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write a new scene → realize it contradicts something from chapter 3 → fix chapter 3 → now chapter 7 makes no sense → cry → repeat

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🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 Pride march was held in Kyiv, Ukraine for the first time since the beginning of full-scale invasion. It's dangerous for big crowds to gather for a long period of time due to potential russian airstrikes, so the event was smaller and shorter than usual, but still important and powerful.

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Another thing about the insincere 'but why no one talks about the flaws!!!!' posts is that fans who make those posts often conflate several things:

First, when popular white guy characters have their flaws sanded down by the fandom it usually takes the form of whump-ification, woobie-fication or in some fandoms of making him super powerful and the perfect ideal hero. The focus is firmly on the character and his suffering or reliability, his flaws are removed because he is the fandom's special guy and everything is centered on him. And it's his fans who are doing it. And often these works and headcanons and characterization dominate fanworks and fanon.

But with over-hated characters of color like Darius TOH or Mel Arcane, or sometimes with white women who stand in the path of a ship or who are turned into everyone's mom, when their flaws are supposedly removed it isn't done because these fans love their characters so much. Instead it is usually done because they are needed in the role of protecting and serving other characters or because the fandom doesn't know how to process their flaws in a normal way. You can even tell because there rarely will be any of the same plots where the character receives care or is rescued and everyone worries about them (like, others had noticed it too - there is literally almost no comfort fics centered on Darius in toh fandom, and among those that are there maybe one or two has the same whump-y characterization that the white characters of the same narrative importance, like Alador, get). And this 'removal' of flaws is usually done not by fans who care that much about the character, but by primarly fans of other characters. Sometimes they manage to demonize the character and still turn them into a one dimensional comfort provider.

And then, there are actual fans of the unpopular and/or demonized characters who are usually perfectly aware of the real flaws, but just want to focus on something positive about the characters, yet receive disproportionate push back, and suddenly a big portion of fandom acts like not constantly focusing on the flaws is equal to not admiting that the flaws exist (although often the fanon flaws are not canon). And with unpopular characters even if some fans of the character might remove the flaws and choose an interpretation that is too soft, it still doesnt reach the same overwhelming ammount as with woobie white favourites, yet is treated with more agression.

And fandoms tend to conflate all these phenomena and churn out constant barrage of 'why no one talks about the flaws of this unpopular/overly hated character!' when 1. fandom already can't shut up about the flaws 2. those who sand down the flaws to make the character into a prop to a resident woobie more often are fans of the said woobie, but the fans of the unpopular character get blamed instead, when usually they are the ones to first call that out 3. with other characters, even outright villains, it is considered normal to not focus on the flaws and create all kinds of cutesy fanworks and favourable interpretations, yet when it's an unpopular character of color suddenly that becomes a problem. And you can tell with which characters it will become a problem before even going into fandom tags (hint: it has nothing to do with the canon severity of their actions/flaws)

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Hunter in the old tower.

I liked this panel. :)

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i feel like we dont point out that its christian doctrine that god thinks we all deserve to burn for eternity for the crime of being born and the only way he'd forgive us is if we completely and utterly devote our lives to him. what a fucking prick.

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[collective black disapproval]

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hearing that your characterizations are good is like. the best thing to hear as a fic writer.

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(⌒_⌒;)

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Day 7 | Found | @sergeantsporks 's Dadrius Week

Darius watched this kid get indoctrinated, he wasn't able to stop the genocide, he didn't defeat Belos, and he never got revenge or answers. If you have all these morals, and your identity is tied to them, but you fail to see them through, who are you? Darius's legacy might have been as a villain who tore Hunter's family apart, or the Isles (and his friends, like Eda) might have seen him as a monster who stood by Belos. Darius couldn't afford to care about what people thought of him, even the people he loves, if it meant doing something. I think Darius did a lot of small things. Even if you can only save one life, you still saved a whole person.

After years of playing the game and being defined by other people, I think both of them need to find their identities again.

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Dadrius Week Day 3 - Scars

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Dadrius Week Day 6: Talk

Titan, make him stop @sergeantsporks

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Dadrius Week Day 3 - Scars

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Day 6| Talk | @sergeantsporks 's Dadrius Week

Darius takes the Titan's name in vain pretty constantly so I don't know if he's religious like Hunter was, but I think most people on the Isles have a respect for the Titan. I think it's a bit tragic that the Titan is real, but they never asked Hunter to do anything and was angry at Belos using their name to hurt people. I think after things settle down, they'd talk about that. I think it would be both heartbreaking and also.. kind of nice... to hear that the Titan never wanted this.

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yeah bro it's a character study. the 2 thousand words of blowjob is vital to the study of the character

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Dadrius Week Day 5: Abomination

Baby first abomination @sergeantsporks

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Dadrius Week Day 4: Memories/Free Space

The memories of that day… @sergeantsporks

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