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Nyaasu In reply to evangelian007 [2017-07-10 16:21:05 +0000 UTC]

You know, I kind of felt that for a moment (the connection between him being rejected and Abby and Erin being rejected) when they were talking to him before he killed himself, but you're right, they could have taken that a little further. That would have been good!

I think they were trying to make this movie completely different from the original, so they would avoid bringing in concepts like Gozer and all things related to him. I feel like the "Zuul" reference after the credits was really just a joke (although my boyfriend sees it differently, he thinks it was a serious reference!). But it sounds like "Ghost Corps" would like to see this universe better connected to the originals, so maybe there will be more tie-ins in the future (if they don't just complately "kill off" the girls, that is!) xD

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Nyaasu In reply to Aiyana-Kopa [2017-06-25 21:08:44 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, well, I guess it's true what they say...stereotypes don't just appear out of nowhere - sometimes, they're based in truth (although again, not for every single human being!).

IN FAIRNESS, though, of the three boys I mentioned, only one was white. And that actually caused EVEN MORE DISASTER - he lied to one of the other two (my best friend in the world at that time!), told him I had said that if I had to choose between them, I'd pick him (the white dude), which set my best friend off HARDCORE, since I had told him (100% honestly) that the reason I didn't want to go out with him is because I didn't want to date anyone. So then he (the best friend) labeled me a racist, and the THIRD boy labeled me that AND what we'd call today an "ableist" (since the third guy also had a disability), spread that rumor, and everything went to absolute and utter shit from there. My best friend never believed I didn't say that*, and before he moved away and I never heard from him again, he stole all of my PS1 games**.
*You could argue that a good friend would trust my word, but in that case, I don't blame him for not believing me, I wouldn't know what to believe, either...
**He was known to be a klepto and I'd caught him a few times before, but I always forgave it, I knew he had some issues and didn't mean any harm by it...until that last time...that was clearly with intent to hurt...

Of course, I confronted the white dude and asked why he lied about what I said and told him that to fix my relationship with MY BEST FRIEND, he could do me a favor and admit that he had lied to him...but he came back with, I swear to God he said this, "I can't do that, I have my pride as a man".

So you know what? I welcome all the Rowan villains because MEN CAN BE ABSOLUTE AND COMPLETE BABIES MY GOODNESS.

Thank youuuuu!! I think I should have done something different with his expression, but....eh, that's what the more "scenario-driven" art is for. x3

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Aiyana-Kopa In reply to Nyaasu [2017-06-26 14:39:10 +0000 UTC]

WOW that is so much more intense than I anticipated good god. You poor poor thing you don't deserve any of that

I mean when I said straight white boys I really meant Straight White Boys™ but you know what?? yeah. Men are SUCH babies what an absolute douchebag thing to do like WOOOOW. And thats exactly what I mean, Exhibits A, B, and C they're just so entitled to everything because not only are they dudes in a patriarchal society that hands everything to them on a silver platter, but movies and stuff about underdog dudebros that are actually jerks but still get the girl in the end just feed into this expectation that the world owes them something simply for existing. Ugh.

So yeah its pretty satisfying to see that kind of dude actually portrayed as the villain instead!

Nah I think its good for him! Dead-eyed and overwhelmingly done with the world lmao

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Nyaasu In reply to Aiyana-Kopa [2017-06-26 22:21:16 +0000 UTC]

IT WAS BAD, and one of many reasons I'd always ABHORRED being female. xD Only because I got along with boys better in general, but not without THAT kind of drama. LAME.
Apparently, if you're a girl, you can't have guy friends. Unless they're gay. Or already occupied. Or on the internet. ...and even then............
(I don't know what your experience is, but being a "strange" girl myself, it's hard to make friends with other girls?! 99.9% of the entire female high school hated me for literally no reason, and I even once overheard a girl saying she hated me, and when asked why, she said "I don't know". SO BOYS WERE ALL I HAD!!!)

xD I guess I never really thought about that before, the jerk characters in movies getting the girls and that being some kind of "guide". I DO know there's this idea floating around that girls like jerks, though, and from what I've seen, some girls aren't helping with that particular stereotype. @_@

I'm hoping those boys all grew out of it. It could be an age thing, along with everything else.
And there were a few boys among them who took my rejection like champs, though, and some are still friends to this day, so it wasn't all bad (but it still FELT bad at the time, so we go back to point one of this reply...)

Yup, after that particular trip down memory lane, I definitely was left feeling like Rowan was a totally perfect villain for me, personally. xD

Thank youuuuu!

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Aiyana-Kopa In reply to Nyaasu [2017-06-30 03:49:16 +0000 UTC]

Thats so shitty that they were like that to you, I've known a few girls who were like that but I actually had more trouble with guys. At school they always used to pester me about my interests and how I was quiet (to THEM maybe) so I never really made proper guy friends at school until I was a senior we also had a huge grade all through high school and for all 4 junior years I was in essentially the same class with the same people, I happened to be stuck with the vocal rowdy annoying bunch. I always clicked more with girls, with boys I've always felt this pressure idk if you've ever felt this but like you have to be good at everything and completely perfect or else suddenly "oooh girls are x", "girls are bad at x", "girls can't x" you know?? And young me was all about being accepted and not totally embarrassing myself, I was the queen of self consciousness xD. But girls I can be myself and they're just chill.

omg that girls like jerks stereotype is so deeply rooted in this self entitled dude thing. The supposed 'nice' guys don't actually realise how awful they are because of fantasies like I mentioned where they just get everything they want regardless of who they are as a person. They think being a decent human being automatically = deserving of sex / a relationship bc thats what they've been told by media. And in their mind the other guy is a jerk because he's in their way. I saw this post on tumblr the other day and like... yeah, they don't even realise xD

I really really hope it IS an age thing, I don't exactly have much experience with the rejection aspect of things since I don't really get asked out like, ever, but the guys I didn't get along with got better as they grew up so maybe. Part of me feels slightly bad bc the male friends I do have are really nice and I get along with a lot, but I'm so done with entitled dudes so I will delightfully indulge in characters like Rowan that call em out xD

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Nyaasu In reply to Aiyana-Kopa [2017-06-30 05:39:29 +0000 UTC]

OH WOW, that's so crazy to hear! I mean in a good/interesting way! I guess you only know things how you see them, and I always thought the "weirder" girls out there (read: the ones that can talk to me on my level, so without meaning to offend, I'd think of you as one of those, lol) would always by default get along better with guys! I guess not! I'd say maybe I got lucky, but I didn't, really, since in the end literally every guy I befriended, at one point or another, developed a crush on me, which was always the worst day for me when I'd find it out because it made things weird. So, it's actually probably not healthy that I was hanging around with boys instead, since apparently nature makes them feel ways (ways which I never understood, and now we know why thank you very much!).

I can't say I've ever felt that specific brand of "pressure"...I remember once, I was super hurt (or...annoyed, rather?) by this one kid I used to hang out with who happened to have autism, and so he'd just say whatever was on his mind, and when I beat him at a video game one day (he'd been practicing it, and then I came over), he honestly and purely remarked that he was disappointed in himself that he lost "to a girl". Ouch? But hey, I wiped the floor with plenty a dude in that game (it was Smash Bros, if you know that one), and at one point, I was the best person I knew at it, any gender, so he didn't have to be so "hard on himself" about it! That's the closest I get to a "girls are bad at x" (etc) type situation. It could be many guys felt this way, but didn't say it. Klepto friend used to turn off the N64 so that our matches weren't saved, when he lost to me (which was often, bwahaha). It's possible he felt the same way, but didn't say it outright.

When I was SUPER young, though, I do remember instances where I'd be playing with a group of boys, pretending we were characters from movies or shows or whatever, and I'd always ask to be (x), but they'd say I had to be (y), because (y) was a girl, and I'd ALWAYS have to fight tooth and nail to finally be allowed to be (x). xD

I'm shocked to hear you could be yourself around girls! They were who I could do that the LEAST around! But in a bizarre way, I'm super happy to hear it, just because it's a new thought to me! I love seeing things in a new perspective. I seriously was convinced that girls who are like myself in whatever number of ways were just naturally better friends with dudes. This has given me much to think about. 

I SAW THAT POST ON TWITTER LOL it made me laugh. I don't know how people are so QUICK AND WITTY lol I love the internet. xD

Aww...you know, I often complain about how many dudes tried to go out with me, because I always saw it as a problem, not a good thing (for reasons, again, we now understand), but this is another case where that's how I saw it, and I couldn't see it any other way. I wish you had been asked out more, then (but of course, by actually good guys!), because I mean to me you're a perfect catch, but maybe...what do I know? You're funny, smart as hell, and you like fun things. More people should be asking you out. >:[ I hope you find a nice, not-entitled honestly good dude (or lady!) soon, if that's what you want.

Me, I'm thinking...if anything goes sour with the ol' boyfriend, I'm becoming a hermit with a shotgun in the woods with some dogs.
Sounds like a plan to me.
And then if I ever do feel slightly like I need a cuddle or something I just discovered that people do character RP on Tumblr like crazy and I am so interested in this idea?

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Aiyana-Kopa In reply to Nyaasu [2017-06-30 10:25:16 +0000 UTC]

Oh don't worry about it I gladly take that title!

The crush thing is like, a whole other part of the issue xD. Like most people I grew up being spoon fed the whole "oh you're talking to a boy?? he likes you!" or "oh that boy's annoying you?? he has a crush!" and it kind of made a bunch of friendships slightly awkward bc family members would IMMEDIATELY assume my guy friends, the few that I have, only talked to me bc they liked me. Even down to a guy I was JUST walking next to one day like??? I'm like 99% sure all of these were untrue anyway but they did it often enough for the idea to solidify in my head and for me to want to keep many of them / dudes in general at arms length so they wouldn't think I liked them back or that I was leading them on or whatever. Probably messed up a bunch of potential friendships.

I guess you're lucky then that you never had to think or worry about it then! For me it was more of a subconscious thing that I didn't really realise or know what to call until I saw someone else online put it into words, and suddenly it all made sense. Like if I was playing sports with a group of boys I just HAD to be good at the game, even though I'm in no way a sporty person, because I was afraid that it would reflect badly on my fellow girls if I failed. If I was asked something by one of them in class I HAD to get the answer right or I might be contributing to the "boys are smarter than girls, girls are bad at this subject" line of thought. Or if I was talking to them I HAD to be confident or funny or smart and couldn't say or do anything embarrassing and appear as some "dumb girl". Even down to playing video games with my family I had to always beat my dad and brother lest they think that girls are bad at video games. And it wasn't even that any of these guys actually said that kind of stuff, but I think it was more the thoughts or the assumptions that I didn't want to help perpetuate??

I actually went through this thing where I felt like I WOULD be better friends with guys if I talked to more of them, bc many of them shared the same interests as me. I mean really it comes down to character rather than gender, but when it came to actually meeting people for the first time I always felt... I guess safer with girls? Guys like I said I felt pressure with, and it was intimidating to have to be perfect, but with girls I never felt like I had to impress them in order for them to see my worth as a human being, so I gravitated towards them instead of dudes.

Oh I don't blame you considering what you had to deal with! Aah you're sweet though, here's hoping one of these days I do ^^ I mean... I'm a weird case in which the idea of literally anyone actually WANTING to go out with me was like, top tier amazing to young me bc it was such a surreal idea? But whenever anyone speculated on guys liking me it was more distressing and awkward than anything else and when I eventually did have 2 guys ask me out in the last year of high school I turned them both down luckily, these two were of the genuinely nice variety. I'm realising now that it may just have something to do with the fact that, at this point anyway, I'd rather date a girl than a guy, so I guess it was better that way after all (although it would NOT have hurt the self confidence lmao)

Haha that sounds like the best plan! I mean who wouldn't want to live the hermit-with-dogs lifestyle I'm about 90% of the way there already tbh xD oh yeah I follow a bunch of RP blogs, are you thinking of getting into it??

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Nyaasu In reply to Aiyana-Kopa [2017-09-08 18:09:48 +0000 UTC]

(FINALLY UNBURYING ANCIENT COMMENTS OVER HERE)

It sounds like you and I did the opposite things, which both ended badly for us. You were told that if you paid attention to a boy, he would fall in love with you, so you avoided that. I was never told that, so I interacted with boys openly, freely, and honestly, and the end result was....that they all ended up falling for me (and me with no romantic interest in them at all!). So I don't even see a way to remedy this, since what you were told proved to be true in my case. xD

I can get that. xD I just hope you weren't driven crazy by that need to prove yourself, and therefore, all of us. D; Lady that is not a responsibility you should be shouldering on your own.

So weird how we saw things so differently! But in fairness, since most of the guys I encountered were straight (or later realized they were only trying to be, in some cases), me interacting with them as I did ended up hurting them (and me, in a different kind of way), so it would have been better if I had gotten along with girls*. It's a shame there was so much emphasis put on relationships rather than friendships back then. I get the feeling that's changing as society changes, I feel like kids now are being brought up in a way where boys and girls mingle on a friendship level more, versus what I look back and see, which was more like we were kept in kinda quarantine from each other and then finally let to interact during a time when most of us were being assaulted by hormones. @_@ There's a lot of stuff people make fun of younger generations for, but removing that "quarantine" on genders and gender roles and all of that, letting kids mingle - I see that as nothing but good.
*Something I just thought of, though, is that it may not be so much that I got along better with guys because of their gender, but maybe because there was a disproportionate amount of "outcasts" who were male, and since I was an outcast, I got along with them better than the girls, who tended to be doing just fine, socially

This comment has been sitting around for a while now, so any prospects since then? Male or female? xD

I've got the hermit thing down now (I'm all alone and damn is this expensive but so quiet), now all I need is the dogs.

Like....kind of?! I have friends who I think really want me to get into it, but I'm terrified of either making a fool of myself or acting Out of Character and getting people angry at meeeeeee

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Nyaasu In reply to Silvolf [2017-06-25 21:08:54 +0000 UTC]

Heehee, thanks! I had fun drawing it. x3

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Nyaasu In reply to legoocoolguy [2017-06-24 20:22:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, once again!

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Nyaasu In reply to CelestialRainicorn [2017-06-24 19:28:07 +0000 UTC]

Aww, haha, that's okay! You don't need to feel obligated to give me a big long comment if it doesn't come naturally!!

I'm glad you like this one, because I really do, too!! I didn't expect to, either! That's happening to me a lot lately. x3

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