#Fuck me this sucks

[a-timely-problem]

...who'd have thought that my majors are actually challenging me academically? BC this essay has me almost throwing the towel

[houseofwolvess]

i think im gonna have to pull an all nighter to finish all of these stupid fucking govt worksheets

[owlparliament]

lesbians will really say they’ve never fallen in love and don’t think they’re capable of it while cultivating a deeply close long-distance friendship with someone they had a monstrous crush on 7 years ago where they’ve both admitted to each other that they regret not having kissed that summer since they both still dream about them 7 years down the line and now they’re 13 hours away.

[tossawary]

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.

[garnet-xx-rose]

Yes, I’ve done the work analyzing this relationship’s problematic traits and I’ve come to the educated conclusion that I still want them to fuck

[notyourregslut]

Who’s down for fun🌚🤭💦

Hmu daddies🍆💦

[sultrygaze]

[saragrosie]

Sketching while streaming s5...

Jonathan Sims I will learn to draw you (this is my doing. I could draw him however I want and I choose to stick with an image of him in my brain that is difficult for me to draw. Masochism.)

Not s5 Mahtins below I enjoyed drawing cuz hes neat:

(Edit: I yassified Martin in the do not separate cuz I wanted his hair fluffier)

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[thelastevilregal]

Noooo they got rid of death by gummy

[lovebunnie]

cassandra nova sticking her weird fingers in magnetos brain to get an idea of how to control him and use his power for her own gain and instead all she sees is memories of him fucking her twin brother nasty

[tapeworrmart]

What if James was always onimously soaked through as a nod to his ending

[notyourregslut]

I’m bored 🥺, who’s down for fun🌚💦🍆

Serious ones should dm, discount is ongoing 🤭

Zangi: 1098623946

Telegram: Ur_unfazedBitch

Session: Ur_unfazedBitch

Come let’s cum together 🍆💦🌚

[sultrygaze]

[sandflakedraws]

re : how each brother reacts learning that they can't go back

you'll have to pry the "all the Brozone Bros knew what happened at the tree" headcanon outta my cold, dead dead dead hands.

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her