Lujee - KoochKoochi

It seems like you just...don't enjoy stories that have too much depth and force you to get too invested? The stuff you call addiction-based storytelling is what most people call "engaging." I mean, don't get me wrong, casual media enjoyers are totally valid but the way you seem to imply that having a deep and heavy investment in media is a moral failing seems really weird to me because it's almost as if you're encouraging people to stop having fun and get back to work.

It seems like you just…don't enjoy stories that have too much depth and force you to get too invested?

Tell me you did not just say this to someone who adores Kingdom Hearts? You absolute buffoon.

The problem with depth is that you can be deep with an interesting or complicated theme, and you can also be deep by scattershotting lore and random metaphors everywhere. And because fandom is stupid it can't tell the difference between the two.

My problem is when a concept is deceptively simple, but because fandom just gotta do a fandom they gaslight themselves into thinking it was more deep than it actually was. Fantasy can be pretty fucking deep, but it's not going to do that just by virtue of networks of lore. It usually does it through being rather profound because their writers had things to say that didn't need an entire seven seasons to get through.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but one of the most beautiful lines of dialogue I've ever seen in a fantasy story literally hammers this point home.

"Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found that it's the small things. Everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love." - Gandalf, The Hobbit

The Hobbit is about how nice it is to think of home, and how most of the main characters have been forced from their homes by a greedy monster who is completely obsessed with gold. GEE I WONDER IF THE AUTHOR IS THE VETERAN OF A REALLY DEADLY AND POINTLESS WAR.

You know I remember my ex once opined that she didn't like all the time the Lord of the Rings spent on characters talking instead of the big fantasy battles, and I have literally never seen anyone completely and utterly miss the point of Lord of the Rings any harder. This was someone who was taking a college course about the fantasy genre.

You can have all the dense lore and interconnected continuity until you're blue in the face, but if at the end of the story you're like "And then the prophesized hero defeated the great evil and there was peace throughout the land" then that story is about as deep as a fucking puddle and no amount of complicated magic systems are going to make it any less shallow.

At that point, you're not deep. You're padded like a menstruating firehose. You're just filling out a fucking wiki.

And when a story does have something to say, terminally stupid asshats like you will it "Preachy." Because you don't want a deep story. You just want a fucking glossary of places and names and spells. An actually deep story is about as much use to you as a professional grade drawing tablet in a fingerpainting class for baboons.

You're the kind of person who sees a trauma survivor escape their abuser and find a found family and calls it a "redemption arc."

You don't want deep stories. You don't want to be engaged. You just want to pretend that you are by memorizing useless information and never actually thinking about anything because fandom has beaten it into your head that critical thinking is bad and mindless consumption is "based."

If you want to do that, if you want to pick nits like an amphetamine-fuelled chimp, go right ahead. But don't come to me and try that Uno Reverse bullshit. Don't come to me telling me you appreciate deep stories.

Because you don't.

So photos of the Barbie Movie Barbie Doll Leaked, IDK where these pics originate I just saw people on discord and twitter talking about her.

If we're taking *JUST* The Faceup and sculpt, I think she looks fine, and i'll probably warm up to her more (and she might look better IRL) If we're talking about the doll as a whole I love her and will absolutely be getting her.

What the fuck was that anon smoking claiming noncon covers other things?!

Common issue with proshippers: They'll often pride themselves on being "too hot and problematic for the normies" but once you call most of the things they're into exactly what they are, then they start getting really cranky.

So they use phrases like "noncon" and "dubcon" because being up front and saying they like reading about women being raped makes them sound less like a sexy kinkster and more like the Boston Strangler.

what's wrong with the arcane ship?

The ask was asking for the sapphic equivalent of the "fandom ships the only two white guys in the room."

That's the ship dynamic that has no actual content for it. It's usually two guys who barely interact at all, and if they do it's usually in the same quasi-sarcastic way and outside of that have little in common.

The sapphic equivalent to that is the two girls who are usually the only two girls in the main cast and who predominately dislike each other once they start being shipped together and outside of "I hate that bitch" they have nothing in common.

Korra and Asami were shipped from the start of TLOK, but were largely disconnected from each other until the last minute of Season 3, and then in Season 4 we're told that they have a deeper connection out of nowhere and in the last episode they held hands to pander to an audience that was increasingly dwindling.

Supercorp: Shipped from the start, very little material actually showing those two actually liked each other at all, and the writers remained indifferent to it.

CaitVi: Two girls whose only claim to having anything in common is existing in the same room.

WidowTracer: The first two female characters ever seen in an Overwatch cinematic, and given this is Overwatch it's just Sylvanas/Valeera with extra steps and even worse characterization, especially because Widowmaker is under brainwashing the entire time and the entire audience just casually forgot that part.

The only reason I didn't add Sylvanas/Jaina is because despite never interacting in canon, both characters have a great deal in common that could be interesting to explore, even if most of the people who write for it are largely just fixated on "Jaina is the purest goodest girl and the bad girl will make her mean/get fixed by her/become forcibly attached to her in an abusive political marriage"

This isn't necessarily a comment on any of their relationships. Largely because they barely have any. It's a comment on the way fandom often finds the most sterile possible pairing imaginable because it's the one they can superimpose all their dynamics and/or fetishes onto with little pushback.

Just like the "only two white guys in the cast to glance at each other" it's basically a fandom that wants to make OC's, but has internalized some kind of embarrassment about OC's.