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I was literally thinking about Fred, but the alternate new york with the sentient cars from the first book definitely did something to my brain chemistry in general.

But also Morph from X-Men and Mary Jane from Spider-Man and, oh my god, marvel characters were always Coming Back Wrong, and then there's Aslan, who Comes Back Too Right, which is its own kind of horror if you think about it too hard.

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

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Ok am I, stupid or do a fair portion of the lyrics to Kiss From A Rose just not make any sense at all

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“oooh i need junji ito to write me an essay” okay so youre a little baby so youre a little baby waby who needs mommys help

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And the only thing a gamblin' man needs

Is a suitcase and a trunk.

He don't need a flippin' house

And he don't give a fuck.

Honestly, it’d be a lot weirder if there wasn’t a house in New Orleans.

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This but I'd address it to my adult coworkers who should know better, especially the ones in educational fields.

Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.

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the ‘kind character snapping’ trope has been co-opted by too many people who don’t understand it fundamentally. you can’t have your character actively think of themselves as that kind of person bc that makes it like bragging. ‘you wouldn’t like me when i’m angry 😡’ ’no more mister nice guy 😈’ ’demons run when a good man goes to war 👿’ ’honestly i scare myself sometimes 😰’ WROOOOOONG. those are all threats. first off a truly kind character should be humble and not even consider kindness a thing of theirs. and second off please. if they’re truly gentle they should be ashamed of the very thought of their own wrath and not like openly talk about it. yeah i bet they do scare themselves and others when they finally get pushed too far but like don’t have them say or consciously think that without shame… it should be like a tragic thing that happens to them against their will and not like an alter ego they’ve been gleefully looking for an excuse to slip into

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i prefer divorce and cheating to putting characters that make no sense together in a polycule tbh

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actually last post is similar to how ppl will go "yeah white americans don't really have any culture" in an allegedly self aware way that actually just screams "unable to conceptualise the culture they live in as anything other than the neutral default".

"Yeah i guess we don't really have any strong culture" and then they'll talk about homecoming as if you're supposed to know what that means (except you do because of how dominant their cultural export is)

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somehow i still get surprised every time i see fandom take a guy who canonically has relationships with and genuinely loves women in a romantic way and makes him exclusively gay to validate their ship as being somehow more truer/purer/better than the het ship instead of just. letting him be bi and still like women just not this time. like what do we say, fandom? everyone say it with me: sorry women!

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I forgot that there was actually a character named Kevan Lannister for a minute, and I read this post and was like "you're totally right, he would be Kevan."

I guess the thing about Jaime Lannister is that he definitely made his own life more complicated by having a sexual relationship with his own twin but (a) I don’t think the guy who’s been having a sexual relationship with his twin sister since childhood is going to make decisions using the same calculus as most people and (b) I don’t think he’d be a more sympathetic character if he followed the expected path. He’d be Kevan.

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crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

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Sometimes all the failboy/losergirl/cringefave style of fandom posting makes me think of that I Think You Should Leave sketch where Vanessa Bayer tries to write self-deprecating instagram captions but overshoots the mark every time.

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Honestly part of the problem with this obsession with only consuming unproblematic fiction is that people are less likely to acknowledge when something is harmful. If you so much as say hey this one joke in this one episode was offensive fans will write you an essay on why it wasn’t. Because they’ve created a world view where this is basically accusing them of being a bad person who has committed an unforgivable sin.

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your dark fantasy novel doesn't need a logic-based magic system it needs a bear with a human face

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Even second person stories are not meant to be read as realistic stories about you. Second person is meant to be reader self-insert, but you still have to use your imagination, so "I wouldn't do that" is a weird response to those kinds of stories. Second person is not necessarily "you, the person you are, are part of the story." It can be, but most of the time it's "you are Steve from Minecraft," etc.

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.