#And it is GLORIOUS

[ingravinoveritas]

New video of David being interviewed on press day ahead of the BAFTAs while wearing a pink and green fuzzy sweater, the nonbinary rainbow pin, and pink platform Doc Martens and I am dying...

[markscherz]

Look, if I find chameleon-covered socks in a supermarket I am going to buy an inappropriately large number of pairs of them. That’s how this works.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

wake up babe, new nigel farage getting a milkshake thrown in his face just dropped

[marlynnofmany]

Reading your old posts is fun and rewarding on many levels. Your blog is curated to exactly your taste, and sometimes you find delightful things you forgot about.

Like the tag "someday our couch will return from the war (garage)."

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

VISCERAL vs INTERESTING. compelling vs complex.

did you know. that your fav character. can make your brain go !!!! without being interesting?

Or complex? Most of the most iconic characters ARN'T either of those things?? And that's what makes them fun???

im dying. the "boring" goody goody characters are often the complex ones. the "deep" morally ambiguous or evil characters are almost always shallower than a puddle on a well maintain street

selfishness and self destructive acts are SIMPLE. They are EASY to feel about. Characters who care a lot about mainly one thing focused around themselves are a DIRECT LINE TO FEELINGS. They want or feel a thing strongly, act on it, very little to no internal struggle about that (until maybe suddenly there is???) and THIS makes them Visceral. This makes them Compelling

being selfless and taking others in consideration? Is hard

it's complicated- there's a lot of moving parts and no real end goal to aim for. Being a good person? Complicated

Often interesting but, it needs thought. It's not easy. It's more of an ask to care about goodness without knowing a lot about the person trying to do it, because either in-universe or in-meta, they're gonna fail at it at some point, and-

a character caring about others means that even when you're watching them, it's not fully THEIR story you're being asked to focus on

so it's harder to focus on them. It's harder to know who they are

it's harder to get someone to feel compelled by them

DON'T JUST TRY TO WRITE COMPLEX CHARACTERS! And give that ones that ARE complicated something SHALLOW about them!!

and pleasssse stop and ask yourself- do I like this character bc there is so many different contradicting things going on here? So much much you have to squint to see? Or is it because everything about them is sharp and clear, and cuts through my heart like a knife? Do I like that they are single sided as a piece of paper and with plenty of blank space left to fill in?

there's a difference. the word "complex" is NOT a synonym for "well written" or "better"

the characters who feel boring are often the ones with most going on inside. That's. What makes connecting to them. Harder

tldr: depth can put distance between an audience and a character. use it CAREFULLY

[okaydiscount]

m.

me when i play heavy weapons guy and a medic picks me as their primary target and we Top score together

[captorations]

broke: the locked tomb movies (please muir do NOT let it happen)

woke: the locked tomb animated and written like the castlevania series

bespoke: the locked tomb as a campy live-action tv series with a shoestring budget yet in which every actor goes balls to the fucking wall

[wyrmmaster]

So when Sumeru first came out and I got to see Nilou in the samsara quests I had to have a come to jesus moment to save for Nahida and not pull for the absolutely fucking precious redhead dancer that ate my heart in .02 seconds (let me pretend it was longer than it was)

Then Nilou's banner came out some time later alongside her story quest and I had to just sort of abuse a stress ball with a twitching eye because if I unlocked her story quest and played through it I would 100% dump everything on her because my Holy Shit She is So Wonderful-sense was tingling and I didn't have enough for both her and the astrobusted archon I also loved releasing soon, not helped by people pulling for her and being "woah, she's really strong!"

But I do have willpower and I got through that and I got Nahida and then I played Nilou's story quest and I was like "Oh. oh I was so right to not do this. I love you so much. quit it right the fuck now."

She's just so goddamn positive and empathetic. She's like YuelYoimiya only somehow even more Filled with Love.

I got her on her rerun though now and every さあ、踊るよ～ fills me with joy as everything explodes in Nahida-fueled death and my adorable redhead exults in the masochistic ecstasy that boosts her damage because of her passive

(x)

[greedandenby]

Con's leather-gloved hand slowly and purposefully flipping the bird.

That's it. That's the post.

[shinidamachu]

To what did your country's dub translate Eugene's name in Tangled? In mine he's called José Bezerra.

[zan-the-second]

I have no idea what the fuck the writers of Xi Xing Ji was on when they decided to make Tang motherfucking Sanzang fistfight Erlang Shen but I gotta admit it is entertaining as hell.

[ingravinoveritas]

Absolutely loving these pics of David at NYCC today...

[golden--doodler]

I just learned that some people ship Mr. Frond and Mr. Ambrose and now I'm hyper-fixating on this semi-crack ship extremely hard after reading just one fic about it

Also, in the one fic I'm reading, Louise said Mr. Frond is "as straight as Gene" which is pretty accurate

[thehollowprince]

One of my guilty pleasures is going to Amazon and reading the bad reviews on the books of really popular authors.

[chibigrimmreaper]

me watching everything beginning to fall apart:

[madmoonfae]

Goncharov has genuinely given me a better appreciation of Arthurian legend. It always frustrated me that there was no 'right' way for the stories to go but like. I get it now. I understand.