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Have you done Snape/Sirius for the ship asks yet?
thank you very much for the ask, anon!
and what better occasion than sirius' birthday to give @ashesandhackles something she's been waiting for for well over a year...
so here we are then...
the snack manifesto
besides the ship name, the reason this ship slaps is for the absolutely classic reason that it's smashing a narrative mirror pairing together.
snape and sirius are obviously incredibly similar personality wise - they're both arrogant, theatrical, incredibly clever, creative, capable of great cruelty, stubborn, loyal, possessed of dry senses of humour, from difficult family backgrounds, and so on - and their differences - such as their looks, class, or wealth - are polar rather than divergent.
but they also serve identical narrative purposes. each functions as the guide who leads harry through the character arc which begins in prisoner of azkaban and concludes in deathly hallows, in which he sheds his childish, black-and-white view of his parents and comes to regard them as real, flawed, and complex people.
sirius takes him up to the end of order of the phoenix [and is then immediately killed, his narrative role complete], when harry's realisation that james was a bully stops his earlier hero-worship of his father and allows him to approach him as a whole person.
[which is important, since we then see in half-blood prince that voldemort's inability to do this - and his inability, therefore, to cope with the disappointment of discovering the elaborate fictional version of tom riddle sr. he'd created in his head wasn't what the real one was like - is why the text understands harry as superior to him.]
snape - through the proxies of slughorn, the discipline of potions, his textbook, his patronus, and his memories - takes harry through half-blood prince and deathly hallows, as harry starts to think more deeply about lily [who spends the earlier books secondary in importance to james in his mind] and to eventually learn that she and her sacrifice are the keys to the entire mystery.
snape and sirius are the figures who assist in this arc because each of their lives are defined by their relationship with and love for one half of james and lily as a pairing. their mirrored relationships with harry are similarly driven by their mirrored relationships with his parents.
and, most importantly, so is their relationship with each other. they hate each other on sight because snape blames sirius for james noticing lily [thus drawing her attention away from him] and sirius blames snape for the same thing [thus drawing james' attention away from him] and their constant mutual antagonism is the most interesting snape-versus-one-of-the-marauders dynamic because of the equality this lends. snape likes antagonising sirius - even though he thinks sirius tried to murder him! - whereas he is straightforwardly afraid of lupin and feels inferior to and resentful of james, because he must sense - however subconsciously - that sirius is his emotional equal: someone else struggling against the fact that the person he loves doesn't love him with the same intensity.
the mutual spark this creates is hot enough for an enemies-to-lovers conflagration for the ages even while they're at school. but it gets so much better once we're in the canon timeline, since sirius and snape's adult characterisation is entirely driven by their mirrored approaches to guilt and grief.
both of them indirectly trigger the death of the person they love - snape via reporting the prophecy, sirius via insisting on the secret keeper swap - and neither accepts that his actions were, in fact, indirect.
hollowed out by this feeling, both of them decide to punish themselves in an effort - one which they both clearly consider near-futile - to atone. both of them do this by subjecting themselves to the pain and humiliation of imprisonment and being thought a criminal - sirius by refusing to profess his innocence at any point before 1993; snape by staying at hogwarts and insisting that dumbledore keeps his true motivations concealed, allowing him to be thought of as an unreformed death eater - until they have a shot at the only thing they each think will redeem them in james and lily's eyes - murdering wormtail, for sirius, and murdering voldemort, for snape.
[after all, why does dumbledore say to harry at king's cross that his aim was for snape to control the elder wand if he wasnât hoping he'd use it to give the dark lord his death blow? it's just a shame the dream-team of draco malfoy and nagini got there first...]
and this mirrored grief provides such a good point of narrative tension between them, which can so easily grow into something romantic.
because you have, at first, the fact that each can use the other's grief to wound - snape can scream at sirius about how stupid the secret keeper plan was; sirius can scream at snape about what a cunt he was to report the prophecy to voldemort - and to soothe - if snape blames sirius for lily's death, he can pretend that reporting the prophecy was less integral to it than it was; if sirius blames snape for james', he can pretend that insisting wormtail was the secret keeper was less integral to it than it was.
but this can then grow into a recognition of both their mutual culpability - the secret keeper swap only happened because of the prophecy; the prophecy could only be acted upon because of the secret keeper swap - and their mutual lack of it - neither actually knew that what they were doing would doom james and lily, and voldemort is the person who is actually to blame for their deaths.
and this can grow into each of them offering the other the forgiveness he craves, but can't give to himself.
and so, they're the best of the series' mirror pairings for writing love which is totally, utterly equal.
for example, harry and voldemort - who are the series' main narrative mirrors - don't have the mutual weight of guilt driving their relationship. writing them as a consensual romantic pairing requires dealing with the concept of forgiveness, absolutely - but harry is the only person who actually needs to do the forgiving; he hasn't done anything to voldemort which is an equivalent to voldemort killing his parents. similarly, while the grief of their orphanhood and the way it shapes them is one of their main mirror traits, this grief doesn't have equal causes - voldemort's mother died in childbirth; his father, and both of harry's parents, died because voldemort murdered them.
with snape and sirius - in contrast - there is none of this imbalance. they interact with each other - whether they're holding their wands to each other's throats or cuddling on the sofa [or, let's be real, both] - as equals [even though sirius attempts to introduce an element of inequality into many of their canon interactions by alluding to their divergent social classes].
which is to say, there's a respect behind the loathing which allows the loathing to be transformed with very little work into love.
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Kith and Kin: Hereâs a fun dynamic, Katsuki having a SECOND reason for becoming The Number 1 Hero.
A promise.
Not forgotten per say, but rather its at the back of his mind rather than the forefront. If proving himself the strongest is at the forefront, then his promise to protect his big sister from anything that could make her cry would be a secondary driving force.
Seeing her cry after the USJ just brought those memories from the back of his mind. It would be one of the only times both the Midoriyas and his family ever heard him say âsorryâ.
Especially as itâd be one of the few tome heâd hug his sister of his own accord, showing that he means it
Oh that is fun.
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All I want for the new Life Series is for Scott to team up with someone other than Impulse from BITES. Weâve done Impulse, and now Iâd like to see him with someone new. However, if itâs going to be Etho or Bdubs, it cannot be Etho AND Bdubs. I love seeing them play together, but I like them even more when theyâre conflicted between fighting each other and helping each other.
I think Scott + Bdubs is great because I think Bdubs is a little scared of Scott and I think they should get to know each other better. They just donât seem to come into contact all that often, and Iâd love to get a glimpse into their dynamic.
Scott + Tango is great because they donât talk on camera often, but I know they have a lot of respect and love for each other. I love seeing them interact in the Life Series and MCC.
Donât even get me started on Scott + Skizz. Skizz is so lovingly bad at the game (but heâs getting better!!) and Scott is so good at this game. Thereâs great balance there. Also, Scott and Skizz absolutely adore each other, and I love love love seeing them together.
Scott + Etho would be really interesting to me. I know Etho is fond of Scott. Heâs also weirdly observant about Scott, Iâve noticed. Like, he doesnât talk to Scott a lot, but he does seem to know a whole lot about Scott and heâs very confident about how much he knows about Scott? He just seems to pick up on a lot of little things about Scottâs demeanor that other people donât notice, including people who hang out with Scott regularly, like he knows how much of a threat Scott is. I really think he knows that Scottâs a really strong player. Itâs so interesting. Heâs also just so responsive to ideas Scottâs involved in, like MCC and Scottâs escape rooms (Etho in the void roomđmy boy) even though theyâre not usually types of content that he experiments with. I donât know. Etho just seems so subtly attached to Scott in a way Iâve never seen before, and I love their friendship.
I would actually be down to see Scott + Impulse again, just cause Secret Life really had teams dividing and conquering more so than working together, so we didnât actually see much of Scott and Impulse working together. Iâd love to see them work together more, but I get to see that in MCC, escape rooms, and hide and seek videos too. Iâd be happier if I got to see Scott with a different member of BITES for this new Life Series.
BONUS: Scott + Grian would also be a really cool pairing. It might be a little overpowered with how good those two are at the game, but I love their dynamic. PeskyPoppies isnât a huge ship for me, but I do love seeing them make games for each other. I love seeing Grian in Scottâs escape rooms and making little observational comments. (âYou got this from me!â âOh, of course itâs your color.â) I love that they play together. I love that Grian used to think that Scott just wanted his clout because Scott was âtoo happy all of the time, and no one is that happyâ. Their friendship is so giddy and playful. I just love love love that they make these short little games for each other. I think thatâs love. I do that for my friends. I love it.
#BITES#smajor1995#smajor#trafficblr#traffic life#grian#tangotek#impulsesv#etho#ethoslab#skizzleman#life series#bdubs#bdouble0#bdoubleo100#i also want him to flirt with all of them#and for more people to write fics about these pairings#but that is secondary to seeing their dynamics#since we so rarely get glimpses of their friendships
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worldbuilding thing I've been wondering about:
how do you handle gender identity, gender expression, and/or gender stereotypes, within your omegaverse writings?
this goes for ocs and for fanfics!
if alphas are physically male in the way we'd consider a human to be physically male, that's a statement on their sex, yeah? not their gender.
you can have the body parts implied there and still be a gender that is not "man". so how's that work for omegaverse? especially if alphas can be male or female.
how do you describe gender within your omegaverse? is it based more around dynamic / secondary? (alpha/beta/omega) or around sex? (male/female/others if they apply)
do people get gendered expectations assigned to them based on their sex, on their dynamic, on the combination of both?
(ex: is there a difference between the gender roles given to a female omega versus a male omega? are the stereotypes for a male beta like or unlike those of a male omega?)
could there be such a difference between female alphas, female betas, and female omegas, that only some female people are considered women, while others are labeled with some other term due to their dynamic? or are all female people considered to be women? (assuming they're all cisgender...but if you've got trans headcanons I wanna hear those too!)
I'm curious about this because it's reasonable to say something like "our image of what is masculine appearance / behavior is shaped by our society and time period," right? (since male doesn't have to equal man or masculine, but there's often some connection)
but that structure wouldn't be built from the same stuff in omegaverse. since behaviors and such could be associated with different groups.
so...if a male alpha is seen as a feminine presenting person, what does that mean in your verse?
are masculine and feminine less about what exists in your verse and more about the limitations of our own language?
is it something else altogether?
#omegaverse#sfw omegaverse#omegaverse worldbuilding#omegaverse headcanons#everyday the temptation to use neopronouns in omegaverse grows stronger#why would there be 2 genders if there's 3 dynamics and the dynamics are almost more important to the story than the 2 sexes are?#assuming that the dynamics are secondaries and not primaries#gonna throw gender markers into a blender#and throw them at the secondaries and see what sticks#i wanna read a story where being an omega is male coded#male omega? female omega? doesnt matter you're a boy now#simply because the instinct is to code omegas as feminine and turning stuff upside down is neat#i might try it if i can ever stop throwing random tropes into the blender with omegaverse ones to see if its tasty#see previous post#meanwhile my brain: monster taming tropes? plus omegaverse? it would work#also my brain: alpha becomes a magical girl. do it. it would work.#also my brain: mecha series where the pilots start to form a pack bond as they increase their teamwork enough to control their combo mech...#also my brain: i hear you saying that there's no need for a/b/o mh but why not? hunters are already regular people!#...meant to write irregular people in that last tag and too lazy to fix lol
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Hey beastie, im sorry if youâre too swamped with requests but i had this remembrance of a fic from way back when. I think it was a oneshot but essentially it was Desmond returning back in time after touching the eye but it was to an alternate timeline/universe where itâs ABO but his biology is still standard with no second gender. Just curious on ur take and how you can spin this with his ancestors-thank you!
(Iâm still swamped by requests/asks/reblogs but Iâm slowly making a dent on it. As long as you guys donât mind that thereâs like⊠a month-ish delay for your asks/reblogs to be answered then feel free to keep sending me asks or reblogging/commenting on my posts with your idea and additions :))
I have not read that kind of A/B/O story but letâs see how we can make⊠Desmond suffer (affectionately).
So letâs set up some backstory first: Desmondâs world does not have the biological markers of A/B/O. This can either mean (1) Desmond didnât time travel, he was kicked into an alternate universe where this world has A/B/O so Desmond has no idea about it or (2) by the 21st century, A/B/O markings have already been âwiped outâ by the passage of time and the âevolutionâ of mankind (that may or may not be part of the Isusâ calculations) so Desmond has ideas about it but doesnât necessarily understand it.
Backstory (1) would give us a way to explain to the readers how A/B/O works in this world using Desmondâs lack of knowledge as our basis as well as give Desmond a lot of scenes of just being confused or forgetting about it. Backstory (2) would give Desmond a bit of a break as heâd have an idea of what the hell is happening all around him.
Regardless of whichever backstory we use, we will of course make AltaĂŻr, Ezio and RatonhnhakĂ©:ton âalphasâ in this one.
Alright, letâs see how we can screw Desmond up with each of them XD (warning⊠this also talks about their sex life⊠a bit)
AltDes:
So, first of all, AltaĂŻr and Malik are alphas and Kadar is either a beta or an omega. Abbas is also an alpha (although it would be funny to make him a beta) and Al Mualim is also an alpha. The main idea is, the further Desmond goes back in time, the more alphas and omega there are.
Desmond would confuse AltaĂŻr a lot because he doesnât feel the urge to be aggressive around Desmond for not bowing down to him that he would get when heâs around other alphas but Desmond isnât submissive like an omega or deferring to him like a beta. Desmond treats him like an equal without acting like he needs to show heâs better than AltaĂŻr which has always been his problem with other Alphas (even Al Mualim make AltaĂŻrâs alpha instincts want to show dominance).
However, Desmond also smells⊠really, really nice. AltaĂŻr canât describe it and the only explanation he can give is that Desmond smells like âhomeâ.
Desmond, on the other hand, has no idea what the hell AltaĂŻr is talking about concerning scenting and such because Desmond doesnât smell anything funny. Even when he tries to smell AltaĂŻr (which both confuses and also arouses AltaĂŻr), all he can smell is the oil he used for his hidden blade, the smell of his robes and AltaĂŻrâs own scent which just⊠smells fine? Like⊠itâs okay?
AltaĂŻr falls for Desmond because of Desmondâs dismissal to the hierarchy that has long ruled over their second gender and finds himself attracted to Desmondâs personality. He falls in love because Desmond is his equal and there is no need for either of them to even try to take the other down to be the one on top.
Although, this is one where AltaĂŻr usually tops, mainly because Desmond knew he prefers it. Desmond is also the only person AltaĂŻr is willing to bottom for.
EziDes:
Ezio would actually assume Desmond is a beta that is using a scent blocker for a while.
He would only realize that Desmond isnât a beta because of Desmond does his own thing and just raises an eyebrow whenever Ezio tries to use his âalpha voiceâ to get Desmond to try and cooperate with him.
Ezio would be the one who would have the hardest time with his feelings for Desmond because he was raised with the idea that alphas must mate with omegas (something that this worldâs church advocates for and the Auditores were raised with those ideas) and he wants the kind of alpha-omega marriage his parents had (if you want more drama, âenter Lorenzoâ to make Ezio question just how 'perfect' his parents' marriage was XD).
After Ezio learns that Desmond is the one Minerva is talking about, he gets this idea that Desmond has no secondary gender because heâs a divine being. This gets more complicated when they learn that Isus donât have secondary genders as well (and that the Isus made humans with secondary genders to make it easier to control them but they only made betas and omegas, the first alpha was Eve who âtransformedâ when she became a hybrid). It's after Ezio learned of Desmond's connection to the 'Isus' (sorta) that Ezio realizes why Desmond smells like 'hope' to him.
Ezio finally gets his head out of the sand after Desmond confesses to him that he loves him and Ezio realizes that he doesnât want an alpha-omega marriage anymore. All he wants is a future with Desmond by his side.
These two are the ones that tend to switch a lot. Even as an alpha, Ezio is game with anything as long as itâs fun and pleasurable. Heâs more of a power bottom though because he canât help it.
ConDes:
RatonhnhakĂ©:ton actually thought that Desmond not having a secondary gender is a quirk that happens with the colonizers. Itâs only when he sees that the other colonizers think Desmond is weird that he realizes that Desmond is an âanomalyâ.
He doesnât care about it though because Desmond has been a loyal friend since they met and, sure, he knows Desmond isnât saying everything but he trusts him.
RatonhnhakĂ©:ton is actually the most relaxed with Desmond because he doesnât feel the urge to dominate that is common with alphas. Itâs just⊠peaceful. And that's what Desmond smells like to him: 'peace'.
This is more of the side of friend to lovers kind of deal with both of them not realizing that theyâre falling in love with one another until theyâre in too deep.
RatonhnhakĂ©:ton would also be the one to have the least amount of angst about Desmondâs lack of a secondary gender as he believes in the actions people make, not of what theyâre supposed to be.
Desmond honestly forgets about the whole secondary gender thing the most in this one because RatonhnhakĂ©:ton doesnât try to flaunt it or anything. He thinks a lot of alphas are just dicks, forgetting that itâs encoded in their genes to want to be the dominant one even in normal conversations. The way some of the alphas do try to do it? Yeah, thatâs just them being dicks, has nothing to do with being an alpha.
Haytham thinks that their relationship is strange though and might even think itâs because of how RatonhnhakĂ©:ton was raised (although both RatonhnhakĂ©:ton and Desmond arenât sure if Haytham is insulting RatonhnhakĂ©:tonâs village or Achilles?) but he tries to be polite to Desmond when he and RatonhnhakĂ©:ton are working together.
Desmond gets into Haythamâs nerves a lot, mainly because Desmond is doing it on purpose because he knows RatonhnhakĂ©:tonâs feelings for Haytham (and that childhood desire to have a father) stops him from saying what Haytham needs to hear.
The Homestead doesnât care about how strange Desmond and RatonhnhakĂ©:tonâs relationship is as all they care about is that the two are happy (plus the two of them helped everyone one way or another so they know theyâre good people)
RatonhnhakĂ©:ton has never thought about bottoming before but he wants to try it for Desmond. It just takes a bit of a time for him to ready his âheartâ though.
Sorta dark addition:
So thereâs this thing called âbitchingâ which is mainly used to make an alpha into an omega and itâs usually in the realms of noncon or really questionable dubcon. Iâm just thinking if itâs possible to make Desmond who has no secondary gender into an omega by âbitchingâ him? Probably not because his body doesnât have any marks of a secondary gender (unlessâŠ) so maybe the help of a POE would be needed as well (like the Shroud that we know deal with the physical body). Of course, this is a slippery slope that can either make this idea quite dark (and, ngl, it would work well with a dark!AltaĂŻr who wants to have a family with Desmond) or this has to have Desmondâs full consent first and the main idea isnât that Desmond wants to be an omega to preserve the hierarchy or order of things or whatever but because they want to have a child of their own. Of course, the bitching doesnât have to happen to Desmond in this route⊠XD
#a/b/o au with desmond not having any secondary gender#I honestly canât see kaniehtĂ:io as an omega#no usual tags because#altdes#ezides#condes#a/b/o#a/b/o au#a/b/o dynamics#a/b/o verse#omegaverse
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eeveryone says they love emo bitches until they meet one
#naruto#karin uzumaki#sasuke uchiha#team taka#sorry for the naruto fanart making up a fake jutsu. i just really think she needed one#brief explanation i like to imagine her cutting herself and then having her friends drink her blood instead of having them bite her#because i sooo do nottt like the biting thing it is really really bleak to me. no good. i'd love her to have a little agency over it.#secondary brief explanation i also wanted to switch up her freak dynamic with sasuke becauseeee one i dont like how it is#and two i feel that they are two sides of the same coin in the 'used for their bodies' way.#so therefore i think it would be interesting if karin had a bit of a power play thing going on in a similar wayy to sasuke.#or at least how i see him.#very longwinded in the tags you can see i am a bit too embarrassed to make a naruto opinion text post.#self harm cw#my art
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I am liking Jujutsu Kaisen, way more than I imagined I would, but I foresee it will let me down and it's keeping me from enjoying this as much as I could haha
I think the characters and dynamics are well set, and I think many of them have an incredibly good and deep potential, but I would be willing to bet they'll not get a proper development, enough for them to really hit. A well assembled set of gears is not enough to make the movement go, you have to wind the clockwork.
I think Gojo and Megumi have a fascinating and very complex dynamic, but I doubt it will be given the time and care that imo it needs to actually work. And it is going well enough for now! One could see the intimacy between them was deeper than the one Gojo had with, say, Yuji and Nobara ever since the very first few episodes despite the fact Fushiguro too was a first year. But the pieces forming what they have are extremely complex, and it just wouldn't be realistic if it doesn't show, even if in a not showing way, or if it doesn't have consequences or implications.
It's one of those dynamics that shape one's life, the way one regards the world, the way one establishes or not relationships with other people. It's one of those dynamics that could be full of fondness, gratitude, resentment, admiration, trust, and that imply intimacy, the good kind or the bad, even if in just the knowledge of someone who's been a constant through your life. It could, and would, imply a myriad of feelings, and probably in such a mix it could imply contradictory feelings too. Even the nothingness would weight, even the nothingness would be significant and meaningful.
Gojo took Megumi and his sister under his wing, the son of a man who murdered him, because of both selfish and selfless reasons. Megumi looks like Toji. What does Gojo feel about this? How does Gojo deal with this? How does Gojo go about taking care of Megumi? Would he walk him to school? Make him breakfast? Celebrate his birthdays making him blow candles? Did he take him to the zoo? Does the relationship between them feel professional or is it something more? Gojo appreciates his students, but is Megumi to him just another student? When Gojo faces Sukuna in Megumi's body, did he see the kid he raised, or does he just see Sukuna in one of his students' body? Did he have one faint wavering instant? And how does Megumi feel about this? Is he resentful of him? Resentful of the situation? Of the selfishness behind his actions? Does he feel like a pawn? Is he grateful? Does he resent feeling grateful? Would he rather not? Does he love Gojo? Does he feel nothing about him other than what he could feel about a teacher that sort of annoys him but knows he's reliable in his strength? Does he think it unfair, cruel or unfeeling that Gojo is close, closer perhaps, with Yuuji or Yuta, considering their story? When Sukuna slices Gojo in two, does the remnants of Megumi's soul tremble?
And not just Megumi and Gojo. Yuuji and Nanami, Gojo and Nanami, Yuuji and Fushiguro, Nobara and the boys, or Nobara and Maki, Todo and Yuuji or Yuta, Gojo and Yuta, Megumi and his sister. Gojo and Geto, even! If the pieces are well set, the dynamics are intriguing, interesting, and have potential to be deep, but then the characters have like two plot relevant scenes that punch you hard, but little more, it's not nearly enough. Especially not nearly enough for the enormity that is shonen dynamics and situations. And the potential existing at all, and then not delivering, makes it all the more frustrating when you're left with something mediocre that could have been so good.
The development of dynamics through not only a few plot relevant gut wrenching moving scenes, but also the smallness of life, is important. The friend who recommended this to me said that those things were just unnecessary filler, but I disagree. I think there's a big difference between a large amount of anime-only filler episodes whose existence is based on the fact they had run out of manga chapters to animate, and moments of quietness. The low stakes character-driven moments of quietness can be so telling and so insightful, and they are so satisfactory when brought back later in higher stakes situations. My friend teased me there was no scene of Gojo making breakfast to Megumi, that it would be an idiotic idea, but it would be so telling. How he makes breakfast, what they eat, if he tries hard or if it's all mechanised, if they have personal bowls or if they use whatever, if he just buys them some pastry on the way to school, if the way they have breakfast changes through the years, or if he doesn't make them breakfast at all! All that would be very insightful on their dynamic and its evolution. All that would give a glimpse on how they regard each other and why, even in the present. All that could become meaningful in tense situations and high stakes scenes.
These moments also let the plot breath; if a lot is happening all the time, if every character is always experiencing trauma after trauma, the entire story is so emotionally draining that at some point you don't even care all that much. Besides, these nothing moments or low stakes plot arcs, besides deepening and developing dynamics, also let some in-world time pass, which would make the intimacy and bond between characters more believable imo; between Yuuji eating Sukuna's finger and their last confrontation in December how much time has passed? A few months? Am I truly to believe these characters are so everything to each other in only a few months?
Without some smallness, some repetition, some daily life, some low stakes not plot-centric development, the dynamics don't hit, they don't truly feel fleshed out, and dynamics as complex as the ones Megumi and Gojo have, or as supposedly meaningful as the one Megumi has with Yuuji or his sister, should be fleshed out if they're going to exist at all. Otherwise they'd risk making the writing feel awkward and fake. Besides, if the dynamics felt well fleshed out and realistic, they would shape the way the characters interact and act, and how they deal with situations, thus being plot relevant.
The shonen genre has so much happening all the time, the stakes are so high, the dynamics are so rooted in big events and the relationships carry enormous weight and implications. Yet they barely get developed, and it feels so stupid, so plain, the absence of something so important noticeable like a constant void, a shapeless nothingness present in every scene. It makes the characters feel like cardboard figures. Jujutsu Kaisen is already getting a better job than many, but I doubt it will do enough for what I've heard, and I fear I am bound to feel let down, and bound to feel unmoved.
After all, if not enough time and care has been given to develop a dynamic, I am not going to feel pressured by the high stakes; if not enough time and care has been given to develop the dynamic between Megumi and Yuuji, as good potential as it has I am bound to feel little for this last confrontation between Sukuna and Itadori, and his effort in getting Megumi back.
#It's not that I think everything has to be character driven or take a lot of care about dynamics#Death Note for instance works well without it. There's juice in the dynamic between Light and his father and the role of Matsuda there#and it works well with Light's views and their evolution and the whole Kira situation. It isn't much. It doesn't need more#But Death Note doesn't truly drop something as big as Gojo and Megumi to then do barely nothing about it#('But L and Watari' not the same at all. That was deepened in the anime and besides Watari is not one of the main characters)#Or Megumi and his sister. If we see barely nothing of Megumi and his sister other than shiny flashbacks of her#how am I to feel moved by it all beyond superficial emotions? I don't know. It just feels so like cardboard to me#And it annoys me! It annoys me a lot! Because Jujutsu Kaisen has amazing potential! The dynamics and characters could be amazing!#But I don't trust they'll live to their full potential and the potential existing for nothing is ruining this for me xD#Jujutsu Kaisen#Sorry this time I'm tagging it. I want to find this and see if I was right when I'm finished. I think I'll read the manga too#The condescending filler breakfast comment by my friend was ironic considering the Kramer vs. Kramer breakfast scenes exist#Breakfast can be so telling. And besides he loves the Chainsaw Man coffee scene so I don't get why not breakfast#But truly some small daily life moments can tell us a lot about a character that we could recognise later on in high stakes scenes#such as how they deal in tense situationsâ what makes them snap#how they go about dealing with a problem.#Sometimes it could be smaller moments or conversations what makes characters reconsider thingsâ not just having Sukuna rip their heart out#In Pandora Hearts the conversation between Elliot and Oz about the book series they love and their favourite characters becomes key#Oz's development and how he regards thingsâ his own personâ and how he deals with situations will be shaped later on by this conversation#till the very end. The entire main character's development is shaped by a 'filler' conversation.It's not filler. It's just not a fight scen#Shonen manga readers find everything filler except for fights which is ironic considering that many fights in shonen feel unnecessary#Breakfast is unnecessary. Just filler. Fighting thirty seven secondary monsters or chapter after chapter of physical training is not. Okay#Things can be small but plot relevant. If it shapes and fleshes out and deepens a character or a relationship it is not filler#And mainly MAINLY for the love of everything good if you're going to make a fucked up or Meaningful Beyond Everything dynamic#give it time and care. Actually write it. Don't give me two panels and one conversation after some life and death situation. It's not enoug#Especially if I'm to believe they are important. Make me believe they actually are#I don't know... This issue with not trusting the development of very well set potential in Jujutsu Kaisen#has not only been keeping me from thoroughly enjoying the seriesâ but actively keeping me from watching for weeks#It makes me doubt if I want to spend my time in this at all since after all time is limited and we can but spend it in a handful of things#A pity. I really love some things and I really think Megumi and Gojo could be everything to me haha the Heathcliff/Hareton vibe gets me
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do love how many of us bill cipher flatland truthers heard "when bill destroyed his home dimension, he killed everyone he'd ever known" and all simultaneously decided "well except kryptos. he knew kryptos. he kept kryptos :)"
#the circles trying to arrest bill for Dimension Crimes or w/e: can you explain your relationship to bill cipher#kryptos: i am bill's right hand arm. man. i'm bill cipher everything. his best friend. his confidant. his silly rabbit#the circles: his what#kryptos: his silly rabbit#the circles: ... his silly rabbit#kryptos: yes :)#the circles: is that what he calls you?#kryptos: no <3#i see so many interpretations of their dynamic but i think it's funny how it always basically boils down to well of COURSE he kept kryptos#even the people who are like 'he finds kryptos annoying as shit and rags on him whenever he can and hates him' are like#'but yeah no obviously he kept kryptos around!'#also while i have my own thoughts on their dynamic to the point it is the main point of my fic and kryptos is now the secondary lead#i do love that however you interpret him (friend acquaintance partner court appointed attorney family member WHATEVER) we're all just like#'he was there too :)'#i also think it's funny that someone felt so strongly about their own kryptos idea that they went hogwild on the wiki unsourced and was#just like 'ummmm they're related now! it was confirmed. source-- my divine knowledge :)' and then caused everyone to go HUH#until it was taken down#bill and kryptos are very much NOT related in my hcs like very very very much not#but i gotta hand it to you. as much as i disagree with the take#it takes guts to go on the fandom wiki with your random hc and go 'this is real trust me :)' and then dip
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Justice for Joe!
#this is not about s1 this is about s7#oh we're almost home? goodnight Joe you'll never see your kids#they brought him back like once a season just to kill him in the end poor Joe he didn't deserve that#tragic red shirt#Joe Carey#lamenting what could have been#we could've had some great secondary cast dynamics#look at him he's just a little guy they broke his nose and killed him off rude
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the inside of my brain 24/7/365
#i actually may reread hjt now that i see my beloved mutuals reading it i told myself i dont need to but.... they call to me#i owe them my life lately istg#anything bad happens? i run to them#headache? them. sleeplessness? them. cramps? them. my secondary cr pissing me off?? definitely them.#anyway uh if youre looking for new reading material might i suggest them???#'why are the tops on the bottom' cause this is low effort and i didnt care enough to change it next question#i personally feel in my heart that yf dont have that strict of a dynamic but thats obviously my opinion which does not count#pretty boy top yxh is canon and i do love that#obviously cz uh. well. no contest there ffgfghf#and they would not want one love that for them#anyway jfc these tags do not look#have i slept? no and dont ask me when i will i dont fuckin know#my dumbass
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Look, I'm not usually one to be like "they should have gone with the romance", but thinking about Wish again, gosh they should have gone with the romance
#anything but the stupid ass character dynamics we got#the secondary charaters are excessive and stupid and too much but at the same time not enough#rambles#wish critical#edit: changed the tags so ppl who want Nice Wish content dont see me bitching lol#its annoying when u want fandom stuff and theres people complaining
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MADE IN THAILAND
POON MITPAKDEE
NATARIT WORAKORNLERTSITH
[Nickname: MARC]
with:
THANABOON KIATNIRAN
[Nickname: AOU]
#MADE IN THAILAND#THAILAND-JAPAN BLOG#From My Secondary Blog: SIDE COUPLE SUPREMACY#WE ARE: THE SERIES#THE STRANGE YET INTERESTING DYNAMIC OF CHAIN/PUN#TAN FEELING LONELY#FRIENDS#My GIFS#MYGIFSET#MY-GIF-EDIT#I CAN'T SEE PAWIN PLAYING THIS ROLE đ€
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i know "kids showing respect" usually means "shutting up and doing what their told", but my niece genuinely has no respect for her mother. its kinda fucked up to see, but it's my sister in law's fault; she just has no backbone, and has set no boundaries for that child
#it feels really mean to say but she genuinely doesn't#and i don't mind her being a lenient parent#i mean kids aren't little robots they're gonna fuck up and talk back and be moody#so its honestly good my SIL is flexible#but its to a fault#she'll say smth like 'i'm not going back and forth between floors with an arm load of toys for you#you're almost 8 you can grab some dolls by yourself'#and as soon as my niece pouts my SIL immediately cows and does it#and i do get it its not fun to be strict but she is her MOTHER. her job is to parent and raise her#being her friend should be a secondary concern#and again i don't think or even want her to be a super strict parent#and its not necessarily good for a child her age to be super independent#but an (nondisabled) eight year doesn't her mother in the bathroom with her yknow?#and the thing is my niece is a super smart and indepent kid! just not with her mom because her mom let's her#get away with EVERYTHING. like my SIL just has no boundaries and its gonna cause a lot of problems down the road#mickey.txt#its hard to explain if you don't see it every day but its just not a healthy dynamic#just. im the aunt and it feels like i do more parenting than she does#(which isn't true at all but there are moments where it feels like that)#(also my brother is far from a perfect parent but that's a whole other post. and my niece does respect him)#(again that feels like a nebulous thing and i promise i don't mean in sense of obedience)
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I scrolled a bit through your blog - have fun trying out gw2!! halloweenâs a really fun time to start playing.
i havenât played ffxiv so I canât comment on zenos as a character or the narrative reasons people find him polarizing, but:
the character iâm talking about (his nameâs palawa joko) doesnât show up until a little over halfway through all the story we have so far, and sticks around for the equivalent of about half an expansion, and then heâs a special guest for halloween. joko is kind of a lot, just as a person, and we all have fun with it, but heâs not actually on-screen very much. so if you end up not liking him, it wonât affect the large majority of the story campaign.
halloween is THE guild wars 2 holiday. come with me, weâre going to run around in circles in a decrepit, hallowed nightmare dimension, killing plastic spiders and glow-in-the-dark skeletons and candy corn elementals. the looming ghosts of a deposed pumpkin-headed king and the lich who wanted to fuck you so bad before your daughter ate him for breakfast are going to make gay passive-aggressive digs at each other every other minute like youâre not even there. sometimes steve is there too
#sorry just saw youâre brand new here so i wanted to clarify#joko is a character from the first guild wars game so heâs been around for a long time and is generally a fan favorite#heâs integral to the history of tyria and you can see his influence on the worldâ primarily the crystal desert and the kingdom of elona#but heâs more of a minor / secondary antagonist for the GW2 story!#and iâll say that like. heâs a serious character in the worldbuilding BUT heâs also kind of silly too? we have a lot of fun with joko#his voice actor is great and thereâs kind of a campy bad guy flair to him.#halloweenâs a weird way to meet him because itâs kind of out of context but youâll get a good idea of his personality.#him and mad king thorn have a really fun dynamic! i like them a lot personally#praise joko.#ANYWAYSSSSS i hope you enjoy your time in tyria!!!
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Both Nobara and the blonde witch (Momo?) make good points about the role of women in this Jujutsu society. Momo points out that power is not enough for them, that that which is good enough for men isn't for women, that they are held to higher standards, and for them scars aren't badges of honour as they are for men, but make them undesirable and damaged goods.
And then there's Nobara, pointing out those are sexist standards one doesn't have to adhere to, that it's on them for playing by the rules and having those exigences in mind. That she likes clothes and looking pretty, but for herself, she doesn't expect it from others or respect more someone who does as well if they don't want to, like she likes Maki but dislikes Mai. And she too is right! It's true that adhering to those exigences perpetuates the standards! But what she says doesn't negate what Momo says, which is the fact that, yeah, okay, it sucks, but that's how it is and not playing by the rules just makes everything harder. And harder still for someone like Mai (or Maki) to whom perfection isn't just the goal, but the very starting point being people from one of the main clans. So she can understand and defend Mai's position and approach to the problem, as Nobara understands and defends Maki's.
This all gains layers of complexity and juiciness considering Momo and Mai are Utahime's students and Todo's classmates. I am sure the manga won't go there, but wow is it intriguing how Utahime's situation may have influenced their views. What a pity the manga won't go there
#On the other hand perhaps Gojo's flippancy could have further reaffirmed Maki and Nobara on their own ideas#Gojo is flippant and does as he wants and they see that's proved to be convenient for them#For them as women for them as people without Cursed Energy and for them as people that are considered akin to a curse like Yuuji#Momo says that and she has Todo as a classmate. Todoâ powerfulâ feared well respected scarred Todo. And she has Utahime as a teacher#Utahimeâ mocked for being weak. Utahimeâ kept in the dark about the old man's awful plans. Utahimeâ scarred#It adds so many layers and it's so intriguing. It also adds another context to Utahime's dislike for Gojo#and her passionate way of reacting to his teasing. He's probably just teasing but he also often takes it too far#And perhaps for him it's nothing but to Utahime it has implications#Anyway... I love now even more that Utahime is well loved and respected by her students#Especially with those students being Todoâ a Kamo guy and this Zenin girl#What a pity WHAT A PITY that this manga doesn't dwell more on the actual characters and especially secondary characters#Because this whole thing is soooo juicy and Utahime could be that deep#JJK in general is such a shame. Constant source of wonderful charactersâ dynamicsâ concepts and topics all to end up being mainly nothing#Mainly nothing more than a few long fights#*sigh* I could have really really loved this#Really what a waste of potential. I am so sad all the time haha#I talk too much#I should probably delete this later
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i know ill actually like an abo fic when it has to start with So heres the current political state of my setting in secondary genders and also some details on how exactly my version of abo biology works and some context on how science is moving with it and social opinions on the matter
like ooooooh yesss give me the deeets, how does having secondary genders affect this societtttyyy
#as a person who genuienly reads abo fics for the plot i lvoe this#its like seeing Unconventional abo dynamics but a suprise not in the tags#and it has Female alphas and male omegas develop differently then their counterparts with other secondary genders because while not active#and very undeveloped the reproductive system still grows with them and doesnt just appear ovrrnight when they present#like yesss#gimmeeee
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