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Ngl now that I’m playing tears of the kingdom I think it’s a lot closer to a reboot than fitting anywhere on a timeline

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It’s always the people with no media literacy saying that you need media literacy

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A guy I knew in college is having a stroke at me or smth

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This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

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Why does he look like that in the '08 show

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Do y’all think there’s a clone that defected from the GAR and spends his time posting thirst traps on the holonet

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tattoo artist/flower shop owner but with a twist

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I think the reason why Absolute Martian manhunter is striking such a chord is because (and I say this as a MM fan) DC just hasn’t done anything new with OG Martian manhunter for like. 20-30 years

Yes, him adapting to earth and making peace with Mars being gone is important, but like…how many times are they gonna go over that?

He doesn’t have a lot of enemies that you can do continuing storylines with, and almost all of them connect back to the mars story. He plays well in a group, but thanks to the above issue, he’s not as memorable as the other JL members because all of his witty banter is contained to his teammates and his villains, again, just aren’t as memorable

It’s a running theme that the absolute series strips each character of the thing that kinda defines them (Batman’s wealth, Superman’s upbringing with the kents, etc)…

So it makes sense that the thing Absolute Martian Manhunter removes is the title character’s connection to mars.

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I USED THE WRONG WATERMARK ON A PIC FOR MY ALT FUUUUUUUUUUCK

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Ngl grok is only funny to watch dumbasses on twit use it to try n invalidate peoples’ opinions…only for it to immediately prove them wrong

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The older I get and the more terrible takes I see the more in favour I become of gatekeeping

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I think that every video game company, TV production company, whatever kind of tech company should have an average Joe off of the street as an employee whose main job is to let the CEO and the board members have it when they get too greedy and start charging exorbitant amounts of money for something 

Just somebody that comes in and says “ hey let’s not make consoles $500 because the average person cannot pay for this, lower the price of it.”

For the sake of the thought experiment, the Average Joe is not allowed to be fired in these meetings, as they serve a similar role as a jester 

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I think the reason some people hate on anime dubs so much is that they’re afraid of people thinking the show they’re watching (and them by association) is lame

So they watch it in a language that they don’t really understand as a subconscious way to make it more “magical” or something?

This isn’t saying that dubbing companies can’t screw up dubs, but for the most part, I’m talking about the kind of person that just vehemently refuses to watch any kind of dub imaginable, even for like. Pokemon

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meemaw's yuri-ful adventure, featuring:

meemaw

token buff man (who's also gay)

sword-enthusiast lesbian

some hobo

horrific entity (but also a woman so Yuri)

average AO3 author

sugarfly cookie

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Trisha paytas is like the homestuck of celebrities

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(CW: death, politics)

Homophobes on twitter when a gay person dies

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Anyway