#Mediocre

[skullfuckasswhore]

[importantkidspyfarm]

Am I crazy or is Immortan Joe kinda. . .

His power. His stare. His attitude.

Just in Furiosa, not Fury Road.

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I hate people who are like “AI allows me to do these things I wanted to do but can’t because I suck at it” do you think that every person before AI didn’t suck at what they were good at? Do you think it’s worth stealing other people’s passions so you can pretend you’re good at something instead of trying?

[asteriass]

The progression of the “Villainess” trope

Y'know, thinking about it, it's very ironic how a trope made to subvert one's expectations & give more depth to 1 dimensional villains in cliche novels by "humanizing" them more & providing their side of the story, eventually became oversaturated with cartoony villains & flat MCs. Thus, completely failing in its goal to "subvert expectations" as it too turned into mind numbing cliche, becoming the exact opposite of what the troupe initially aimed to achieved.

I am talking about "Villainess" series.

I remember seeing a twitter post a while back saying how a lot of the villainess stuff the authors & studios are putting out nowadays lack any sort of nuance when it comes to its characters. And how a lot authors simply switch the roles of the cast (Like: OG MC -> villain | OG villain -> MC) & call it a day. And I 100% agree with that.

This troupe kinda ended up becoming the dictionary definition of the saying, "You either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” lmao

What could've been an opportunity to write nuanced villains & morally ambiguous main characters, turned EXACTLY into the cliche it was pocking fun at.

In an attempt to reveal how the MCs of your typical cliche novels can also be in the wrong at times, flaws that the story & its (in-canon) fandom may purposefully ignore, the villainess stories ended up doing EXACT SAME thing EXECPT this time it's the "villains" doing it rather than the OG FL or OG ML of the “OG novel”. In an attempt to stop cliche villains from remaining cliche, while we did ended up getting slightly more nuance for the “OG villain” characters, in the process, the OG MCs turned exactly into those flat cliche villains.

Alot of villainess series poke fun at the troupes they themself use, but not in a satirical way.

So many villainess series poke fun at the OG novels for being problematic or stupid & the fandom of said novels basically ignoring its flaws & problems, only gushing over the OG FL. Which yea, is nice & all, but y'know... that's exactly what those villainess series do too. SO MANYY of them borderline have the FLs participating in literal slavery. & More often than not have a borderline colonizer ML. Not to mention the numerous which carry weird undertones of colorism, and many such other things. All the while, the fandom of these villainess series continue to ignore their glaring problems & flaws & instead just gush over the FL and ML.

And I'm not even saying this in a hating sort of way (well, aside from the series with issues of colorism, orientalism, etc). Moreover, this is all not to say that one can not enjoy such stories, because admittedly, there is indeed fun in just reading a simple and familiar story line. But this is all more me being intrigued by this trope’s almost ironic progression as companies rush their staff to produce something which they think will be able to ride the waves of the current trends, only for the vast majority to simply drown in a sea of mediocrity (with many even being canceled due to this)

[Though I mean, something as simple as villainess tropes won’t be the only one to go through this. Like a lot of Shakespearean works, a subversion of the classics & typical troupes back then, got turned into ones of those classics and by many are now considered cliche. And that's just scrapping the bottom of the barrel!]

[saudade-esplin]

Sean felices. Las personas felices no pierden el tiempo haciendo el mal a los demás, el mal es para gente infeliz, frustrada, mediocre, envidiosa. ✒️

[first-class-feral]

Suffer with me.

[alexor132]

Chicken Little (2005) - Walt Disney Company

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008) - Cartoon Network Studios

Home (2015) - Dreamworks Pictures

[bambinamoon]

Conformarse con la mediocridad es señal de baja autoestima.

BambinaMoon

[thearunadragon]

Two Sketches

Eragon and Bachel. I have some Murtagh art that I just haven’t posted because my camera is broken.

[st4rsinthenight]

★stupid little comic I made★

cw: drowning mentions:

⭐| INDIVIDUAL SHOTS ↓

[vintage-tigre]

Normal is only a setting on the washing machine

[error501blog]

Dragons Rising Season 2 is just adequate (and I feel bad)

[sagessge]

Silent expectations

I feel the perishing world

On my shoulders

The moment I hear the voice

Of silent expectations

Yet the praise was never heard

I hate the sky,I say

When I look back and see a pack

Expecting me to open my wings

Their eyes acting as dumbles

Down fell I!

On the ground

With ever so many wounds

As I lie on the ground

I could not fall anymore!

The fear was gone!

And I hear them screaming

Birds are meant to fly!

But what I want to be here on the ground?

What if I want to feel the sun on my chest?

And watch the winter freeze me to death?

What if I want to just wait

For the demise to arrive?

What if without even living and flying

I wish to die?

So please,take the flashlight away!

Your silent expectations slay me

Again and again

Every one of yours

"Ofcourse,this was inevitable"

Causes me to seep into the ground

More and more

I gave it all

My blood,sweat and tears

'Tis not gifted

'Tis not inevitable

And I don't fly

What if I can't fly?

Why if I can't turn?

What if they all view

How big of a loser I am?

How afraid I am?

My eyes speak something my lips can't utter

Please! Please! Please!

For once in my life

Let me be mediocre

Let me be me without any expectations

And let me be content

And fly and rest on my own terms

Please,just for once

[orkbutch]

controversial headcanon perhaps but i.... think karlach would be stinky

[oneinchbarrier]