#all of these gays make me mentally ill

[murderpastaa]

some wips and doodlez!!!!

[wis-art]

Being a weird faggot is so much more fun than being a miserable repressed teenager who loathes themselves and tries to act like a """normal""" member of society because they're too afraid to be cringe

[guzhufuren]

me and the traumatised live action danmei tumblr besties hallucinating a bl show together

[right-there-ride-on]

Gyjo in the fandom

cw: light discussion of ableism

Gyjo… what am I thinking about gyjo…

I like them. I like them a lot, actually. They have paralleled narrative arcs, they complement each other nicely, the romantic subtext is incredibly obvious to the point that even the most homophobic fan you know will admit they understand why people ship it… so why do I also have a problem with it?

There’s a lot of good fanart. Hell, I’ve reblogged plenty. Maybe it’s just something that’s more pronounced in fic.

I’m trying to word this correctly. My issue with gyjo has nothing to do with the text itself. I think my problem is just how people portray it in the fandom.

Maybe it’s because it’s so popular, or maybe it’s the sheer prominence of applying ‘Character A’ and ‘Character B’ dynamics without considerable regard for the characters involved, but I feel gyjo is very prone to flanderization. I believe the intersection with how ableist people are toward Johnny (intentionally or not, subtly or not) and the old tropes these two get shoved into makes it so I have trouble enjoying fics in the fandom.

I’m not saying it’s bad to enjoy certain tropes. I’m not saying headcanons are bad either. What I am saying is that writing is hard, but if you’re going to write fanfiction please have consideration for the characters you’re writing. The arcs of these two are complex and multilayered, which is why I think they have such staying power, but I also think they also provide a good opportunity for us as writers and artists to examine our biases when it comes to the portrayal of certain groups, personality types, mental illnesses, queerness, disability, etc. and maybe come out better people for it.

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

sometimes ya just gotta scribble your favorite character giving you words of encouragement. even if that favorite is a guy from your own brain

[bookshelfpassageway]

running out of audiobooks for the thing you were reading is the worst feeling, especially if it's a comfort series

[shi0n]

got jumpscared by friend who suddenly said "me kin id" how do YOU know that... i need to eliminate him

[thissliceofnonsense]

Okay so I tried to figure out what Frida (Big Mama's assistant) would act like.... and she may just be my favorite character ever.

(there is literally no videos/gifs of her, so take these screenshots)

The "cannon" description of her is that she's so adamant for the rules, that it's kind of silly. Given that and the factoid that she's probably been raised by Big Mama, I tried doing some characterization.

NOTE - I have only seen rise and read a lot of rise fan-fictions, so I can't use anything from other versions, but if anyone who has seen the other versions has some suggestions, let me know!

Frida, daughter of Big Mama, gained a few of her traits. The main one being that she is a master negotiator. Her favorite past time is making deals with people and getting rewards from it, not because she changes the terms like Big Mama does, but because she finds loopholes and has people agree to her original terms. She never breaks a rule, just exploits them.

(My sibling watched a masterclass on negotiating and it had a bunch of morally questionable tidbits that I think would be SO FUN in a character. Things like: "Empathy doesn't mean you have to be nice to them, you just have to know what makes them tick." "A no is worth five yes's" "When someone is lying, try to use a warm, slow voice" "Let people know what they will lose if they don't do the deal"....)

She has half the battle nexus loyal and/or in debt to her.

Despite her stoic exterior, she genuinely enjoys figuring out what makes people tick. She sees emotions as logical consequences of their personality and experiences, and they are quite fun to play with. Not maliciously... it's just fun. She is hyper-observant and can read someone pretty well, but it's her simple questions that slowly evolve into deal making that make all the hidden city lawyers afraid of her.

As far as illegal activities go - since most of what Big Mam does is illegal, much to her annoyance - she's actually one of the main reasons the Hidden City council cannot bring up a single point against Big Mama. Frida wouldn't dream of breaking rules, no. Rather, she has so much more intellectual enjoyment of discovering loopholes to the rules, using every one of their laws to her favor, making her and her mother's activities 100% legal.

As far as mystic powers go, she can understand it - they are based on emotions after all. But she can't make it work for herself. If Frida herself cannot control (read: suppress) her emotions, then the others (read: Big Mama) can control me, and no no no. She needs to be the one in control.

[definitelynotshouting]

Sometimes I like to think of scarian of just like, two people giving each other crazed mad scientist smiles bc they're 100% about to tear each other apart because their love is strange and they want to dissect each other until there'snothing left to learn and love. They would cut themselves open and apart just to show the other what's inside and it makes me want to gnaw on a chunk of concrete

-unstoppable object anon

LITERALLY THIS..... they are soooooooo. Like there's a reason i keep writing shit like this about them:

[ikuhara]

STILL CANNOT BELIEVE OFF SEASON AND MONSTER SEASON ANIME IS REAL

[kohakhearts]

Trick or treat!

hii thank you!! this is my big character study on gary, which...i haven't really worked on since june last year lol but i keep telling myself i'll come back and give it the attention it deserves (maybe this summer...if i'm not working 50 hours a week again).

the fic goes through pre-canon to the last episode of mpm. it's kind of just the dumping ground for my thoughts on gary's family situation, ash and gary's history, gary's research, how/why gary got involved in project mew, some of his catches (eevee and hatterene are probably the ones i'm most interested in personally, but there are more!), etc. i only got as far as the end of the indigo league, though sadly. ...but i'll get there someday. probably :p

It’s not just Gary’s Pokémon that have changed since Viridian City, though; he is thinking of the Poké Ball in his bag, and even finds himself taking it out once in a while just to feel its weight. Ash doesn’t say anything about what happened, or even look at Gary as if he thinks there might be something worth saying. And Gary wouldn’t have anything to say to him if he did ask, but it frustrates him nonetheless. When he holds the Poké Ball in his hands, all he can think is that something broken isn’t worth keeping if it can’t be restored to its original function. More and more often, he thinks of getting rid of it completely. Throwing it in the trash, or maybe back into the river where they found it. But there is something that always stills his hand. In that moment, he cannot imagine anyone else he would have rather seen than Ash. As firmly as the cold claws of terror grip at his shoulders, the memory of Ash’s arms around him persists. That in itself is somehow more defeating: he is the same as he was that day in the forest, wishing Ash would hold his hand the whole way.

ask box trick-or-treat! 🎃

[thepartyishere]

dont think too hard about my favorite headcanons they are absolutely not a reflection of me why would you think that

[lovesickeros]

im pretty adamant on being a genshin only blog atm bc this game has me in a death grip and won't let go for anything but at the same time.....path to nowhere..

[veginald]

thoughts on varchie? :)

[certified-silly-guy]

tried to dump all my SP icons/screen caps/ whatever on here but you can only have 30 images on one post

turns out I have

248 FUCKING ICONS