Recent content by Emma

I think I saw something where Ron and Draco hooked up after getting smashed and having a long, very "sports bro nerdy" conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of different quidditch teams and players. Not quite a deconstruction, though. I think it's hard to top (pun not intended) the...

This isn't exactly a defense of Draco in Leather Pants, but I'd argue there isn't actually a whole lot to Draco's character in canon. I think it's pretty easy to miss how the reader has to fill in the blanks a fair bit with what's really only implied about his character. On the days where I...

I find the "reacting to the cool/weird thing from another setting" plot element in crossover fic kinda played out... Besides, wouldn't it be more anime, more bizarre, to have the girls just roll with Stands, aztec fitness gods, vampires, and however the hell king crimson works? They'd just get...

I always thought Avatar of Victory never got the attention it deserved. It's a really good Mass Effect/ATLA fusion. Right out of the gate it avoids a lot of the common ME pitfalls like "citadel council reacting in shock to how special humans are" by having plenty of Turian firebenders, Krogan...

That's what I was getting at, yeah

What are the best "fusion" crossovers for RWBY? I think most folks get mad when one property ends up way stronger/weaker than the other in a very "who would win" way, which, fine- that's how some folk emotionally invest. So what fics bypass that and just add the logic, the background, the...

Agreed. She was not the problem, just the best way to productively talk about the problem. I'll admit that I am the most casual of casual fans- I cringed my way through the first few seasons then dropped it, but I still watch a few eps here and there and can't deny the show still fascinates...

For me, the problem with Weiss isn't Weiss. It's more that it mostly frames racism against the faunus as coming from people who are bad and/or ignorant, and there not being enough focus on systemic injustice. I have a similar problem with marvel movies, in a way. There's this annoying thing...

The universe is rent asunder, because two fundamental truths are forced into the same space and make a paradox in reality. We know two things to be universally, unquestionably true: 1. All Dogs Go To Heaven. 2. ACAB And if all military personnel are made into dog people, that would include...

This is what I keep seeing when I struggle with any attempt at taking the worldbuilding of RWBY seriously. If the idea is to remove the artifice and try to look at the world as if one was a real person in that world, then the counter to that idea is to ignore any attempt and add secondary layers...

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Uhh.... I don't think that word means what you think it means. I mean, that's happening right now. We actually don't need to pin the blame on the minority of folks actually trying to keep the Earth livable.

Exactly. If cyberpunks primary antagonists were corporations using privatized law enforcement/militaries to maintain their power, then Solarpunk's primary antagonists are also corporations maintaining their power with destructive tools. Like, unchecked capitalism was the problem back in the...

"Still bad, but slightly less trash." I suppose that works for this book and the SAO sequels...

Let me see if I've got the video review's take right... First third of the book: cringy and awful Second part: almost good Final part: boring and stupid Yeah, that makes sense.