Saw this hat and immediately knew what had to be done

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I didn’t have the discount at purchase. I then had to convince their customer support to apply the discount (instead of promising a discount in my next purchase). Now my pins are here and I was sent the wrong set. This hasn’t happened to me before with Crowdmade. Is this a fluke?

My sketchbook is well bedecked in stickers, and Loki has joined the roster! The stickers are so pretty, they’re a late birthday treat for myself, I think they were a good choice

I was reflecting about this since watching OSP vid about Hades and Persephone and the complex nature of the story and myth and how modern writers give their own touch of the story. Also poets and play writers such as the play of Medea or the Roman poet's version of Medusa with her being originally a human turn monster because of the gods. So any ideas you guys have that would be a interesting trope to explore a Greek myth?

I am so grateful Red and Blue do these re-releases. Finally had some money for these beauties.

It's been a dying question I've had for quite some time, does red and or blue, know the beloved halo and rooster teeth Machinima, red vs blue? Ans what connections or inspiration have OSP gotten from this lovely show?

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Difference is, however, Loki was chained to a rock with the snake and he gets out at Ragnarok. The Emperor killed Horus so hard even his soul is gone.

If blue does not do a video on Notre Dame in light of the reopening, there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth in my life. The reopening ceremony brought me to tears.

Video is ‘My first Trip to Japan | JoCat Storytime’ (48:09)

Context: earlier this year my car was stolen, along with my backpack with almost every OSP pin. After some help from the OSP crew and Black Friday, I’m only missing a few more pins. Unfortunately the Hestia bundle and Gilgamesh bundle sold out before I could get around to it.

Hey folks,

I wonder if anybody else has had this experience, and I suspect this sub is not the best place to ask because it might self select for the opposite experience I am describing. But does anyone else get the feeling that they outgrew OSP's content or media analysis?

It's a strange kind of feeling, and I'm not sure how else to describe it, but I just don't find the media analysis engaging or insightful any more, and even when I go back to the old videos that I really liked I find it all kinda superficial.

I'm mostly focussing on the media analysis rather than the history stuff because that's much more my discipline. But it feels like a lot of the media analysis we get in Detail Diatribes, Trope Talks, OSPod, etc are quite shallow taxonomies of different tropes, reflections on the themes, speculation into what-ifs if certain plot elements were different, and some vague gesturing towards the 'impact on the viewer' or how relatable it is. Like this is all great and entertaining, but in hindsight it doesn't feel as informative.

There were a few things which for me marked a turning point in my appreciation of OSP's content: it started when Red just went overboard with 'watsonian and doylist perspectives', and a bulk of the analysis of media came down to trying to come up with 'reasons' (whether intradiegetic or extradiegetic) for a story to be a certain way and not a critical reflection on bigger issues like context, style, the grammar of whatever medium it is, the specific political function of certain stylistic choices, etc. The second point, and possibly a petty one, is that once on a Zelda live stream Red said 'novels have inherently bad pacing because they're books'. And that really threw me because that flattens all manner of complexity of prose style to 'pacing' and it uses a characteristic of film/television screenwriting to talk about prose style.

I think the difference was when I did English at school and the professor really called me out on a lot of my analysis in freshman year, and I had to learn how to up my game sort of. I guess what I'm saying is when I was in high school, a lot of this content seemed really fascinating and interesting to me. But when I went to college and grew up, it felt like it wasn't as informative any more.

This is no shade to OSP. I think their content is entertaining and really makes consuming the media they're about a lot more fun to enter into this kind of conversation with it. Like it's great; I just dont enjoy it as much as I used to, and it's not what I wanted. And I get it, they're not an English Lit 101 seminar or anything. But I might not keep up with them as regularly as I used to.

I say the anime since while the manga is finished Red seems like she's more into anime in general than manga and has talked about watching MHA up to a certain point in the past, so I'm just assuming getting to the end through MHA's anime would be her preference (though obviously I could be wrong).

Anyway, after listening to their Detail Diatribes on Superman and even their guest spots on the Men of Steel podcast to talk about My Adventures With Superman, I think there's a decent bit of material they could get out of analyzing All Might and Midoriya as deconstructions/spins on Superman.

Right out the gate, a way I personally like to describe All Might is that he's essentially Superman in a world without Lois Lane or the Justice League. There are other heroes around but no one who is really trying to holding themselves to All Might as an equal, seeing no point given his incredible power and legendary status, which leads into a feedback loop of All Might feeling like the weight of the world is on his shoulders alone and completely destroying his body, health, and any chance of a life of his own outside of his work in order to be the ultimate superhero who can do everything and save everyone. The closest All Might ever has to someone who tries to be his equal is Endeavor, who took it too far the other direction and surpassing All Might became his obsession, which caused him to lose sight of what being a hero actually means and destroy his families' lives. Everyone else, even those closest to All Might like his sidekick Nighteye and oldest friend David Shield, are too in awe of him to view themselves or anyone else ever being his equal.

By contrast, Midoriya is saved from suffering the same fate as All Might despite having a lot of the same self-sacrificial mentality as him because he actually does have people in his life who hold themselves to him as equals. Regardless of whatever gap in power there may be, regardless of how much he's tied into a conflict that's been going on since before they were born, they are heroes too and they have a responsibility to do their own share of the work in protect the world, thus they are not going to let Midoriya do everything on his own regardless of what the risk to them might be. Just like how Clark needed people like Lois, Batman, Steel, the Justice League, and so on in his life so that he didn't have to be only Superman all the time, class 1-A keeps the weight of the world from crushing Midoriya just like it did to All Might because they actually take on their share of the weight.

The mindset of MHA can be thought of as essentially "No one man, not even a Superman, should have all that responsibility.". It's a deconstruction that has their Superman figures as genuinely good and heroic people but with their Chronic Hero Syndrome as their deep flaw that they cannot overcome on their own (not unlike Adora in the She-Ra reboot, so another reason why Red might enjoy getting to sink her teeth into some MHA analysis).

There's even a certain line of dialogue in the series that really reminds me of the speech Martian Manhunter gave at Superman's funeral in the Justice League "Hereafter" two-parter, talking about Kal-El of Krypton, "the immigrant from the stars who taught us all how to be heroes.", only in MHA's case what the character says almost feels like a slight response to it.

"We watched an extraordinary man named All Might show us what a hero really was. We applauded him, and wanted to be him. And somewhere along the way we forgot that he was a person."