#book character of all time fr

[cup-noodle]

As a fellow chaotic baby sibling of much older sisters from a slavic country I honestly feel like Benji Ovich was made in a lab to devastate me

[the-woman-upstairs]

Firmly believe that if Ford had joined the Henchmaniacs, he and Pyronica would’ve instantly become besties. Ford finds out she’s a quantum physics genius who burned her city to the ground when she didn’t receive the proper appreciation she so rightfully deserved and is like “oh she’s just like me fr.” They would’ve been a “two queens maximizing their joint slay” dynamic for the ages.

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

okay. having been made aware that most people dislike more characters than me, i need to try to do this. who are tv characters i don't like??? who? who??

boat guy on ted lasso. a concept and not a person. a concept designed to torment me and crush all my dreams. an avatar for all my dead dreams. if he'd actually become more of a character, like as a series regular or something, i would have probably grown to like him, because i'm weak. but in our reality, i can hate him forever.

jack from lost i always really hated, and i still do, but in a way where i almost like him because i hate him so much??? like, it's hilarious and special to me how much he sucks, and how consistently, always. jears forever.

jess mariano, but that's just because gg fandom has driven me crazy over the past 20 years in that regard, hyping him up so much, and i'm a hateful crone. technically he is fine.

christopher hayden is pretty bad. yeah, i think i can say with confidence i dislike christopher hayden.

extremely ashamed to report that i have sort of developed an occasional soft spot for dean forrester in my old age. awful! i'm not proud, okay! but i'm being honest.

i do hate rupert from ted lasso. but like. i don't think i get a prize for that one. that's an extremely easy dude to hate.

oh. i lowkey kinda hate nigel from cbs ghosts. i apologize, but i do. i think isaac could do better. i wish he would go for the australian stripper dinosaur enthusiast from the most recent episode. wouldn't it be hilarious if they decided to kill that lap dancer so he could become isaac's new boyfriend? i should write this show. it would be stunning and universally beloved and full of murders just to expand the friend group.

this has really gotten away from me.

wait!!!!! helene from killing eve! was that her name? i really didn't like her! she bugged! to me, she had too much screentime! (the actress seems very cool though, no offense to her.)

i am kind of bothered by joel mchale's character in animal control specifically because he's so identical to jeff winger in mannerisms that i just feel like jeff winger abandoned his greendale family and started a new life as an animal control man in seattle. i don't like this feeling. i just want to scream, "go back to greendale, jeff! i know frank isn't your real name!!!!" at the screen every second. does this count as disliking a character?

BOAT GUY 😡

[rainybraindays]

If you're saying how Penelope needs to keep Whistledown, or how her giving it up harms the story, you may not understand the character I fear.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of the horrors brian goosebumpsphantomoftheauditorium is still So funny for being like yeah i'm a ghost i know i'm a ghost. & he's befriended the horror fan menace duo who are giggling clutching each other like omg omg okay. we're fine. we're breaking into the school at night to investigate the horrors aaaa what if there's a ghost eek ok ok!!! & brian ghost who knows he's a ghost is like omg guys aaaa stopppp ;;m;; suffering thee Most but he's not putting on an act to conceal his phantomly destiny. he's just like that

[notmoreflippingelves]

I was tagged by @saemi-the-dreamer. It was very hard to pick 5 favorite characters (and I did cheat a bit), so I tried to limit myself to characters that I thought people (or at least my followers) were more likely to know and characters that I have loved for at least 10+ years. (Because as much as I think my current blorbos are blorbos "for all time," it is still early days so that could change.)

Tagging @chlogummy, @combefaerie, @arathesane, @moocowmoocow and anyone else who wants to do this.

[dykedivorce]

if any other bitch in konoha had been gay apart from sasuke none of this would have happened to my son naruto.

[gemini-care-barr]

Also, interesting that green arrow and Black canary aren't on your radar of favorites! Can you indulge as to why? <3

I’ve only listed my top 5 favorites! Those spots and the characters in them are precious, but that doesn’t mean I don’t adore so many characters not listed haha. There’s no particular reason why Ollie and Dinah aren’t on the list, there’s only reasons why the characters I listed are on the list.

Besides, I have way more than 5 favorites and Ollie and Dinah definitely are counted amongst them lol. I think both of them are very cool, admirable, fun, and unique, but I hold them close to my chest and don’t publicly talk about them much for whatever reason (some people can’t get me to shut up about Ollie and Dinah tbh), not even I really know why haha

[cream-and-tea]

lmd chapter 13 my very best friend <3

[alisaint]

i feel like sometimes (many times) people get realism / "if this were to happen to a real person in the real world context, then this character would experience and grapple with x, y, z" mixed up with text / what that character is actually going through in the story which is always going to be constrained by time, space, and the creator's biases and experiences

[livvyofthelake]

well kaz brekker could never be cassel sharpe. not to me. for one simple reason and it’s that i didn’t know kaz in ninth grade 🙄 and perhaps even more importantly. leigh bardugo is not as good a writer as holly black. but that is neither here nor there. xoxo beth

[sixxxer]

sometimes fanfic is so good it feels like there's crack in it istg

[ofpd]

the thing abt exr is that it is so powerful. so many people have been ensnared even with so little knowledge of them...

[dykefever]

interested to hear your perspective on this. what do YOU think makes a fic become popular in the r/s fandom. because there are many many fics and most of them go unnoticed. what do you think makes for a popular fic in general & in the r/s fandom in particular?

hi hello this got a bit long so all under the cut xxx

i’ve been thinking on this question a bit and i feel like this is kind of a tricky question to ask because it IS mainly down to chance !! but i want to make a distinction between viral fics and just generally popular ones because the first is very much down to random chance and a few other factors — these fics tend to be plot heavy + long + high drama and angst. they read more like novels i think? but most fanfiction isn’t like that (i mean i don’t personally write anything like that!!). for me meaningful engagement with my fic didn’t necessarily mean i had accrued heaps of hits but occurred rather when i had a tumblr where i was making friends + posting about my fic and posting snippets etc. and interacting with people in the comments of my fic and on tumblr. i’ve pretty slowly just gained a reader base from that and over time the fics have been read and ppl come back to read my other ones ?? i guess!!

i think it also helps to have someone read over your work just to check for grammar and spelling + plot holes etc. because those things can have people clicking off a fic for sure. also tagging thoroughly and accurately on ao3 is really helpful so people can actually find your fic. in my experience the best thing you can do is write a story you really love + enjoy writing and have fun with because that’s when you write your best and people will see that in the story and writing…. and there’s like hundreds of very similar fics (i’m thinking lie low at lupin’s etc etc) so just… write whatever don’t worry about being original or whatever.

idk i’m curious what other people have to say about this because there’s a trend that i haven’t seen as much in other fandoms for fics to become ‘viral’ through twitter and tik tok (i mean atyd is like the most read fic on ao3 right?? or one of them??) and i think it’s really skewed people’s perception of what is typical engagement with fic (which tends to be small and perhaps builds over time) and what the purpose of posting is all about. writing should be about your own enjoyment and hopefully people get some out of it too. obviously it’s hard Not to want people to read and like and comment on your work but posting with that as the main hope in mind is just gonna be pretty miserable i think!!!!

[idkwhatimdoingbutrandom]

Sorry but I get very annoyed when actors are casted in an adaptation and suddenly everyone’s allowed to comment on how old someone looks, how dark someone looks or how they’re so not the idealized fantasy of a person they personally had in their head in the name of not “ruining a character.”

Even game/show/movie adaptations/reboots where people are like “but this isn’t exactly how they were before.”

Like that’s… boring????

If you want it to stay the same, go watch/read/play the original.

Everyone is annoying and Blake Lively deserves better than this

Same for every actor or contributor to an adaption/reboot

[lesbianlenas]

was looking ahead in my book bc i like to see how long a chapter is before i start reading it & i caught some dialogue that made me pause and it was two of the characters (who are all women) talking abt whether they’d get married and one of them said “you and your girlfriend” and i thought it was referring to the narrator and it wasn’t 😭 literally the one who is the most feminine out of all of the four main characters is the one that is a lesbian WHY must it always be like this 😭😭