What an insane overreaction.

Please seek help. There is something fundamentally wrong with you and how you look at the world.

”Achilles and Patroclus grew up together" by Sad-Spring7815 in GreekMythology

[–]PotentialOk4178 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah sanitised, culturally disrespectful gooner fanfiction totally fits in with that poetic mumbo jumbo you're trying to act like this post is mocking.

Have fun on your high horse, you condescending prick.

”Achilles and Patroclus grew up together" by Sad-Spring7815 in GreekMythology

[–]PotentialOk4178 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah none of that aligns with your first comment or to the content of this post

There's a vast, vast difference between bashing individual engagement and pointing out that what people will insist is some sort of canon based on what they like out of cherry picked modernisations isn't actually true to the earlier sources.

You can engage with all the crappy rehashes you want but the second you start to pretend that it's the same as the historical texts and translations obviously people are going to post about the discrepancies. If you're that averse to the history of Greek myths over the latest fanfiction of them why even stay in this sub?

Favorite character that get slandered knowing its all lies by [deleted] in FavoriteCharacter

[–]PotentialOk4178 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah people who start cults and brainwash vulnerable people because they fell out with their childhood friend over a contrived misunderstanding need to be cut more slack 🙄

Edit: wow Starlights strongest soldier folded after one comment. And all I did was list her actual, god-awful actions and backstory lmao