mythicfictionist:

overwatch canon according to background info: the world has recently come out of one of the most violent and destructive wars in history and is now moving forward into a new era with the challenges of accommodating a new race of robotic citizens. a second crisis has broken out in russia and australia has been reduced to a nuclear wasteland. with the world in such an unstable condition, a group of heroes from the first war’s era, who had been disbanded following public denouncement despite their efforts to protect humanity, must come together to carry out clandestine operations in order to defend the very people who turned their backs on them

overwatch canon according to the game: twelve randomly selected people meet up and beat the shit out of each other 

me watching romance: oh god i cant watch this this is so cliche and weird and i am feeling secondhand embarrassment
me watching reality television: oh god i cant watch this why do these things keep happening this is so bad
me watching horror: oh god i cant watch this wHY DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN TELL ME WHEN ITS OVER PLEASE GOD NO
me watching comedy: oh god i cant watch this the sECOND HAND EMBARRAS S M EN T I CANT HANDLE THIS JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL
me watching action thrillers: oh god i cant watch this thERES TOO MUCH SUSPENSE IM GOING TO DIEEEE
me watching anything: oh god i cant watch this

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

kazorus:

prokopetz:

Every time someone tries to explain the metaplot of Supernatural to me, it basically ends up sounding like redneck Dragon Ball Z. I’m sure there’s some nuance I’m failing to grasp here.

Care to elaborate on that?

…I’m not even offended, just absolutely curious.  From the stuff I’ve seen and heard about Supernatural I can’t see the connection.

Mostly, I get the impression of a show that doesn’t know how not to escalate.

Every threat’s gotta be quantitatively bigger and badder than the one that came before. Every deus ex machina’s gotta be shinier than the last one. Every season’s gotta end with a massive eleventh-hour powerup for our heroes, only for the next season to raise the stakes enough to put them back in the underdog position.

It’s like, you beat the Devil himself? Well, now you’ve gotta fight the Devil’s cousin Phil, who has conveniently gone entirely unmentioned up until now, but he’s totally twice as evil.

That last paragraph was literally supposed to be the most ridiculous hypothetical example I could think of, and people are messaging me to say “his name was Metatron, not Phil”. I can’t even make fun of this show.