#Adapting to trends

[diginp2020]

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[mortal-maebh]

percy: please help me find my dad

dionysus:

[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

[no-passaran]

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

[dazaistabletop]

BSD Season 4 Character Sheets

[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

[un-pearable]

as true as the jokes about “everyone wants to rewrite ninjago” are i feel like smthn people forget when complaining about the inconsistencies of the show is that…. it wasn’t planned? it’s not like most other animated shows lately - it didn’t start with a deeply fleshed out world or a meticulously designed pitch bible with grandiose plans for a long-term story or character arcs. the ninja don’t originally get their powers from heredity because they weren’t hereditary powers yet. the magic system doesn’t make sense bc they literally just made it up as they went! they go back and forth on stuff like whether non-elementals can learn spinjitzu bc it’s a collaborative piece of media made by people with vastly different levels of control over the story, the animation, the sets, etc. that varied over the course of the series. it’s totally understandable and exciting to see so many people reworking the early stuff with the lore and logic later seasons introduced but i personally feel that… if you’re doing that. you need to understand why the show is like that instead of writing it off as being bad and shitty. it was working with what it had. it’s only what it is now because of that awkward troubleshooting phase, not in spite of it

[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!]

[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

[artfulacrostic]

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

*SPOILERS*

[crown-ov-horns]

Fine, I'll admit it. With long hair...

He's very attractive. He really is.

But, he's a harebrained trend chaser, who will butcher his good looks for fickle fashion.

He also looks like he should be wearing a kilt, not a cloak. Because of the long red hair, not David's nationality.

[hanzajesthanza]

people will be like: “wow, i never knew the witcher was a 90s property”

yennefer literally wears a black velvet choker.

[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.'

[s4pphoiduser]

in a world with an aftg show (because it Has to be a show, not a movie) seth would have a Pretty Guy actor playing him who looked even prettier when he was sneering or scowling and people would make edits of him with the velocity + slo-mo effects and be like "i can fix him"

[dreamgirledward]

honestly have no idea how far the iwtv series is going to go in terms of more book adaptations (given the fact that the mayfair witches is already a thing it's safe to say anything's possible as this point) but i have to say. if they do end up ever casting for akasha. i really hope it's an iraqi actress, and just generally a middle eastern actress at the literal very least. it's very clear in the books where the ancient vampires all come from and it would just be reaaalllyy cool if their diversity was properly highlighted