#femme fatale trope

[theaftersundown]

the holy grail types of fanfic

[prokopetz]

Reverse femme fatale who tries to play the self-interested master manupulator, but due to circumstances beyond her control her attempted betrayals always end up accidentally benefiting the target.

[pjharvey]

calling myself an andro fatale from now on

[d3cayingdolly]

right person wrong place wrong time wrong mindset wrong circumstances wrong-

my fav trope

[fallensapphires]

Character Archetypes: Femme Fatale

To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

[shootinwebs]

( content notes: alastor being sexual kinda, valentino, puking implied )

headcanon that alastor knows he could easily kill valentino just by acting seductive towards him and sliding into his lap or something to distract him, but the only reason he hasn't done that yet is because the mere thought of it, even as a ruse, makes him so physically ill that he can feel his tonsils start floating

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

hmmmm film noir!gabrielamala save me

[eye-of-yelough]

pain is when you like the idea of neve/rook/lucanis but have also decided that if you’re gonna romance neve it’s gonna be with an aggressive/humorous asshole who takes nothing seriously but her, and lucanis with a diplomatic caregiver type who’s a ruthless cunt deep down and well as you can see those are like. polar opposites rooks.

[astrokid425]

and im telling all rn IM TELLING U ALL RN THAT VIV WEYLIN IS A LESBIAN AND A FEMME FATALE TO ARTHUR

SOMEONE HEAR ME HES RUINGING EVERYTHING LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES

YOU HAVE MARY YOU GREEDY ASSHOLE, BE GRATEFUL THAT SHE ISNT A COMPHET LESBIAN YOU FUCKING WHORE >:(

[besttropeveershowdown]

The Worst Trope Ever Showdown: Round 1, Side A

Femme Fatale

a beautiful sexy woman who uses her sex appeal to seduce men/ get them to do what she wants/ get the upper hand over them, often used in a spy/ secret agent context where sex/ sex appeal is used in lieu of more traditional methods or violence

Propaganda:

there's too much of it. stop. it might be okay if it was like, rarer, and there were lots of other female action characters who were just doing their jobs normally/ like the males do, but often the only female characters in action (apart from the dead wife or pure virtuous love interest who gets threatened and/or killed off) *have* to be this trope 🙄 like come on

Older Than They Look

A character looks like they are younger than they are.

Propaganda:

feels like an excuse to sexualize girls that look like they’re 13. as a fire emblem fan i’ve seen this shit way too many times. google nowi FE awakening and elise FE fates. the player character in each game can marry and have kids with them. save me.

[kaybaeisgay]

something tells me nami won’t be in that marine base for long (neither will their money)

ref photos:

[theaftersundown]

Romance/Family with heavy Drama/Crime themes.... hmm yes me likes this idea.

[hsslilly-blog]

i really like how claire grew up educated and i don't think that's something people gather from her at first glance. it's not something people expect from her... she looks and sounds like a stereotypical valley girl and i don't think it would be a problem if she really were one (who cares); but part of claire's character is how people perceive her and then how that makes her perceive herself. she's a pretty good conversationalist and i don't mean that just because she talks a lot, but because she has a great range of subjects she has an opinion on since she's read about it/learnt it somewhere/took an interest in at some point of her life. she can keep any conversation going. and most people just don't have contact with this side of her because they don't give her a chance past their expectations of her <- but people who do engage with her sincerely like her a lot. and then there's the whole thing about her making you feel like the only person in the world when she talks with you.

and by 'educated' i mean her parents (both of them) actively sought out and encouraged her to learn stuff. she grew up around books and academia, and also around art and culture. she had a very privileged upbringing and she made the most of it. and at the end of the day, i do think her parents cared for her as a person and not as their little creature. to some extent. they wanted to see her grow up into a well-rounded adult, so they provided her with a lot of tools. not everything was good! i've written a lot before about how her relationship with her parents shaped her as a person, but also not all was bad. she has lots of skills she wouldn't have had otherwise.

i also think all of this relates to a broader aspect of her nature: she's very curious about things, very inquisitive and she doesn't accept most things at face value. it makes her very argumentative, to the dismay of some. it's funny to think she wouldn't have been too out of place if she had followed a career in biology.

[araneitela]

Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

[vintage-bentley]

Funniest thing about the Squid Game fandom so far is that the majority of them are fully accepting of the idea that a male character is a woman, but think it’s completely ridiculous to imply that the frontman has a problematic crush on Gi-hun

[martinijordan]

what do you think a lestat/armand baby might look like or act like? (sorry if babies aren't your thing!)

hey anon! I'm not tooo into babies, but the hypothetical was interesting to me. So, I gave it a go & drew an adult version of what a love child between them could look/be like. I don't have a name for him at the moment, so, sorry about that. I was just trying to build a general vibe. I was listening to Councillor by Arthur Beatrice and Ritual by Memotone while drawing him, so I think that created the duality of calm/sicko vibe he ended up with. haha

Edit: Maybe he would look better if i made his hair reach his calves or just above his ankles. It could look cool to have his pony tail multi-tiered all the way down.