#Ollie is a good character

[the-jazzy-cool-cat]

Ok so i'm saying this as a queer whoman (Ace), hating Ollie Cheng just because he makes Molly canonicly not a lesbian is fucking stupid.

Saying that Ollie Cheng is a bad character just because he made your ship not canon is fucking dumb.

His character arc is solid, his backstory is interesting, his dinamic with Molly actualy makes sense.

And the show doesn't even focus that much on their relationship .

And lets face it if he was a lesbian you would fucking adore him and everything about his exitence, I know it's frustrating for us queer People to be shoved into the background once again but you shoulnt hate a character just because they are not queer.

Ollie is actualy a good character and doesn't deserve to be hated for making Molly not gay and making Molly+ Andrea or Molly+ Libby not canon.

You should love the characters for the characters themselfs not for shiping reasons.

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

There's just something about them that makes me happy

Love it when my media gives me a guy, and then gives me that guy again! Peak design!

[toxooz]

been sick as a mf dawg but i managed to draw the ol Ollie n Kari halloween costumes for this year🤘

[quinntheautisticwolf]

Hi uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just like stimboards thanks

No idea if you were asking for a stimboard so here’s a random one!

Baked Goods Stimboard

No Gifs Belong To Me

[dizzybizz]

can i interest you in some of my ryuu screenshots.. a bit of a ryuu appreciation post if you will...

his design is so .. simple n kinda basic but he has so much charm,, i'm endlessly charmed by him it's literally so embarrassing... he is just very endearing and cute 👉👈 what a polite young man

and here is me trying to get a clean screenshot of this pose without the dialogue box, a saga:

i'm sad to say that this saga has no real conclusion (yet...) the wind-up animation is long enough for him to start babbling so i'm doubtful i will ever capture the screenshot i want. anyway i love this guy more than i could've ever prepared myself for 😭

[strawberrytalia]

mia dearden art 💋 bc she deserves all the love and she’s an iconic 2000’s girl

[visual description under read more]

[The first picture is a face drawing of Mia Dearden, outlined in pinkish-red pencil. Her light blonde hair is wavy and loose and falls to her shoulders. She has big brown eyes and is wearing an open smile, with glossy lips. Her cheeks are flushed pink. Her eyebrows are pointed up.]

[The second picture is a more simple 3/4 angle drawing of Mia in a t-shirt, with her hand raised in a gesture. It is outlined in pinkish-red, and her eyes are closed. Her mouth is open. Her shirt is a light lilac color. Her wavy blonde hair is pulled high in a ponytail. There’s a speech bubble besides her with an asterisk that says *explaining why Avril Lavigne is the best artist in history.* To the bottom corner of the picture, there’s a mini drawing of Ollie with his green feather hat and goatee. His eyes are closed and there are Z’s floating above him to indicate he’s asleep listening to Mia talk. On the other side of Mia, there’s a sentence and arrow pointed at her shirt saying “Cissie’s shirt” which Mia stole/borrowed.]

[myxineye]

yeah!!!! artfight time!!

im team seafoam for this year :D

link to my artfight profile!

[geneticdriftwood]

i’m having thoughts about batman vs green arrow, and how the central characters shape the stories their supporting casts are allowed

like, in batman comics, bruce’s story is about being permanently shaped by a grief he can never move on from (his parent’s deaths, and later jason’s death). the premise of batman, bruce’s unyielding dedication to his mission, requires that bruce always be living in the shadow of his formative trauma, always responding to it. structurally, he can never be allowed to heal (because a happy bruce wayne isn’t batman), which means he can’t really grow. his supporting cast can develop and grow in their own right, but they can’t leave (bc they’re batman characters), so they stay stuck in the same unhealthy dynamics with bruce. this creates a narrative paradigm where positive change rarely sticks, cycles aren’t broken, and the easiest story to tell is a tragedy. bruce isn’t allowed a happy ending, so nobody who loves him gets one either.

now compare this with green arrow, where ollie’s stories are so often about having the humility, courage, and determination to take accountability for your mistakes and change for the better. transformative change is his whole deal! it’s the point of the island! and his relationships with his supporting cast reflect this. ollie messes up, he learns from it, and his relationships with other characters develop and improve accordingly. the point of the story is that ollie changes, making change possible for everyone. and so green arrow books present a paradigm where characters are allowed to grow in ways that stick, where harm can be learned from instead of brushed aside, and where happy endings aren’t guaranteed but do largely feel possible. yk?

[rmbunnie]

I am alone on this barren earth (Jason Todd liker and Mia Dearden liker who honestly thinks issues 69-72 of the 2001 Green Arrow run are fun and good and would really like to talk about them beyond "Jason Todd was ooc and irredeemable there because he was trauma-dumping on Mia but also everything he said was fake and made up and he was manipulating her to become his sidekick and he blew up her school in retaliation because she didn't so really we should ignore the whole comic as bad writing /or agree he should just be read as an sadistic sidekick killer" (None of which is true and over half of which is directly stated to be false in the comic's text) but all people ever have to say about the comic is weird wrong takes about the three pages in which the gym fight happens ripped out of the very interesting and fun surrounding context)

[lanaluthorlang]

smallville clark frustrates me to no end, but he also has the prettiest smile I’ve ever seen so that makes everything alright in the end

[the5n00k]

Ollie Chen and the Concept of Identity and Self Worth

Not as long as the other analyses so I won't cut it this time

Quite a few people have boiled down this character's entire arc to prejudice and unlearning taught behaviors but I refuse to believe that is all there is to this character. Especially after one of his biggest episodes came After his redemption arc and explored his insecurities. Which is where I come in and lay them out for you in a long, convoluted, half asleep essay detailing what makes this character so interesting and personally relatable to myself! (Sadly)

Ollie is a good kid. He was raised to believe and build his entire personality and life off of the idea that he is the good guy and ghosts are the bad guys. He's disappointed in himself when he thinks he's failed the "greater good" of Brighton by losing the story sprite in Book Marks the Sprite. It's not hard to see he has a major hero complex and believes that if he's not saving the day himself, he's disappointing everyone. It's not ever spoken but it could be a product of his father.

Ruben Chen is ALSO very goal oriented and on a one track mission to rid the world of ghosts with more passion than his other family members. He's the one that single handedly convinced the entire family that ghosts are bad because of a traumatic experience. By failing to capture a ghost, Ollie is failing his dad. Everyone at some point in their lives has wanted to make their parents (or somebody they look up to) proud. And it's devastating to him to believe that he doesn't. He reminds me of Varian from Tangled the Series in that aspect, trying to make his father proud and putting on a persona when he's just a scared little kid. (Another character I was skeptical about joining the main cast of characters I was familiar with only to fall madly in love with his character arc)

Another thing he's built his life around is the title "research specialist". He's the so-called "expert" on ghosts according to the GCC metube introductory video. So during A Frightmare on Main Street, when Molly, the first person he bonded with in this new town, the first person he told about their ghost hunting, his CRUSH, tells him he knows NOTHING about real ghosts?

He is DEVASTATED.

His whole life, his title, crumbled in an evening. Faced with the reality that he had been misinformed since birth and that him and his family are the REAL bad guys. He denies it, (multiple times before this too, so much so that Molly was so fed up, she finally said what she had been feeling about his family's ideology for MONTHS) obviously that is one difficult truth to just suddenly accept. But he eventually comes to terms with it. Happy ending, right? He's not a bad guy anymore! Well...

Here's where the self worth comes in. If he's not a ghost hunter and isn't part of a team doing good anymore, who is he? He was the research specialist, he had a mildly successful metube channel with his family (who still hunt ghosts btw!), if he's not useful to them, what's his purpose?

They don't really explore this aspect very much aside from visually showing it to the audience in the episode The Unhaunting of Brighton Video. He's seen not quite keeping up with the rest of his new group, The Ghost Friends. He's awkward, out of sync, doesn't understand their inside jokes, he's almost completely excluded for the first part of the episode. Scratch even voted against him joining the group to begin with. (Apparently Libby voted for him with Molly, I wish we could have seen that exchange and dramatic gasp of betrayal from Scratch) It doesn't help that the ghost is yelling at him for most of the episode for being a screw up despite being a screw up himself.

Honestly Ollie and Scratch have more in common than you'd think in terms of reinventing yourself and being afraid of your past but that's a post for another day.

The next episode I get this read from is Let's Play Turnipball. In it, Ollie plays a very convoluted and confusing local game along with Molly's coaching. And right away you can tell he is Not confident and that she is totally overselling him. He knows he's going to let everyone down because he can't remember any of the stupid rules. He tries his best and for the most part is successful until he loses them the game by accident. (While Perfektborg is actively trying to lose, hope Molly didn't tell him that) He kicks, curses the game, and walks away to go mope about his loss. He just wanted to prove himself in this new town he's still unfamiliar with. He wanted to be useful otherwise he would have just told Molly he didn't want to play anymore. But he didn't want to let anyone down.

But then, the entire town embraces him in a celebration!

He's... confused. But excited! And accepts the town's appreciation. It was so nice to finally see him get a dub for once.

My conclusion for this? Ollie was raised misinformed and misled for his entire life, yes. But that affected him beyond his anti-ghost agenda. He became reliant on being the hero (A Frightmare on Main Street) and stubborn in his beliefs, believing everyone else wrong. He's TERRIFIED for most of the season because of this, by far the jumpiest member of the ghost friends. He's traumatized by horror stories and insurmountable expectations of saving the world from a supernatural threat that isn't even there. Unless you count the frightmares in which case, yeah, sure, I'll give you that. So when all of that was ripped away from him and turned on its head, his entire self image SHATTERED.

I almost wish we had an episode to explore that but it doesn't seem like we'll get that. But this scared, confused boy is finally coming to terms with the fact that he doesn't have to be The Ghost Hunter or Molly's Hero to be useful. Heck, he doesn't even need to have Molly to be in the show. (UNLIKE SOME LOVE INTERESTS COUGH COUGH WENDY COUGH COUGH WASTED POTENTIAL)

He's becoming his own person outside of The Ghost Chaser Chens. And I'm excited to see how they'll react when they find out.

[vulpixelates]

sometimes a family is you, your kooky art teacher from middle/high school who talks to her dead spouses, a cowardly vampire hacker dweeb, a pair of fisherbutches who have different but equally weird connections to an entity that lives in the ocean, and a mad scientist who takes a lot of lsd and thinks everything is a sign of aliens

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

I'm thinking about GU!Sly's relationship with the other Misfits rn, and like

He tries to get along with them, because they have bigger issues to deal with / they share the same goal / they're Carter's friends, but the Kalagans can't help but look at Olly and Izzy and think about what they could have had. They meet their parents one day, with their loving, goofy attitude; and suddenly they find themselves asking their parents if it would have really been that hard?

They want to tell them that in this crazy world, all they have is each other

But they don't. And it's not fair

[katiefromcabin7]

I haven’t done an OC introduction yet but i really like this little sketch I did of 2 of my OC’s at work

[thegengarprincess]

Soo since all of the magical girl! JO AU moodboards have been sent 2 some very lucky ppl in this godforsaken wonderful fandom it would only be fair 2 close out the series 4 now with a moodboard 4 the boys all together (which I had the pleasure of sending 2 @da-proti-toku-grem might I add 🥰) it’s time my bby was released 2 the rest of y’all :D

*🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁*

LADIES,F4S N OTHER GENDERS THAT SERVE CUNT I PRESENT ✨THE GREAT MAGICAL GIRL! AU JO POLYCULE!!✨ X))

It all started with 5 necklaces a fan gave 2 them at a gig in their fandom-associated colours that somehow ended up changing their lives 4ever,what powers have been bestowed upon them?,why is it all of a sudden they could lose everything if their secret if found out?,why have they been trusted with saving their little country when they already have so much going on? N why are Ollie N Igor magical girls now 2?! all will be revealed through a collection of posts about all the things that come with being not only in one of the most famous bands in Slovenia but also having a magical girl alter ego 2 keep out of the public eye,but they won’t be going through this alone,there’s still one member of the polycule yet 2 be discovered N his name begins with D N ends with mon..✨✨✨✨✨

[royalarchivist]

Luzu: Quackity m’hijo

During Thursday’s event, Luzu accidentally called his son Ollie “Quackity” and got teased by Lana (his wife), but afterwards he said “Quackity is my son” while smiling 🥺