I may be late to this, but I feel like it says a lot about how analog horror is covered at least on Youtube when Angel Hare, which is one of the most hopeful and wholesome analog "horror" series' I've seen, has videos talking about it that look like this:
Like, yeah it has dark elements, but it's not this horrifying dark show that corrupts children. Jonah wasn't manipulated into becoming a serial killer by Gabby, that's a fandom AU not what actually happens.
I may just be overreacting over something minor, but it annoys me that a genuinely fresh and kind take on the "dark children's show" trope where a guardian angel protects a child from their abusive father and comforts them through a TV show is treated almost exactly the same as Generic Spooky Face Jumpscare Tapes #57. It's all about the dark elements that accompany the story, and not the story itself.
Angel Hare actually tells a coherent and complete story about children's entertainment and escapism, which just so happens to have dark elements to it while still being a comforting series. At least acknowledge the story being told, not just the disturbing elements of it for the love of Angel Gabby.
there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment
Scout and Miss Pauling friendship is one of my fave things to think about but I think a lot of people look over the more complex parts (as complex as fucking. TF2 lore gets) like Scout feelings for Miss Pauling are genuine and he's mostly just really lame about it rather the internally a creep but Miss Pauling doesn't owe liking him due to that, even if you go in the transfem Scout route. I think there have to be a talk and a lot of awkward feelings but i think after a while they would be good friends. Sorry to ramble here in your askbox I just wish this dynamic was explored more in the fandom without outright dismissing character traits of either of them.
No yeah ur literally so right n I've def talked before about how this is the ONE vaguely complex canon character thing I get to be snotty about and that I think like. there are Implications(tm) if you choose to make it so that Scout was NEVER attracted to Pauling ever (usually bc "he's gay") or Pauling is actually attracted to men and now she and Scout can date!! like I'm trying not to be A Hater but I rlly do think a lot of people just haven't deconstructed how they think about men (for the sake of the intentions of the source material, Scout will be a man in this post) who are attracted to women, especially the "loser who gets the girl in the end" archetype. If Scout is attracted to Pauling, he is not in any way owed her reciprocation, EVEN IF she were attracted to men. And people have friends that they're attracted to who don't reciprocate for whatever reason and they manage to work it out. The actual canon Scout/Pauling dynamic (which is that he's really into her and thinks she's into him but she's not and he's lame) IS very funny, but if you want to imagine any sort of closure for these characters it has to involve him coming to terms with it and like. learning to deal. I am SO happy that there seem to be absolutely zero hints of Scout and Pauling actually hooking up at the end of the comic (but what do I know) bc I am SICK of every piece of media on the planet feeling the need to shove a man and a woman together because he likes her and therefore deserves her. This is like, tf2 level nuance! It's extremely simple! Idk this is such like. a common relationship thing that happens in real life and if people can't handle it when cartoon hat people do it idk how they'd handle it if it were happening to them or to one of their friends
what if she could become a companion. what if. family.
I am so normal about proto (lying)
look at the lil robo doc go
Look at the baby!!!! Look!!!!
Dunno of you guys have noticed but Proto's not so secret passion is dancing
bg3 x tf2 would be pure chaos and i think that would be brilliant
here's some text posts that remind me of tf2 mercs part one for now because i'm eepy
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NUH UH (spiderman across the spider verse spoilers (?)) payphone mic so hear me out... you did WHAT
HE DOES DESERVE TO GET ANGRY SO TRUE SO REAL
alright brother. any thoughts on spydad? (i hate it with my whole heart)
I like the idea of spy and scout having a unique/complicated relationship as a result of being related. I really do. But like, spydad in a “spy getting in the way of scout’s romantic relationships/being weirdly overprotective/etc” way has never been done in a way that doesn’t seem like a complete annihilation of Spy’s personality.
He would laugh at someone for stooping to the level of dating Scout of all people rather than threaten them for stepping near him. He cares for scout but he does also combat that with seven different layers of hating Scouts guts- half over-dramatic and half very genuine because scout is annoying.
also, I’ve mentioned it before, but any conversation that spy and scout have where spy finally admits the truth needs to end with scout getting to beat the shit out of him. Sorry. I want them to come to some form of resolution as much as most people but first things first I want to see them yell at each other and resolve nothing. And I want spy to try and save his ego and fail to apologize and I want to see scout just get mad at him. I think he deserves this!
Forgot to post on Tumblr again oopsie-
⚠️ Please do not repost without permission/credit I worked hard on this :(
The amount of layers was insane, it's my first time making a vid like this.
Found the audio on tik tok and thought it would fit him lmao
I loved this post just because all the comments flipped between sincere appreciation and mockery of the birds
Refuse to believe that Sun Wukong would settle down by the Song dynasty. That's like barely after the Tang dynasty ended and you know Sun Wukong was not thinking about pursuing romance during the pilgrimage. This is a guy who, when trapped in the webs of desire and prison of love in the Spider Demons arc, became flustered and booked it two times the distance needed to escape. This is a guy who's managed to not speak of his first ever father figure Puti Shifu for AT LEAST 750 years. This is a guy who was soooo incredibly in denial when his old bestie Bull Demon King kept trying to say that their friendship was broken off. This is a guy who, every time he was banished or rejected, came home and told everyone to not speak of whoever or whatever rejected him. This guy compartmentalizes his feelings like crazy.