#I'm not tagging the characters

[trashiiplant]

another one of these but rw

[lizzerswillpoststuffmethinks]

I think I need to stop drawing

[jin-zixun]

Ok I just... Alright so Xue Yang. Takes revenge against the entire Chang Clan, took everything away that Chang Ci'an had because he took Xue Yang's finger, because Xue Yang's own person was all that he had. Xue Yang didn't have any family, so whatever Chang Ci'an had (ie his own family and sect) was equivalent to what Xue Yang lost in his own mind.

Xue Yang is actually the same as Nie Huaisang. Or rather, Nie Huaisang is the same as Xue Yang. Nie Huaisang takes revenge on Jin Guangyao in the same way because Jin Guangyao took away Nie Mingjue and Nie Mingjue was all that he had (whether that's true or not or if he's actually justified in thinking that... Not the point) Remembering that Nie Huaisang was only a half-brother though and the brothers lost their father young... I think to Nie Huaisang it would be easy to see Nie Mingjue as all he had.

But I also think, post-canon, he'd have to go through realizing he actually had a lot more to lose. Because the difference between him and Xue Yang is mostly one of circumstances, and the position of higher privilege tends to come with a certain level of ignorance...

But I think there's something to it, that through his revenge schemes Nie Huaisang doesn't become Jin Guangyao, a person Nie Mingjue had a complicated relationship with and couldn't understand and ultimately wanted dead because he wouldn't follow Nie Mingjue's path for him and do what Nie Mingjue told him was righteous. He becomes Xue Yang, the person Nie Mingjue unequivocally wanted dead for his crimes (equivalent to the crimes Nie Huaisang commits) to the point where he was willing to turn on his sworn brother for not killing him extrajudicially against his father's orders.

And also, maybe without even realizing it, Xue Yang went from being completely on his own to being considered someone who belonged to Jin Guangyao enough to be worth killing in revenge. And that's kind of tragically beautiful tbh.

[duin-i-guess]

I made a tier list of how i think aphmau characters would react and turn down your confession

[lu-is-not-ok]

Realised I never posted this, so I decided to rectify that fact and spread my Poly-bus agenda.

[krypthed]

uhh yeah uh yeah uh uh yeah. yeah

[loveletterworm]

It is done (enough)!

I would hype it up more but this is really really simple. It randomly generates a set of symbols, colors, and a word, and then the expected thing to do with those is you draw some sort of character based off the result you get. So it's just an art challenge toy thingy.

There are also some practical features like you can lock parts of the result in place to rerandomize the rest, or hide parts of the generation you don't care about (like if you want to pick your own colors or hate the words being there)

You can try it out over on itch.io!

It should run in browser, but there's also a downloadable version for Windows if you want to use it offline. (No mac/linux versions for now, because I don't have appropriate computers to test those on and I...don't want to deal with mac's developer accounts or whatever their problem is...)

Here's something I made from one of the results I got for the sake of example:

(It's a bit of a rushed drawing sorry I just wanted to get the actual generator out there)

I hope everyone has fun with it :]

[kottkrig]

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

[galaxylover06]

Their name is Barry and they can't escape the digital cir

[strawbunnydoesart]

✨💫Quick WIP of @kianamaiart 's lil magical girl character! I literally love her design sm (her monotone and "I'm done with life" expressions are my favorite shdgjshaksjsj) ⭐️

It's a bit messy and I need to work on the contrast more so it's easier to read,, but I think the overall composition and colors are nice :)) I might work on it a bit more but ehhhhh what if I said I don't wanna

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[littledragonx777]

So I was watching David Baron play security breach with randomized missions and I got to thinking. Playing the game like this requires a lot of deloading the map and time travel. I started to wonder what aspects the characters would have to pull this off and I came to the conclusion that Freddy is a void player (jumping while getting into Freddy causes the map to deload.) and Gregory is a time player. (You can only pick up items to move time outside of Freddy.) Moon hates it if you time travel and will hunt you through the timeline if you do. So he's also a time player. Now is sun and therefore eclipse also a time player like moon or do they have a different aspect? If they have a different aspect it would have to be something that works with time so maybe space?

Also what are their classes? Would Gregory be a bard? Because he's being a menace and messing with the timeline for funsies thus mocking the timeline? Yeah thinking about it like that he seems like a bard of time.

[humming-fly]

He was feeling left out

and the higher rez stills, since gifs always export as if you're sending messages through a metal can~

[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.

[duin-i-guess]

If anyone is curious, this is how a randomized Aphmau danganronpa went,

this is probably obvious but originally Sasha was the protag and Dante was the support, but both died so I spun the wheel and got Garroth as the new protag and Lucinda as the new Support.

[bllmak]

house of cards