#And they are so noisy

[supportershy]

#mu qing #this is why I say his fans are worse than his haters #at least his haters are at least somewhat correct about his personality and things he has done in canon #mq stans just made up a whole separate guy (themselves as a self insert) and get mad at anyone who views him differently #and that’s without even going into how they mischaracterize xl & fx as a result of shit they made up

via (@taihua)

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.

[mr-malumm]

Rewatched episode 1, have we considered this?

[chloesimaginationthings]

How Jax found Gangle’s figure collection in TADC,,

[fer3112]

Based on recent events

[banghwa]

You son of a bitch. You have any idea what kind of trouble you're in?

THE BATMAN (2022) - dir. Matt Reeves

[flickering-nightfall]

Experiments with pupils and mouths that devolved into shenanigans :)

[turbofanatic]

Intercepting another one of those fucking UFO's again in contested airspace.

[kakushusband]

Gently squeeze your f/o like a cat. To hear them squeak. Make them let out a little offended eh !

Pro/comship dni. Read pinned for sharing f/os.

[outofcontextdanandphil]

"Phil, you're so diva and for what?"

[dailyhogz]

308. post-party headache

[oreocheesecakestan]

Made a lil audio edit uwu

[casualavocados]

…It's nice. You're so noisy. […] Actually, it'd be better if we died together. That way, neither of us would have to suffer the pain of losing the other, right? Shut up.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 13

[iamharryhale]

Hen, looking at Buck and Eddie sitting on the couch: What’s wrong with them?

Eddie: Had an argument.

Chimney: But you’re still holding hand.

Buck: Why of course

[bisexualrapline]

100 days of kim seokjin (80/100)

[warningsine]

[masao-micchi]

Also i adopted my cats little brother and HES SO SCRUNKLY i almost named him jon but i have an uncle named jon so say hello to Elias HSHZJAAHHDJ yes hes named after that guy my littol eli boy

Hes so tiny but he makes up for it by being loud BZHAHAH