#and it also just gets really monotonous

[eviltothecore13]

Is it just me or has fandom overall...changed a lot in how it talks about its favourite characters over the past few years?

It used to be people who really liked a character would be like “this character’s the best at everything, they can do no wrong, they’d win every fight, they have a plan for everything, they’re the coolest cleverest most attractive person in the whole story!!!”, and like...that could go too far, it could be annoying or just really really inaccurate compared to canon (I used to know a Jill fan who insisted that Jill could easily beat every single character in the series in a fight--and look, Jill is very cool, but Chris was canonically the best in hand-to-hand combat at STARS and was also training HER in marksmanship, Jill is of course extremely capable but...she really does not have to be the best at everything to prove why she’s your favourite...for that matter, Wesker fans who were like “Wesker in RE5 has to be a clone/a fake/whatever because the REAL Wesker would never LOSE because Wesker can’t make mistakes!”...always made me go *stop, please, it’s embarrassing*), but it did...make sense why someone who really loved a character would say these things about them?

But now it seems like the kind of comments people make about their favourite characters, and the way they portray them in fics, are...pretty much the opposite of that? People will be like “my blorbo is SO STUPID! they’re so useless they can’t do ANYTHING! they’re a pathetic weak little wet paper bag!”

Like, a few years ago if I’d seen a post saying things like that about a character I’d assume it was written by someone who hated them?

And obviously...sometimes a character you love is kind of a dork, or makes some silly mistakes sometimes. Other times a character you love is a terrible evil person. I’m not saying everyone should equate liking a character with thinking they’re perfect. But...most popular characters AREN’T actually completely stupid and incompetent at absolutely everything, and I can never quite get my head around it when people seem to hold this view of a character and it’s clearly not true, like...if you really think they’re pathetic, stupid, and can’t do anything right...do you really like them that much?

I’ve seen fandom call characters stupid/idiots when they are either science geniuses, or they’re brilliant inventors who build sci-fi gadgets, or they’re scheming chessmaster strategist types who manipulate all the other characters for years and come very close to taking over the world, or maybe they just canonically speak several languages and are well-read, or even if canon doesn’t focus much on their intelligence you’ve got characters like Chris who was a USAF fighter pilot--which means he has a degree, judging by the timeline probably an Air Force Academy one, which means he was likely in the top 3% of his high school classes and DEFINITELY didn’t “barely scrape through” as I often see headcanoned (not just by people who want to bash him but people who are like “I love him! He’s such a big dumb himbo! He’s so stupid!!” like. what.)

Similarly I see characters who are canonically very confident and self-assured, never really doubting themselves for a second, and who canonically react to things going wrong by calmly adapting their plans and moving forwards without ever getting discouraged, get tagged on posts about “pathetic wet paper bag men who’ve never had a good day in their life and an insult from a child would make them cry”.

Or characters who are shown in canon as dangerous, powerful and near-fearless fighters get written in fics, by people who say they’re their favourites, as spending all their time crying and flinching and not even trying to defend themself from whoever’s attacking/trying to hurt them (and not because they went through some major trauma previously in the fic that left them in this state, either--often the fic is set during canon and the character is just...like that rather than something having happened to change them from who they were at that point in their life in canon)... personally, while I enjoy whump, whumping a character who’s ALREADY weak and helpless and spends all their time curled up in a corner crying BEFORE whatever you do to them in the fic can easily just feel like kicking them while they’re down and is honestly boring because it doesn’t show anything NEW about the character, so it’s particularly odd to see fics written that way when the character in canon is exactly the confident powerful type that I do think is fun to whump.

(For a specific example, RE canon is that Wesker and Sergei had a rivalry and Wesker seems to view Sergei mostly with disdain and see him as an annoying obstacle. Wesker never gives any sign of being scared of or intimidated by Sergei, and certainly doesn’t seem to start panicking the instant Sergei enters a room. And even before he had his powers, he had extensive combat training by the time he met Sergei, and Sergei being taller and heavier doesn’t inherently mean that Wesker would be defenceless and go down in one punch in a fight, or even that Wesker would LOSE a fight against him. Canon doesn’t depict Wesker as a helpless victim for Sergei to beat up...hurt him by all means but it’s OOC if Wesker doesn’t give as good as he gets.)

Oh, and characters who are canonically master manipulators who are experts at getting people on their side and gaining their trust being portrayed as so socially awkward and clueless that they’re incapable of holding a conversation without coming across offputtingly weird...

Maybe I’m the odd one out here but I can’t really get why you’d want to present your favourite character as LESS capable, LESS intelligent, LESS brave or confident or powerful or whatever other impressive traits they might have in canon? Like I wouldn’t go so far as to say I ADMIRE all my favourite characters, because some of them are murderous evil monsters, but...I generally do see them as either having some kind of admirable personality trait (courage, integrity, confidence, determination... or maybe just a lot of charisma and a good sense of humour, though I feel like charisma tends to overlap with confidence a fair bit...), or at least as being very good at what they do. I can kind of get the appeal of the “sweet and kind and caring but not that bright ‘golden retriever man’ type”, even though they’re not usually MY type, because I know some people primarily like characters who they think it would be good to be friends with (and most of those types of characters aren’t USELESS, at the very least they tend to be good at listening and being supportive), but when someone’s favourite character is a bad person AND they seem to think they’re stupid, useless, incompetent and pathetic on top of being evil it’s like...so what do you even like about them?

[humanmorph]

therapy, huh

[sideblogdotjpeg]

i am not immune to launchpad sol and albin thoughts

[comidyye]

watching season 4 thinking about an orichalcos corrupted bakura

thought id draw him but today my art style decided to have a stroke. i tried but i dont think it Truly reflects my Vision

not even the spirit of the ring really knows whats going on

his interest in weird shit is proally what got him corrupted so fast "ooh funny card that traps souls i wanna see!!" famous last words..

[good-beanswrites]

🎬 here! Thanks for reading my long rambles! It's okay, I didn't mind sending it again (it's either eaten by the void oooooor I was half asleep and thought I sent it). I read something about Es cover and I thought up something really silly in this AU.

I take the prisoners can hear Es' thoughts on their crimes (instead or our thoughts in this AU I mean), like talk out loud on their thoughts and the prisoners could hear. Imagine this. SOMEONE overheard Es singing the prisoner's songs after watching their MVs (listen, they're catchy) and that someone gathered everyone over to flipping eavesdrop on Es.

They get to enjoy Es' singing from the other side of the wall...and maybe make fun of how they sing some songs (Fuuta cackling at how monotone Es sang Mahiru's first song cause I remember Es seiyuu said that's how Es would have sang it).

Omg of course -- they're so fun and fitting, I really enjoyed them all!! And that'd be great aw! I definitely pictured there being microphones/recording devices in Es' room, for Jackalope and the team to listen in on as Es talks through their theories out loud (combined with a thorough journal). So I love the thought of the prisoners getting a little announcement in their cells like "hey, I know it isn't typical protocol to give you the live feed from the warden's room, but uh... you're gonna want to hear this..."

There's a silent, ongoing bet about the next song Es likes enough to sing. Yeah, Mahiru is horrified ("they sang mine all wrong!") and Fuuta takes the chance to poke a bit of fun about it. Singing Weakness and After Pain tugs on the group's heartstrings; it reminds them how young and emotional Es is. Plus, Muu is flattered that her song was the first one they found catchy enough to sing. Everyone is blown away by MeMe (and if they're anything like me, a little obsessed with how similar Es and Mikoto's voices are at certain parts).

Meanwhile, Kazui and Kotoko try not to take it too personally that Es never thought to sing theirs during the whole trial ;---;

[vampyretaemin]

watching my personal weatherman and the miscommunication between these guys is insane. i think theyre both autistic

[dead-or-alive-images]

I've been on quite the grind to get Nyotengu up to level 55 so I can unlock her encyclopedia entry finally, and even doing the arcade mode over and over takes a long time. She's level 53 though! We're getting there! We're in the home stretch to reaching the actual home stretch! Also, this grind has given me a lot of currency to buy costumes which is great because the fighters have slowly gotten more variety into what they enter fights with! Only three more people (Momiji, Rachel, and Tamaki) have costumes to purchase out of the whole 31 person roster!

There's no point to this rambling session, I just wanted you to know what's been going on with me.

[lemongogo]

ep 9 thoughts

[atlas-five]

the last episode really explains so much about lena tbh. and I'm genuinely surprised gwen is only just now at serious risk of being GOT by some horror or another what has she been up to?? who told her talking to The Horrors™ like that was a good idea??? YOU JUST LISTENED TO THEM ESTABLISH THAT THEY LIKE TO HURT PEOPLE MS BOUCHARD PLEASE USE YOUR BRAIN

[caffeinatedopossum]

Oh my god making eye contact with specifically allistic people makes me so uncomfortable. Like they're so emotive and they're eyes seem so wide I feel like they're on crack and it scares me. I don't get that at all with other autistic people.

[get-more-bald]

can I PLEASE just get some X6-88 focused fanfiction........

EDIT: more in the tags and the reblog

[agueforts]

i am seeing why everyone speaks so highly of terry pratchett's works

[icewindandboringhorror]

Current temperature inside of my room right now in the middle of the night whilst about to go to sleep... villain origin story...

[dawnthefluffyduck]

We did a really goofy assignment this week. They have this tiny little statues (?) of random parts of the face in the closet where they keep all the knickknacks we use in our still-lifes. Prof set a bunch of them on a table and told us to draw one of the faces and two other body parts. The point of the exercise was to get used to chacoal, because it's gonna be required on our next actual assignment. We were only allowed 20 minutes on each, so they're not the best, but I'm happy with what I got done in that amount of time :D

Oh and... I'm not 100% sure how it'll actually go in class, but we're moving into figure drawing soon if I recall correctly. We're gonna be able to work with actual models :D

...but umm, they're anatomy studies. So uhh,,

*If* I even post those drawings, I'll make sure to add some tasteful ducks. Otherwise, wish well on my timid soul because we're doing that today I believe. I might evaporate before the end of the studio session🫠

[cherrylight]

hey.

im taking a mental health break off of this site/app. ill probably be on to like + check things, but i genuinely havent been active on most social media ever since the entire fiasco happened with my computer.

it wont be a wise thing, probably, considering one of my friends is giving me the cold shoulder even though i communicated to him a ton about it and then blames *me* for being the asshole to *him*. whatever. not exactly the point of this post.

i just have a lot of anger at that entire situation because its infuriating to say the least.

but yeah: hiatus/inactive for a bit, it might be long i have no idea. i just need to do things for me for a bit or at least just try to enjoy myself again. sorry in advance.

[oflgtfol]

i really hate to be rewatching this show just to compare it to s3 like truly i just want some wonder and whimsy in my life again as a break from being a hater, but still, rewatching s1 is really just reminding of WHY im disliking s3 so much

so a relatively minor thing about s3 that has nonetheless been irking me is how weird and unnatural and stilted the dialogue is. it just feels so flat and empty. and even the way pedro is voiceacting for din just makes him so monotone and flat - and im not even blaming pedro for like, bad acting or anything, im blaming the direction because the same thing is evident in the written dialogue itself, and obv pedro has been doing fine before this. but overall both the written dialogue and the voiceacting makes din just have like.. no personality whatsoever.

and then contrast it with s1. din really is generally a monotone, minimal words kinda guy, even back in the beginning, but he still had a personality despite that. its the way he said those minimal words that delivered that personality, like theres still the subtle emotion behind everything that really endears you to him and makes the monotone quality like, less of Oh No, Protag Has No Personality, and more of an actual TRAIT of his personality

just listen to this scene! he speaks pretty flatly but its more in a gruff detached way, and he still emotes underneath it which shows his impatience and resignation! he emphasizes words and changes his cadence to stress things, and just overall the way he says “you understand? great.” i dont get this feeling from anything in s3 so far its like din is just Saying Words to keep the show rolling and nothing else, no more subtle characterization and subtle emoting. Sighs

i dont know if im wording this right but just overall the line delivery is so different and so much better in s1 and i cannot believe s3 is so bad so far its got me marveling over the most basic ass shit, like full on writing essays about a random 40 second scene like this