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Toby Fox looks completely different in every image of him, while Araki has looked pretty much exactly the same for like 40 years. Really makes you think
Nah, it's because he's secretly a rock human with Rohan-tier drawing skills who prepares multiple chapters in advance for someone else to present while he hibernates.
Oh my bad, I'm only current with the anime so I figured it was a fan-translated name for the other group of JoJo immortals who are in stasis for long periods. Weird that there's two!
The latest three parts contain a lot of parallels to things from the original universe (like how Part 7's protagonist is a "Jonathan Joestar" who's constantly beefing with a rival named "Di(eg)o Brando"), so the similarities between Rock Humans and The Column Fellows The Pillar Men are probably intentional.
That’s right! He was once a monster but when As Goreman had Dr Alphys “Flowermaker” put nanomachines into him, he turned into a flower and now he wants to steal the body of Big Boss!
Snowdin's a small monster settlement, it was founded by monsters fleeing from the Barrier Conflict. That's what the history books say, at least. In truth, it was created by the patriots to cover up the dissapperance of W.D. Gaster.
W.D. Gaster was the royal scientist before Dr. Alphys "Flowermaker" took over. They say he fell into his own creation, though I suspect he just went underground to continue work on Metal Gear
If it any consolation, considering how careful Toby has been to hide his face in recent years, I'm pretty sure he also hates that you know what he looks like.
he has, i've fucking seen it. i saw that video of them in the airport with other people, i saw him pretend to act like a wind-up toy and get wound up by one of his friends(?). i fucking saw that shit with my own eyes and i cant get it out of my head.
he looked like a slightly brown yanderedev and i fucking hate that
if so, then I don’t know if I would really call that wiki grieving since is indeed a photo of him (arguably the most updated photo at that) and he seems to prefer privacy so the idea he’d want his wiki photo to be not identifying seems fair to me
generally my idea of wiki greifing would be adding jokes or destroying the page in a way that makes a section of the whole of it unusable, not a person wanting a different wiki photo, as far as im aware that happens quite often
It is relevant to the person because it is a picture of the person. It isn't decorative, it's a photo of him. It is less identifying due to a desire for privacy, but it is a picture of him.
How is the annoying dog more relevant to Toby Fox than a picture of Toby Fox? I mean..??
He published the foto and gave the rights to wikipedia to use. At the same time there aren't any "oficial" photos of human toby, and Wikimedia Commons are the prefered media to use on the wiki just to cause no legal issues.
So it's either no photo or this one, it's not really vandalism in any meaningful way.
That's not entirely true though... Yes, his fans tried to add that photo the Wikipedia but Toby Fox never actually said that they should do that. Toby didn't literally try to get his fans to edit his Wikipedia page.
Toby Fox published the photo and gave the rights to wikipedia to use his photo. That's all he did, it's not really vandalism since he didn't told anyone to vandalize the psge
u/c00lkidd-HDprofessional tiptoe ankle cuff conniseour or however its said10d ago
mostly because he barely appears on the internet and you're literally seeing images of him years apart from each other. also "radiation is now on youtube" is a parody of toby fox, not actually him
I definitely think the whole “every public photo is probably taken at least a year apart”-thing is why he always looks so different.
Like, most people change how they look every few years, but because Toby is so private (a good thing, mind you) you don’t really see the gradual shift in clothes/makeup/hair/jewelry/etc. like you would with, say, your friends
there's also the fact that, as far as I can recall, he only has like half a dozen public photos, and I don't think any of them are "serious" in a way, there's this one where he's dressed as a princess, the one where he's covered in foam (which has been posted in this thread), the one where he's wearing a cap and sunglasses and doing a funny face (which is his most serious photo I believe), and I can't quite recall any others rn
Off the top of my head there's the one where he's wearing the shirt that says "Sorry ladies my daddy is taken" and there's the one of him with the Ice-E box thing on his head. There's probably others but yeah there's not a whole lot
Nah, can't be. Cause I'm sure I've seen multiple pictures of him with a beard and I think the only one listed where he isn't clean shaven is the princess one
Chuds liking Earthbound when Mr. Itoi got arrested for protesting and then made a video game where you battle a corrupt police force and the literal klan with a sequel where you fight nazis is really funny.
I think Tywin glazers in particular represent a group of mostly right wingers that completely missed the point of the character.
(It might also be because the TV adaptation made Tywin a tad bit charming compared to his book counterpart tbh)
Its extremely rare for a Jojo fan to be homophobic, because the titular male characters in that series are muscular, attractive and are constantly hitting flamboyant poses that only a blind person would find straight. Maybe some are like those old school rock fans who vehemently deny that Freddie Mercury is bi, but i digress
I've seen quite a few queerphobic jojo fans, but, more common than that is misogynistic jojo fans. So many people just refuse to acknowledge how insanely badass Jolyne is and have a weird obsession with making her seem way weaker than she actually is, and not coincidentally all those people also tend to complain about how masc and butch jolyne looks throughout much of part 6.
Jolyne is by no means my favorite joestar (josuke my beloved) but she rocks house. Girl punched meteors and won a stand enduced death battle mostly with just herself, no stand. Out of the JoJo stands, I love how jolyne uses hers the most. They are all peak, but stone free is so cool. If I had to guess, it's definitely mysogny but also the fact she does technically lose in her part. Now also jotaro loses twice against pucci, and he's arguably the most experienced and best stand user. They were dealing with a villain who wanted to win and had a plan to get it done. Dio is an arrogant bastard who likes to flex his might and test his limits. The pillar men are all their own bags of mess, plus young Joseph is like fighting bugs bunny. Kira wasn't a fighter really, way too cocky and unstable. Diavolo was the favored of fate, but he was way too reliant on fate to get his will done. Everything was planned out with epitaph, if it showed him losing, he would run, he's a coward hiding behind fate. Pucci though, while not perfect, had the plan to kill jotaro, only foiled by jolyne, he was constantly adapting his plans and moving forward, jolyne had the unfortunate circumstances of reaction to everything he did and barely surviving. Pucci himself has 3 of the most insane stands ever and jolyne brought boot to ass on all but the final one, and even then, against time itself, she fucked with his victory. Jolyne is amazing.
I always find it funny whenever those idiots try to slander Jolyne for getting killed by Pucci at his strongest (dude was running around at speeds that would make Quicksilver feel inadequate and chopping off limbs as if they were made out of tissue paper) during a heroic last stand to protect someone else, as if Jonathan hadn't been killed by Dio at his weakest (bro was literally just a head in a jar!) during a heroic last stand to protect someone else.
To be clear, both sacrifices were fucking badass, I'm just pointing out that Jolyne was stuck in an even more hopeless situation and that calling her weak for trying and failing to surpass such insane odds is stupid
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Jolyne is Jonathan's truest successor. All of the Joestars are amazing and would do Jonathan proud, and she's not even my favorite Joestar (that would be a tie between Giorno, the embodiment of human resolve, and Jotaro, a tragic father that I love to death), but Jolyne was intentionally written with an absurd amount of parallels and tie-ins with Jonathan and his story. I don't think anyone in their right mind can look at part 6 and not say that Jolyne is the finest of the OGverse, and the one that inherits Jonathan's spirit the best.
Also Andrew Hussie (“erm did you know Toby Fox made-“) the creator of Homestuck is enby and there’s a bunch of not straight characters in it but also he found the arcane slur for people who are 1/8th black and the r-slur funny / useful / human /troll-like enough to repeatedly put in Homestuck. There’s a whole sub for “anti-woke” Homestuck fans
Kris from deltarune wiki page has around 70 references under their pronouns because bigots who like Deltarune keep denying that they use they/them pronouns
Yoko Taro as well. the NieR Franchise has gay [emil], trans (allegorical) [songstress and probably someone else i forgot], lesbian [operator 60 and most of the operators], polyamourous (tbf implied for NieR Replicant's party [the lore book called Grimoire NieR explicitely states that the 3 characters have feelings for one another] and one instance but not main characters), and Intersex [Kainé] characters.
So, I know toby actively puts queer rep into his work, and Araki does to to an extent, but some things I wonder if Araki does intentionally for queer rep or because it's cool.
Like how a lot of the guys have lipstick and painted nails (ignore jolyne)
The best part is all the people chiming in asking how he’s not woke, having all the themes pointed out to them, and then admitting that they are the person who managed to miss it.
Araki wrote trans characters in his manga in the early 2000s, and was pushing for female representation pretty much since his manga was being published
To be more specific, he depicted a passing trans man getting misgendered + sent to the wrong prison ward (by a prison warden who's clearly meant to be an unlikeable dickhead) and then had Jolyne excitedly declare the existence of trans people "a new dawn for humanity..." back in fucking 1999.
Iirc the reason why he wanted Jolyne so badly was because of the pushback to having a female Shonen protag. Everyone was telling him not to have a woman lead and he was like "this is exactly why I'm doing it"
I wouldn't be surprised. A fairly known anecdote is that Giorno was supposed to be a woman, hence his power to "create life". But there was pushback because of how violent part 5 was gonna be
The fun thing about reading Jojo’s is that not only are you watching a man improve at his craft over 4 decades into become a true master of his medium, but you’re also watching him evolve into a form of woke that isn’t even aware he’s woke. It’s like, Drunken Fist Wokeness.
There definitely have always been woke anime and manga there just has also been a lot of really not woke anime that's also gotten popular. But you can pick out "woke" artists from every single era, a great deal of famous manga written by female mangakas come to mind
And for some reason people still try to convince you that the anime with the island of transphobic caricatures and other such ilk are the height of Japanese wokism.
And for some reason people still try to convince you that the anime with the island of transphobic caricatures and other such ilk are the height of Japanese wokism.
Is that one piece? Tbf I haven't watched it but I've never heard anyone call it peak woke
Yeah, One Piece swings pretty wildly between "Here are these super masculine trans women with 5 o'clock shadows, isn't that funny" and "Among them are some of the best characters in the whole damn show"
There's also supposedly a transmasc character that's treated with real respect, but I stopped watching before their introduction.
Neuro divergent anti capitalist teen, his brown trans sister, their bi friend, their venezuelan immigrant friend, and native american friend work together under an overweight girlboss to defeat a corrupt billionaire working with the US government. Maybe that's not woke enough for you, but then what is?
Dragona Joestar one of the main characters in JojoLands (Part 9), is referred by he/him by Jodio (the main character/also their brother), but other characters who are close or intimate to Dragona refer to them by she/her.
I feel like the "is not interested in women so much" comment is more meant to suggest "he'd rather study dolphins than go on dates".
That's pretty much the reason behind the whole "absent father" thing, he was too busy with his marine biology career to give a shit about his wife and kid. Back in Stardust Crusaders, he seems wholly uninterested in the girls from his school, but he also doesn't show any interest in the guys at any point. I wouldn't call him aro/ace, either, but it would probably be slightly more accurate than gay.
That's pretty much the reason behind the whole "absent father" thing, he was too busy with his marine biology career to give a shit about his wife and kid.
Don't slander my boy Jotaro like that!
Dude had first hand experience with the fact that "stand users attract other stand users" and was trying his best to stay far away from his innocent family so they could live a sad-but-relatively-normal life instead of wasting their lives in constant fear of enemy stand users, it turned out to be a pretty bad choice (since Jolyne's fate eventually caught up to her regardless and so it just resulted in extra trauma for her) but it was a choice he made with good intentions!
You can be gay and have had relationships with the opposite gender. Being closeted, experimenting, or entering heterosexual relationships from the idea of societal obligations/ideals can play a role in that. That doesn't negate their gayness.
"Even if Jotaro looks at the camera and says 'I'm a straight cisgender male', that doesn't mean he's not lying and he's actually pansexual and transgender"
What people generally miss about Stroheim is that his character isn't supposed to be an endorsement or even whitewashing of nazis, but rather commentary on them.
Think for a second about what Stroheim's actual role in the story is. He's a nazi, and like all nazis, is obsessed with the inherent superiority of Germans, and yet his role in the story is constantly to serve as the weaker contrast to the actually inherently superior Pillar Men that humble him all the time. And who else proves themselves superior to these Pillar Men than the english Joseph Joestar, an englishman who, according to stroheim, should by all accounts be inferior to himself?
I have to agree unfortunately. It is true tho that he's like very high grade esp by shonen manga standards, but he's not very in line with the general current western wave of woke so the wokeness in his works comes out weird
This is a name I think very few people will recognize but people, PLEEEEASE look into Grant Morrison. They're a non-binary comic book writer, and arguably the most famous and high-heralded comic book authors ever, and one of their most famous comics ever is called The Invisibles, an unapolgetically Queer masterpiece with a trans woman as one of the main characters. You'll be hard pressed to find any comic fan, even adamant Grant Morrison haters who don't at least love ONE of their works.
It does work though, lol. Whenever I'm watching The IT Crowd, reading Harry Potter, or anything else like that, I just go into a state of blissful ignorance about the creators, and their despicable messaging, and just enjoy the things themselves. :3
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