#examples of the latter:

[shitpostingkats]

I’m sure this will come as no surprise to anyone who follows me, but I love it when a story lets its characters just be off-the-wall weird.

Give me characters who go off onto tangents about the exotic fur trade without prompting. Give me characters don’t step on cracks in the sidewalk or refuse to eat foods beginning with the letter T. Give me characters who tell incomprehensible funny jokes that no one else seems to get but makes them double over in laughter. Give me characters who are suspicious of alley cats. Give me characters who decide their drink order by the position of Jupiter relative to the zodiacal horizon.

And, (this is the important part) no one remarks on it. Oh yeah, that’s Nine-lives Nelly, she shrieks whenever she feels left out of a conversation, or when she sees a red balloon. Yup, she’s our best weapons specialist. We’re truly lucky to have her on the team.

Give me a world where characters are allowed to be weird, in a world where “weird” is a foreign concept.

[rookflower]

starting a petition to end this dichotomy in warrior cats designs forever

[ptieuca]

My mom said some things to me about being the slayer. That it's fruitless. No fruit for Buffy. She's wrong.

[mayordeas-clone]

one of the absolute funniest phenomenons in the jojo fandom is seeing an artist's style morph into being sharper and more anatomically focused as they get more immersed in the series

[shkika]

warmup doodle dump from the last few weeks of a bracken!

its name is clover and it lives under the bunk beds of one very unfortunate crew

[sysig]

Take care of him (Patreon)

[punkeropercyjackson]

"The age difference makes it a prosh*p!!!"And then it's a 15 year old and a 17 year old

[anistarrose]

In the interest of not pigeonholing found families into nuclear familial roles by default, I want to see more dynamics where the role of a given character gets to change over time — either linearly, or in oscillation.

A character who's normally a cool aunt, but will temporarily act as mom when the usual parental figures for the younger generation are absent. A character who starts out as a parental figure, but as time progresses and everyone grows up, the relationship evolves into one of older sibling/younger siblings camaraderie. Combinations of the above. It gives relationships such unique flavor!

[straightlightyagami]

people who don’t know much about a subject and have trouble expressing themselves but have a level of open-mindedness and curiosity about the world and the bare minimum of critical thinking skills are infinitely better to talk to than someone who learned a bunch of big words and can say stupid things eloquently but has dogshit reasoning ability and absolutely no interest in listening to anyone else

[essektheylyss]

Unpopular opinion: I hate the extreme end of the concept "character who is Good and Kind in spite of adversity." First of all, if it's played straight, it creates a character who is never allowed to have negative feelings or do anything that even inadvertently hurts someone, which is unrealistic and also boring. Second of all, when it's not played completely straight, the character probably gets flattened by fans anyway and then villainized when they do inevitably have negative feelings or act like an asshole, if the behavior isn't swept under the rug as "out of character" altogether.

[supercityboys]

Boostle is so blatantly implied by placing them in positions normally occupied by lovers. My favorite instance of this is when they are contrasted against other couples. For example, in Heroes in Crisis, the end panels show Ted and Booster back on their couch, but this time right next to each other laughing their asses off and Harley and Ivy, deeply in love, walking hand in hand.

Edit: I found the screenshot

[macadam]

From here on out when making posts about transformers stuff I love I’m not gonna put in a footnote every time about how much other bad stuff there also is in the franchise/fandom. Cause trying to keep posts well rounded and faithful to the entire tf fandom as a whole every single time is so exhausting and also the tf fandom sucks? Additionally it’s too large. Lastly they are nothing to me. They are nothing. Why am I thinking abt the bad parts of fandom all the time when the original goal was to gush about something I really like.

Anyways I love optimus prime he has so much love in his heart

and also autism

hit post

[munchboxart]

Yay I finally managed to make my 2023 art summary! First half of the year was a little disappointing looking back (in terms of both amount and quality). I think I managed to make more personal work this year, thankfully, which is what I wanted last year

[corfisers]

two weird things that happen to me more often than i'd like and feel like they are on the opposite ends of the same spectrum: forgetting that i do actually speak two languages and forgetting that some people who post here in english speak only english

[pattern-recognition]

my Soviet M1968 telogreika and my partner’s US M1965 field jacket. can love bloom on the battlefield? is Red Army and NATO yaoi possible?

[sir-adamus]

the NieR anime showcasing 2B having an alternate mode that gives her superspeed is incredible

and she can employ it against a crowd of enemies which Pod supports by rising above the battlefield and dropping a bunch of fragile copies of her sword around the area so she can rip through opponents faster than the eye can see

Executioner units are no joke