#character coding

[marrowwrites]

Water coded characters but instead of being the calm, soft, healing one they're like an ocean; relentless and terrifying, always dragging things back into the heart of them and never surrendering it, like a rip, poisonous to any who intake to much of them, prone to tempest and storm.

Fire coded characters but instead of being erratic, emotional, 'fiery' and destructive they are like a hearth; a low constant heat, warm and inviting, nurturing to those around them, a focal point for family and gathering together, providing clarity and light and guidance in darkness, slowly but surely burning themself out in sacrifice for the comfort of those around them.

[tlg-confessions]

Anon explaining character coding here. Forgot to say one last thing.

The Lion King ultimately suffers from the same issue that plagues the majority of Disney's film lead by a POC. It never specifies the culture that's being portrayed (always pulling from multiple and often different cultures like Raya and the Last Dragon) and the filmmakers make a point to never connect with someone from the culture or they never pay the consultant (like what happened with Leah Chase and Princess and the Frog). There's only one POC lead Disney film whose filmmakers made sure to be mindful of the culture that's they were portraying. (Encanto)

It's like they're saying you should be grateful for scraps.

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[blackfilmmakers]

disney cannot stop making black characters into blue racially ambiguous blobs like at least when osmosis jones did it you could still tell ozzy is supposed to be black LMAO

Osmosis Jones really was the Blackest blue blob lil fella you’ll ever get in animation, and they weren’t even trying to go for that

Don’t get me started with Thrax

It is not that hard to make nonhuman characters, Black coded. Sometimes it’s not enough to give them a vague, ugly looking afro textured hairstyle(it’s more prominent in the water mom). You have to put thought into the world building, and how it interacts with their Blackness. Osmosis Jones works, because in his world building he’s just a cell that works in a city that operates as a human body. Race relations isn’t really the focus here, so he’s just doing his own thing. The voice actor and design just carries the Blackness within the character

Elementals on the other hand, is all about race relations. Fine. Sure. Whatever. Aside from terrible design, what here is supposed to indicate that the water family here are Black? Having the Black family act like a rich White family that comments how “well-spoken” a fire person is able to talk, are you kidding me?

Anyways Disney stop making fantasy racism films challenge

[lokiinmediasideblog]

hi! :D you've said before that you see mcu loki as ND-coded, and i'm curious about your specific thoughts on that. personally, i've mostly thought about this in terms of acquired mental illness stemming from trauma, but if i'm interpreting you correctly, you see him as innately neurodivergent? which is a fun + interesting take. are you thinking of a specific diagnosis, and/or is there a specific moment that stands out to you as ND Behaviour, or is it more of an overall vibe?

It started by thinking of Loki being ND-coded metaphorically, but I think he shows some behaviors. I will be breaking this down into actual behaviors and metaphors. I have ADHD, so I tend to skew his diagnosis towards that or AuDHD (and I have a mutual that thinks BPD also fits rather well and they're welcome to join in, lol).

Metaphors (movies):

1. The Jotun reveal. Aliens and changelings (both of which Loki is in cannon to Asgard) are common in metaphors to describe autism. From both the ND’s perspective as being in “Another planet” and from the NT’s perspective.

“A persistent trope in some autism communities is that autistic people are aliens, or, symmetrically, that non-autistic people seem like aliens to autists. Some autists are attracted to the metaphor of the alien to describe their own condition, or to say that they find other people alien (Hacking, 2009).”

“In addition to failure to thrive, before the development of modern medicine and psychiatry, it is very likely that any number of childhood disorders were interpreted as stolen children. Several modern authors have suggested that, in pre-scientific eras, children born with autism and other developmental disorders were probably considered changelings (Ashliman 1997; Wing and Potter 2002). By the late nineteenth century, science had begun to provide non-supernatural explanations for children who did not thrive or otherwise did not meet the normal expectations for a healthy infant, and belief in changelings faded. ”

2. Loki does not fit in at Asgard, the only home he’s known. His friends are actually Thor’s rather than his, and seem to tolerate him rather than like him.

3. Loki also gets blamed for misdeeds without good evidence: The W4 start suspecting a crown prince based on an enemy’s words and they assume Loki wants to harm Asgard. I think it’s important to note that they don’t assume he just wants the crown; they assume in his very short reign, that he’ll harm Asgard, which is never in his plans. And it’s unlikely they cared about Jotunheim since they wanted Thor back right away.

A parallel to being ND is that people distrust and even villainize you due to your mannerisms (e.g. “weird and quiet”). And I’ve talked about how I think Asgard promotes a very ridiculously straight forward mannerisms on its population to make self-policing easier. So Loki’s mannerisms must have clashed with the general population’s for them to distrust them so easily.

4. Loki’s main power-set being illusions, and unbeknownst to him, being changed into something he wasn’t born as (Jotun -> Asgardian), is a power-set analogous to masking (i.e. the process through which NDs camouflage themselves to fit in better).

Masking involves a lot of rehearsing and suppression to act in a more socially acceptable way. → Loki also needs to be useful to be appreciated

5. Thor being preferred for acting in ways deemed more socially acceptable by Asgard and Odin. A personal experience from me is getting shit to this day about how I was “so difficult as a toddler, unlike your brother!” and some mean comment about how I made life hell because they couldn’t take me to public places.

Some traits Loki showcases (and seem relatable to my ADHD-ass):

1. Tendency to fidget (in the movies and series). I think it’s even more noticeable in the series, where he’s doing random shit with stamps and hammers while he speaks to people (S2E1 talking with OB). It’s like he can’t stay still.

2. I pulled something very similar to the salad scene around an older mentor figure. It was rice I kept squishing in my hand while going off in a rant. My former mentor found my behavior amusing, for the most part, and never let me live that down.

3. Tendency to info-dump about how his magic works.

4. Poor impulse control (Loki series, gets drunk in a train, and cut Sif’s hair just because ← I HC he wanted to sabotage the relationship out of fear of vulnerability).

And that’s on top of the trauma-based extreme fear of abandonment he showcases in pretty much everything he’s been in.

Badly-formatted Sources:

Hacking, Ian. (2009) https://www.jstor.org/stable/40543987

[indagold-orchid]

I see people talk about coding and makes me think people should just straight up have a non human try to integrate themselves into human society…

..,then I realize that’s the plot to most urban legends and horror. Cryptids deserve rights goddang it.

[autistic-daydreamer]

You can fight me on this (don't actually, I am glass)

Sophie is pink

Biana is purple

Keefe is yellow

Dex is green

Fitz is navy blue

Idk what Tam is

Lihn is orange for some reason-

[thequeenoffuckoffimsleeping]

Would anyone want to hear me go into Gojo’s autism coding?

[agoodflyting]

David Tennant pissing off the Prime Minister bc he told government officials to stfu over their anti-trans bigotry and Michael Sheen literally poisoning himself investigating corporations dumping toxic chemicals in underprivileged areas is NOT the energy I expected from 2024 but oh man am I here for it.

[bonbonburgerpants]

I totally didn't make another clearly autistic-coded oc without realizing it (until now) and had his behavior excite someone that, in the scenario, feels very adhd-coded

T o t a l l y

":3c

No but rn I'm just so hyped and smiling and Mike (the oc) and Eric just being excited over literal ROCKS (well, gems atm but still) while Paul is a protective mom friend to them, Gene is mostly observing and Ace is being a lil shit /lh /nsrs

[stealingpotatoes]

the naberrie family over the years <3

(commission info // tip jar!)

[canisalbus]

✦ Fashionably late ✦

[blackfilmmakers]

These are the Whitest, supposedly Black-coded characters I’ve ever seen

[kianamaiart]

Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl: Villains

[entirely-strange]

"we need to teach reading comprehension in schools" we do its called english/language

[cheesy-cryptid]

When youre on your way to class but the party infront of you is subtly trying to get your attention

Another addition to my BG3 but its a filipino coded college au 😙

🎶Gagawin ko ang lahat pati ang thesis mo

Wag mo lang ipagkait ang hinahanap ko

Sagutin mo lang ako aking sinta'y walang humpay o ligaya 🎶

[moch1rice]

Pomni is a cat in this essay i will-