#10 different characters from 10 different fandoms

[daily-media-ll2046]

27 November 2024. Today's media is:

Undertale

The logo of the game

Kind of Media: Video Game

Type: Indie/RPG:

Description: Undertale is a 2015 2D role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox. The player controls a child who has fallen into the Underground: a large, secluded region under the surface of the Earth, separated by a magical barrier.

My Opinion:

UNDERTALE!!! The game that introduced me to AUs and my comfort game... It helped me when times were rough, and it's kinda the reason why I didn't give up on writing! The story is wholesome, the characters are WONDERFUL and the fandom? Okay, the fandom is actually a 6/10 because it has... Some unusual stuff. *points at sans x frisk* Yeah, some people are more messed up. But that doesn't mean the fandom is bad! I would rather say that it's very great, with good au owners. An honorable mention is Twin Runes's writer, @akanemnon. It's tied to the bonus media tho :3

BONUS MEDIA!!!

Deltarune

The logo of the game

Kind of Media: Video Game

Type: Indie/RPG

Description: Deltarune is an episodic role-playing video game developed by Toby Fox as a follow-up to his 2015 video game Undertale. In the game, the player controls a human teenager, Kris, who is destined to save the world together with Susie, a monster, and Ralsei, a prince from the Dark World.

My Opinion:

Of course, Deltarune is tagging along! It's a wonder how a game that's like a sequel to Undertale is... So different. It's almost the opposite. But in some way... The same. It's very silly most of the time, and it really acts like the big Toby Fox himself made an AU for his own game. But that doesn't mean the fandom is less weirder than Undertale's! Hahahahaha it would never happen. The Tumblr sexyman polls say it all. BUT. Considering that Deltarune is also playing a big part in my life, like Undertale, you get some recommendations!!! Check @ultrabean's au!! Very cool au, 10/10. Also Twin Runes is a crossover of Deltarune and Undertale! I recommend playing the games before reading their comics tho...

Note for all the tagged people: I'M SORRY FOR THE RANDOM TAGS, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE HOOKED INTO THE UTDR-VERSE TwT

[isaidyoulookshitty]

idk it is so upsetting to me that veilguard is the first dragon age game i won't be replaying. when i was 15 i played origins so many times (almost a dozen) it is one of the only games i have ever 100% finished. da2 was the same! and while i didn't make it through as many playthroughs of inquisition i put hundreds of hours into it and made an effort to get to the bottom of everything the game threw at me. until veilguard, i had bought every available dragon age dlc for all games, tried to play almost every route given in the story choices, and spent hours reading through codex entries to soak up as much lore as i could.

veilguard has rendered all of that completely null.

it feels almost spiteful at this point that this new frakenspliced bioware cared so little to honor the bones and meat of the first three games. 15 years i have spent loving and cherishing (and criticizing) this franchise and now i feel like a fucking idiot for it. my grey warden? canonically awol and never addressed again. hawke? irrelevant and, for some players, potentially stuck in the fade forever. inquisitor? stripped of any complexity or depth i had given her in favor of the most syrupy, out of character fairytale true love's kiss ending with a man that shattered her worldview and broke her heart. how do you take 10 years to craft an ending this dissatisfying and thoughtless?

and the world i spent a decade and a half fighting for, shaping with player choices, and calling home? gone. "overwhelmed by the blight." literally scorched earth for the next game to build on with whatever the writers pull out of their ass to make players forget all about the original dragon age. it's tragic! disrespectful to longtime fans at best, at worst it feels intentional and like i am being made the butt of a joke told by writers who in the promotional material sound like they could not even be assed to play the games they're attempting to draw from. veilguard is just a product to be sold, not a story worthy of The Dragon Age Setting.

and i haven't even touched on all my gripes with the game's writing, the sanitization of any canon conflict that could be uncomfortable or difficult to address, the stale and cutesy therapyspeak and lessons in basic morality that are baked into every in-game interaction (most of which are shallow and all the same anyways) compared to the dialogue trees from the other 3 games. it is so frustrating to see that the devs chose to cave to a decade of vitriolic fandom politics in favor of addressing the kettle they wrote themselves into.

instead of hand-waving racism toward elves, the panic over qunari, the isolation of the dwarves, the corruption of the chantry, the abuse in the circles of magi, and slavery in tevinter, we should have been given the chance to confront all of it. to put a real end to it. we will never get to do that now. in fact, in their failure to follow through, bioware has only succeeded in exacerbating all of these issues. they have made the elves, which they have openly ADMITTED were "inspired" by Jewish and indigenous peoples, their mouthpiece for white guilt and shame passed down from one's ancestors (while also gutting elves' religion, culture, history, social differences, etc. i could go on). they PERPETUATE the same stereotypes of barbarity, violence, and warmongering imposed on the qunari by the rest of thedas by continuing to make them an opposing enemy force with the exception being a couple of friends they have neatly packaged for us. the unsatisfying conclusion to the mage-templar schism in inquisition is inconsequential. who the player chose to HEAD THE SOUTHERN CHANTRY as divine is deliberately made irrelevant. the dwarves are still isolated and ignorant of their origins save for harding (assuming she doesn't end up killed) and a single closed-off group. and the slaves in tevinter (again, mostly elves)? conveniently kept out of sight and conversation when we finally get to minrathous. everything that happened to fenris to make him the character he is, arguably the most impactful and sympathetic out of all the da2 companions, is not even addressed, much less tackled. all of it is swept under the rug.

i could go on about how i, a queer and nonbinary adult fan, thought their handling of gender and LGBTQIA+ identities was heavy-handed, infantilizing, and felt so out of place within the setting it makes easy fodder for the "woke=broke" crowd that wouldn't have been receptive to queer rep anyway, but that would need to be another post in itself. not to mention the romance! unfortunate that i chose to romance lucanis not knowing his is now notorious for a lack of content, meaningful dialogue, pacing, and actual development. i won't even get to see the other romances in comparison because, as i have said, i will not be replaying.

i wanted dragon age: dreadwolf. i wanted a solid conclusion to a story almost 20 years in the making. a dragon age reboot might even have been a great idea somewhere down the line, but this was not the game to do it with. it was supposed to be a sequel and they couldn't even get that right. did i enjoy parts of it? of course! i finished it! but i won't be doing it again. the game clearly intends you to, considering a significant portion is locked away by decisions players are forced to make pretty early on, but i can't make myself do it. it makes me way too sad.

[themagicalwriting]

Open letter to all GL fandoms with a dive in the Thai GL History created by @Kguardian0805 on X

Each GL brings something different to the table that helps to expand the industry that until 3 years ago was non-existent, only served for secondary characters with 10 minutes of screen time. FreenBecky not only designed but also built the table and they were the first to serve the main dishes and prove to everyone that it was possible, necessary and profitable.

And I'm not eliminating the importance of Tina & Aom, their film was Thai's first success in GL, so much so that it even won a sequel, but despite the international success, it failed to open the Thai industry to GLs. Because after Yes or No sucess GL entered a limbo for more than 10 years, with GL only appearing with secondary roles and seconds on screen.

It was only in 2021 with Chen, Saint and FreenBecky that things started to change because they announced Thai's first GL series and no one I repeat NO ONE but themselves believed it would work and there was worth it do it. Producers, companies, sponsors, fans even other actors continued to say that it would be a fiasco, a disaster so they all refused to support or be minimally associated with FreenBecky at that time.

But the girls and IDF were producing GAP for the right reasons and they didn't give up no matter the difficulties and the no's. Saint used all his money and his mother's savings to produce GAP and if he failed IDF would go bankrupt along with them. And was with a that perseverence and good representation mentality that GAP, the underdog show, beat all BLs in 2023 become a phenomenon and opened up the industry to GLs.

it was due to the success of GAP's exhibition on CH3 that made the channel want to produce and invest in their 1st GL; it was the success of GAP that moved Blank's CEO to make the series happen using a direct continuation of the story on her own terms and artists; it was FreenBecky's phenomenon that proved to GMMTV that GL is worth it so they finally stopped rambling and unshelve ML and their fandom unleashing their 1st GL; and the list of impact could go on with several other names and situations like the government support bc either directly or indirectly it was the success of GAP and FB that start the GL wave and made viable and visible our needs and existence as an audience to the Thai Industry.

admitting that DOES NOT make inferior your favorite couple/GLs because now with the industry growing many fans entered the industry for other artists/series and thats is a big win cuz was always the main goal of FB/IDF see that happening when they produced GAP, but please don't try to rewrite history or erase, belittle the sacrifices made by FB and IDF so you could today have a wave of GLs to choose your faves from; being true to this fact, liking FB or not, only proves your character and respect for the GL history.

So if u are a multifandom or just a GL enjoyer, respect everyone equally without differential treatment; if u are fans of other couples/series focus on them and appreciate their work, no need to minimize FB, their importance and work to value your fave,there is room for everyone. Remember if everyone always occupies different seats at this table, making different dishes, if the artists can respect each other and support, the fandom should at least respect each other or stay, know their place.

also stop harassing artists and their companies for things that don't belong to them, dont match their profile, each duo and company works in a different way; just demand for better productions and representation, better management of artists and not about other things. Lets make this space the most health possible we will disagre in a lot of things, we will fight over awards but pls be smart about it cuz a lot ppl, especially men, would love to see us fail, so stop playing their games but just uplift the woman in this field and the GL wave.

I wish all the best to all artists in GL world with special shoutout to MilkLove and their new series and Englot with Petrichor cuz I've been following their fight, struggles since 2022 and only wish the best for them over their really difficult company. Lets keep growing, all of us!

I wish all the best to all artists in GL world with special shoutout to ML and their new series and Englot with Petrichor cuz I've been following their fight, struggles since 2022 and only wish the best for them over their really difficult company. Lets keep growing, all of us

PS: I decide to share this thread here cuz dont only I agree but the GL world need that positivity and also really know their history and real adversaries which is a industry full of men, people who make GL and woman work difficult. Within our comunity and as woman we need at least respect each other and fully protect us from a place who always use and belittle our work and value.

[justanisabelakinnie]

@afrolatinozuko tagged me in a post! 10 of your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms!!! 

(Oh, and please make your own post and mention me in it, rather than reblogging this one!) 

1. Isabela Madrigal(Encanto)

2. Usagi Tsukino(Sailor Moon)

3. Abby Park(Turning Red)

4. Katherine Howard(SIX: The Musical)

5. Princess Tiana(The Princess and the Frog/Disney Princess)

6. Pinkie Pie(My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic/Equestria Girls)

7. Meilin Li(Cardcaptor Sakura)

8. Clawdeen Wolf(Monster High)

9. Justine Dancer(Ever After High)

10. Christine Canigula(Be More Chill: The Musical)

Tagging my folks to join in! @pearlescentocean @alldramaisvalidstorytales @shuinami @reesethedndencantolover @stephanieromanoff @moonwheelfly @princess-of-icy @dolores-and-luisa-stan @sapphic-ism @sanyu-thewitch05 

Have fun! 

[jinglerat]

people saying "oooh i love an evil mean character"

liar, i saw you wanting said evil mean character to get a redemption arc

can anyone in this joint actually straight up like an evil character and not wish for them to go through a redemption arc that would remove the thing that makes them an evil character? please? anyone?

[puhpandas]

getting into ben 10 is so sad bc I binge the entire OS and am like wow cant wait for more and then every other series doesnt have the things I liked about OS and even casual fans online say that 10yo Ben's character in OS is more compelling than all the others but theres barely any of him after OS

[iqmmir]

Milgram is so funny because the more you like the character the more you make up a backstory for them so you can like them even more. The more you like the character the less of them you understand basically

[heartburstings]

tagged by @sonicprimes !!

tagging @gatogummie !! the rest of u are free from my curse i just wanted to target this mfer specifically. but if u want to do it say i tagged u :3

[moongothic]

I need to make a confession

I genuinely do not understand Buggy simps

Like I thought y'all were joking with the whole rooting for Buggy-thing but. No. People are actually seriously rooting for him. And I just don't get it.

Like. I can't tell if I'm missing something or if people are somehow completely misinterpreting his actual character. Like clearly it's meant to be one or the other and I can't tell which and I feel like I'm losing my mind because of it

'Cause the thing is that. Like. Until now, Buggy has been a pure gag character. He's no different from characters like Ceasar Clown and Spandam in that sense, he's just nowhere near as vile a human being as those other gag characters so he's marginally more lovable in what a pathetic fuck he is. But in the end, Buggy's just been there to be a punching bag (quite literally), because it's funny as hell to watch him eat shit And the reason it's funny IS because Buggy is a piece of shit. Again, not nearly as bad as Spamdam and co, but he's still a lying, cowardly, spineless douchebag who uses others for his own benefit and is willing to ditch anyone to save his own skin. Like Buggy was going to ditch his entire crew and flee by himself when the Shichibukai System was taken down and the Marines came for his head. He was going to leave his crew to die by themselves, without participating in the fight at all. Buggy was the one telling them to do the hard lifting while he'd escape, while the crew had no idea their beloved Chairman was going to abandon them. Literally the only reason Buggy failed to do that was because he was too slow and Crocodile got there before he managed to skedaddle.

He is essentially Usopp if Usopp wasn't willing to get beaten to death to protect his friends and their honor. Even fucking Luffy thinks Buggy is a pathetic idiot, and Luffy is the biggest indicator in the whole series on how to tell whether or not the readers should like a character or not. Not to mention, all the in-universe Buggy simps have been portrayed as (precious) idiots who can't see through Buggy's bullshit. Like every step of the story Oda has been trying to tell us that Buggy is an absolute loser.

So when people are like "Mihawk and Crocodile are going to see Buggy's ambition and become full Buggy supporters themselves!" I just

Are we reading the same comic???? HELLO????

Like I'll give you this, it would be objectively the funniest fucking outcome imaginable, which would be on-brand for Buggy and his trend of falling upwards.

But between Mihawk respecting people who are willing to abandon their honor to protect someone dear to them, and Crocodile's deep trust issues (possibly rooted in being betrayed in the past), I can not fucking fathom the two ever genuinely siding with Buggy the "I will leave you to die by yourself to save myself" Clown. Not when the two (and most other characters, including fucking Galdino and Daz) have been able to judge Buggy's character accurately (like how Crocodile was like "I thought you'd have ran away by now" when he arrived at Emptee Bluffs, and Buggy was like "yeah no shit")

Not unless Buggy grows enough of a spine that he'd be willing to sacrifice himself for someone (or at least get hurt on someone else's behalf to protect them), more specifically Mihawk and Crocodile. And let's be real, right now, Buggy probably wants nothing more than to run away from the two before they do actually kill him.

I just

Buggy simps. I do not understand you. I don't understand how you've reached your reading of the character.

[crehador]

This might be a dumb question, but how do you decide which pov to write in? Is it predetermined, or it happens as you write? Is there a pov you default to, or is it s conscious decision?

not a dumb question at all! but question for your question: do you mean pov as in first, second, or third person or as in ichiro pov vs samatoki pov? (i'm assuming you're here for the smic anon because what else do i even write these days lol)

if it's the former, i pretty much exclusively write in close third for fanfic (and in general)

nothing against first person at all, it's just not my bag. i did write quite a lot of original fiction in first person back in the day, and maybe it's something i'll explore again one day, but right now i'm pretty solidly attached to third

as for how i decided, i suspect it had a lot to do with the simple fact that i mostly write fanfiction these days and fanfiction is generally in third. not a very deep answer lol, but that and i simply find i prefer it are probably the main reasons

if it's the latter! i think i write ichiro pov a lot more than samatoki pov, and it's really not deliberate. it's more a matter of habit than anything, i think. like for dailies specifically, these shorter fics, i think i'm so used to writing ichiro pov sometimes that i just default to it

but i really enjoy writing samatoki pov too! would love to do it more. should really do it more lmao

of course it also depends on the fic in question, like sometimes there is very much a reason to go one way or another. if the plot hinges on one character not knowing something that the other does know, then which of them is the pov character changes the story greatly

outsider pov is also something i find really fun! like sometimes it's not just ichiro pov or samatoki pov. sometimes it's inexplicably hitoya pov lol

ahem long rambling aside!

tl;dr between first, second, and third person i don't generally need to decide which to write in because these days i write pretty much exclusively in third; between ichiro and samatoki, i default to ichiro pov a lot but would love to write samatoki pov more and in some cases it definitely depends on what the story actually is

[maliro-t]

as a bona fide vaxleth lover i am more confused than ever about how they are portrayed on the animated series i'm not gonna lie 😭

[the-hurdy-gurdy-man]

tagged by @hoshimagico ‼️

rules: list your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, and then tag ten people! (yes. separate. orz)

The first half are characters who are my type, the second half are characters who on some aspect, I identify with, but beyond that, these are not in particular order, since a lot of these fandoms I am no longer active in (or just like this one character)

Itadori Yuuji (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Kyle Broflovski (South Park)

Trafalgar Law (One Piece)

Waver Velvet (Fate/Zero)

Kamado Tanjiro (Kimetsu no Yaiba)

Hiiro Amagi (Ensemble Stars!!)

Grian (Hermitcraft)

Itoshi Rin (Blue Lock)

Makima (Chainsaw Man)

Komaeda Nagito (Danganronpa 2)

gonna tag anyone I can think off off the top of my head??? let's see. Of course this is optional 👍👍 only do if you want!

@sleepyblessing @saechisei @distortedwhite @letheldosage @monarchbatz @kitkatkatjes @metanoeins

[blizzardz]

Love seeing things that are very close to something I'm working on but not quite exactly the same so I'm always like I'M BRINGING SMTH NEW TO THE TABLE AHAHAHAHH

[nightwingsaregoths]

Sometimes, it is necessary to go beyond the canon material, which is scanty in the first place, to the fanon, which is only slightly more abundant in information. This is Stonemover of the NightWings. He is as young as five to as old as thirty-five years of age. He has black eyes in canon, but has green eyes in many fanfictions. He is noted to have an accent. When he has parents, they don't take care of him very much, and when he doesn't have parents, he's obviously an orphan. His mother tends to be dead more often than his father, and his father has yet to be written to be very kind. He generally is an only child, but may have a younger sibling that he took care of in his youth. He has been paired off with at least two male characters and at least three female characters, which include self-inserts and OCs. He has been shown to be in monogamous and polygamous marriages. He has approximately more than 1 child due to his tendency to occasionally have a child after Sunny. When he has grandchildren, they tend to be a boy and a girl, and so far, only from Sunny. For employment, he occupies a position on a council in at least two fanfictions, rules the Scorpion Den alongside Thorn, is a hermit at Jade Mountain, an accountant (when human), a scribe, or an artist. His cause of death tends to be from petrification, with all times except one being from his own magic. More information may be needed, and any additions are welcome.

[no-light-left-on]

being part of the dishonored fandom for years is so interesting, seeing the shifts in preferences in ships, takes on characters and plotpoints, the way characters and pairings are depicted and the way stories and aus adapt with times and trends

[curiouscrystals]

Accidentally saw part of the drama with someone hating on Crystal and let me say as a Crystal stan I've been seeing shit like this about her for years and it reeks of misogyny for me, this is also why I avoid her tag

Like. I love Lazlo I swear I do, he and Crystal are both my favourite characters, together and apart. In my interpretation they're cool supportive both bi/demisexual friends and colleagues that gradually grow into more. But isn't it a coincidence how a girl with stronger, maybe more "masculine" so to say features and also with some lore that may hint she's imperfect (regardless of how you interpret the Strangerville book thing, although I've seen these shitty takes way before it even came out), is made out to be a Bitch(tm) who doesn't deserve Lazlo, yet I've most often observed that he's shipped with some girls who are "cute and angelic" instead (nothing wrong with these ships but you know what I mean, and a lot of the time these female characters are sort of juxtaposed to Crystal as if Lazlo deserves better than a Bitch like her). It reminds me of the mean ex-girlfriend trope in wattpad fanfics. Why is this still a thing in 2024?

Like I myself gave Crystal some personality but she's mostly just a blank townie. Where do yall get this from and why is she being villainised so much, and not even in a cool villain but in the 2000s misogynistic shitty ex girlfriend way. She's not a bad person for not liking him back in the game too, come on. She can either grow to like him later, or not like him this way and have a different sexuality or preferences which is fine too. I suspect some of those people love Lazlo as more than just a character... 😬 (which I get trust me. Fictional crushes are fun. Lazlo is like chef's kiss. But check your misogyny babes and touch some grass pls why are you competing with a fictional woman for a fictional man)