The Beyblade Anime Was Way More Nuanced Than Any Of Us Realized At The Time. For A Show That's Supposed

ALL right your perky! why is masquerade your boy(did I make Christmas come early)?

(Yes, you did!)

I don’t really know why I like Masquerade so much. There’s not much we learn about him in the show aside from the fact that he’s a genius at Bakugan strategy, wants to take over the world, is cyclical, and is the alter ego of Alice. But for some reason I really really liked him. Both him and Alice don’t get that much screen time after Season 1–and a lacking amount in Season 2– but they were definitely more interesting than the others. Like how does the sweetest girl in the world end up with such a twisted personality? Why is Masquerade fully human while Hal-G is a monster? Why does it seem like Alice and Masquerade are on two opposite spectrums of the gender binary, and why does that create such different persons? Why couldn’t they be separated? How come Masquerade never came to the conclusion that he was Naga’s chess piece, and he’d be thrown out like trash after the worlds combined?

It was a very confusing thing. And despite barely being seven years old when I first met Masquerade, his character stuck with me for years. I had so many unanswered questions. But after a while, I realized that he’s just a normal kid. Sure, he was born of evil. But if you were told your whole life who you’ll become, would you do anything to try and stop it?

So yeah, I just felt like Masquerade deserved more. He deserved having a friend. And Alice could have been that one friend. But I guess we’ll never know

he'll die if he cant be annoying

I WON’T SAY THIS AGAIN.

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) dir. Peyton Reed

Awww. Little chills

Happy father day!

I wanted to draw something fast for ben and his lil chills <3

Let me share with you the personalities i give them.

The two out of frame taking a nap are always together and are usually sleeping or thinking.

The lil chill eating spoons is very reliable.

The shy chill holding a green book is the one who is always afraid of asking what he wants. Usually is Rook who help him to say what they need to say.

The lil chill next to ben’s leg is very smart but he is always bored

From lil chills on ben’s lap, the lil angry chill is very feisty, the lil chill in the middle is the smallest one and the smartest, and the one on the right is very sensitive.

From the lil chills on the top, the one of ben’s left shoulder is the sweetest, but it’s hard for them to stay still, the lil chill over Ben’s right shoulder is the quiet one, he has great hearing. The lil chill over ben’s head is the most chaotic of all of them, and he adores Carl.

The lil chill in the back holding the DS console has the same personality  of ben from the OS.

The lil chill looking weird to ben is the skeptical one, he still doesn’t understand why their dad/mom looks human sometimes, they love ben but they are confused lol

And the lil chill with the hood is the “matured one”, he is very calm and wise for their age.

Giorno: *breathes*

Abbacchio: Yes, yes we know you have a dream. Tell us something new.

In ‘Lucas on the Line,’ Lucas Sinclair experienced countless bouts of racism and micro aggressions including but not limited to:

Had children run away from him and refuse to touch him because they thought his Black skin color would rub off on them. This happened IN THE THIRD GRADE! And he never told his parents about it!

Calmed his anxiety about being the only Black kid in his homeroom class by coming to the realization that since there was no other Black kids that meant he most likely wouldn’t be bombed

Had to install a camera in his locker because his property got defaced by a glitter bomb

Lost his first and only black friend/mentor who supported him thanks to an ACTUAL MAKESHIFT BOMB being installed in his locker that caused a janitor to go to the hospital for 1st/2nd degree burns (and the white boy who did it barely got punished)

Got teased that the only reason he got on the basketball team was because he was Black

Comes to the realization that he might’ve actually only gotten in the team because the coach has a history of recruiting Black boys for the team regardless of their skill level

Gets called an Oreo (for uneducated: white on the inside, black on the outside) by racist bullies. Erica (who apparently has also been called this) sticks up for him and is the only one who understands what the insult means which means Mike and Dustin don’t know/understand the lengths of how deep the racism Lucas experiences in Hawkins on a daily bases

And these aren’t even all of them! These are just examples I had from the top of my head!

And despite all this happening in the book, “fans” have STILL FOUND A WAY to turn this book about Lucas and his struggles as a Black boy in a mostly white suburban town and his deteriorating relationship with Max and make it about Byler!

The fact that Lucas, one of the only characters of color on this show, can’t have ANYTHING to himself without people using him to push their ships is so aggravating!

He and Erica constantly get shit talked and miss characterized by fans, get excluded/cut out of group shots, and barely get any fanart/fics about them and their struggles compared to the white characters (I could make a whole new post about the terrible way this fandom treats Erica but I won’t do that here). Hell don’t forget that the fandom constantly tries to dispute the racism Lucas received in S2 from Billy was either not really racism, just a moment that Duffer Bros. put in to “ruin” Billy’s character and ultimately can be tossed out and ignored.

The only time I ever see Lucas get any large amount of attention is either due to 1) Lumax (but let’s be honest: 90% of the lumax tag on here isn’t even about them and has now become Elumax 2.0 and most post are people praising ElMax and then being like “oh Lucas/lumax is cute too” in the tags and that’s it). 2) people creating “parallels” of Lumax to their ship of choice (mostly Byler and Mileven) as a way to say that their ship is gonna be canon or 3) to say that he’s bisexual.

And all that is fine and whatever, ship and headcanon things to your hearts content, but if you only care about Lucas if he’s helping push you ship narrative or because you think he’s gay (to the point where some people actually read snippets of the book that talked about Lucas coming to the realization that Black boys like him can be considered attractive and only acknowledge the “queer” reading of the text and completely ignored the big race element that was the main focus), I’m sorry but, that’s not cool. The fact that 95% of the Lucas Sinclair tag isn’t about Lucas himself but white characters like Steve, Eddie, Byler says everything about how the fandom treats him.

I’m just so tired.

Lucas Sinclair deserves the same respect that the white characters get!

I leave you one of my favorite sections of the entire book: Lucas learning to become unabashedly himself:

Rant over.

Edit: in my blind rage I realized I forgot to edit out the Twitter handle. That’s completely my fault. Please don’t hate that Twitter user. I’m just coming back to fix that.

Gingka: Madoka told me jellyfish have so far survived six hundred thousand years without brains.

Yuu: a ray of hope for Masamune

Honestly people who complain about kids being made to grow up too fast AND complain about Jojo Siwa are dumb. You don’t have to like her content, but how much she encourages kids to dress and act like kids and how she’s made it cool for young girls to be colourful and childish and enjoy being a kid again cannot go understated.

In an online world where youngs girls are being sexualised and dressing like/being treated like grown women at age 13 and 14, a star encouraging young girls to still love glitter and colourful sweaters and hair bows and dress like Claire’s Accessories threw up over them as long as they want should not be scorned or criticised. You have to pick your battles here, and when you look at what role models young girls online have these days, Jojo is definitely one of the better ones.

Incorrect beyblade quotes of stuff my friends have said (or texted)

Ginka: “Dude bro lets yeet this yeast”

Masamune: “I like big pepe”

Tsubasa: “I swear to god, if you don’t shut up, I will tie the long hairs on your head to the short hairs in your ass and roll you downhill like a snowball”

Yu: “IT AINT THE DOWNWARD DOG ITS SPIRALING DOWN TO HELL”

Madoka: “you even sit like an anime girl”

Benkei: “Excuse me miss, you dropped your coochie”

Kyoya: *VERY loudly* “B L A D D E R”

Kenta: “No, I didn’t leave you at the corner store at lunch with that guy to set you up, I just didn’t wanna eat another sandwich at the fucking corner store.”

Toby: “I’m gonna have a fucking seizure”

Zeo: “Just tell that guy to stick his d!ck in a meat grinder or somethin, I dunno”

Dashan: “I’m gonna yell at him tomorrow”

Chao Xin: (in a public mall about our empty-handed friend) “[FRIEND’s NAME] PUT THE GUN AWAY”

Chi Yun: “just in case someone offended rubber ducks like that”

Mei Mei: “i am a B U I L D I N G”

Julian: “I am literally the biggest asshole ever”

Sophie: “I want fries”

Wales: “I cursed at our gym teacher and I don’t regret it”

Klaus: “STRONG BOI”

Hyoma: “that does not sound natural”

Hoikuto: “I’m so done being a person.”