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i kinda gotta disagree here. yeah there was way too much world-building and canonization for things that ultimately didnt matter, but i really dont think individualizing the matoran in g1 was complicit in that i feel that by giving the matoran some individuality and showing their daily lives behind the scenes of the main plot, it really added a lot of depth to the story, even if it was minor stuff that wasnt necessarily crucial to the plot. it still showed that Life Goes On even when youve got a bunch of bad guys wreaking havoc and it showed just how hardy the matoran populace was, even without toa (see: mnog and the bohrok animations, voya nui) there was just as much put into the environment and its inhabitants as there was the toa themselves and it helped feel like the little guys were just as important to the goings-on of the plot as the main protagonists rather than just being nameless npcs it also helped show that you didnt need to be some big powerful being with a lot of powers to be able to make a difference (again, the entirety of mnog) not to mention, it gave the toa themselves a little bit more to their character by showing them helping their own people in a more direct, personal way (such as pohatu helping the po-matoran during the tahnok invasion, tahu rescuing takua from lava in mol, etc). so yeah i definitely think we should pay more attention to the okoto villagers and give them some more individuality

hey lets stop relying on boring outdated stereotypes for our choices, thanks female: gali, onuamale: tahu, kopakanonbinary: pohatu, lewa

me, seeing the only good bzpower blog post ever, aka this post: christ,.my god

>2015 >not liking pohatu >not getting earth defender first

why do you think the thornax launchers were so great? theres no concept funnier than lobbing explosive fruit at your enemies :V i actually did pick thornax. like, as launchers, theyre just sooo simple? theyre a simple concept, simple builds, simple execution, lots of room for customization, the individual launcher parts could be used for other things, they could also fire zamor spheres which a lot of people likely already had a lot of at that point

i got a total of about $60 from various friends online, $40 from my grandma, and $60 from my mom. thats it i bought a 6 month minecraft realm with the money i got from friends

may i present a third option: the fact that these people have internet access at all

a bioluminescent cat! truly a miracle of modern science.

ur too good for this fandom, pom

honestly? bring back the classic individual eye colours. it was one of those things that helped give the toa some individuality imo, especially back in the days where that wasnt as easily accomplished sure theres a lot more possibility for variety in builds nowadays, but having individual eye colours would still be a really neat touch.

my names this year courtney: the only human pokemon character that matters tbhstarlord: my fave gotg characterran yakumo: fave touhoupeter quill: starlords actual nameandy bernard: one of my fave office charactersharry osborn: one of my fave marvel characters in generalclover: literally my nameall terrain venomoth: the true all star of twitch plays pokemon, also a hilarious name pun if i ever did see one

come sail away - styx

(picture of jmj) Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure

do yall remember those little mini catalogs that would come with sets? ok well i got one of those in a set i got for christmas 2000. and they had this pic of onua, yknow the iconic one of him diggin underground. and probs the other toa, idr tho. and i was like "oh man Oh Man these guys are just like the throwbots" and i had to get them, because i had all the throwbots i did not get any bionicle sets until summer 2001. but then i got kopaka. i remember i had a lot of adventures with him and frost (the roborider) out in the courtyard of our apartment complex we were living in at the time. it was SO awesome. i hope to have more sweet adventures with gen 2 kopaka tbh kopaka then became one of my Best Friends tbh, i took him everywhere. after we moved i met a friend who was also into bionicle, we would go hang out downtown and at the train tracks and i would bring kopaka and he would bring tahu and it was cool. we had cool adventures ok that is actually multiple memories but ultimately it ends up being that my first memory is falling head over heels for kopaka and taking him absolutely everywhere

tamaru is a trans girl in fact everyone is either a trans girl or nonbinary but thats the big one also who cares if a headcanon is "invalid" or "goes against canon". who cares, who literally cares. if you dont like it then ignore it and stick to canon like youre so desperate for everyone else to do

you realize 1% of the worlds population is still seventy million, right thats still a significant number and thats just the people who have had the courage to come out do we really need to explain again that the point is that, in this specific animation, gali was voiced by a male actor, and based on that, trans women decided to headcanon one single character as a trans woman? which still makes her female? do we really need to explain that again? id rather you explain to us why its such a big deal and why yall are so bent out of shape about us having a literally harmless headcanon

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"an cool dude" was such a cornerstone of bzpower culture for the past nearly 15 years and taking it away truly undermines the sense of community we have. please bring it back we dont need to say idiot anyway

gali would still be a woman even if she had a deep voice and was trans. her having a deep voice doesnt take away the fact that she is a woman AT ALL.

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being transgender and talking about characters being transgender has NOTHING to do with sexuality. its gender. gender. GENDER. NOT sexuality. anyway, thats exactly pretty much what you said. also, it makes no sense to assume gali is automatically cis either. it made sense to arc and i, because we are trans, and when we hear a female character with a deeper voice, we see ourselves in that, and we give our two cents on why she is like that, because we feel like she is like us. the op asked for our comments on gali being voiced by a guy. we gave our thoughts that she was trans. yall are the ones trying to twist it into a pointless debate and trying to tell us that were wrong for seeing a character as being similar to us based on what we notice compared to our own experiences.

uhhhh how?? theres nothing confusing about it. theres nothing unclear about it! theres nothing unclear about it at all. whether or not she is trans or cis, shes still female. thats still her gender. ?? no ?? ?? SHES STILL FEMALE. she is still female. even if she is still trans. she is still female. and there are MANY less trans woman characters then cis woman characters in media in general. we as a group are horribly HORRIBLY underrepresented in media, and when we are its usually with us at the butt of a joke about how were "actually men". you have an entirely wrong concept of what it means to have a diverse cast imo. her being trans doesnt change the fact that shed still be female and it would provide a good character for younger kids to look up to, especially young trans kids, who otherwise are going to grow up feeling demonized for who they are and afraid to come out. also, i do not think we are overthinking it. the op posted about how gali has a deeper voice. we are posting why we think that is. thats not overthinking it at all. that is literally contributing to an otherwise kinda pointless and nebulous topic.

(1) if she did have a high pitched voice then who cares? some women do have high pitched voices. it literally has zero bearing on her character (2) i was being WAY sarcastic because what you said makes no sense to me. her being a girl is again, something that has no bearing on whether or not she has a heroic vibe at all. the idea that writers arent allowed to "have girls just to have girls" is honestly one of the worst things out there because honestly, it pretty much says that guys are The Default Hero and women have to somehow go through ten thousand hoops to be justified as Making Sense or whatever, especially when so many stories have cruddy, flat, one-dimensional male characters that people swoon over anyway.

(1) how is this stereotypically wrong (2) she can still have that vibe AND be a female character?? wow (3) literally what does "not just be a girl to be a girl" even mean