#character-centrism

[p2ii]

'we need more stories with complex and nunaced themes and world building that doesn't exist in black and white/where no one is uniquely good or bad' y'all can't even handle the freedom fighter trope when they use 2% violence in their own liberation

[commsroom]

eiffel's problem is that he sees every injustice as an interpersonal issue. he doesn't understand how his flippancy or apparent leniency towards hilbert might look to hera; in his mind, it doesn't contradict his support for her. to eiffel, it seems obvious - he is also one of hilbert's victims, hera is his friend, of course he's completely on her side - but he fails to fully grasp how the stakes are different for her.

ep 19: "you need to stop treating this like a joke, officer eiffel." / "hey, i'm the person for whom the joke tolls." / "i get you're scared he put something inside you. but i hope you haven't forgotten emergency code alpha victor. he put that in me." and ep 51: "they're just jokes! they don't really mean anything." / "see, eiffel, you get to have that. they can be 'just jokes' for you because you're... well, you. but we don't get that."

the issue in shut up and listen is eiffel's repeated, if unintentional, microaggressions, but it's also his general use of dark humor as a coping mechanism - jokes he feels justified in making because of how the subjects of those jokes have impacted him. eiffel sincerely believes in treating people equally, but his idea of 'equal treatment' can be idealistic and naive. he has an awareness of interpersonal harm, but he's lived most of his life without ever being confronted with the reality of structural harm - being pre-judged and othered and having his life devalued on the basis of outside categorization.

but the thing about that is that it has happened to him, too. eiffel is an addict, and a convict, and marked as from a lower socioeconomic class than minkowski or lovelace, and those things are the reasons goddard futuristics was able to buy him as prison labor and - without his consent - consider him expendable for medical experimentation. none of that is a coincidence, but he doesn't see the systems at work, only his own actions and regrets. which he then equivocates to the worst actions of people who don't share his sense of morality or guilt.

eiffel's ability to recognize and bring out the humanity in the people around him is one of his best qualities, but... on the basis of his identity, he's been able to live a life where he conceptualizes himself as the default person, and that's been reinforced by the pop culture he loves so much. that's a massive blind spot. he assumes everyone navigates the world in a similar way, and so, on some level, he sees everyone around him as an extension of or a reflection of himself. if evil is always personal, then it can always be reasoned with.

[thedailydescent]

Every time I see advertisements for the third season of Bridgerton I'm forever thankful I gave up that liberal covid escapism show after season 2 when I realized that we were actually supposed to be rooting for the main character who exposed a black pregnant teenager and a feminist activist, and that there would be no lasting consequence for that because this show is really all about preserving social order and maintaining the nuclear family. why look at class segregation when you can look at these shirtless colonizers.

[thuranni]

"kim kitsuragi doesn't care about anything intensely" get out of my house. did you play the same game i did

[huldrabitch]

I know there's a lot to be critiqued about Cullens character development, and for some people he will just never be likeable (and that's ok). But, I'd really recommend siding with the templars at the end of dragon age 2 one time, just to see what happens.

[lesbianralzarek]

disco elysium discourse is like:

i love big fandoms, so im actually 100% down for people joining without playing the game. its great that more de content creators get the attention they deserve! but please dont discourse about nuanced media if you havent interacted with it. ill-informed negativity is neither fun nor helpful. hmu if you want help pirating it :)

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[volivolition]

what's the theme you're fucking going for here voliiii!!! what are you fucking getting at!!! what are you trying to say, what's the point??

[ryo-maybe]

I’m usually too laser-focused with fuming at the purely narrative trappings of his writing style, but since the right combination of stimuli shifted the gears in my brain to finally unlock this arcane which had been tap dancing on the tip of my nose all along: damn, Urobuchi is one hell of a centrist. That’s really the core of it all, huh?

[morsobaby]

In Finland the Pride stuff is at the end of the summer so July to August. So it'll feel weird when I'll still be posting about it then like haha hi guys.

[dukeofriven]

My biggest worry about Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves is that it might make people for whom this is their first introduction to D&D think that Forgotten Realms lore is cool.

[1pcii]

random one piece characters as Grandson songs

Sabo:

koby:

Law:

Vivi:

Zoro:

Usopp:

Ace:

[dungeonbf]

not to be mean or a hater cuz like obviously people are allowed to share f/os, it happens, but a selfshipper reblogged my post about anti-centrism’s sweat 😭😭 my personal post 😭😭 yeah i blocked them

[thedragonagelesbian]

Wynne, miss "openly disapproves of your romance in origins", is calling ADRIAN judgy??????

"I, at least, have a mission as well as a friend to help. You have neither of those things."

????? The entire reason she's here in the first place is to help rhys HELLO

[tapewurms]

I like how this is going, so here

Just 3 gay disasters looking at each other

[bidokja]

hi hello can I get your opinion on smth? if not that's fine and I hope u have a great day but anyways I'm planning to write a weak hero fic but I'm torn between writing the characters with their korean names or the ones that people recognize them by, originally I was planning on using the english ones but I'm not so sure. ty in advance

imo its better to use their actually Korean names. if you're worried about people getting confused, provide an author's note indicating who's who. plus, if you are planning to post it on ao3 or anything, I believe the tag system there ties together both their original Korean and assigned English names, so people will be able to find it regardless.

[thedreadvampy]

goddddd the Kaatje plotline is so CRUNCHY I am OBSESSED and INTRIGUED

also. and this is a purely aesthetic observation. the artwork of the church is just. stunning. like the ATMOSPHERE that scenery produces. chef kiss. god. amazing.

(only played for 8 hours today I'm VERY RESPONSIBLE)