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>>47797
It's not cliche, it's science. Gender Dysphoria is a defining component of being trans, reflected in various levels of brain difference seen in MRI scans. There's multiple research papers on it. I won't get further into that on /hobby/ as I frankly have no interest in further discussing that aspect; The point is inconsistent writing.
>reppers can see themselves on a wide spectrum from failed male to "femboy".
And that's stupid because it's the same thing pretending to be special and different from one another; new-age terminology to split hairs on 'effeminate male', instead of just owning the latter. The spectrum is bourgeoisie psyche-bullshit.
>the room
his room isn't definitively effeminate in this day and age. It's at best childish and reminds me of a Pre-school playroom; bright colors and friendly playful motifs. And we don't see the entire room until Episode 9. Would Ribbits room mean they're a hippy? or actually a frog?
>men in anime will crossdress confidently as a joke, while otokonokos will blush like an anime girl
1) You mean bishounen, not otokonok; the latter are effeminate males that usually already dress as girls. Bishie's may blush because its also a gag about 'oh how pretty they are' but its not an indication that they want to be a woman or are secretly gay except in hentai.
2) You've seen too many slice of life moe anime. Most anime have non-effeminate males find it embarrassing, because it's so weird. This applies IRL too, for example there were some streamers who lost a bet and had to wear a maid costume on stream, and were mad about having to do that. A man being confident and unblushing about it is a subtrope, where-in they're so masculine that any effeminate aspect is utterly lost, OR its because its for a disguise or something. Jaune Arc crossdresses for the Beacon Dance because he lost a bet, he did it to cheer up Pyrrha even in spite of being embarrassed. That doesn't make him gay or a femboy.

TL;DR: People react differently to things like that and it could just as easily be Jax annoyed at having the jokes and gags of his 'bugs-bunny-esque' role turned on him, i.e. being a glass cannon, dishing out pranks and 'jokes' but unable to take them.

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>>47819
I just don't see what is the point in arguing something which is so blatantly stated by the actual show. Even if we ignore Gooseworx and say what she says outside the show is not canon, the final episode makes it INCREDIBLY clear that Jax is trans. What is your alternative explanation for the things presented? Being serious now, not just like, "uhh it doesn't mean anything".

>>47820
I see it as an argument about the text in isolation and by extension on whether the interpretation Gooseworx intended was well executed.

>>47819
>brain difference
Agree to disagree on that pseudo-scientific, gender essentialist bullshit.
>The spectrum is bourgeoisie psyche-bullshit.
Whatever you want to call it, a lot of trans people have been vocal about indulging in hypermasculinity or other things as a cover before their transition.
>his room isn't definitively effeminate in this day and age
Compare it to what we see of Kaufmo's room, which is mostly just colorful. Apart from the color scheme, the amount of furniture is also extremely girlcoded (i'm reading Kanon rn where the mc remarks on sth like this).
>That's an extreme reach, I'm pretty sure Zooble thinks they look stupid too, Pomni also dislikes how she looks etc.
What i meant was, that Jax seemed only mildly displeased, far less horrified of their appearance than what we are lead to believe the others were (Pomni excepted).

>Dissociating from people and dissociating with your sex is completely different.
True. For one thing i don't think people disassociating from outside circumstances tend to get hung up on their mirror image. And while the tail thing cannot definitively connected to any characteristic of Jax, it's a pretty obvious meta-textual nod to body dysmorphia.
>he actively did not want to participate or engage it and thus disbelieved its validity.
<YOU DIRTY LIAR! YOU SCUMBAG! You- You made me- [hisses through teeth] You got in my head. You just- You just lie about everything, don't you?!
Getting them to participate took barely any convincing. And based on the emotional fallout, they did seem to genuinely consider the idea.
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Since this is an enormous post, I want to preface this that none of this is written in anger, with malicious intent or discrimination; I am discussing a topic seriously.

>>47820
It's NOT blatantly stated by the actual show, that's my point. It's blatantly stated by the Author OUTSIDE the show AFTER it finished and alluded to/sortakindamaybe shown in Episode 9 but in a way that is both contradictive and extremely hamfisted. The final episode is NOT clear because there's no direct connection between "being trans" and Jax's issues, as all these issues are fairly universal and are not directly related to transgender problems. Being anti-social and trans is not causational or even correlational. Even if accepting Ep9's vagueness, that still ignores crossdressers exist as a separate thing from transgender. Gooseworx has made shitposts and various comics related to TADC they are not canon, or are disproven or contradict things in the show. Examples off the top my head: Musical numbers in the show and No ships will be canon: we get a musical number in Episode 8 and Zooble/Gangle outright confirmed in the end credits of Episode 9.
>not just like, "uhh it doesn't mean anything".
Are you joking? I wrote multiple paragraphs elaborating that outside of Episode 9 nothing in the show is directly trans or hinting at it specifically. TL;DR: Being mad about the person you bully forcing you into a maid dress as a joke isn't even a gag typical of trans characters but of straight males in anime being humiliated. Either we take it as the gag it is meant to be, or we take it seriously, in which case this is fucked up. Everything else we see is clearly cope and escapism.
In Episode 9 we get a lore dump and even then, without Gooseworx's twitter post, it could as easily have been a case of crossdressing.

>>47821
This. Gooseworx wrote an okay story, but making it about 'being trans' immediately makes it worse because it lacks the focus required. Zooble was already a character that fit this whole "uncomfortable with my body" idea and is the character the has the most problems with themselves. We see that they're also an asshole, just not as actively as Jax and while I may dislike their pettiness, it at least DEMONSTRATES issues that cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Seeing the baldoid crumble has to be the most satisfying feeling ever. Game's back bros

>>18210
No hockey thread. All power to the Carolina hurricanes. Don’t forget to vote for Mr. Wilimos on November 3rd.

No WC thread after the group stage is almost over? What's going on?!

Did I miss something

Uwe Boll's still being so mediocre after decades making movies and a long pause to self reflect is appalling. I never got the lame ironic cinephiles appreciation for his awgul movies because it's never so bad it's good like The Room, it's just bad in a i don't give a shit gimmie money way.

Why are right wingers so bad at making movies?

>>47799
>This movie is meh
nah, it's utter shite

>>47801
>exit the reserve army of labour at an increased rate than native populations
no idea what you are trying to say

>have consistently shown interest in (given the chance) engaging in civic action, progressive politics, etc.
citation needed
the palestine movement is an exception, but that has more to do with nationalist and religious spooks than anti-imperialism

>>47815
The modern right winger hate art in general and have entirely been consumed by slop, the left are on their way there as well.

>>47809
>Yeah, because those zombies ran half the world at one point under the communist banner while migrants and young people are going to be cannon fodder in the next NATO proxy war. If you never learn your history you will never know what was the correct course of action and what was the mistake.
if 1/3 of the world isn't enough not to lose it all in the span of a couple years, let alone achieve the names of your banner, i think the lesson of history is that there was something fundamentally wrong w/it

when has history taught us that young people and migrants are, inherently, less revolutionary?

>>47774
You know I thought in a very slow thread about writing that I would at least get a longer and more interesting answer if someone disagreed, but I guess it's just the same 1-sentence putdowns that you get on the main board. Maybe this place is dying for a good reason.

>>47775
But why does a lot of popular stuff leave things open to audience imagination? Is it possible audiences want that, rather than something where every single potential avenue for their imagination to fill in the blanks is instead occupied by canonical hyper-specific worldbuilding? I really think I'm onto something here. Audiences are increasingly into worldbuilding and fan fiction because they like filling in those blanks, so when the creator does that for them and there's no mystery left, it's kind of stale.

>>47775
i think you hit the nail on the head that its the result of having an established story. Harry Potter, lotr, etc… for example where you have a established fandom obsessed at looking at all the different aaspects of the story.
otherwise its like writing a story where it begins with a bank robbery. but it never gets solved. why should anyone care in the first place? it doesnt add 'mystery' or anticipation or whartever. if anything its more likely to piss off the reader that they invested time and nothing essentially happened.

>>47782
>Audiences are increasingly into worldbuilding and fan fiction because they like filling in those blanks
You're right in this being a draw for a lot of people, but i see it more as an out-of-text thing and one that doesn't even require the story deliberately leaving things vague. Take for example the Worm webnovel, whose text includes super-detailed worldbuilding, that is near-exhaustive when taken together with its "sequel". Many writers in the setting, especially in the spacebattles community, have a complicated relationship with Ward and some themes of the original work, which is why they often intentionally play loose with canon.

Ultimately you can only make the far weaker statement, that a community into worldbuilding and fanfiction may elevate an otherwise lackluster story.

>>47784
I think this type of fandom is just bad for writing, ultimatly, worldbuilding doesn't matter much, a story may have a well made interesting setting, if the writing doesn't follow, then it's worthless in terms of art, even if it might sell well among a certain community.
It's also weird to see it being heralded as some major criticism, you'll even see people direct it towards children's books like Harry Potter, when nonsensical worlds parodying our own has been a staple of children's litterature for a while, just see Roahl Dahl's books.
I'll say that letting plot unresolved if often fairly bad, you don't need to explore every background character's life, if anything, an encyclopedic explaination of everything just hurts the immersion of the reader.

>>47783
no anon is clearly saying that you leave some things that are open to interpretation, not that you never wrap up the main plot. like the suitcase in pulp fiction. nobody sees what's inside of it. it's fun to speculate whether it's supernatural or not. but the plot isn't left dangling.

>>43506
Nothing. I don't mind a dragon battle from time to time. But they are adding a sort of high fantasy element to the story that undermines the feudal political scheming that made GoT great.

>>43525
The whole point of the story is that this is supposed to be the turning point away from the height of Targaryen power, because they bungled the politics.

>>43500
I respect that they've added a dragonfucker character, makes me feel represented

All right, finally reading mainline ASOIAF and Fire and Blood I can now see how HBO has completely raped George's story with these shitty adaptations (AKOTSK was pretty good tho).
That being said, the AemondxAlicent kiss scene in yesterday's episode really turned me on… Finally more incest rep that ain't between siblings or cousins.

>>46906
found this

>>46393
sexo??

>>46393
Toxic yuri

>>33029
Incipebam Linguam Latinam Per Se Illustrata longe ante praesentia. Autem rarus ab eo discens, itaque nuper Biblia Vulgata possidebam. Caput primum legiens exercitum non erat, sed cunctum librum legiens potere dubito.

Num adesse aliquis, qui opera simplectes utile pro discentes scit?

let's larp together

>>47731
>>47735
Also if the characters in the comics are "paper thin" what the fuck does that make the slopfest that is the TV show? It is carried entirely by the performance of most of the actors (honestly just two, you know which ones) and that's it, it falls apart immediately after the first season with that especially strong episode 1.

This is 100% the opinion of a 4chan midwit. All the themes, parallels between characters, foreshadowing (if someone brings up "asspulls" you just know you're talking to a braindead person), exposition, the escalation with each supe of the week leading to that climax, etc – all of this is completely ignored just to complain le "character development" or whatever. CinemaSins retardation but applied to comic books, somehow.

>>47731
s1 and 2 were really good but then it just gets really meandery and aimless and the last season was dogshit and the ending completely unearned and out of nowhere

funnily its the inverse of the comic, where the pacing is shit to start with bcs its too bogged down in gross-out evil supes stuff instead of the plot proper but where the second half is great with a strong ending

i read the comic long ago and loved it but sure theres plenty about it that sucks or can be offputting to others, its some of Ennis' worst stuff on the whole, but it has plenty of well written moments and character beats and is highly important for a lot of the good bits of the show too despite people acting like the first seasons are good in spite of the comics and not because of them

>>47737
>its some of Ennis' worst stuff on the whole

I don't think that's true.

>>47736
a lot of people genuinely believe on some level that "character development" in stories is reflective of actual growth within people as opposed to shifts in arrangements of discourse and a desire to preserve grand narratives

Season 5 of The Shield mogs all seasons of The Wire

>>47535
Call them pointy eared snobs unable to make some good swords.

>>47536
I think that argument is cutting it a bit SHORT, sir dwarf

>>47386
Honestly, even some Brando Sando fans feel like his writing has gone downhill.

>>47536
Thats a LOTR quote, so they make the best swords.

Critical support for Kronos and Luke. The West must fall!!

>red tie
>tucked into pants
actual psycho shit

>>47594
Nothing, wearing clothes is reactionary

>>47532
AI people are intent on devaluing art/artistry while simultaneously coveting the (imagined) clout/cultural respect that they believe comes from being an artist. It is pretty odd.

wool/fibers from animals have a lot of strange and useful properties and its odd synthetics have never tried to replicate them

this recipe is lost u can't make guys like this with modern ingredients and if you try they come out looking like babytron