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RockHawk said:
I dont think this by itself is an inherently bad thing. Fanfiction of all kinds is an important first step into real writing for most authors. The big issue is that too many people never escape that level of work, so that even when they're writing something "original" like Raye, they dont know how to do anything beyond blatantly copying other works to create their own.
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Pretty much. Fan fiction is a great way to practice and polish one's writing and storytelling skills, as well as a good way to gauge one's passion and ability to meet deadlines. There's all sorts of different ways one can use fan fiction to better oneself in.

But especially fan fiction is a great way to gain some form of an audience, and to learn how to take all forms of criticism. On occasion, you'll get reviews from people who actually care about explaining why it is they do or do not like the work, though there're also those who are obviously flaming/trolling you, and it takes skill to tell the difference. This is where a lot of fic writers fail because they just want nothing but endless praise for their shit. They don't want to hear it's shit because they might be aware it is shit, but they just want the asspats. And as a result, they don't improve.

Raye is clearly one of those people who hated the slightest bit of criticism in her youth and policed every little thing that came her way (and she was also raised on Tumblr, so there's that). She was never told her ideas were shit, not even in school. I don't think Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, let alone Frederator (which is run by woketards), ever told her outright her pitch was shit, they just said "Thanks, we'll take this into consideration" and then never returned her calls/emails. I don't think they ever explained what was good and what was bad, and why it is they turned her down.

Or if they actually did during the pitch, because that's actual protocol, she just ignored their criticisms, because they don't know her babies like she does. What do they know about how to make good episodic stories, or how to write good characters? They're hella gay, what more do you need to know about them?

Raye legit must think her being trans means she's immune to negative criticism, and reality is dealing her that "bad" hand and so she's freaking out that people don't like her babies like she wanted. An attack on her brainchildren is a personal attack to who she is as a person, and she can't handle that. Wouldn't be surprised if she's been getting "anxiety attacks" or has cried herself to sleep on numerous occasions, or if she's had days where *whimpers* she just can't get out of bed, she's too depressed and done with everything.

Should've studied more about the industry before you decided to take up role as a director/creator, Raye. Did you never see The Sweatbox? Could've learned a thing or two from that and played out all the different scenarios in your head to prepare yourself for anything that could and would have gone wrong. Being trans isn't a one-way ticket to perfection, you still have to put in the work to make your dreams realized. And if this is indeed what you 100% realized all along, in that you have reached your fullest potential and there's nothing anyone or anything can do for you...

Holy shit, you were never going to survive in this industry, sweetie.
 
Pim, can I, ugh, can I talk to you for a second? Look, Pim, I know it's our job to help this guy and everything, but I think this guy is a lost cause. He has obviously made up his mind. Why don't we just cut our losses and get out of here?
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RockHawk said:
I dont think this by itself is an inherently bad thing. Fanfiction of all kinds is an important first step into real writing for most authors. The big issue is that too many people never escape that level of work, so that even when they're writing something "original" like Raye, they dont know how to do anything beyond blatantly copying other works to create their own.
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This I attributed to said creators, like Raye, who only dabbles in just one work/genre fandom. They lack things to use as inspiration or reference, outside of said fandom because that's all they knew about. To be a creator, you need to know/read as much as possible, and as diverse as you can. But people like this only want to read/learn from works they're "comfortable" with, thereby limiting their own growth
 
Rezza said:
They lack things to use as inspiration or reference, outside of said fandom because that's all they knew about.
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Its worse than that. They don't know how to reference. I found this article on Sankaku complex, and it compared the ending to HGS to the ending of some anime I've never heard of. Look at the similarities:
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See, its fine to be inspired by anime, but when you're at the point of directly lifting concepts from anime with minimal change, that's not "inspiration". Its plagiarism, its lazy and its dumb.
 
BScCollateral said:
I'm still mixed about blaming the writing in the final product on the budget. I think crunch might explain clumsy dialog, but not the general incoherence. Why doesn't the refugee from an ecological disaster bring up the Rot to the Guardians? It seems that ecological disaster should be in their wheelhouse.
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Even if they had more budget their production process was all fucked. Writing and storyboarding were being done simultaneously and the voice acting was obviously rushed, now a larger budget could have given them some more breathing room since more money equals more time but honestly I think they would have just found new and interesting ways to fuck up. Cartoons from the eighties and nineties were made on famously shoestring budgets but can still manage to be good shows since the production crew knew how to effectively allocate their time and resources even under crunch.
 
Oh hey

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Other than sounding like the kind of shit you'd write when trying to make a resume seem more impressive there's these bits.

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Gee, I wonder if putting a totally unproven and inexperienced tumblr artist in charge of the entire show pipeline had more of an impact than the budget. Hey Raye, if you want to take all the credit you also take all the blame.

Some extra guff I found. Okay seriously who are her parents and who do they know. I can see no other reason this chick pops up getting promoted in the most random places.


Also found her Vimeo in which she immediately doxes herself in her demo reel. Won't post that but it's sure enough evidence of my "rich spoiled Cali kid" theory.
 
Lurk Jurk said:
Gee, I wonder if putting a totally unproven and inexperienced tumblr artist in charge of the entire show pipeline had more of an impact than the budget. Hey Raye, if you want to take all the credit you also take all the blame.
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Thank you for this. Scott Pilgrim vs The World ruined an entire generation of women.
 
Lurk Jurk said:
Oh hey

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Other than sounding like the kind of shit you'd write when trying to make a resume seem more impressive there's these bits.

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Gee, I wonder if putting a totally unproven and inexperienced tumblr artist in charge of the entire show pipeline had more of an impact than the budget. Hey Raye, if you want to take all the credit you also take all the blame.

Some extra guff I found. Okay seriously who are her parents and who do they know. I can see no other reason this chick pops up getting promoted in the most random places.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ilTcM0WnvhE
Also found her Vimeo in which she immediately doxes herself in her demo reel. Won't post that but it's sure enough evidence of my "rich spoiled Cali kid" theory.
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High Guardian Spice alone should've been enough to outright kill her career before it had even begun, and yet, here she is at Legendary TV, producing another animated (shit)show. Like I said. Nepotism. There is no other reason she keeps getting work.
 
Lurk Jurk said:
Some extra guff I found. Okay seriously who are her parents and who do they know. I can see no other reason this chick pops up getting promoted in the most random places.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ilTcM0WnvhE
Also found her Vimeo in which she immediately doxes herself in her demo reel. Won't post that but it's sure enough evidence of my "rich spoiled Cali kid" theory.
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That's literally Rosemary but with blue hair. Clearly she had to change her look to avoid looking (more) like a narcissistic lunatic.

Given this was back in 2015, what series or promos for Fox Animation Domination did she work on, you reckon?
 
I saw this before but didn't think it was relevant at the time
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☾ Raye's Art Blog ☆

This is the first short at Fox ADHD I was able to do character design for! It was a lot of fun and I hope to be able to do it again :D Below you can see how my designs evolved over time c:
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Apparently she did the character designs for the grown up Powerpuff Girls in that video that was mocking the CW's live action adaptation before it even existed.


That blue-haired Rosemary wasn't actually for anything other than her own narcissism again. No word on how she was approached for the Wacom ad exactly but she did storyboard two other videos at ADHD and that was it.

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☾ Raye's Art Blog ☆

☾ Raye Rodriguez ☆ Creator of High Guardian Spice! ☾ (he/him) ✧ rayetoons.com ✧ ✦ Twitter / Insta -...
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Nothing too remarkable about them.
 
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Faggitory said:
Its worse than that. They don't know how to reference. I found this article on Sankaku complex, and it compared the ending to HGS to the ending of some anime I've never heard of. Look at the similarities:
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See, its fine to be inspired by anime, but when you're at the point of directly lifting concepts from anime with minimal change, that's not "inspiration". Its plagiarism, its lazy and its dumb.
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...off-topic, but seeing someone call Azumanga Daioh 'some anime I've never heard of' almost had me laugh.
I do not blame you; I never saw Akira. I just find funny how time has passed... especially on an ime that I watched a lot back then.

(By the by, that is the opening of that series.)
 
The Ultimate Ramotith said:
...off-topic, but seeing someone call Azumanga Daioh 'some anime I've never heard of' almost had me laugh.
I do not blame you; I never saw Akira. I just find funny how time has passed... especially on an ime that I watched a lot back then.

(By the by, that is the opening of that series.)
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That's the thing about generations and how what was hot at one time becomes forgotten the next. I've seen this played out over and over, again and again.
 
Judge Dredd said:
All of the diversity was there to collect a paycheck and get out with the minimum amount of work. Raye thought this would be their magnum opus and a mega hit to rival the likes of Harry Potter and Sailor Moon, and that's why she's so mad on Twitter.
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Kari Kamiya said:
The fact Raye doesn't bring up the people who were "heart and soul" of the series outside of herself while she cries blood over it makes me think she didn't actually make friends with or has any respect for the production team.
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Dangerhair true believers like Raye and Kate Leth don't have friends, they have 'allies who still need to put in the work'. I'd bet while Raye's out in public blaming it all on crunch and lack of cash (muh poor oppressed minorities weren't given the chance to succeed!) there's a whole lot of behind the scenes bitching and gossiping between all the people involved, apportioning and shifting blame and trying to push their own personal narratives about how they tried their best, but this other person/people didn't pull their weight. Externally, it's the Big Bad Company that screwed them over. Internally, they all know that shit didn't get done that they as a group were supposed to do, and they're undoubtedly filling up thousands of pages on Discord/email threads/WhatsApp groups complaining about it.

But while for everyone else, even being true believers, this was in the end a hired job, for Raye these were her (mostly plagiarised) ideas, her OC Donut Steels. She knows she's the public face of responsibility for the failure, and since it can't be the fault of her lack of talent then it must be that things just weren't fair. No self-doubt about her abilities allowed - those thoughts have to be terminated, just like any nagging regrets about transitioning.

Kari Kamiya said:
The Writer's Guild of America strike of 2007 was the beginning of the end. Remember that shows that were still airing at the time were either canceled prematurely as a result, or if they stayed on the air and continued afterwards, the quality notably dropped. The talented writers never returned to the industry. Cheap, newbie writers did, and they never got better.
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There's still a lot of writing talent in Hollywood, but writers are often seen as one of the most replaceable parts of the process. And nowadays, if it's in a genre you think is more visual (SF! Throw in spaceships and the rest won't matter! Action! Who scripts fight scenes?) then it's much, much cheaper to get some no-name to scribble shit down, especially if you want to be woke, which CrunchyRoll very clearly were. It's been endemic in the mainstream comics industry for over a decade now that they'll pay the writers shit so even the big fans have to go get jobs that pay - but dangerhair zealots who want to 'fix the misogynistic alt-right industry' both don't have families to look after and, more often than not, come from comfortable middle-to-upper-middle-class backgrounds, so can afford to live off the substandard pay.

That's how you get bad fanfic-tier writing from people forcing a political agenda - a combination of wages only unpopular single people getting subsidised by their family can afford to live on, corporate cowardice in the face of potential HR complaints, a disrespect for the importance of the skill and talent involved, a disdain for the customer that they expect will accept anything they put out and like it, and woke zealots who want to push their agenda into everyone else's lives, especially if it pisses off straight white men. Add in the narcissism of someone who thinks 10 thousand likes on AO3 means they're the next JK Rowling, and you can see why things that turn out shit these days tend to turn out shit in the same woke way.
 
Next Task said:
nowadays, if it's in a genre you think is more visual (SF! Throw in spaceships and the rest won't matter! Action! Who scripts fight scenes?) then it's much, much cheaper to get some no-name to scribble shit down, especially if you want to be woke, which CrunchyRoll very clearly were.
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I'm reminded of a bit of scriptwriting advice I heard years ago.

Be precise when writing a script. One line "The Indians take the fort." resulted in nine months of planning and filming.
 
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