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Fixing Atta (A Bug's Life)
If I'm really honest, I like Atta's character, but I'm also aware that her behavior in the film left a lot to be desired, so here are some ideas that (from my point of view) could spruce up the character a bit. I mean, not make her perfect, but certainly fix her a bit. The following things I would fix about her would be:
1.Personality: I find her personality in the film too hostile and lacking in empathy toward Flik, so I would give her a personality with more empathy toward the protagonist, being aware of his feelings and intentions to contribute to the Colony, even though they always end in disaster. Of course, it wouldn't change her personality completely, but it would give the character more empathy. This could create a great internal debate in Atta between her pressure as a future ruler and her rational and understanding side toward Flik, being forced to make decisions more out of pressure from the council than of her own free will. So in the trial scene when the council gives Atta the idea of sending Flik away for several days with the excuse of looking for warriors so that he does not cause disasters Atta would not agree at first since she feels that this was too harsh a punishment for Flik especially considering the dangers that are beyond the island, but the council insists pressured her but she still stands firm until Mr. Soil lets out a phrase that is a subtle but powerful blow: "Your Highness, we understand that our request is not the best option at random, but that's the way things are. A leader sometimes has to make difficult decisions for the good of his people even if they are not the best. If you truly want to show the colony that you can be a responsible and fair queen then you must do what is right no matter what." Those words would be a rather low blow for Atta so much so that in the end she ends up accepting her defeated.
2. Participation in the defense / rescue of Dot: If there is something that bothers me the most in the movie is the inability of Atta (and her mother) to move a wing for her sister the 2 times she was in danger, I understand that she was afraid of Hopper or the bird but come on, you are not going to tell me that her fear was stronger than her sisterly love for Dot, even Nani would have fought with a puma just for Lilo. The way I would have rewritten the scenes would be when Hopper would be taking Dot directly to Thumper she would jump trying to rescue her little sister but she and her mother would be firmly held by 4 grasshoppers bigger than her leaving them immobilized causing both the queen and Atta to scream anguished and desperate begging Hopper to spare Dot's life, that she was not to blame for anything and that they would promise to give them a new offering until Flik would raise his voice among the crowd and then the scene would continue the same. In the scene of the bird attack I would have rewritten it making Atta go to where Dot was to try to save her but when she arrives both are surprised by the bird and after being hit by the flapping Atta is stunned / dizzy and fall into the crevice (not before Francis caught Dot) and apart from Francis Atta would also be injured on the side of the head after a stone thrown by the bird hit her right there leaving her more stunned, the scene would remain the same with Flik and the circus gang rescuing Dot, Francis and Atta while Slim and Heimlich make the distraction for the bird, when Flik noticed the princess he would become very worried seeing her condition but she would tell him that it was okay that the important thing was to get Dot out of here, that she would follow them flying from behind but the dizziness plus the pain made it impossible for her to maintain the flight without wobbling so Flik suggests that it would be best for her to ride Dim next to Manny for safety, There, the scene would continue just as it did in the movie. This would demonstrate that Atta (and her mother) care deeply about Dot, not just Flik, and that she's willing to take risks to keep her safe.
Well, these are just some personal ideas I've come up with to fix Atta. If you don't agree with them, no problem; you're not obligated to. If you have any ideas for fixing Atta, feel free to leave them in the comments section, or you can simply comment on what you think of my ideas (no insults or attacks).
#pixar#a bug's life#princess atta#flik#Dot#fixing canon#fixing character#rewrite idea#Heimlich the Catterpillar#Francis the Ladybug#Slim the Stick Inscet#Manny the Mantis#Dim the Rhinoceros Beetle#walt disney
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“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes
#they should live under each other’s skin in a way that’s weird to everyone else. actually.#also on a more serious note since this is getting notes mental illness does not preclude people from deserving love#or the ability to give and receive it#it also does not make you inherently toxic#sometimes people are just toxic anyways of course#and a lot of people enjoy a toxic ship and are relating that to this and that’s cool!#but like#if you believe that’s the only option you’re wrong buddy#people can be worse together but they can also be better#acting like a character or a person has to ‘fix’ their trauma or what have you to be worthy is. a fucking weird mindset.#but anyways!
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"undoing this character's death would take away his sacrifice and character arc" girl I don't give a shit. I'm bringing him back through the power of ao3 fix-it fics and there's nothing you can do to stop me x
#ao3#archive of our own#writing#writer#writers#writers on ao3#fanfic#fanfiction#writeblr#fix it fic#blorbo#comfort character#fandom#fandoms#loki#tony stark#iron man#billy hargrove#eddie munson#whump#angst#whumpblr#meme#memes#whump community
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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.
Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.
It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.
But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.
It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.
#narrative domino chains I love you#you also get to play loads with dramatic irony here#the readers know all about evey disaster the characters have no idea they just narrowly avoided#with my fix-its I aim to at some point make the reader go 'wait. but this means X won't happen which means Y will happen which means– ohhhh#fanfiction#fandom#fic writing
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there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living
#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#it’s so AOUGH!!!#especially mithrun and falin and thistle#but everyone has some element of this#it’s also so important that the characters in majority DONT get what they want#marcille never gets to even out the lifespan between races#falin is never returned to her pre chimera state#mithrun never got to truly be the version of himself he want to be#like idk i could go on#but there’s smthn to the fact that not all the problems are fixed#and actually most of the time it’s better they aren’t#IDKKKK IRS JUST SO AOUGH
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Their name is Barry and they can't escape the digital cir
#sonic art#sonic fanart#sonicfanart#sonic artist#sth#tadc#tadc fanart#I'm not sure if i should tag tadc characters but i will anyway hello other fandom#barry the quokka#tadc pomni#any rose#tadc ragatha#sonic the hedgehog#tadc jax#silver the hedgehog#tadc kinger#shadow the hedgehog#tadc zooble#i love zooble btw they're my fav#tikal the echidna#tadc gangle#gangle is close second i love her#yes i made shadow and tikal zooble and gangle cause i ship both pairs my brain is HUGE#my art#to whoever in the tags said i used the wrong pronouns for barry#you are correct#my bad I've fixed it
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The FNAF 2 movie taking a strange direction,,
#myart#chloesimagination#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf movie#mike schmidt#poppy playtime#huggy wuggy#mommy long legs#catnap#abby schmidt#guys I promise this is so real#Mike still needs a job ✨#tbh he might just assume the poppy characters are animatronics#so isnt put off by them immediately#Abby thinks they are cool though of course#she can fix them actually#she will befriend the whole factory 😤
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we're like eighty percent sure that's just water
[jojamart mockumentary #2]
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#stardew valley#stardew valley fanart#sdv sam#sdv shane#stardew valley sam#stardew valley shane#jojamart mockumentary#my art#this one was actually very hard to end#originally i wanted to show sam bouncing back fairly quickly and saying hello#or trying to fix his hair in the bathroom#but in reality i think his character would be pretty grumpy after getting got with a spray bottle#so i just left it at shane reflecting
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despite what canon says, if a fanfic writer’s in love with a blorbo, they can never die
#writing#writer#writers#writeblr#fix it fic#ao3#archive of our own#fanfic#fanfiction#blorbo#blorbos#comfort character#fictional characters#fandom#fandoms#meme#memes#writing community
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kittyyyyyyy
#gif#3d#3d model#3d modeling#blender#low poly#lowpoly#blender 3d#3d art#serval#tabaxi#citrus#sun soul monk#dnd#dnd character#i made this model in like uhh 2022 but i finally added the necklace i forgot to make then#fixed some weight paints#and did a nice turnaround render :]#enjoy kitty!
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Visiting dreams (read from right to left)
Was watching a comedy show and one of the episodes were about a wife buying glasses like that to enter her husband's dreams and see if he's cheating on her and I was like "that's the most Elias thing ever" so I drew my own version of it
Let me know if you guys want a part 2
Part 2 here
#I just quickly sketched it while the idea was still fresh in my head#but man not being a perfectionist and preventing myself from fixing every small mistake is so hard#elias#yandere pretty boyfriend#artists on tumblr#yandere#digital art#male yandere#yandere boyfriend#male yandere x reader#yandere x reader#yandere x darling#yandere x you#yandere x y/n#oc#my oc#yandere original character#original yandere#comic#yandere comic#male yandere comic#sketch
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she misunderstood
#robot girl#gynoid#android#clip studio paint#artwork#my art#digital art#illustration#digital illustration#robotgirl#robot oc#character design#oc#original character#robot#robogirl#roboposting#art#myart#nerro#fixtf2#team fortess 2#save tf2#teamfortress2#tf2#tf2 fanart#savetf2#fix tf2
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in this house we don’t say “that character is dead”. we say “they’re wounded but they’re alive and are on their way towards making a full recovery on archive of our own fix-it fics”
#ao3#archive of our own#writing#writer#writeblr#writers#fanfic#fanfiction#blorbo#comfort character#fictional characters#blorbos#fandom#fandoms#meme#memes#fix it fic#whump#angst#whumpblr#tropes#trope#prompt#prompts
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my right hand man.



+ some really really rough sketches of duos for the au. if you cant figure whats going on with the sketches, dont worry, i cant either.
#AU - Scarian Death Game#ren... is surprisingly difficult to draw and design#partly because im not used to animalistic characters (though yes hes more on the human side but still)#like i have a vibe for him i wanna do but i keep missing </3#hes a work on progress along with the others that arent here#though martyn... this man im so excited#obsession has officially become the theme for this au#sdgau gria and martyn i love u#i will fix the tag and make a masterpost when im about to post the first chapter because im getting annoyed at myself already#my wip art#my art
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maru in all her rat glory
#character design#character art#ocs#does she shower? maybe#can she fix your spaceship? definitely#is she a fish? maybe#might not respect women
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