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tossawary · 4 months ago
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This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.
"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.
"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.
I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.
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theladyeowyn · 2 months ago
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Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson
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doyoulikethissong-poll · 7 months ago
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Mary J. Blige - Family Affair 2001
"Family Affair" is a song by American singer and actress Mary J. Blige. It was written by Blige, her brother Bruce Miller, Camara Kambon, Michael Elizondo, and producer Dr. Dre for her fifth studio album, No More Drama (2001).
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, becoming Blige's first Hot 100 number one single. It was the 12th-biggest song of the 2000s decade in the US and the 99th-biggest song of all-time in the country as of 2018. It reached number one in France and the top 10 in 14 additional countries across Europe and Oceania, peaking at number two on the Eurochart Hot 100. In 2022, Blige performed the song at the Super Bowl LVI halftime show.
As for her acting career, tumblr might know her best as Cha-Cha on the first season of the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.
"Family Affair" received a total of 86,1% yes votes! Previous Mary J. Blige polls: #62 "As".
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viyojo · 2 years ago
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Happy Graduation!! ✨ 🎓 🎉
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dawndauce · 1 year ago
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he doesn't have to choose
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svnsati0nal · 10 months ago
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artbean · 3 months ago
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So what are you gonna do now?
I’ll figure it out. I always do.
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dr-spectre · 4 months ago
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FINALE REWRITE
By: Dr. Spectre
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it's finally time to show y'all what I've been cooking.
This will be in a script format because that is where I feel the most comfortable as a writer, plus games are written in this format.
This rewrite will take into account that you have read through the Squid Sisters Stories as well as the Sunken Scrolls.
Once you have pressed read more, you will get bombared with over 20 pages of writing, so be forewarned...
Anyhow, ENJOY!!!!!!!!
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 2 months ago
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Neurodivergent Christmas Tips
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AJ’s Brain
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noname-nonartist · 2 months ago
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Late night sloppy colored drawing of Hera and Wulf from the LotR animated movie because I still really enjoyed the charactersssssss~
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ofcrowsanddragons · 13 days ago
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Just to say again on the Demisexual Lucanis thing, I personally feel that I am both a bisexual disaster and a demisexual person (and also pansexual and nonbinary and a bunch of other things).
I have been absolutely baffled by the idea that Lucanis can't be honestly described as both demisexual and a bisexual disaster.
I keep seeing this. That man is a disaster, most especially in his love life (PANTRY SCENE), and I personally feel very seen by the character's writing. Which probably says something unflattering about me, but let's move on shall we...
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sun-marie · 1 year ago
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I thought I might make this quick piece based off @galebrainrott 's idea into it's own post bc I'm quite happy with it :3
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kichisaburo3 · 1 year ago
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Taylor Marie Hill Mono Color Photography Reblogged
TAG of Taylor Marie Hill in my Tumblr https://kichisaburo3.tumblr.com/tagged/Taylor Marie Hill
14 NOV 2023 Tuesday
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fuzzyoctoplushie · 7 months ago
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Squid Sisters digital “Sticker” sheet~
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@ me if you want me to see what you make with ‘em! It’s optional tho lol
Free to use if you reblog!
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rasoyas · 29 days ago
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collinnmckinley · 9 months ago
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Like mentor like student - Modern Warfare Parallels.
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