#a better characterization

[batboys-cumdumpster]

Actually I'm not done ranting yet bc now I'm gunna beef with SJM for fumbling Nesta's arc.

The whole book was hollow and empty for a character who had so much potential to actually be a strong badass. SJM reduced her entire book to shitty sex scenes and three different random plot points that were poorly address and poorly wrapped up (with some very unrealistic events, too, ranging from Feyre's 'she can't have a c-section' to the merry band of ribbon cutters 'winning' the blood rite).

In ACOWAR, I wanted to see Nesta step into her womanhood with power and she didn't. I was rooting for her and I was rooting for Nessian. There was SO much potential there. But it all fell apart. Horribly.

The cheap way Nesta "redeemed" herself by "saving" Feyre and Nyx without actually having a conversation with Feyre and apologizing makes me upset. I wanted two sisters to talk, I wanted them to face their past together and address it and have something real there. And any time Nesta and Feyre could have had a conversation, SJM ruined it by having it interrupted.

Nesta's friendships also feel empty and hollow to me. The friendships felt forced in the beginning to get to the closeness it ended at. And SJM writing Emerie and Gwyn telling Nesta she has nothing to apologize for (especially not knowing what she's even done) makes Nesta stans' behavior of excusing Nesta's behavior and blaming others for her behavior even worse.

It's okay to admit your fave has been abusive. It's okay to admit they have been shitty, and are still exhibiting that shitty behavior (ie Nesta making that shot at Azriel's mom in CC3). It's okay for a character to own that and apologize for it but it should only be accepted if that character actually changes. It is just like real life. I know these are fictional characters but if SJM wants to use these characters to reflect real life then she needs to be more responsible when writing them.

Give us real, changed behavior. Please, I am begging you. Give Nesta some fucking dignity and stop making her lash out at people like some child with a temper tantrum when she's angry. Let her actually fucking grow and show people that someone with such horrible tendencies can become a better person while owning up to what they've done and apologizing. It is hard work not to revert back to our trauma headspace and act the way we do when dealing with mental health so yeah, Nesta is gunna fuck up. But give her room to fuck up, she can't get there when she has no changed behavior.

I am so very much hoping that Nesta has changed in Elain's book because I want to like her. Even if her stans piss me off and dismiss her behavior, I genuinely do want to like Nesta. I was starting to like her and then, again, SJM completely fucked her character and her stans excuse it left and right and blame everyone except Nesta.

Nesta is responsible for her own actions, reactions, emotions, and health. No one owes her anything just because she is suffering because everyone has trauma they are dealing with. She cannot continue to make her trauma everyone else's problem. It doesn't make sense for being upset that IC/Rhysand tell her to mind herself when she gets abusive or when they give her back the energy she gives them.

No matter who you are, actions have consequences and most of the time no one cares about what you're going through in your personal life, they only care how you're treating others while you're going through it.

[nitw]

i've been waiting for gravity falls to become relevant again so i could share one of my favorite underrated bits from the entire show. like it's only episode 2 but this whole segment just makes me lose my shit. i think jason ritter's exasperated line delivery is what makes it

[hinamie]

the sirens are turning red

[divineandmajesticinone]

LOVE IN THE AIR: KOI NO YOKAN (2024) I EP. 4

[webbelzebub]

this is their dynamic to me

[sensitiveheartless]

(Zoomed-in images under the readmore)

[explodingstarlight]

waiting....

mom said it's my turn to make fanart of @somerandomdudelmao 's ol' wizard

i can't express how many times I listened to this song on loop while drawing

andddd a bonus close-up & a version with wraps that I totally didn't forget to add before now haha,,

[buggachat]

Not to keep being a Positive Pansy but I think I’m actually excited about the new style

[aroaceleovaldez]

just read the plot summary for Wrath of the Triple Goddess and. wow this is. painful this just sounds painful to read.

Why is Grover the incompetent inciting incident character? That is not his narrative role ever, really. That's like, the fanon conceptualization of his character where he's reduced down to comedic relief and nothing more. He's mostly exposition and support. Why not have the inciting incident be something about Annabeth's hubris - something that has gotten the gang into situations tons of times before in a way that doesn't put down any of the characters? Heck you could have even tied it into some Sea of Monsters stuff, like Circe having told Annabeth that she'd make a good sorceress. That'd be perfect for how this book literally just exists to be advertising for s2 of PJOTV. Or maybe call-back to Percy's introduction, where he talks about how he doesn't try to cause problems but problems tend to find him. Or use the established personalities of Hecate's animal companions from HoO, since we know they have attitudes. Just what are you even doing here????

[shanastoryteller]

i'm going to move on from supernatural posting, i swear to god, but first i'm going to talk about ep 9x07 bad boys

the episode itself is fine and good (i mean it's another example of dean having a support network while sam can't have anyone and dean keeping secrets while when sam does it it's the worst betrayal ever but that's not what this is about and sometimes i think about what this show did two earnest, loving traumatized characters by turning them into the most tragic versions of themselves and - ok, this really isn't what this post is about)

but fandom interpretation of this episode actually drives me up a wall because it does a disservice to literally every character

one, john did not leave them without enough money for food. dean gambled it and lost it. there's nothing in canon to say that john was taking longer than expected, that they were running out of money, none of that. dean gambled food money and lost it and then tried to steal to make up for it. he was 16 when this happened and it was a bad decision but i don't think he should be at all vilified for this. he made a dumb mistake and then tried to fix it with another dumb mistake. john was right to be mad and sam was also right to tell him that he shouldn't beat himself up about it. just like with shtriga - yeah, dean was climbing the walls stuck in that hotel room. but you know who else was stuck in that hotel room? sam. and he didn't get a break to go play at the arcade. again, i'm not blaming dean here, he shouldn't have been stuck taking care of his brother that young and he was a kid and john leaving his his children behind while hunting a child eater, whether he was using them for bait or not, is crazy. but dean stealing food wasn't about john's neglect and all the sacrifices dean had to make for sam. it was about him trying to fix his fuck up

two, and this is the one that really gets me, dean didn't go back with john because he had to take care of sam

listen. listen to me. i am speaking from experience when i say this

parentified siblings are still, first and foremost, siblings. especially with only 4 years between them. the show shameless i think did an absolutely excellent job with this and is why i love the first few seasons of it so much. fiona is without a doubt parentified, she is raising those kids, but she's also clearly their sister not their mother

i know later seasons dean and fandom like to make it seem like dean literally raised sam and john was just a background figure but like. that's not realistic, and frankly doesn't even make sense

the reason dean leaves sonny and goes with john isn't because he feels like he has to keep him sam safe. it's isn't because he feels like he has to raise him. it's because he loves him

you are reducing dean to the most pathetic woe is me archetype with this interpretation and ridding him of all his rich loyalty and care and love to saddle him instead with comparatively flat duty. dean is more than sam's caretaker. he's his brother

there's also no reason for dean to feel this way. he just massively fucked up in taking care of sam - that's why he's with sonny in the first place. john has alternate people to take care of sam when he can't do it himself, as he has just proven, and while i don't think we should turn a couple teenage mistakes into making dean incapable, dean absolutely would - and did! he carries every fuck up regarding sam with him! so right now he's really, really low when it comes to his own estimation to take care of sam and leaving sonny because of that doesn't make any sense

but he looks at his brother and is reminded how much he missed him and loves him and realizes staying means he loses his brother. the good and the bad. so he goes, because he loves sam more than anything else

this is also why sam leaving for stanford cuts him so deep. that's why this moment is a parallel to that rather than being unrelated. stanford isn't about sam leaving dean even though he has a duty to care of him, because he doesn't. dean's 22 and at this point is always hunting with their father so there's no reason for sam to believe his presence is necessary for either john or dean's safety

no, dean's mad because he chose his love for his brother over a normal life and sam didn't

(sam didn't want to choose at all but this isn't about him)

anyway. dean fucks up sometimes and john sucks but not quite in the ways fandom thinks and dean loves his brother past reason or sense

[fae-of-prey]

my peter parker is always one bad day away from ending lives bc he’ll be damned if he loses another loved one<3

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

boundaries?? (part 6)

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[tiddygame]

The idea of demi-asexual ghost having sex w/ soap before they have an established relationship, where neither is sure if the other shares their romantic feelings, if this is a one off, fwb, or the start of something bigger…

Simon, lying awake, unable to sleep, holding Johnny as he snores. Still somehow in denial, trying to talk himself out of being demi ace. Because if he is, that means that he wants more out of this than Soap does. He’d only be setting himself up for heartbreak.

Trying to convince himself that he was wrong when in his late teens he felt a little less broken after finding the term. Because to be sexually attracted to Johnny meant that he liked him. That he wanted the something more. But the other made it clear from the start that this wasn’t a romantic thing, that it was purely physical/sexual attraction and nothing more. And Simon never experienced that without there being something more there.

It wasn’t fair. Not for Johnny. He had made his boundaries clear, and Simon was practically spitting on them. To have agreed to what was meant to be just one night together because he hoped it would turn into more felt like a gross betrayal of Soap’s trust. And Simon knew that if Johnny found out, he’d be disgusted. And rightfully so. Simon had no right to take advantage of his trust

Anyways that’s all head empty no thots just Simon having his uh oh moment cause they banged

(spoiler: soap never said it was only physical/sexual, ghost is just stupid)

[rayhantochtli]

Arven and N during and after the latest pokemas storyline

[perrigoaway]

I’m so excited for investigations.. got super inspired and doodled some characters, most of whom I haven’t drawn before! Was humming Cammy Meele’s theme the whole time, gotta be one of my favorites from investigations. AAI truly has some outstanding characters! I’m so so excited to finally be able to play aai2! I jumped up and down saying YIPPEE when it showed up in the Nintendo direct :D

[calmlb]

can we as a society please stop calling Dazai the “demon prodigy” like it’s canon??? IM BEGGING

his canon nickname is so underused too… i mean c’mon, the “black wraith of the Port Mafia??” idk if i’ve ever even seen it used in a fic 😭