#the people are one dimensional and boring.

[pain-is-too-tired]

I hate,especially in the pjo fandom, when people cut characters down to 1 trait. Sometimes it's a trait that isn't even one they have!

Like Percy, Will and Leo being seen as dumb erks me to no end. Especially Leo.

I know they're incorrect quotes but I saw one where they used the "7x7" "stuff she knows!" audio with leo and I'm just-

He knew collage level math at 8!!! What you mean he wouldn't know 7x7.

He could probably recite 100+ digits of pi. He built a whole ship!!

Same with Percy and Will. Like Percy is not dumb, he's just someone who thinks on his feet and isn't book smart like Annabeth.

Will runs an infirmary and cabin by himself by 13. He immediately finds a way to check on Nico's condition and chides him for risking his health. He's working with no weapon as a field medic, he has to be smart enough to avoid attacks.

Nico isn't just the emo sad kid. He is quick to make friends with those people tend to be wary of. He's just getting use to people again after being on his own for so long.

Jason isn't just some boring/ lesser version of Percy. He has a detailed past and motives even without most of his memories.

Michael isn't just attitude and starting fights. The only fellow camper he actually fights with is Clarisse and he's pretty chill for the rest of the book other then just being sassy sometimes. He's usually just matching energy.

Stolls aren't all stupid either, they were 12-13 when they became hcs of the largest cabin at a camp. A cabin, mind you, that was recently ran by a 19-almost 20 year old. They're poster children for younger siblings suddenly forced to mature.

Maybe it's just me and my love for psychoanalyizing characters, but really like most people forget how 3 dimensional these characters are.

Do not get me started on characters like Drew and Octavian or how many of y'all forget Annabeth(and every demigod other than frank) also is dyslexic and not just the ones the fandom deems as "dumb".

[fiovske]

ugh avatar 2 takes an unnecessary joy in sadistic cruelty 👎

[torchstelechos]

I love that Isabeau is the one to bring up the "what do we do if you die" conversation cause its a very good insight to his character at the very start of the game. Isabeau is practical, smart, and loves everyone dearly and wants to know how to help them when shit goes sideways. He's the one to ask about Bonnie too, which is a delightful read on how he thinks because everyone else shuts that down instantly as a "That wont happen and cant happen" but we see later in the game it can happen which is such a startling thing for a game to do but justifies the foreshadowing of Bonnie can die what do we do if that happens? Isabeau, despite everything, is also the one who gets to the heart of the matter even if its not something must people are willing to talk about. All without it being part of his friendquest, thats just him naturally. Which! Says so much about him and how he is! His character when its not about his relationship with Siffrin is a very intriguing thing because it feels like a very classic hard intellectual stance that's been softened after many years of learning to better communicate healthily with others. A reflection, if you will, of Odile but in a very drastic direction. I find him fascinating and I also want to scoop his brains out and study them under a microscope to see all his little brain thoughts.

[foundfamilywhump]

truly i don't care who thinks it's stupid or boring or "doesn't count" or can't be as intense as what they think of as "real whump" or whatever else, whump with comfort and recovery and caretaker(s) is always going to be my style of whump and i'm gonna have a blast vibing with people who also enjoy that

[sapphirerogers]

Thought I had after reading a bunch of headcanons from @16woodsequ

I think the greatest tragedy of Steve Rogers' life is not the pain he suffered as a child, or the abuse from his father, or the grief of losing people or the tiredness of always having to fight.

The greatest tragedy of Steve Rogers' life is everyone around him knowing him, but simultaneously also ignoring him. Yes, Captain America is famous, he's admired/hated (depends on where you're standing). He's talked about often, asked for advice and leadership, he gets privileges too.

But no one really knows him. No one knows just how hurt he is. How *lonely* he is. How distrustful he is. How anxious and scared he is. No one bothers to find out either.

There's a reason he wanted someone with shared life experiences. Nat may try to get to know him, sympathise with him. Sam - bless his soul - tries his best but even as a veteran himself, he can't really understand everything about Steve Rogers, because a) he hasn't witnessed Steve's entire life, and b) Steve is extremely reserved, both by nature and out of trust issues.

As for everyone else, his teammates aren't nearly close enough to him, and everyone else simply doesn't care.

Everyone knows Captain America but not a single soul knows, or cares about Steven Grant Rogers.

Except...

Except for maybe that one boy who stuck with him and fought off the bullies and patched him up later. The boy who grew up with him and watched him grow up while tackling everything life was throwing. The boy who later on became the man who followed him into the jaws of death (quite literally). The boy who, as far as Steve knew, was now at the bottom of an abyss in the Alps. The boy who he had nothing left of, except dog tags and his own faded pencil sketches.

The boy whose name was James Buchanan Barnes.

[arsenicflame]

the thing is, right, if izzy WAS evil i would still absolutely love him. hes a fictional character, i don't care about his morals if hes compelling.

but the frustrating thing is that hes not evil, hes not even the antagonist anymore by a long stretch, hes arguably more liked by the crew than ed at the moment, but people still insist that we are reading the text of the show wrong and its going to completely 180 and turn him into a cartoon villain when there is absolutely no sign of that in the show, from the cast and crew, anything!!!

its so ridiculously annoying that i feel i have to defend my stance on a character because some people are so determined to cast him into the roll of a villain he is not, and think that we are the wrong ones for simply reading what the show is putting out

[quillkiller]

Petunia literally abused Harry bro 💀 and pointing that out doesn’t mean we’re downplaying her grief or bc she’s a woman

yall are gonna freak out when you realise that abusers are also human

[mamawasatesttube]

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

kon, of course, but everyone here knows that so maybe he doesn't quite count sfgkdh

let's go with kaladin stormblessed from the stormlight archive, mipha legendofzelda, and elrond peredhel! with an honorable mention to ash lynx bananafish and alphonse elric fullmetalalchemist.

i am simply a sucker for the battle healer archetype/characters who know how to kill you a hundred different ways, but would really rather not. characters who have faced the endless horrors but still choose to be kind and gentle and good where they can, or who fight the darkness not out of rage or pride but out of a desire to protect. characters who know what suffering is and want to make sure others don't have to. you know. the light at the end of the tunnel and choosing kindness and healing even though it would be so easy for them to cause harm instead. being the shield before the sword. all that.

alphabet ask game!

[fruitsyrups]

i have so very many thoughts about PB that i can't put them all into words. she's so complicated ... so interesting ... so multifaceted ... like damn the PB misunderstanders are really missing out

[jamesheathridge]

and if i say travis martinez haters are insanely annoying

[smallhatlogan]

I don't know why tumblr is so desperate for a story that tells them “revenge for its own sake is good and cool actually”. Like how much substance can you actually fit into that story? There’s a reason there's so many of these stories that go with the “actually this quest for revenge is damaging, maybe not worth it, and might make this character a worse person" perspective. Most of these stories you people are criticizing aren’t even saying “if you get revenge you’re just as bad as the person who wronged you” and a lot of them even concede that the target probably deserves to die or that their death would make the world better.

[otakusapien]

To me there's a difference between "morally gray character TM" and "character who doesn't 100% adhere to black and white morality bc they are written like a person"

[the-sage-libriomancer]

sometimes i get so obsessed with imagining how stories would've changed if the parent(s) survived. it always completely upsets the story's foundation and sometimes even invalidates the whole entire plot, but a lot of times it also brings up a lot of additional problems that are really fun to chew on in a what-if scenario.

[pwurrz]

every day i fight for my life on twitter as stupid people who would fail even the simplest media literacy test slander and bastardize childe’s character

[neutralgray]

Zombie media discourse is wild because it's full of weirdly pedantic assholes that argue about semantics from all angles, rather than any connected themes or anything of actual artistic merit.

Take The Last of Us for example since it's super prominent right now. Wonderful adaptation btw.

But what the fuck is with die hard game fans who insist the "infected are not zombies." Uhhhh, yeah they are. They are a largely mindless horde of apocalyptic monsters that spreads infection through biting, infecting a host, then the host turns to bite others and the cycle goes. The word for that? ZOMBIE. You can argue all day that because they're technically a fungus this makes them different, but thematically they're fucking zombies.

Then there's this weird report from the TLOU writers' room that the word "zombie" wasn't allowed to be said on set because it's "not a zombie show," which is also irritatingly pedantic and shows a significant lack of understanding for what a "zombie show" is??? And I get why they might have this defense, because you have dipshit braindead media analysts like Ben Shapiro going "but if zombie show then why gay people in it so much??? more zomboo pls???," and like-- fuck idiot media analysts like that. But also fuck this pretentious holier-than-thou "our show isn't about the zombies" attitude.

You want to know something? Unless you're dealing with a B movie cheap budget slasher gorefest, then almost NO ZOMBIE SHOW OR MOVIE IS ABOUT THE FUCKING ZOMBIES. Night of the Living Dead is considered the pioneer of the genre and the biggest conflicts in this film (the genre's CONCEPTION) come from mistrust and panic among the survivors who cannot trust one another-- ending with the last survivor being shot down by the rescue party. The Walking Dead may be a really shitty show but it is still one of the most prominent long-term zombie media series ever made, and the real drama comes from human conflict and emotions and loss-- it's never just "fight zombies."

Zombie shows aren't supposed to be about the zombies. They never have been.

[fruitcd]

the thing about the “there are just no well written female characters” defense is that it’s obviously not true today and it wasn’t even true in 2014-2016 there WERE well written female characters in a lot of stuff you just had to look for them. like sure yeah if all you watch is supernatural and marvel movies i can see how you might be tricked into thinking There’s Just No Good Female Characters but if you broaden you horizons just a little there’s a whole world of female characters out there waiting for you!!