#HE FUCKING SUCKS

[haroldherald]

where did people get the narrative that harold fans are annoying and glaze him from because if anything i think i hate him the most

[pinkiepie20000]

how do you look at arlecchino and go "yea she makes out with dottore" like WHAT... HOW DOES THAT CROSS YR MIND.. HOW DOES THAT HOMOSEXUAL KISSING THAT THING CROSS YR MIND EVER??

[hearts401]

Woooh you wanna hear abt kud Freddy bully so bad ooooohhhh

[rivvvyp]

Women love unnecessarily large dogs and naming them stupid shit

[eugenes-axe]

I hate chase from house md

[zappedbyzabka]

Ay this guy knows whats up

“Don’t hate on Bobby because Bobby likes Johnny”

[butchmarner]

My hatred for Kevin Bieksa knows no bounds

[jackalsprey]

Stole this from someone can't remember who, but I'm making a Cell Block Tango parody with the apprentices + Adam

And because I don't like Logan he is going to be the one speaking in Hungarian but really it's just a bunch of bullshit gibberish

[dax-vs-general-hospital]

Remember when people were saying Dex was gonna be the "New Jason?"

Ha.

Haha.

[lvrhughes]

i fucking hate gudas get rid of him idc

[highfiverandom]

I just realized that Jesus could fly because he lived before Isaac Newton invented gravity. If only I had the ability to break free from these mortal toils that we call forces. Fuck you Isaac Newton.

[evilwriter37]

“I have my own thoughts, unlike you liberals” is real rich coming from a woman who got brainwashed by a podcast.

[the-king-of-staten-island]

love love love Pete Davidson and he got a 10 inch penis 

thank you Kanye for all the great things you say

[wayfarerxiii]

very cool of epic seven to finally released Schniel as a playable character and then make sure he is incredibly niche and not even good in that niche

[dis--mayed]

My 9 year old step nephew threw an orange at me, not trying to hit the one-eyed cat sleeping on my lap, of course, put my mom's massage gun on top of my other cat's head, and then went up to the little kitten my brother rescued and cornered it, putting it in it's face and "beat boxing," he claims, where he was making gun noises at it..

I didn't see the kitten, at first, and I thought he was pretending to terrorize it because he likes to pretend to do things to make me upset... so when I was done putting things away, like 20 seconds later, I realized what he was actually doing. I should have known because he wasn't looking back at me, with a shit-eating grin, like he does when he's pretending to do awful shit.

[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.