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#mp100#mob psycho 100#hanazawa teruki#suzuki shou#terushou starcrossed lovers to me#characterization by proxy#mine#myart#mymp100art#mp100 meta
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part of the reason im torn over which BaL ending i wanna go for is because veils is just. way too fun of a character to completely remove from the narrative via permakilling. i will miss that bat and its problem-causing and i will miss it so very much
#it's why the intriguer ending appeals to me#but also. The Steed...#yin-thoughts#fallen london#fallen london spoilers#bag a legend spoilers#i already miss (nemesis spoiler) even though its death was critical to caeru's arc and by proxy the shadow's existence#and it doesnt even have that much canon characterization
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Sun & Pryncess - strangers to friends to crushes to lovers/spouses
Moon & Pryncess (so far) - strangers to friends to pining to one sided enemies
Sun & Pry/ncess: the boy next store type romance
Moon & Pry/ncess: the standoffish loner cool guy romance (but he only appears standoffish because he is too awkward to know how to talk to you)
#ask#bethroned#bethroned spoilers#I could go on for ages about my own characterization of moon (and by proxy Arche)
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Viren + the "greater good" / weighing people's lives
#tdp viren#arc 1#the show: what if sacrificing one individual for the greater good was Bad actually#viren#compilation#parallels#obviously there's more to it than this like. viren IS taking the crown out of self importance#harrow not wanting to leave amaya behind bristles him so badly but HIM Mattering to harrow is all he wants#bc he's a contradictory lil bitch (affectionate) but like#i just need to write a meta on the three main trios and their priorities huh#viren-harrow-sarai + claudia-viren-soren + callum-rayla-ezran huh#long post#characterization#theme: sacrifice#WHICH IS ALSO WHY HIS GROWTH WAS. NOT SACRIFICING A WILLING CREATURE LITERALLY MADE#TO BE SACRIFICED BY HIM LMAO#when ppl misunderstand callum so bad they misunderstand viren too by proxy the l ratio cannot be matched
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When the fic is so good I have to stop reading it
#and on todays episode of posts I feel like I’ve made already#berryboxed#proxy rambles#you know what I mean right#‘oh god they characterize them so well oh this is so interesting#no fucking way I get to read 100000 words of this I’m gonna vomit’#feeling
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something interesting that I just realized doesn't really happen in jp (at least comparing this clip directly) is how much Dororo repeats that he's a "soldier with no honor and no past"? catchphrase level almost (he does it in other eps too)
giroro doesn't say "you're...", he says "that's incredible!"
dororo introduces himself with "friends...! ...actually, not anymore. I can't consider you that anymore."
fuyuki says "the missing alien" not "the fifth one"
natsumi says "so he's been living with koyuki all this time?"
keroro says "Ah, I'm so happy to see you again! Yessir!" (that's his vocal quirk instead of であります) giroro says "welcome back with us!" which is a bit different from "I'm so glad you're safe"
keroro says "I'm over the moon from happiness, we were so worried!!"
the resonance they do is often called with a "concerto" name which I'm not sure if it's in the og too or not, it's not always N°3 like here, I recall it being N°4 sometimes... (I'd have to check!)
dororo says "I can't join you." instead of "I respectfully refuse."
"I'm nothing but a soldier with no honor and no past, my name is not Zeroro anymore. It's Dororo."
"I have to leave you now... goodbye forever, ex-sergeant Keroro." "Ex?"
"Oh, he left a note... eh?" "It's a farewell note."
"W-What? He doesn't want anything to do with us anymore? But... I don't get the reason..."
"Well, you have to admit you didn't put too much effort into finding him, sergeant." (they equally share blame in the og... he's blaming keroro here, lol 😭 unintentionally feeds me)
"Yeah, you're right, I was careless (/didn't worry) about that." (a bit different from forgetting like the og! but I kinda like the mean-er way it paints keroro, he is a bit selfish with dororo after all. I also like that he swiftly accepts blame. something he does quite often in the dub I've noticed...)
"Right, we made a mistake, we behaved badly."
"Lady Koyuki, this soldier without honor is grateful for all you've done for him." "Do you really want to abandon your mates (/friends)?" "I must. I only have one purpose now, to protect this planet." (grateful has a deeper connotation in italian, so it is more similar to "no words can express my thanks" like the og, it kinda means to owe a debt, more specifically) (also idk how it is in eng but in italian -dono got adapted to "lady" and "mister", and for aki it's "royal mother")
#keroro gunso#ita dub#putting this post in my daily maintag post jar. im awarded at least one of those per day....#esp cuz it took me half an hour at least to compare the clips! lots of fun tho. i like the subtle differences in characterization so much#you have to understand that by proxy of growing up with this version. i will have a slightly different view of characters. due to this#it's SOOOO fun to compare them 😭💓 lots to think abt#dororo
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For a show with so much well let’s say fan base, Daiya surprisingly avoids the clumsy accidentally shounen relationship focus, instead using subtler, slower, deliberate development of Sawamura’s relationships with Chris and Miyuki. The show about having a good time playing ball is in fact just about having a good time playing ball. That’s what makes it even odder that it’s Ugumori that fits into ye goode olde unintentional subtext
#not the most well-known characters nor the most prominent rival team. but how else can you look at umemiya and nao!#kelsey liveblogs anime#yes it’s because of terajima’s ill-executed well-intentioned commitment to tokenism and his inability to write those characters he brings in#still. something refreshing about hearing some good old hot blooded roaring about giving your life up to someone else to be a proxy#I do enjoy that kind of friendship#back on my earlier train of thought yeah daiya’s one signature is the tokenism#admirable in a weird way. it’s never more subtle than a hammer to the head but it’s there and it keeps chugging along#there will be exactly one (1) character every two arcs who represents some kind of oft-ignored marginalization#and who will be given a mildly micro aggressive characterization.#Wakana the coed athlete…who is on the losing team and is banished to the provincial school where we don’t know if she even plays#Kamiya the Brazilian star runner…who wanders around without a shirt on#the Todorokis the lower-class strivers…who are loud dumb and crass#nao the mobility-impaired former player…who is so generically inspiring he gets the team to new heights
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LIKE thinking about it nitpicking my own wording, here. Shedinja isn't really "the former self" -- Nincada would be. Shedinja is just some Thing that spawned in, when Ninjask did. Some kind of haunted husk that got left behind when Nincada hatched into Ninjask, becoming something New. Which is EXACTLY what Mani is, how Mani works.
ALSO @eriisaam eating up these tags on the Shedinja post actually,
LIKE. SO MUCH OF THIS TRIVIA CAN BE APPLIED TO MANI IT'S INSANE. AND HILARIOUS
Like "PMD if you evolve into Ninjask, you also get Shedinja in your roster now. No notice. It just silently appeared there." Exactly what happened with Mani.
THE NAME RATER ONE. ALSO. EXTREMELY MANI-CORE???? Like. Mani doesn't really have a name until Alfonse ends up in Moe's specific dreamscape. When the issue of differentiating the two comes up, Mani names itself. Which absolutely feels like having to go out of your way to apply a nickname to a nameless Pokemon. But ALSO the BDSP example works too...? I'm iffy about it, but there is at least one canon scene where "Moe" is used for Mani.
... Would this make "Moe" its deadname....??????? AN EXTREMELY FUNNY THOUGHT. But I also just don't think Mani has that relationship to Moe as a name, as someone might a deadname. (In fact, it may feel the opposite way. It loves that name. It's... cute.) WHICH is where I get iffy, like... do I want it to be more like a Lif situation, in naming conventions alone...? Where, you see him accept being called Alfonse by Thrasir/Veronica (and he does the same, towards her). But Mani really does feel like its own entity, separate from Moe itself... it's not a case of hidden identity or throwing away an identity you no longer feel deserving of. Literally a whole other guy spawned in. Shedinja style. From the same being, tied to that being. That became its OWN being. And it is important, to both Moe and Mani, that there is a distinction made.
GOD. THE RIBBONS/TITLES TRIVIA TOO??? GOES INSANE. Feels EXTREMELY applicable to Mani. How it's a reflection, more than anything else. And absolutely adjacently feels directly comparable to the beans/poffins lore. That there are very specific ways that Shedinja cannot change. (... except for candy, apparently.) This is maybe more metaphorical, but fits, too.
IDK IDK I JUST. I've always had suuuuch a hard time capturing/expressing what Mani Is, like, logistically speaking. It's literally just a Shedinja. Also bonus points for being genderless when Nincada/Ninjask have/retain their gender. WHICH....... also feels akin to how Moe has a really distinct gender identity/Feelings about it, and Mani just kind of is... null and void. Empty. Hollow, even.
Congratulations on the brain Nincada -> Shedinja/Ninjask, Moe. No idea how it works in an AU setting, but. Works GREAT as a metaphor/example for Mani came into being.
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Don't ask how. It just Works 👍
#moe tag#mani tag#like i can imagine pokemon au moe making sense of what's going on in its head using nincada/shedinja/ninjask as a metaphor#and bc that's how it makes sense of it mani just Has those pokemon by proxy.#but if mani doesn't 'exist'... technically any pokemon it has wouldn't exist either. not without some shenanigans going on#which. i mean pokemon world. you could make just about ANYTHING work. just look at all the insane shit that is canon LMFAO#i really don't think it would make sense for moe to have one and mani to have the other though.#since the nincada each came from would need to exist in two realms at once.#if i get back into team building as characterization i'll never stop. or i'll stop really abruptly and forget about it#pokemon#moe lore#technically! more mani lore than moe tbh!
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general relationship headcanons —proxies x fem!proxy!reader
including: ticci toby, masky, hoodie and kate the chaser (individually)
suggestive mentions, mentions of murder, creepypasta masky and creepypasta hoodie (but with some features of MH tim and brian).
i'll make a distinction between Tim and Brian from MH and Tim and Brian from Creepypasta, if i'm writing of both and i don't mention if it's the creepypasta version, then it's from Marble Hornets! but in this case, i mentioned that is their creepypasta version (if it's said like that? (ᗒᗩᗕ))
i did my best with my proxies characterization, hope you like it! 💗⭐
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Masky/Tim Wright
oh Tim my beloved.
one thing is to interact with Tim outside of work and another one to interact with Tim as Masky while working.
he's protective way too much.
please understand him, everything is already very fucked up and even more to being controlled by Slenderman.
y'all live in cabins in the woods! and even though you have your own, you tend to spend a lot of time in Tim's cabin.
since you started dating, you both made one thing clear: private relationship.
and to be honest, helped you quite a bit.
it didn't suit either of you for others to know exactly what's going on.
when y'all aren't deeply under his command, Tim is more soft and more talkative. his sarcasm makes you smile and he then sometimes initiate some kisses and physical contact.
but you are more of the one who initiates it.
when he has missions where the two of you don't go together, he tries to bring something to you.
but when you both go together on a mission, you take things and he covers them up and also you both deviate a little from the path or take a little longer to return (if you understand me wink wink)
but it isn't so common that you deviate from the path.
use honey, dear or your name
he holds your hand when you are together.
sometimes he wants to be alone but he always tells you before you give him space (something that he had to learn and it's difficult for him but he tries to do it to avoid arguments between you, he is an exhausted guy).
when this happens you go back to your cabin or take a walk nearby until Tim is the one who comes to find you.
his jealousy is more of a pessimistic comments to himself.
he loves you and he doesn't want to lose you.
he genuinely cares about others despite his reserved demeanor.
when you go shopping, even if he says that only what is just and necessary, he buys you what you like without anyone knowing.
but when he's Masky.
well... it's almost the same attitude.
he doesn't soften his voice to you.
just wants to do the mission, finish it and leave.
but also, that everything goes well and ends well.
he actually talks more than Hoodie.
more reserved.
he doesn't hold your hand at all.
but his protective attitude is still there!
if you get hurt during one of the missions, he will help you.
says your name, no nickname, no pet names.
but in the end, he knows you are his partner and her girlfriend.
"look at her, i would die for her, i would kill for her" vibe.
"older sis of her family x older brother of his family" vibes/trope
his kisses are long but with a strong charge of emotion.
he's a soft dom.
and again, the difference between when he's outside of work and when he's at work is not much, it's just that he acts more distant and less expressive, but for the rest, he is still a big protector.
he also values autonomy!
don't get him wrong, he just enjoys seeing his girlfriend being self-sufficient, especially with the life y'all lead.
it's between Toby or Brian that teases both of you.
Kate doesn't care much.
he loves it when you squeeze his shoulders! even though your hands hurt from how tense they are.
please give him words of affirmation and quality time :(
his love language would be acts of service and quality time!
your dates are going to the nearest city or town or just hanging out inside his cabin or yours.
there are times when it's already daylight but he doesn't let you go, for him, you're the only that can keep him putting up with that shit any longer.
and vice versa.
the sound of leaves colliding against each other thanks to the gentle gust of air was the background noise of the scene.
your head was resting gently on his shoulder, somewhat snuggled into him being greeted by the strong smell of coffee and cigarettes, his arm around your body to be more in contact with you. Tim's breathing was a little slow, you thought maybe it was because of all the cigarettes he smoked or the scene was really peaceful, a calmness that you always appreciated.
"Tim, honey..." your voice brought him out of his thoughts.
"yeah, dear?" you opened your lips, thinking a little about the words you would say. "if we get through this, will we be able to live far away and have a life together?"
your question made him go back into his thoughts, that question was so sad but Tim knew the answer for a long time.
"honey, we both already have a life together and when we least expect it, we will be living in a house somewhat away from the woods."
"love you" your lips joined together forming a beautiful connection and dance, that words were not enough because of how much you loved each other.
although you both know that it's increasingly a distant dream but he couldn't say no to his future wife.
Hoodie/Brian Thomas
ALRIGHT HEAR ME OUT.
Brian is a great boyfriend.
Hoodie absolutely not lol.
i started with Brian outside the power of the operator/slenderman.
brian is a golden retriever vibe, something in his past remains present and that is his charisma.
although his charisma is later interrupted by more sarcastic tones. after all, he's not the same as years ago.
the first to know about your relationship with Brian was Tim.
after all, he's his friend.
then the next to know it was Kate and Toby almost at the same time.
Brian does the best he can, knowing the shit y'all live, he tries to make sure to have at least some good moments within that... exhausting reality you both live in.
use honey, babe and love.
the kind of give you some flowers that are picked up in the forest.
remember when i say y'all live in cabins? well, he also has his own but he's constantly in yours.
his love language is words of affirmation and quality time!
he's not a jealous type at all, yeah sometimes he is jealous but he's more the kind of "yeah, she's my girlfriend, all mine, look at her because that's the only nearest thing that you're going to have something about her" "proud that she's my girlfriend, so what?"
your relationship is also private!
your dates consist in going to the nearest city.
a great kisser (i still hc that he's the top 1 among them lol)
an absolute service dom.
when he sends both of you on missions, he tries to do the hardest parts (although you don't care much about that later and end up doing too).
the cool aunt and cool uncle couple vibes.
but when he's working as Hoodie... well
you missed your Brian when he's not completely under the slenderman's control.
i mean y'all are completely but when he put y'all to "work".
when he's as Hoodie, he doesn't speak.
he just sighs, pants, grunts but doesn't say a word.
but those sounds sound different, because he carries a voice changer inside of his hoodie and balaclava.
Hoodie just treats you as an equal like the other proxies.
kind of stubborn (but not as toby)
Hoodie genuinely cares for you, if you go the wrong way, he grabs of your clothes and pulls you back to the right path.
there aren't many displays of affection when he's in the mission, to be honest.
but it doesn't mean that he doesn't do it completely, he is, along with Toby, the one who mind the least about showing affection (knowing the current situation everyone is in).
but he adores you, and even though you're under Slenderman's command, he's afraid that he will do something against you.
your footsteps that made the old dry leaves scattered on the dirt ground crunch made Brian turn his head to you.
"hey babe" he showed you a smile, revealing his small tooth gap.
"i didn't know you had arrived" the sound of crushed leaves began to get closer to Brian, you stopped your walk when you were already next to him. "Tim told me you got injured"
there was no response from Brian, he kept his gaze in the direction where you were but without seeing you as such, appreciating the green grass with brown tones due to dryness. the only thing he could enjoy about this shit was nature in its purest state and you by his side.
he let out a small chuckle and looked away, now looking at the lake in front of you. "just a little scratch".
your mouth curved into a smile, taking your hands out of the pocket of the large and thick jacket you were wearing, you ran your hand over his abdomen, causing him to press his lips together. "you got me, you got me" now you let out a little laugh.
there was a brief silence, the sound of leaves rustling against each other from the gusts of wind that appeared was the only noise between you and him. his hand slid down your back, at the height of your waist, curling his fingers at the end of.
"hurt or not, i'll always come back to you, love" he murmured near your temple, placing a kiss. in response, you tilted your head to his shoulder, still not losing your smile.
one thing you both know is, wounded, healthy or dead, you will always come back for each other.
Ticci Toby
OH THIS BOYY
being with him everything is a box of surprises.
he's so spontaneous, seriously.
and stubborn.
when you accepted to be his girlfriend, that same day everyone already knew it.
"hey, can you tell your boyfriend it's his turn to take out the trash?" "how do you know- nevermind"
"I LOVE MY WIFE!!!" vibes
laughs and jokes will never be lacking!
he has a terrible diet and terrible habits, but you help him improve it!
he really tries hard to make the relationship work (and he achieves it very well).
for Toby, you make him live his teenage romance (although he's no longer a teenager).
he says things directly and, well, someone said that truth hurts.
it's not his intention (sometimes it is) but he doesn't know how to be "delicate" with what he says.
he tries it but after a while, he does it again.
when you go on dates, he wears a mask and something to cover his wound. all to prevent everything from spilling out when he's eating or drinking.
after all he's been through, he would never dare treat you badly or hit you. he lived with an abusive father and he saw what his mother and sister were suffering, including himself.
but it doesn't exempt him from the fact that he can fuck up on some occasions.
sometimes he leaves you on seen, sometimes he forgets to go see you at your cabin, sometimes he tells you something and can hurt you his words (by the way he said it), that kind of things.
he has not filter when saying things, to be honest.
uses princess, babe, love, honey or a nickname of yours.
i dare to say he's the one who doesn't mind showing affection at all.
"Toby! you stink of blood!" "just another kissss c'monnn"
he's a switch.
can't keep his ass in just one role.
when he's working under Slenderman's control, he is much less careful.
even with you.
if you fucked up something, he will tell you much more directly.
if you get injured, he'll bring you or will be healing you without much care.
doesn't measure his strength.
he spends more time in his cabin than yours.
his love language would be words of affirmation and maybe physical affection, but the last one would be when he has too much trust in you.
he's the most jealous of the four.
but just like Tim, his jealousy would be self-sabotaging.
and maybe a little finishing off those who are in your way, OH! who said that?
his kisses are kinda sloppy and with tons of little smiles between kisses to kisses. just sloppy and passionate.
he just hopes that you both will get away from that life and still living in the woods, without being tied to him.
the thick sheets that were impregnated with the aroma of fresh oak managed to lull you more and more in your sleep.
your mind was blank, you were eternally grateful for that, genuinely missing dreaming. your chest rose and fell calmly until you quickly became alert when you felt the sheets lift slightly, quickly you turned around pulling a dagger out from under your pillow but it was stopped by Toby's hand holding onto your wrist with a smile on his face.
"what are you doing, honey?" he smiled making short sounds with his tongue, pretty amused how your muscles seemed to have memory.
"sorry, love" his arms quickly caught you, leaving you lying on his chest and his back being hugged by your soft pillows. the dagger was left on the nightstand. "why aren't you this quiet when we're on our way to missions?" you said playful.
"i don't want to" you chuckled. he didn't say anything, he just held you in his arms.
"babe, i want to live with you" "well, you can come to my cabin-" "not that way, du-dumb"
you looked up, could see a beard just trying to emerge from his skin, his pale skin looked similar to the moonlight and then, he sighed.
"i mean far away, where we are not tied to this" he lowered his gaze to you "would you promise to be with me?" "ye-" "forever" "forever"
both lips collided in a slightly rushed kiss but you could feel his feelings on the surface of the skin of his lips.
this is forever.
Kate The Chaser
MY GIRRRL KATEEEE
"toby i'm lesbian" "i thought you were american"
the majority of your dates are at dusk and at night.
sometimes she tells you about Lauren and Chris but just a little of what she can remember.
actually she's pretty good at drawing!
usually draws you recycling pages.
be patient with her, she isn't very familiar with relationships, not romantic ones.
but still, she's a sweetheart!
she goes to your cabin very often.
every time you go out of the woods to go shopping or just to go on a date together, she tends to hold your hand or be very close to you.
although most of your dates are inside the cabin or near the forest.
the first to know it definitely was Toby and it was by accident.
he saw you kissing behind a tree and almost got killed by him thinking you both were intruders.
and then Brian and Tim knew.
praise her please.
sometimes she just walks away and leaves you, when she does that you know he's starting to torment her.
when she is on his mantle, you don't say a word, she just nod and sigh.
then she holds you, she wants to confirm that you're real and not another hallucination of Slenderman's part.
when the both of you go on missions, you're quite fast, which is why there isn't much interaction between you.
but when she comes out of that trance she asks you if she was ever too harsh with you.
she loves you, like, way too much!
you both have an engagement ring (don't ask where she got it).
when she's with you, the mask is freely removed.
how is she going to kiss you with the mask on?
use love and honey.
there are times when she snuggles up on your chest when you're lying down.
her jealousy is just like Tim's, it's self-sabotage and tends to grab you with more intensity.
the relationship is private but the affections are obvious.
her kisses are slow and shy.
her love language is definitely quality time and words of affirmation.
tell her you love her and spend time with her, she has been through so much.
she's a switch.
although she's more a top but she's beginning to accept receiving.
the kind that brings you many objects that remind you.
often lend you her clothes.
although your lives are no longer part of you, you both have each other's hearts.
the large, rough trunk of the tall tree behind you made abrupt contact with your back. you had leaned on it without much care, watching as Kate desperately cleaned the fresh blood from her hands.
"love, you did it amazing" you tilted your head slightly without receiving a response from her.
"how can you be so calm and, i mean, how can you get used to it?" now you were standing next to her as she looked up to you, she didn't have her mask on and her reflection could be seen faintly in the lake thanks to the sunset.
"because it's not like we can leave and he won't find us" you stopped for a little moment. "apart from that, the only thing i'm grateful for is that i was able to meet my fiancée" you extended your hand showing the ring. you finally achieved your goal, a soft smile curved on her lips.
"do you think this will end at some point?"
"i hope not" she looked at you again. "because I know i couldn't be with you" now you were both looking at each other. "and if it ends, i would go with you, no matter what"
your voice was silenced along with your lips as you felt Kate's lips on yours, she's fast definitely. her hand descended, passing through your abdomen until it reached your waist as your hands made a short journey between her shoulders, neck and ending on her cheeks.
you both separated with your breathing agitated but the sweetness in both eyes made a genuine smile appear, reuniting again in a much slower kiss.
you couldn't say if you were sure that this control and nightmare was going to end, you and Kate wished to know the answer but it was almost impossible.
but what you both were sure of, was that you didn't want the relationship to end.
#creepypasta x reader#proxies x reader#proxies#kate the chaser x reader#kate the chaser#masky x reader#masky creepypasta#tim wright x reader#hoodie creepypasta#hoodie x reader#brian thomas x reader#ticci toby x reader#ticci toby
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my theory about the reason Armand’s characterization in the amc show is being changed a little to not make him a better person necessarily, but to frame his evil actions in iwtv to be based in concretely sympathetic reasoning, is bcus Anne rice was open about having a lot of trouble figuring out who Armand was and what exactly she wanted to do with him (she didn’t rlly start to “understand him” until the vampire Armand), and so in the vampire lestat she set him up as an insane villain, specifically bcus she planned for him to be like akashas proxy in queen of the damned and to have a very villainous role, but she realized through writing devils minion that this wasn’t who Armand was and she couldn’t see him as a villain, and rlly re evaluated how she saw his role in the story overall. So what I think amc is aiming to do is combine the conflicting characterization Armand has gone through throughout the series into a more consistent guy who aligns more with Anne rices vision by the end of the series of who Armand was
#armand#tvc#the vampire chronicles#vampire chronicles#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#Interview with the vampire amc#iwtv s2#iwtv amc#iwtv season 2#The vampire armand#anne rice#vc
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batfam as fanfic tropes pt 2
ft bruce, dick, and jason warnings: i continue to give jason all of the angsty stuff but i promise i do it out of love, some suggestive jokes lol pt 1
bruce
not to keep pushing my superbat agenda but that may or may not be what i'm doing
only one bed trope let's go
likeeee yknow imagine they're on an undercover mission with the league or whatever but then they end up stuck in rockville, known for their slightly weird rock
and there's a single motel that only has one room left and of course there's only one bed
to add insult to injury, it's a queen bed and they're both like 6'+ guys so there's absolutely no way they're not gonna at least accidentally make physical contact (it's not gonna be accidental by the end of the night)
something about clark seeing bruce in pj's just seems so funny to me, i don't even have anything else to add
imagine they didn't bring pj's bc they didn't think the mission was going to take that long so they go to the motel's gift shop and they're forced to get cringey tourist shirts
"Rockville may not have much, but we sure rock!"
"Rock on over to Rockville"
we all know bruce technically doesn't haveeeee to sleep for 8 hours straight (and ig clark doesn't have to either? but i haven't read enough superman stuff to know how true that is) but i like the idea of him just sleeping anyways
and clark doesn't know any better so he's like yeah ok makes sense that he would need to sleep, he is human after all
bruce may act like he's bothered by this but like he's fooling nobody
i think it would be so funny if clark actually does manage to fall asleep but because bruce almost never sleeps for this long unless he's critically injured, he's just like lying there in the dark freaking out over being in the same bed as clark
bruce discovers fanfic of himself but it's not even in our universe, it's just gothamites writing fanfics about him
there's bruce wayne x reader, bruce wayne x oliver queen, bruce wayne x lois lane (clark is not happy about this), bruce wayne x nightwing??????, batman x every member of the justice league, and of course bruce wayne x batman
babs probably knew all along but she decides to wait until she finds something particularly scandalous before showing it to bruce
and let's just say some writers sure have creative imaginations when it comes to uh what bruce and batman would be doing behind closed doors
i'm just imagining one day he's on patrol and saves some random person from getting mugged and then they're suddenly like, "wow i never thought i'd actually get to meet you. i'm a big fan. can i ask you some questions?"
and yknow, this happens sometimes. sure he'll entertain the questions, but he probably won't answer
"i actually write fanfic but i was having some trouble with your characterization. do you think you're more of a top or bottom?"
bruce.exe has stopped working
wait until he finds the fan art
dick
your siblings are best friends
hear me out, you have a younger sister who happens to be in the same after school art club as damian
and of course, being the good older sibling you are, you come to pick her up
but it certainly doesn't hurt to see dick grayson every week, waiting for his younger brother
at first he's just some handsome stranger who happens to be around the same age as you
and you're trying to figure out if he's here for his sibling or if he's just a very very young parent
thankfully, your sister introduces you to damian and by proxy you properly meet dick so you know he's not taken
and it's hard not to fall for him because he's just so funny and charming
and he's good with kids, as evident by how he handles damian but also one day when your sister comes out of art club sobbing because some kid messed with her artwork and he's able to calm her down in record time
he offers to get her ice cream as consolation but he's weirdly making eye contact with you as he says that and maybe you're just delusional but between this and the flirting you can't be blamed for feeling a certain way about the whole thing
but things frustratingly don't progress any further (mostly because dick thinks he's been pretty clear with the flirting and decides to back down because you don't seem to be reciprocating, whereas you're completely oblivious to the whole thing) so it's up to damian and your sister to take things into their own hands
cue the random playdates where they insist that you and dick both come for supervision or something while they draw and banish you and dick to another room because they need "pure artistic energy" in the room or whatever
and funnily enough the other room just so happens to have a candlelit dinner for two set up! wow, what a coincidence!
you guys have a very well cooked steak and talk things over (read: your siblings both yell at you from the other room to just confess already)
honestly, they're both pretty done with your antics but at least you're together now!
if you don't mention both of them in your wedding speeches there will be consequences
jason
who else would get hanahaki disease if not jason todd
for those who were not in the trenches of 2010’s anime fanfics, hanahaki disease is a fictional disease where you cough up flowers if your love is unrequited or like you think your love is unrequited
i just know this loser wouldn’t even realize he likes you until he starts coughing up random flowers and he’s like wtf????
it does not take a tim drake to figure out who he likes so ofc the last people to notice are him and you
also you just know he’s the type to suffer in silence instead of confess bc he thinks he’s burdening you with his feelings or like he doesn’t lead the type of life that can allow him to have a relationship or whatever emo edge lord stuff he does
also i think he is incapable of flirting LMAO
honestly, even if you confessed i can see him being like "how can you possibly love me, you must be confused"
normally the confession scene is where the sick person gets cured and like they get together
but nope! jason just straight up refuses bc ofc he does
good luck trying to convince him that you do like him, flaws and all
GET THIS DUDE HIS COLLEGE!AU
not to be dramatic but i desperately want him to have a happy and normal life so this one might be a bit of wish fulfilment on my behalf but like
once again i feel like he would actually want to go to college/uni
like will he complain about his assignments and exams? yes but don't we all?
i feel like he would just take courses he would like, so probably a lot of literature stuff
i think it would be very funny if he took one of those psychology courses, think like PSYCH 21XX: The Maladaptive Mind or smth and he's like "wow these trauma responses sound awfully familiar. wonder where i've heard about this before"
anyways i'm thinking about him being a humanities guy and then he meets you, a stem student who has to take this one english class to graduate
and he's also in a similar boat and is in your biology class for the science credit
so you guys decide to just study together and help each other out
and he may or may not catch feelings but it's hard not to when you have similar taste in books and can talk about a random poem you read in class for an hour
jason todd who gets rizzed up by your annotations
but then like halfway through second semester he realizes that you've hung out just for fun more often than you've actually hung out to study
and ofc there's a dramatic confession scene at graduation and he's stumbling over his words and god he might end it all because his family is there and freaking dick grayson is watching him confess to his crush
but like it's hard not to figure it out when he basically acts like your boyfriend on your "study dates" and honestly you already kinda figured you at least had something sort of going on and this confession is not shocking in the slightest
so that was super embarrassing for him but at least he's got a date next week?
hear me out...if you got into an accident and then developed retrograde amnesia
he's already stressed enough about the fact that you got injured in the first place
like what is the point of all of his training and patrolling to keep gotham safe if he can't even keep the person who's the most important to him safe?
then you wake up and he's so relieved he could cry
he thinks you're just a bit disoriented as he pulls you into his arms, promising he's never going to put you in a situation like that ever again
only for you to stare blankly at him
"i'm sorry, who are you?"
he thinks he would rather die and reincarnate again than live with the way you're looking at him
you're not even mad at getting hurt. you don't even remember that. you're just...looking at him like he's nothing more than a stranger because right now, that's what he is
i think his insecurities would be amped up to 100x after this, even if you did agree to come home with him and try to regain your memories
he's constantly praying that this is some messed up nightmare because he doesn't even know why you agreed to date him the first time around
so how is he supposed to make you fall for him again?
it's even worse because you are trying and you feel bad about it, but anytime he gets too close, he can see the way you flinch slightly
honestly he's going to start spiraling, like questioning whether he even deserves you or what he's doing wrong
is it because you don't know him? is he scaring you in some way? he would never hurt you, but that's all he's ever known. it was nice to live in this fantasy, but maybe all he was doing was delaying the inevitable
he starts to wonder if maybe he should just let you go now, while you don't remember anything. just thinking about it makes him want to claw his heart out but if it would keep you safe, he'd be willing to give you anything
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#i think i might actually write some of the jason ones#once again try to guess my favourite by how much i write about them#dc batman#batman#batman comics#batfam#dc robin#batfamily#bruce wayne#bruce wayne x y/n#bruce wayne x reader#bruce wayne x clark kent#batman x superman#superbat#bruce wayne hc#bruce wayne headcanon#bruce wayne fanfiction#dick grayson hcs#dick grayson x you#dick grayson x reader#dick grayson headcanon#dick grayson#nightwing hcs#nightwing x reader#nightwing headcanon#nightwing#nightwing hc#jason todd#jason todd x y/n#jason todd headcanon
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ex-girlfriend
jeff the killer x fem! reader
(you've dated Jeff the Killer since high school and have known him for longer. You stayed even after he became who he is now.. but what if you became stronger than him? what if you became a completely new person entirely? and left your heavy-hearted killer boyfriend to rot?)
(notes: took inspo from fanon Jeff but also tried to write him into his own person of course :) will try to be realistic when it calls for it + took some creative liberties in certain aspects too. I also apologize if the characterization of Jeff and others isn't super fitting.. I'm still getting used to how I want to express them and construct them as characters and the world around them.)
(CAUTION!!!: includes dark/serious themes, mention of murder/death, use of cannab1s, slight implications of s3x, toxic relationships, physical abu$3, possible ooc(?) )
(NOT PROOFREAD)
[part 1/2]
you and jeff are a killer duo.
seriously and figuratively.
you two have always been attracted to each other, a connection you two couldn't see but you both knew it was there.
the older and closer you two got, the more you two realized you had more in common than you two initially assumed..
way, wayyy more in common.
but to skip a long origin story short, let me give you some details on how you and Jeff suddenly got separated in the way that you did.
you see, you and Jeff resided at the Slender Mansion.. mostly just to get Slender off your backs due to you guys finding solidarity and a sense of safety in the deep dark forests, far away from home. it kept you two safe from police, as well as anyone or anything else that could be a threat.
of course, the specific area you went into was territory of the thin and tall boss of the forests.. and you would've been dead meat if you two didn't create a sort of alliance with the deity, not exactly proxies yet you two still had to trade something in return for your lives.. the lives and bodies of others seemed to quell Slenderman's hunger quite well.
nonetheless, tonight was one of those nights in which you and Jeff had to find more lives to take, blood to shed.
this night was different though, as Jeff was currently stuck in your shared room after going through a minor operation at the hands of Eyeless Jack, another being that came and left as he pleased.
"You think he'll recover quick?" You perked up as you watched EJ sew in the last stitch in a cut that reopened earlier as he was helping Jeff into your room, cutting up the thread before standing back as you two stared at your injured boyfriend from beside the bed he laid on.
"Not as quick as you may think," spoke EJ, his calm, raspy, and slightly demonic voice sounding monotone as he isn't intending to comfort you in the slightest but just to inform you. "Slenderman's healing properties can only work so fast, the rest depends on his own body's will to repair itself."
"Makes sense, with how much the victim fought back and the cops almost got him by a hair.. " you let out a huff through your nose before crossing your arms over your chest and shook your head slightly. "It has never gotten this bad before..." You murmured before moving away to open the door for EJ to find his way out. "I know you don't usually accept 'thank you's but, thanks. I owe you one for saving his ass."
"Hm." hummed the blue masked being. He may have the form of a human, and sound like one to a certain extent.. but he doesn't have the feelings of one for all you knew. "I'm sure you know how to stitch him up again if another injury reopens, I won't be here the rest of the week as I'll be doing my own business elsewhere."
"Got it.." You opened the creaky wooden oak door to let him through, and he left just as fast as he came in.
Closing the door behind you and letting go of the rusty brass door knob, you sighed in exhaustion.
"Yknow, you've been awfully quiet--"
"Shut the fuck up or I'm going to slice your throat."
Your shoulders dropped as soon as you heard Jeff's empty threat escape his throat. You walked closer to him, your shoes making small thuds and the wooden floors creaking beneath your feet.
"There you are." you cooed, finally hearing him talk after being silent the entire time.. incredibly out of character for him yet you were sure the shame of getting as injured as he is now and having to be 'taken care of' definitely got to him. "I almost started missing you."
"Get my knife, get the rest of your shit, and let's move.. we have people to kill for fucks sake.." Jeff's hoarse voice cracked even further as he attempted to sit up yet the pain coming from his abdomen only caused his nerves his fire up, making him fall back onto the moldy mattress yelping in pain. "You're absolutely stupid for even thinking you're able to go out tonight Jeff." You proceeded to sit on the empty side of the bed beside him, your hand slowly reaching over to gently caress his brutally cut up cheek yet your lover only harshly smacked it away with the back of his own hand. "So.. you're telling me you're going to ignore what I fucking telling you to do?" Jeff groveled and huffed in irritation, if he wasn't so incapacitated he'd probably be pulling you by your arm or hair to get you to do what he told you. "Since when have you gotten so brave, doll?"
"Since I followed you and helped you kill your own family that night." You pulled your hand away, reminiscing the night when your Jeff turned into who he is now.
You remembered how much your heart swelled when you saw him covered in his family's blood, his fresh cut up smile and red inflamed burns across his body and face. You continued to love him just as much as you did before he became so disfigured.
He was your religion, and you followed him in devotion.
"Now, we still have to keep our deal with the big boss right? I'll do your kills for the night, then when your better tomorrow we'll finish up whatever else we have to do.. or hell we can just kill for fun to make it up to you, " you hopped off the bed as you spoke and walked over to a wooden rotting vanity in the corner of your room, with drawers that were unable to close and doors that were hanging by their hinges. Your hand reached over to get an empty crunched up ziplock bag and continued on to walk back to your boyfriend with the object in your hand. "What do you say? I'll even get you some of the good stuff to make you feel better." you spoke lovingly, your hand with the bag grazing over his misshapen nose as he inhaled it deeply with a faint sense of delight. It still lingered the smell of his favorite thing to smoke and get high off of.. aside from your kisses and affection of course.
"Fuck that smells good.." he mumbled before his beady black eyes then suddenly shot up at you with this look of angry hesitation. "This is the only damn time I'm ever letting you out of my sight, make it quick, come back, and if you take a fucking second too long I'll get up and drag you back by your hair myself, got it gorgeous?.."
"You won't even have to bother Jeff." you bent over slightly to give him a quick peck on the lips, but just as much as he was addicted to the green he was also addicted to your warmth, your lips, your presence and self.
You couldn't help but have to suddenly sustain your own body weight by resting an arm beside Jeff's head as his own uninjured arm went to grab you by the back of your head to pull you closer in a deeper, much more passionate kiss.
Hearts beating aggressively in a dark passion that was just as fiery and scarlet as the blood you two would spill on the daily, the faint smell of dried blood, mud, and rubbing alcohol reeked as you two struggled to inhale air with your noises clashing against each other, his aggressive and hungry kisses tasting of iron but also of old cigarettes and booze.
Normally this would disgust any one else that wasn't you, but you liked the way he smelled, how he tasted.. it reassured you that this was in fact Jeff, your Jeff.
Eventually, he would finally let you go by harshly pushing you away in order to break the kiss. He knew that if you stayed any longer he was gonna want you all to himself for the rest of the night, as close to him as you physically could.
"Get out of here and get back, ______. Don't make me wait longer than I have to."
You smiled at him, a sweet and sinister little smile that would somehow always get him hard every time you did it.
"You've got nothing to worry about."
two weeks.
two weeks passed since you disappeared that night.
Jeff recovered the night after you left, but you could imagine the absolute horror and rage he felt when he realized you never came back later that night.
With other residents also living in the mansion, residents with personalities and have bits of humanity left similar to Jeff, you can also imagine the slight wave of rumors to those that knew or noticed the two of you in your years in the mansion. Some say you made a deal with Slender and got to leave, others say that you got kidnapped, that you got brainwashed, caught by police, sacrificed to another higher being, stuck in an asylum or- simply that you died. There were endless possibilities but they all ended the same:
you hung Jeff dry, left his grasp and simply didn't come back.
Jeff would obviously try to get in contact with Slenderman as to know your condition, since he knew that the deity had the consciousness and psyches of every being or person he's made some kind of contact with in his hands.
Although he had to go through one, two, three of Slender's proxies, just to have a word with him somehow.. He would eventually get a word from the big boss through one of his more well known lackeys.
"She's fine, Jeffery. She isn't dead, she hasn't made any deals with him, and she isn't injured to death or whatever." the annoyed and exasperated voice of Masky would echo in the empty halls that the pair stood in, the arms of the mustard-yellow colored jacket would fold over his chest while also being in a sort of stance that expressed the fact that he simply just didn't want to be there.
"Then why the hell is she not back?? Does he know where she could be? If she was kidnapped? If she got arrested or put in a fucking ward?" Jeff yelled in an almost desperate sort of tone yet he would never admit it openly.
"Look, I don't fucking care whether she's alive, dead, stuck in a fucking hole or hell! if she's sucking some other guy's dick that isn't yours! But all I know that is that if she left on purpose he would've already had me or one of the others to get her back, but he hasn't so maybe she's nearby or some shit like that."
Anyone around could see that Jeff was on the verge of reaching over for his knife and cut Masky in half, yet he knew better than to do that to him of all people. "Does he at least know where she is?? I'll get her myself if I have to just give me a fucking address, some place to know where she could be!.."
If Masky wasn't wearing a mask, he'd probably be rolling his eyes to oblivion, irritated beyond belief at something like this even being a problem. "No. But as I already fucking said, if he isn't asking one of us to chase her down and get her back then you shouldn't have to overreact the way you are right now." the proxy proceeded to brush past him without a care, but said one last small thing before he left Jeff's vicinity completely.
"By the way, stop bothering the other proxies about this as we could care less about your girlfriend, just get a new one and fuck off!"
Jeff stood there, trembling in an anger he hasn't felt since the day he attacked his bullies and his brother took the blame for it.
He wasn't exactly reassured, but he also knew that he was very limited and there wasn't much he could do.
But he was restless, so you bet your ass he was going to go look for you even if it was just stalking the streets and killing anyone in his wake.
luckily for him, his waiting would end soon enough.
the week after that, he'd get the news of his life.
he'd been killing all week, killing innocents as he usually did but at a quicker and animalistic pace, he would almost get caught this time by the cops yet again but before his spree could continue he received some news thanks to that cheeky voice that would speak to him through the screens.
he would come back to the mansion, battered and bruised beyond belief. the calluses on his hands split and bled, cuts everywhere all old and fresh, he was ruthless in his murders as well as he was careless.
he needed you to ground him, you were the reason as to why he has even been alive for as long as he has.
his hand seemed to be superglued to the handle of his sharpened knife even as he was dragging his legs towards EJ's basement, where he was led to believe he would find what he was looking for.
He aggressively banged on the metal door with his fist in anticipation, not being able to wait any longer than how much he's already had to. The one to answer the door would be Eyeless Jack as it is his "resting" place in the mansion so to speak.
Once the door opened Jeff would quickly push past EJ not needing to be accepted in the space for him to go in.
"Where is she??" he shouted, his voice boasting in the cold concrete room. "I was told you found her, where the fuck is she?"
EJ would calmly close the door before slowly leading Jeff towards a corner of the large space, where a long, clean-white room divider seemed to hide something.
well, more like someone.
That was when Jeff finally saw you, your limp body laying there and your face had this gentle expression you'd usually make when you were sleeping. Beside you stood Nurse Ann, who was gently cleaning the countless cuts and lacerations you had around your body with several cotton pads and changing gauzes as well.
Jeff's heart fell down to his stomach, he would've started reeling and throwing up if he didn't rush to take a closer look at you only to see that your chest was still rising and falling.
He sighed in relief.
"As you can see, she's alive." spoke EJ as he took a few steps closer, "Nurse Ann found her as she was coming back to the mansion, she found her body laying on the edge of where Slender's territory ends and the rest of forest. She also claims that ______ wasn't there when she left, so she probably appeared a little later that same day."
Jeff's hand trembled slightly as he reached out to touch your face with the back of his hand, yet hesitated slightly when his hand could almost feel the warmth of your skin.
But that's when he took a minute to really take in the rest of your appearance.
Your entire body even your face was dirtied in dried mud and soil, your fingernails were dirty and chipped, your arms and cheeks were decorated in scratches and cuts of various sizes, and your clothes.. seemed to have been replaced with a clean hospital gown and your missing shoes were replaced by socks.
EJ continued on, "And so you don't go attacking me, Nurse Ann changed her clothes. According to her they were tattered and beyond repair, and that they were completely soiled in blood."
"Blood?" Jeff spoke up in slight concern,
"The blood wasn't hers."
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Hi opencommunion - you are one of my favourite Tumblrs and I love hearing about Lebanese history from you. You say you are antiPhoenicianist - I hope you would tell us more about it. Hope you're having a great day.
aww thanks, I love your blog too <3
Phoenicianism is a Lebanese ethnonationalist ideology that basically argues that Lebanese people are ethnically/culturally unrelated to (and, implicitly or explicitly, superior to) not only other Arabs but other Levantine peoples. It's a secular ideology but it's extremely Islamophobic, so it posits that Lebanese Christians (especially Maronites) are the "purest" Lebanese people with a direct line of descent from the Phoenicians, who are portrayed as an almost supernaturally heroic and advanced culture who were supplanted by savage Arabs from the south (you probably recognize this as a Zionist talking point; more on that later). It's a narrative of Lebanese history that originates from rich European-educated Lebanese and their French & English orientalist buddies, and it bears all the hallmarks of European ethnonationalism and scientific racism. In my experience ascribing to Phoenicianism is associated with class and it doesn't represent the majority of Lebanese Maronites, who do consider ourselves Arabs. My family are dyed-in-the-wool Maronites from Wadi Qadisha, the cradle of Maronite culture, and for as far back as our family histories go we've always described ourselves as Arabs, with religion being the only difference—and an unimportant difference—between us and our Druze and Muslim neighbors. Phoenicianism predates the Zionist occupation but it started to take shape around the same time as Zionism, and is based in the same core orientalist myth: that the ancient Levant was populated by strictly separate and homogenous ethnocultures with exclusive claim over portions of the land, which were later supplanted by Arab Muslim invaders who oppressed a tiny remaining local population. (In reality, of course, SWANA cultures have always been internally diverse and mutually influential, and "Arabization" in the Levant was characterized by organic cultural shifts among local populations, with Arab culture influencing and combining with local cultures rather than replacing them). So when the Zionist settler project arrived they found easy allies in Phoenicianism. This relationship eventually culminated with the settler state backing the fascist Lebanese Phalanges Party (Kataeb in Arabic, a direct translation of Falange, the Spanish fascist party that inspired its founders) in the Lebanese Civil War. Israel used the Phalanges as a proxy to fight the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon, and it was Phalangists who collaborated with IOF to carry out the Sabra and Shatila massacres. This is the cruelest and ugliest moment in Lebanon's history and Phoenicianism enabled it; Phoenicianism enabled the cognitive dissonance necessary for Lebanese to participate in the occupation's genocide against our siblings and act as footsoldiers for the European fascist agenda in our region. The Phalangists and Zionists lost the war but there is still a Phalangist presence in the Lebanese government, and Phoenicianism is unfortunately alive and well among the Lebanese right wing at home and in the diaspora
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I expect the outcome of these data will surprise no one. Women speak less, and women speak less. This isn't a typo: It means that they have fewer instances of dialogue in The Silmarillion by a substantial margin, and when they do speak, they speak nine fewer words than men, on average.
Instances of women speaking is much nearer to speakers of unknown gender than to men speaking. (And before we get excited and think that the "unknown gender" speakers are rejecting the gender binary, this category represents mostly dialogue attributed to a group, plus two unnamed individuals who are given dialogue and one sword.)
This matters because dialogue signifies several important things in The Silmarillion. First, in a pseudohistorical text like The Silmarillion, direct quotes mean that someone said something important enough to preserve in the historical record. Men, based on the data, are saying far more important things than women, at least in the various narrators' estimation. Next, dialogue is often a proxy to action: Characters debate, give directives, and make speeches. Dialogue also humanizes, and even though Tolkien rejects many modern literary techniques in The Silmarillion, he does use dialogue as a characterization technique. As I will show in future analyses, some characters are distinguishable based on how they speak.
Of course, the reduced dialogue of women in The Silmarllion is a direct effect of there being significantly fewer women than men: Women constitute only 19% of the named characters in The Silmarillion. Even given this, however, women speak less than we would expect.
When we look at character groups, there are notable differences, namely that women of the Ainur speak more than Mortal Human and Elven women do. (Only four Elven women and five Mortal Human women speak in The Silmarillion! Excuse me while I scream!) This was the thesis of the long-ago Inequality Prototype that spurred this data collection endeavor: The Valar, being prototypical, show an equal penchant for entering into the world based on gender: It is a 50/50 split. So we can't say that women have less desire to influence the world than men in the legendarium. When we see less action and fewer instances of dialogue among women, then, we have to ask why.
Complicating the data for the Ainur (overall, not just this set) is the fact that a big chunk of their dialogue occurs in the "Of Aulë and Yavanna" chapter that Christopher Tolkien wrote. I don't want to treat these data differently until I have the opportunity to collect more data on where dialogue outside this chapter comes from; for all I know, Christopher wrote most of it! (Actually, I know he didn't, but this chapter does illustrate how his additions can skew data for a particular group, in this case the Ainur.)
Another future area of inquiry will be the type or purpose of the dialogue and whether/how this varies based on gender. Characters speak for many reasons. Do women speak for different purposes than men?
If these data illustrate anything to me, it is the importance of fanworks in amplifying the voices of women characters who we know existed and know said and did things that mattered. We are being given a historical record much like our own Modern-earth historical record: biased toward the contributions of some over others. Only we can fix that.
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This is part of my ongoing project The Silmarillion: Who Speaks? The data is available under a CC license for others who wish to play with it: View the data | Copy the data
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My friend @sneakydevilship and I have been making lots of cool lore and characterizations for Creepypasta stuff hehe so I'd thought I'd share a little, starting with my Slender brother OC, 'Menderman' and a briefing of some of the brothers.
Note that a lot of the lore and ideas surrounding Slender and his motives, a lot of Offender's new characterization, and Tenderman belong to @/sneakydevilship !! Lots of text below
Mender has gone by many names in his lifetime, most given by the humans who have created folklore surrounding his many appearances in the autumn woods. He and his world, like the rest of the brothers, were found by the lonely Slender, who was seeking out beings like himself.
Mender is often found in the infirmary of Slender's mansion, looking after the proxies and the many residents. He is recognized by his soft, lavender-blue Victorian dress shirt and dark corset, as well has his gentle, but wise demeanour. Out of all the brothers, Mender is closest to Offender, the black sheep of the family,
Note that Offender has been completely rewritten and re-characterized by me and my friend.
He was once an entity that symbolized hedonism and prosperity, but as the world began to change, such ideas of self-indulgence became regarded as sinful and offensive. He had been called a different name before he became "The Offensive" and "The Offender", which became the current "Offenderman".
He takes on a more incubus-type role, encouraging indulgence and is attracted to lonesome individuals who just want someone to sweep them off their feet for a night. Such entanglements with humans have been regarded as offensive to the rest of his brothers, except for Mender, who recognizes that such things are a natural but also necessary part of humanity.
Each of the brothers take on different aspects of human loneliness, something that will be expanded on in another post on another day!
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Wow that squidly man won >:[. Well, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm glad he won. I think this is the only kallamar comic I've seen, I am learning to love him although I depise him.
No kallamar is SUCH an acquired taste imo, nowadays he's my favorite maybe 2 days out of the week but I remember ever since the first version of the game, I had it out for him due to that "kill shamura! don't send me to my death!" line. But I think kallamar ended up getting the most asks when I first started this blog? So I ended up thinking more about him and eventually characterizing him in a way that I liked that wasn't just "love to hate him" like narinder. Plus kallamar is my sister's favorite so by proxy of her I like him a lot more. She actually comes to ME with scenarios for him and she's never played the game, so he can't be that bad.
I don't get out of my bubble much so I'm not sure how many kallamar-centric comics there are out there, but if my comics can help change anyone's mind about a character in a *good* way then I've accomplished my goal! Alternatively, diehard Squid Haters are gonna see him cry his makeup off and trip over his words for 60ish panels, so that's also a win I guess lmaoooo
[part of the exact panel I was working on before answering this ask. They still have not gotten a day off. Just a little more, kall!! You got this!!]
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