Holy cow.

I did NOT expect to be this vindicated when I wrote my Mewtwo post back in 2020: https://aikaterini.livejournal.com/130067.html

Because I learned a few things today:
1) The original voice actor for Mewtwo, Masachika Ichimura, was hired partly because of his role in the first ( Read more... )

Nitpicky note to RPG writers and fantasy writers who have taken their cues from them:

A lycanthrope is a WEREWOLF. Lykos in Greek means WOLF. It does not mean 'beast' or 'animal.' Therefore, a lycanthrope shouldn't be anything other than a person who can turn into a WOLF. Not a tiger, not a snake, not a rat, not a bear, not any other kind of animal ( Read more... )

I don't know why I keep getting bothered by this, but it seems that the more that time goes on, the more that I lose patience with fundamental misunderstandings of "Beauty and the Beast."
Just today, I was browsing through a book. Its introduction features a girl who's forced to tell stories to a fairy, and for some reason, she assumes that he doesn ( Read more... )

Adler's Law = No matter how admirable or impressive a woman, real or fictional, is recognized to be, there will always be at least one person on the Internet who will try to downplay and undermine her and her accomplishments.

See people claiming that Percy Shelley secretly wrote Frankenstein instead of Mary, calling Cleopatra an incompetent ruler ( Read more... )

Being the huge "Beauty and the Beast" fan that I am, it's often my misfortune to stumble on multiple bad takes on the story from various people on the Internet. Many times, these arguments seem to fundamentally misunderstand the point of the story or confuse it with others. The Stockholm Syndrome accusation is unfortunately common on the Internet, ( Read more... )

It seems really serendipitous that not only did Suede review "Pokemon: The First Movie" with Linkara again, but I actually saw a recent online post that compared the ending of "The Rise of Skywalker" unfavorably with the ending of "Mewtwo Strikes Back."

This is really giving me a lot of geeky feelings. I don't know if I've stated this here before, ( Read more... )

Given how the existence of fan policing and harassment on the Internet is sadly still an ongoing issue, causing multiple ongoing discussions of it, here are a few things for me to keep in mind:

One: Anybody who sends threats to other people and/or harasses a real person is a bully. It doesn't matter what their rationale is, what their politics are ( Read more... )

*The Original Trilogy exists ( Read more... )

Based off a comment that I saw a while ago on the Internet, this goes as follows:

The longer people on the Internet discuss a villain or anti-hero character, the higher the probabilty is that someone will claim that fans of the character only like him (and I use 'him' because this is generally used for male characters) because they're attracted to ( Read more... )

As I've been reading through certain reviews and criticisms of fantasy media, I think that I've put my finger on what's been annoying me about them. And I think that my pet peeve is this: in these criticisms, the reviewers are forgetting about the story. Whether it's the characters or the worldbuilding (and very often, it is a complaint about the ( Read more... )