#Star search

[oldshowbiz]

Star Search '91

[contac]

[medullam]

Garcelle Beauvais, Star Search [1985]

Source: eWJXN

[dannysparkels]

The photos done by a professional. So happy with these photos but it's weird I don't feel like a big enough deal for these photos to be done.

[onlybuilt4expensivetaste]

Britney Spears, age 10, performing on Star Search

[hiphopurbanpop]

CELEBS WHO WERE ON STAR SEARCH

: Tatyana Ali

[avocado-ramen]

I can't answer this poll! But it did inspire me to actually finish my Cricut project for January (a week late).

[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.

[chrisshields18]

Star Search.

[miterry]

This is Masked Singer before i knew was LeAnn Rimes from this video was on Tik Tok behind the masked

Before LeAnn Rimes first started from beginning she was on Star Search before she was on The Masked Singer singing career becoming of the Sun from her talent

[oldshowbiz]

Star Search '85 featuring Rosie O'Donnell

[contac]

[reactorshaft]

😘sexy💯 independent😈✨free-thinker😝🎱 roger, roger!🙊real🏅yes, we are hooman😇💫all your base are belong to us👍🙌🏼💋

[dannysparkels]

My attempt at Alistair. I love it, I know it's not a 1 to 1 of Alistair but I can't change my body. I did my best.

[frogayyyy]

we brought your gay little boyfriend back from the dead. happy pride ig