#Marie posts

[marie-cuttlefish]

Watch me boop Frye.

[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.

[fuzzyoctoplushie]

Please stop liking this. Theres official, complete, clean cutouts of all of them now. Also I hate that this is my most liked post. I put no effort into this. I’ve updated my resources drive to have the official and clean cutouts in there. Please look there instead.

Grand Festival Idol transparent cutouts~ (of their new renders which were already transparent I just edited them each to have their own pic)

All of them except Big Man because I do not have the strength and willpower to do that much editing😭

Free to use in whatever! No credit needed. Also, the full image is underneath the cut!

[candyje11yfish]

🎶suffer no fools!💥

[jay-wasstuff]

[waterberry-strawmelon]

The Bad Kids simply cannot resist the raw sexual prowess of autistic swag

[proselles]

you know what i think is really cool about dungeon meshi? the fact that it really handles the whole 'how our food is made' so gracefully. in this day and age, we've become so disconnected from how our food is produced and distributed that the thought of how our food is obtained brings disgust to many people (and for the big industry farms, it honestly should! but im referring to our existence as omnivores in the food chain). marcille acted ridiculous whenever the thought of killing a monster for food is brought up, but honestly, she's a great model for how many people nowadays react whenever they have to truly think about what they are consuming/are brought to a meat farm.

senshi shows the characters (and us, the audience) about the process of making food in a respectful, genuine way to the creatures he has used to produce nourishing meals. by explaining the nutrition and benefits of each creature, he creates and healthy relationship between the consumers and the meal they have. the show really brings a new dimension of respect for each of our meals. truly the bob ross/marie kondo of cooking.

[marie-cuttlefish]

I did this to myself...

[critical-role]

Hello everyone! I've been inactive for quite a while but I'm slowly working on updating the links page and posting more often! Please tell me if there are things you'd like to see listed in the links, allies, antagonists, misc, etc. Thanks yall!

[softhe4rted]

to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”

[jasontoddsguns]

Frankenstein, I can’t build you a wife. No. It’s not because I’d be creating an abomination against god. I’ve already done that. It’s a women’s rights issue Frankenstein. Maybe even grooming if you want to get technical

[dollyticia]

✩ ⋆｡° 𖦹 ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧⋆ ˚｡⋆𖦹⋆｡°✩⋆

the trees, like lungs, filling with air

my sister, the mean one, pulling my hair

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

Jim Beaver is a treasure ...

[candyje11yfish]

Live in the moment! It's now or never for Team Present!

[mari-lair]

another 'i am not cleaning this' wip

[clownowo]

not pictured: Acht flashback to growing up hearing DJ Octavio say vaguely gay shit about the captain of the Squidbeak Splatoon