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prokopetz · 2 days
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bebx · 3 days
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love the classic damsel in distress trope, but the damsel in question is a pathetic fictional man bleeding out in the dark somewhere on the floor before his ridiculously gorgeous knight comes for his rescue just when he’s about to pass out, and the ridiculously gorgeous knight in question is actually a deranged villain who is his archenemy. but they both have these frustratingly unresolved sexual tension going on where they both hate each other but are also super possessive and protective of each other in the sense that no one else can hurt this little guy but me!!!! and so the knight carries his pathetic damsel in his arms bridal style back to his goth castle where they have hot, kinky gay sex ever after (after he nurses his pathetic enemy’s ass back to health, of course, can’t risk bruising our fragile damsel when he’s already half dead).
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character-estudio · 3 days
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Names + Meanings HAZBIN HOTEL (2024)
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the-overanalyst · 2 days
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Different flavors of mentor:
Definitely 100% doesn't care about this brat... totally...
"Please God just let me retire or die"
Hot mess of an upperclassman who only seems wise to you
"Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you just wanna go apeshit?"
Good bad example
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lady-grace-pens · 19 hours
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tanoraqui · 2 days
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one of the very best tropes is when a place that is home to the characters has a thing - a person (an inhabitant, a caretaker, a pet...) or a thing (a decoration, a wonky appliance...), anything - that is metaphorically the heart of the home. The purest manifestation of its nature. It might be a literal genius loci, but it absolutely doesn't need to be. Often kind of quirky, askew with propriety, but a key component of, and symbolic of, what makes this place home, makes it safe...
And then it's removed - maybe violently, maybe insidiously - and that's when the characters realize abruptly that something is very, very Wrong.
It's Wolf 359 when the Urania crew eject the plant monster. It's Camp Half-Blood at the start of Sea of Monsters when our heroes arrive only to find that Chiron has just been fired. It's what once was good, if messy, suddenly hollowed out and likely now being corrupted by whatever parasite has moved into the space.
Overlaps with the terrible moment you realize your loved one/trusted ally has been possessed/replaced with an evil clone/etc, but a) for a place and b) ...well, I guess it kind of is like possession. Except nothing actually needs to be sentient, nor have any practical effects. It's purely symbolic.
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Hot take: it isn't a Romeo and Juliet story if the conflict dividing their respective backgrounds is in any way largely consequential - the whole point of Romeo and Juliet is that their families' rivalry is petty. It's a lot less opposite sides of a war and a lot more opposite sides of a high school football rivalry. A lot less tribes competing for resources and a lot more their parents run competing local buissnesses. A lot less Colonizer/Victim and a lot more celebrities with agents who hate each other. It is supposed to be the stupidest slight with over blown emotions.
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Public figure Whumpee, who’d been assaulted in their past, being asked overly personal questions by a fan. They’re handsy, aren’t taking no for an answer, and in general invoking memories that Whumpee would like to forget.
When Whumpee experiences a panic attack in front of hundreds of fans, it written off as an overreaction, people acting like Whumpee has made a big deal of nothing.
Whumpee, feeling invalidated and shamed for their traumas- trying to push themselves in future encounters- partially because of their managers, but additionally from pressure from their fanbase.
Caretaker, realizing that people have essentially bullied Whumpee into allowing people to touch and objectify them, in addition to making Whumpee think that this is what they want/that they’re okay with it.
a sad reality is that this tends to happen a lot in real life too, not just in fiction 😔
anyway, I don’t go there, but here’s a whumpy and angsty prompt for anybody who’s into (fictional) celebrity whump.
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madametamma · 1 day
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Y'know what I love in fiction? When a character is made to wear something not ideal for the situation, but fuck it, adventures are happening right now and it's gonna be a while before anyone can change outfits.
Woken up in the middle of the night by an emergency? I'm saving the day in pajamas I guess.
Villain has kidnapped me and forced me into a pretty dress? This is now my kidnapper strangling outfit.
Have to knock out a lackey, steal their clothes as a disguise while leaving them tied up in their underpants in a broom closet? Oh no I've been caught! Oh well! Not my personal style but I'm gonna be lookin hella fly while I'm blasting my way outta here.
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butchjesus · 3 days
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I looooove giving characters different hair to symbolize they've changed. they cut their hair to show a loss or a gained freedom. they dye it or style it differently to try to become someone else or embrace themself more, to show a change in how they inhabit the world or their body. they grow it out to show they've stopped tending to themself or that they've grown and flourished or are allowing themself to simply be. their hair goes grey or thins or they go bald to show they've lived, for better or for worse, and are still living. I love all that I eat it right up every time
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not-avril · 2 months
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The trope I appreciate very much
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prokopetz · 21 hours
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If this poll gets a hundred thousand votes before the voting period is up I'll write a short-form tabletop RPG where you play as members of a former-girls-in-boxes support group.
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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.
Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.
just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?
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psyduckz · 4 months
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time loop wrapped
failed to save a loved one 8402 times
punched your boss in the nuts 13 times
arrested 329 times
died by falling down a manhole twice
binged 178 tv shows
you spent 328500 minutes in the loop. that’s over 7 months nonstop!
top 10% of time loopers worldwide
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the-overanalyst · 5 months
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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
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jadedanddark · 8 months
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I died but I came back exactly the same. You though, I came back and you were wrong. Did the fact of my dying really damage you that much? Was bringing me back worth what it cost you? Would it have been better to just leave me?
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