#Adapting to trends

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[mortal-maebh]

percy: please help me find my dad

dionysus:

[payasita]

FOLKLORICO MIIKU CAMPEONA DEL MUNDOOO

[odairfilm]

i think the movie did exceptionally well in showing how lucy gray has always been able to control snakes (her being the songbird), but snow being a snake could never control the songbirds and how he grew to have this hatred and fear of songbirds which ended up consuming him. like his paranoia of his inability to control songbirds, which is made worse by the fact that mockingjays aren't even supposed to exist and in that way defy the capitol etc etc, literally ends up controlling *him* until his death

[miss-americanbi]

don’t know who i relate to more: aziraphale who’s had the same haircut since before time even started or crowley who changes his look every five seconds

[asteriass]

The progression of the “Villainess” trope

Y'know, thinking about it, it's very ironic how a trope made to subvert one's expectations & give more depth to 1 dimensional villains in cliche novels by "humanizing" them more & providing their side of the story, eventually became oversaturated with cartoony villains & flat MCs. Thus, completely failing in its goal to "subvert expectations" as it too turned into mind numbing cliche, becoming the exact opposite of what the troupe initially aimed to achieved.

I am talking about "Villainess" series.

I remember seeing a twitter post a while back saying how a lot of the villainess stuff the authors & studios are putting out nowadays lack any sort of nuance when it comes to its characters. And how a lot authors simply switch the roles of the cast (Like: OG MC -> villain | OG villain -> MC) & call it a day. And I 100% agree with that.

This troupe kinda ended up becoming the dictionary definition of the saying, "You either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” lmao

What could've been an opportunity to write nuanced villains & morally ambiguous main characters, turned EXACTLY into the cliche it was pocking fun at.

In an attempt to reveal how the MCs of your typical cliche novels can also be in the wrong at times, flaws that the story & its (in-canon) fandom may purposefully ignore, the villainess stories ended up doing EXACT SAME thing EXECPT this time it's the "villains" doing it rather than the OG FL or OG ML of the “OG novel”. In an attempt to stop cliche villains from remaining cliche, while we did ended up getting slightly more nuance for the “OG villain” characters, in the process, the OG MCs turned exactly into those flat cliche villains.

Alot of villainess series poke fun at the troupes they themself use, but not in a satirical way.

So many villainess series poke fun at the OG novels for being problematic or stupid & the fandom of said novels basically ignoring its flaws & problems, only gushing over the OG FL. Which yea, is nice & all, but y'know... that's exactly what those villainess series do too. SO MANYY of them borderline have the FLs participating in literal slavery. & More often than not have a borderline colonizer ML. Not to mention the numerous which carry weird undertones of colorism, and many such other things. All the while, the fandom of these villainess series continue to ignore their glaring problems & flaws & instead just gush over the FL and ML.

And I'm not even saying this in a hating sort of way (well, aside from the series with issues of colorism, orientalism, etc). Moreover, this is all not to say that one can not enjoy such stories, because admittedly, there is indeed fun in just reading a simple and familiar story line. But this is all more me being intrigued by this trope’s almost ironic progression as companies rush their staff to produce something which they think will be able to ride the waves of the current trends, only for the vast majority to simply drown in a sea of mediocrity (with many even being canceled due to this)

[Though I mean, something as simple as villainess tropes won’t be the only one to go through this. Like a lot of Shakespearean works, a subversion of the classics & typical troupes back then, got turned into ones of those classics and by many are now considered cliche. And that's just scrapping the bottom of the barrel!]

[no-passaran]

"We need more weird art" you can't even handle musicals because the story is told through music and dance

[nightcolorz]

Queen of the damned (2002) 🤝 Lestat the musical

Having Marius (character with long blonde hair) be balding/bald in a cast full of characters with long ass wigs for no discernible reason besides spite

[reanimatedgh0ul]

ngl if the rumors abt dp getting a live adaption are true i kinda want it to be bad but like in a fun way

[morrigans-umbrella]

i will admit to being nervous about the nevermovie bc i find musicals are very hit or miss for me, but i think one of the funniest (and also neatest) things they could do is have morrigan self awarely comment on and refuse to partake in the songs at first and as she grows more accustomed to nevermoor and the whimsy of the world, slowly begin to partake and include herself in the songs

[bakudreamwriter]

[leahthedreamer]

Season two coming in January, double cour which means it’s probably getting into volume 4 as well. Winter season matching the winter setting at that point in the novel oh Toho we love you

[artfulacrostic]

memes for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, 1x02: "I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom"

*SPOILERS*

[rapunziedameron]

this constant interpretation that writers seem to go with, this understanding that Leia is quite important to Poe, but the way few writers seem to be able to follow that line to its natural conclusion that Poe is similarly important to Leia - gives a very unsympathetic reading of Leia for me. The idea that she "deals with" him, or thinks he's arrogant, or questions whether he's a good fit for leading the Resistance (or, apparently, thinks he's vain), really doesn't paint their dynamic in a good light - and I feel like really dismisses the surrogate mother/son relationship they have, and brushes aside the foundation of subtle affection that Carrie and Oscar worked into their performances which made tlj so good.

There is conflict you could go with between them! The fact that Leia wants to bring Ren back - how Poe might feel about that! It'd be a neat full circle moment to Leia's conflicting feelings about Luke believing and accepting Vader's redemption, when he'd tortured her and been present when they destroyed Alderaan, because it'd be placing her firmly in Luke's shoes. But instead, all canon seems to want to deliver is the concept that Leia means the world to Poe, and that Poe means very little to Leia.

[odairfilm]

thomas (about newt) as this quote from if we were villains:

'were you in love with him?' 'yes,' i say, simply. 'yes, i was.' it's not the whole truth. the whole truth is, i'm in love with him still.'

[jesncin]

Love Lunar Boy, love your DC art but where's Mom of War? Rani and Sadie were so precious!

Aah thank you very much!! It means so much to me when people grow an attachment to many of my stories, including Mom of War :')

Outside of the short comic we made for Power and Magic’s Queer Witches Anthology volume 2 , we were originally going to make Mom of War the 2nd book after Lunar Boy as a part of our two book deal. Editors (including the one we worked with) were intrigued by the story early on which was awesome! But as time passed while we worked on Lunar Boy, trends change and the market looks much more different than back then. A story like Mom of War sadly doesn't fit what the market looks like right now. So we went with another story.

I still have Mom of War as a backup story as something to work on in the future, since those characters mean a lot to me! Whenever I tried to write the story into something concise, it ended up way too big. I haven't found that "eureka" story moment for it yet. Hopefully that changes someday.