Thought I’d throw out a general disclaimer cause I have been accused of hating the Golden Triad on multiple occasions even though I don’t. But I completely understand why people assume I hate them, I mean I raged against the machine every single time they had screen time and had some complaint or other about their plot/script.
But I don’t hate them. I do however hate their characterization post season two. For a long list of reasons I won’t get into; except that I felt they weren’t handled with nuance (except in part Theo but that’s a different can of worms). That they were cleaned up and polished for character arcs that could have been more appealing and intriguing without making the Golden Triad pure. So I have very mixed feelings towards the three of them and am also generally distrustful of other people’s handling of them in fic. Because it’s again, handling something deeply personal to me, that I have strong opinions and data about.
However, I do not hate them. I sadly can’t. If I could I would. But I love them the way you love honey in tea, just a little bit to balance the bitterness but not enough to taste.
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Ya know what.
More fanfic writers have got to start using "And Cast" character tags. (Or something similar)
I personally glaze completely over a huge Wall of Character Tags on AO3. I absorb nothing. I lose all concept of which characters are actually in the story in a meaningful way because Every Single Character is tagged. (And I know I cannot be the only person who does the same thing)
I hate looking for fics about a certain character and finding a thousand fics with them tagged but they're background, they're mentioned by other characters, maybe they have one line.
(If there was one thing I liked about fanfictiondotnet it was that character tags were limited. So only the actual main characters of the story were tagged.)
I don't need all 30 characters from a game or book or movie tagged for one story. Even if they all have scenes with the main characters. Even if they have dialogue. Their presence in the location of the story is implied and understood because they're canon characters.
'And Cast' succinctly encompasses the concept that "More characters will be here but they won't be the focus of the story." It's a beautiful 2-word shorthand tag to communicate something important to readers.
It would help declutter tag lists, so people can get a better idea of what's inside a story. It would help eliminate false positives for people looking for stories focusing on their blorbos. It would just help SO MUCH!
And I'm going to stand on my soapbox and shout about it tonight
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hey full offense: if you go on essay length tirades about how terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad a character is and you start talking like all those “canon jiang cheng” shitbags insisting that “i like the CANON version of this character, and all you pathetic woobifying FANON losers need to SHUT UP AND DEAL WITH IT. what I say is CANON.”
get off your fucking high horse. you’re down here playing in the dirt like the rest of us, don’t pretend otherwise. go shit on your own parade if you’re so fucking desperate to be an asshole.
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i've been trying to Do Tumblr Correctly and only Like posts so I can return later and Reblog them but I don't remember to do the Reblogging and some of the Likes were just in case I did so my Likes page is as unhelpful as it was before but now I also feel the loss of Liking things just to show whoever posted it that that I saw it.
Also I must say I am, in general, not a fan of the Tumblr Use Rules that you only find out about when people tell you off for not following them.
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double hit means double the oversharing @johndoe-r @officialmisterrose
- absolutely obsessed with roguelikes/lites and anything that has randomly generated ("repayable") elements most notably tboi and Hades
- my username is a name I made up for a story about elves and dragons when I was like 8, it's now stuck to me like a parasite and I can't call myself anything else online even if I try
- one day decided I'm a completionist and now every game I play is played with the intent of 100%'ing it yeah it it clashes with the roguelikes part yeah
- had an embarrassingly long warrior cats phase, yet still can't draw furries
- I have really bad social anxiety (but still for some reason cannot shut up) so sometimes it takes me like, literal 2 hours of psyching myself up to socialize in the smallest of ways
- "hates pink" to "owns pink cat ears headphones" pipeline (came with egirl fashion sense for some ungodly reason,,)
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