Hey, my name’s Jiovanni. I’m a huge fan of My Little Pony, as well as Overwatch, Miraculous Ladybug, RWBY, Wakfu and most anime. I’m a chemistry undergrad, and sometimes play Yugioh competitively.
god phoenix and edgeworth must be underwhelming to law students who meet them
like, imagine you’re a student at themis and you’re going to a lecture, and you’ve heard about the hosts completely secondhand.
phoenix wright. the turnabout terror. the man who defeated manfred von karma in a court of law whilst making him confess to a fifteen year old murder. the one who convinced shelly de killer to abandon his contract and go after matt engarde with one piece of evidence.
miles edgeworth. demon prosecutor. chief prosecutor. the man who solved an international incident almost singlehandedly. the man who has publicly made it his mission to fix the legal system and destroy the darkness within it.
together, the most terrifying power couple in the la court system.
and then you go to the lecture and that impression lasts all of two seconds before they start bickering, and now phoenix is telling an anecdote about unusual reasons to become a lawyer prominently featuring the words “first crush“, and now you have literally no idea what to think.
Periods are stupid I’m gay I know I’m not pregnant can you not
******this post wasn’t meant to be transphobic or cissexist or offend anyone i apologize i was 15 when i made this post i’ve matured now i can’t stop people from reblogging it i’ve addressed this before but illl do it again because people still bring it up - i’m sorry again if i offended anyone i’m literally the most open and loving person ever id never purposely say something to single anyone out or hurt them******
there was literally nothing wrong with her statement what did you guys do
Okay so a lot of people are asking me who Aaron Diaz is so here’s my semi-comprehensive post on who Aaron Diaz is and why he’s a joke.
Aaron Diaz is, in theory, the author of terrible webcomic Dresden Codak. I say ‘in theory’ cause he updates about once a month and often less than that (and has been caught faking the dates on his older comics to make himself appear to have a consistent update schedule.) Dresden Codak is the adventures of Aaron Diaz’s fictional girlfriend, a fit asian girl with robot limbs, because Aaron Diaz is basically Joss Whedon with an amputation fetish.
Dresden Codak is… bad. Diaz has copied parts of Ghost in the Shell point for point before (and indeed, only changed his fantasy waifu’s hair because she kept looking more and more like Makoto Kusanagi). Diaz doesn’t understand page layouts and very obviously includes his fetishes in the comic; I wasn’t joking about his amputation fetish. Multiple times his waifu loses her limbs and just kind of flops around uselessly, presumably cause it gets his dick up. He gets 6k a month on patreon for it and regularly whines that he doesn’t make more, because getting 60k a year for doing basically nothing isn’t enough for him, I guess.
Also once he had a Japanese character sit at a desk with a giant pagoda over his head and a bunch of Katanas around cause you wouldn’t know he was Japanese if Diaz didn’t do that.
Diaz himself is a joke too. Imagine every negative stereotype about a ‘male feminist’. Seriously. Talks down to women, casually racist, dresses like a clown, balding with a beard, white dude, perpetually angry, cowardly, paper thin skin, etc.
Diaz is all of those things. He is a stereotype come to life. You probably couldn’t make a caricature of him that was more ridiculous than Aaron Diaz himself is. He regularly insults women who disagree with him, while simultaneously boasting about how feminist he is. He pontificates about how much he ‘loves smart women’ but gets cowardly and cries when a woman corrects him or when he encounters a woman in STEM or another difficult field. Cause to Diaz ‘smart’ is just a tag he puts into a search engine to try and find porn. Diaz wants a woman in a labcoat getting fucked over her Bunston burner. that’s what Diaz wants.
Also he has repeatedly boasted about how he knows martial arts and someone googled where he ‘trains’ and it’s with children. Aaron Diaz does karate with children and brags about it.
Now, while in his tiny black heart Diaz likely wishes he was best known for his terrible webcomic, he is probably best known for his utterly terrible Zelda pitch. You can see it here, and while I don’t want to devote this entire post to that, I’ll just rundown the reasons why it’s dumb real quick.
It supports the idea that ‘feminine’ roles in stories can never be proactive or competent and that the only way for a woman to be useful or competent is to take on a traditionally male role.
It ignores every single character trait Zelda has to paste her over Link, obliterating her as a character (some lip-service to the Sheikah does not change this.) fuck, he even dresses her up like Link. She can’t even have her own outfit?
Not gonna nerd out on MUH ZELDA LORE but he obviously has never played a Zelda game and only did rudimentary googling before doing this thing.
He tries to hamfist steampunk into it.
He gives 'Prince Link’ a hat. Zelda already has a hood that evokes the hat. Why does Prince Link need a hat? Aaron Diaz thinks you’re so stupid you won’t understand PRINCE LINK is supposed to be Link, unless he has on a hat it makes no sense for him to be wearing.
Anyway the point is it’s stupid. I may go over it point for point later to explain why but that’s not what this post is about. It got picked up by a bunch of sites and showcased and game journalists praised Aaron Diaz because most game journalists are borderline illiterate dipshits but it quickly passed and he faded into semi-obscurity.
(For the record, he also did a bunch of 'redesigns’ of comic characters that were also stupid, also including his casual fetishization of asian women again, and then when everyone made fun of him including industry professionals he made a really passive-aggressive post where he 'redesigned’ his imaginary waifu into a fanservice character, which is made more hilarious by the fact her design basically slowly trended to being a lot like that.)
After that, he mostly kept acting like a bag of hot air, until, after he posted a bunch of sexy pin-ups of his protagonist and claimed they were 'empowering and feminist’ he got ribbed. He got gently ribbed. Very gently ribbed. Seriously, Mary Cagle (cubedwatermelon on tumblr and artist of many webcomics) basically gave him the lightest jab in the fucking world.
Aaron went MENTAL. He cried and whined and moaned and vagued about her on twitter, until he eventually cried in her tumblr inbox and she blew him the fuck out.
Diaz lost it, deleted the tweets, deleted the pin-ups, and went dark on twitter for THREE MONTHS. This fucking loudmouth was so butthurt at the softed, weakest possible ribbing that he imploded and vanished for a quarter of a year. He later re-uploaded the pin-ups and claimed he 'accidentally deleted them before’ which is literally an excuse that makes every lie detector within 100 miles of you commit suicide if you ever say it.
Anyway he mostly shut up until Nintendo announced Hyrule Warrior Legends.
And Linkle.
Linkle is a character in Hyrule Warrior Legends that looks a lot like a girl Link. She ISN’T girl Link, but her design was initially meant for Link’s younger sister and they repurposed it. Aaron Diaz responded in the most hilarious, passive-aggressive, histrionic way imaginable.
Yes.
You are reading that right.
Aaron Diaz thought that a japanese company saw his pitch from SEVERAL YEARS AGO and stole it. Stole the idea of 'a girl dressed like link’. Except Linkle’s outfit only evokes Link’s, it’s not the same. So really the idea of 'girl’
Aaron Diaz invented women.
Now, predictably, everyone made fun of him, so instead of just deleting the tweets and hiding in shame for a week or so Diaz TRIED TO BACKPEDAL.
It needs to be kept in mind this was THE DAY LINKLE WAS REVEALED. The same day. Almost immediately after.
And of course everyone kept making fun of him and he cried.
The most recent dumb-ass thing he did, and which seemed to have left him butthurt enough to mostly stop being a windbag on social media, was this tweet.
Even discounting the fact that Will Eisner is one of the most talented creators to ever live who has forgotten more about making amazing comics than Diaz can learn in ten lifetimes;
Will Eisner was Jewish.
Will Eisner was Jewish in the 40s.
Jews were not particularly well loved, in the 40s.
Everyone jumped on Diaz for this. Literally everyone. Industry professionals tore into his 'redesigns’ and mocked his comic. All his boatloads of haters lept from the woodwork to screencap and laugh.
People who tolerated him cause they share ideology used it as an excuse to dump him (nobody likes him, anyway.) Everyone pointed out that he himself is the definition of 'mediocre white man’. He blocked anybody who even looked at him for like two weeks, and finally went into semi-hibernation.
The world of Airth. Literally torn apart by an ancient war between the gods who created it, Airth is divided into 4 sections:
1. the Stratos, a chain of islands high in the sky where the Sylph people live
2. The Rimland, a massive ring of continents and giant islands where Most of the inhabitants of Airth live. Wake lives here.
3. The Abyss, a stretch of atmosphere filled with incredible cloud formations and tiny floating islands. Limberg and Grimm are from here.
4. The Core, an ocean covered rocky sphere filled with colossal caves. The Tengru, monsters and beasts, and the Dark Lord live down here.
There is a prophecy that the Dark Lord will regain his power and destroy what’s left of Airth to start a new planet with him as ruler. The only thing that can stop him is the Star Seed. It is the key to making Airth whole again and destroying the darkness forever. But is the Star Seed only a myth?
I made this post because today two guys came into the store and one kept purposely referencing Rick and Morty, while the other had never seen the show and the first guy was trying to make it seem like an awful thing that guy 2 had never seen it and was thinking he was superior for knowing a bunch of useless facts about the show. Meanwhile guy 2 looked visibly uncomfortable. While his was happening, some girls were arguing saying “you can’t be a fan of supernatural if you’ve only seen 4 seasons”.
I felt like I was living out a fucking tumblr post and I’m only keeping this job to get a discount on jeans
Is there any hatred stronger than the rage kids get towards Barney the dinosaur as soon as they are just a little too old for Barney the dinosaur
So, this guy, Martin Pistorius, fell into a coma when he was 12 years old and eventually awoke completely paralyzed, at least physically. He was misdiagnosed. Doctors believed he was in a completely vegetative state, but in reality, he had regained full consciousness and awareness. He just didn’t possess any motor function, so he couldn’t communicate to anyone that he was alive in there. He lived this way for 12 years before he overcame it by sheer force of will and was given the tools to communicate. He tells his story in his book, Ghost Boy. Since then he’s also been the subject of the first episode of Invisibilia on NPR and had his own TedTalk.
Anyway, the breaking point that incited his plan of escape was being forced to watch Barney reruns all day, everyday at his care center. Sitting in front of the TV, he learned to tell the time by the shadows on the wall. If he had time he could know when Barney would end. With the ability to measure his days, he was able to pull himself out of the void and ultimately start down the path to recovery. Today, Martin can communicate whatever he wants with the help of a computer program, but there’s one thing he can’t articulate: “I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney.”
So it turns out that the primal hatred people have toward Barney is strong enough to pull a disembodied consciousness out of the abyss of existential despair and into the physical world out of pure spite
Hey, my name’s Jiovanni. I’m a huge fan of My Little Pony, as well as Overwatch, Miraculous Ladybug, RWBY, Wakfu and most anime. I’m a chemistry undergrad, and sometimes play Yugioh competitively.
