#anyway I'm normal about fictional characters

[blitzofreeandwild]

There's this trend of a specific form of criticism with Helluva Boss that consists of looking at Stolas with googoo eyes, he is precious cinnamon bun who can do no wrong, and then turning and glaring at Blitzø, who is evil, terrible no-gooder because he HURTS baby Stolas! And no one else is saying it, so I'm gonna. 

I think those types of criticisms are (not always, but often) coming from people who are extremely similar to Blitzø. 

Think about what it would be like if Blitzø watched Helluva Boss. (But it was an alternate universe or something so he had enough distance to view them as fictional characters rather than someone prying way too much into his life.) He would be immediately smitten with Stolas. And he would see context that he wouldn't have normally seen from a first-person perspective. Meanwhile, he would see all of his worst traits on full display and see exactly how they hurt the person he loves. 

And Blitzø doesn't love himself. So of course he would be sitting there screaming at this stupid fuckwad who is NOTHING compared to the BEAUTIFUL PRINCEyou are FUMBLING, you goddamn ASSHOLE. We all know he already has an extremely harsh inner critic, right? Like, we all know that there's nothing an anti-Blitzø critic out there can say that Blitzø hasn't already told himself a million times, right? 

I've just noticed a tendency that when people are hyper critical, it's usually because it's something that they can never let up on in their own head, something that they feel they have to constantly scream at themselves to force themself into being a "better person." And the thing is, when you're used to yelling any time you see that behavior... yeah, you're going to be absolutely brutal to characters (or people in your life) with those same tendencies. 

Anyway, yeah. I think a lot of the people who are really hard on Blitzø hate him because they hate those same traits in themselves. 

[absolutelybatty]

The rumour comes out: Does Larry Johnson Is Trans?

Happy (early!) TDOV, everyone :)

[avephelis]

every time someone mischaracterises jay ferin as the therapist friend a fairy loses its wings btw. put some respect on her emotionally-constipated ass.

[tyriongirl]

Genesis 4:1-5, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905

A Clash of Kings, Prologue - Maester Cressen

Emanuel Krescenc Liška – Cain (1885)

Claus Westermann, Genesis : a commentary, 1984

Arthur Segal - Kain und Abel (1918)

A Clash of Kings, Prologue - Maester Cressen

Natalie Diaz, A Brother Named Gethsemane, from When My Brother Was an Aztec

Lovis Corinth - Kain (1917)

Genesis 4:6-9, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905

A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33 - Catelyn IV

Odilion Redon - Cain and Abel (1886)

A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33 - Catelyn IV

Genesis 4:9-14, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905

A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31 - Catelyn III

St. Omer, Benedictine Abbey of St. Bertin; c. 1190-1200

A Storm of Swords, Chapter 36 - Davos V

S.R. Driver, The Book of Genesis, 1905

A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42 - Davos II

Lazzaro Pisani - Death of Abel (1885)

S.R. Driver, The Book of Genesis, 1905

A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42 - Davos II

A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42 - Davos II

Cain and Abel - City of Zeven - 2015 (source)

Genesis 4:14-16, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

the hardest thing about writing fanfic is that there's just no way to justify how much time i spend on it to anyone i know irl

[seriousturd]

Ellis Mayfield is giving you a Thumbs Up!

[bigy-bigley]

i'm obsessed with the ORAS character design sheets that were discovered in the Teraleak

SPECIFICALLY this image of the TEENIEST TINIEST SILLIEST little roxanne you have ever seen in your life.

literally just a mipy. a little blorbo. bouncing her around in my head like a tennis ball in a gymnasium

[shikai-the-storyteller]

There are SO many cool interactions and lore things we can look forward to now that Rubius says he'll come back to QSMP (not only as an angel / demon, but potentially as a human too!), but that little detail reminded me of something:

Even though q!Vegetta and q!Rubius were mutually interested in each other wayyyy back in the beginning of the series, as an Angel / Demon, Rubius said he can't have relationships with humans because it's against the rules.

But a bit ago on stream, Rubius said that he's thinking about having a "human" side so he can build and do more things on the server as a regular player. I'm excited because this means he can have more casual interactions with people and we can see him interacting with his friends more (and he can experience The Horrors), but also...

I think we're in for some very interesting drama in the next few weeks.*

* ( Assuming Rubius doesn't get harassed off the server by toxic shippers and weird fans of the Eggs again. Please be nice to Rubius and welcome him back kindly, he's a very cool guy and his character is SO interesting )

[falderaletcetera]

feeling inordinately soft at the realisation that at the end of the Father Brown cult ep (really not my favourite), when sid and susie say they've heard that mrs mccarthy stole her strawberry scone recipe and mrs m (quite fairly) takes their scones back and has to chase sid off-screen for his, father brown quietly offers his one to susie.

context is that susie is officially hired by them to clean the presbytery and she has a rough time in this ep, and father brown generally takes any and every opportunity to have sweet things (good for him dot png.)

inordinately soft about it

[navree]

gonna be entirely honest the ten shitmillion 'can't believe they abandoned adding queerness to alicent because she has sex with a man' takes accompanied by all the screaming and crying and throwing up absolutely REEK of biphobia, and that's not a good look for y'all during pride

[passerinesoncaffeine]

I'm actually going to gnaw my own hand off.

[angeltism]

"spar.kle is fictional who cares" I have seen people praising her for her racist anti-romani comments what the fuck kind of world do you live in

[horsegirlhob]

Genuinely one of the things I miss most about my ex is that we had the exact same opinions on fictional relationships. Now I have to try desperately to explain to all my friends who like healthy chill relationships why I'm so obsessed with these two deeply traumatized motherfuckers who have done horrible things to each other and I feel like I sound like a crazy person

[lord-squiggletits]

I luckily haven't been subjected to this brand of fan with my own eyes in a while, but it's hilarious to me how many IDW Megatron fans there are that hate the shit out of IDW Optimus (or any Megatron/Optimus in general) especially when they themselves are MegOP shippers. Like they'll be like "errrrmmmm Optimus is a cop fuck him he's literally evil" babe your fave is a literal dictator and a colonizer who didn't even treat his own Decepticons respectfully but IDW OP being a cop is so unforgivable? Or are we selectively applying the standard of "this is bad IRL therefore any fictional character who is X is also bad"? Megatron said he was sorry and regrets what he did but I guess you didn't read the parts where Optimus was also sorry/had regrets for what he did so that means it doesn't exist?

That or they do some crazy ass mental gymnastics to be all like "oh uh ermmm Optimus is evil because he said something mean to someone and punched them [casually fails to mention or explain the context at all]" but then with Megatron they'll turn around and be like "here's how Megatron colonizing planets was actually just him doing what needed to be done to ensure the survival of his race, also when Megatron becomes an Autobot here's how the people on the Lost Light are actually oppressing him for telling him to stop being a fucking asshole" [paraphrased versions of takes I have seen with my literal own eyes]. Like idk I feel like it's only-reads-MTMTE syndrome striking again or something? People probably don't read enough about Optimus to know the context of what he did AND they're laboring under the MTMTE illusion that Megatron was only kind of a bastard but was really good at heart, so in combination they just decide to be absolutely unhinged and say shit that isn't remotely true? Idk

Like damn you people are weak and your takes are trash. If you're gonna defend or hate a character at least do so based on accurate information from canon instead of making up weak bullshit on how Optimus sneezing on someone by accident makes the Autobots evil incarnate and how Megatron doing unspeakable crimes was just a little oopsie/him doing what had to be done. Couldn't be me.

[akai-anna]

reading oofuri together with my friend, and it’s SUCH A HAPPY EXPERIENCE. i’ve read most of the manga, but my friend is completely new to it, AND IT’S A BLAST.

also: the Tajima-Mihashi and Abe-Mihashi dynamics. Just. IT’S SO AMAZING TO SEE EVERY TIME.

Tajima, who has no trouble understanding Mihashi, LITERALLY THE TEAM’S MIHASHI TRANSLATOR, TajiMiha literally sharing a braincell LIKE 95% OF THE TIME, them being EQUALS AND RESPECTING EACH OTHER AND ONE ANOTHER’S ABILITIES, but not yet a fully working battery, they are fresh as a newborn fawn.

AND IN CONTRAST, Abe fckin Takaya, who WORKS SO HARD TO JUST GET IN THE SAME PAGE WITH MIHASHI, CONSTANTLY WORKING ON HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH MIHASHI, soing everything in HIS POWER TO MAKE MIHASHI GAIN SOME SELF-CONFIDENCE but in such a way that it constantly relies on Abe, the imbalance THERE, YET SUCH A WELL-WORKING BATTERY, OILED AND PRACTICED-

I’M FCKIN FERAL *GNAWS ON LAPTOP LIKE AN ANIMAL*

[miabrown007]

not taking responsibility for the person I inevitably become when a sad blond boi shows up on the horizon