#honestly i'm here for it

[becomingabeing]

Me: I love Sand just hanging back and letting his attack dogs take care of the Boeing problem.

*five seconds later*

Sand: I'm Ray's dog. Ray owns me. Woof woof.

[xxatlasxx]

Kim Draculas like if Sonny Moore kept making music for FFTL.

[satanus-spawn]

Gojo vs Sukuna could be a heartbreaking battle where Gojo tries desperately to not do too much harm to his son's body while Sukuna goes all out bc he dgaf but knowing Gege it'll just be Gojo and Sukuna trying to outrizz each other

[ghetsis-a]

people are using the Driftveil song in memes now

[bluegekk0]

Jesus christ, your inbox is so cursed jkahsjksahskjdhskdjhskdjh

i have created a suitable environment for anons who are a horrible influence

[howie-g]

Never thought I would come across a fic shipping Cheryl Hamlin and Marie Schrader.

[thvrpe]

@itsbllshit giving me all the muse for an st verse for xavier askjdfhdjk

[kosmogrl]

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[jenneferofjengaberg]

ripley (netflix) is honestly great and i love it, and one of the best and most unexpected things about it is how funny it is in a very specific way, like with the stairs and the boat scene and i was trying to figure out why this specific humor felt so familiar and i think i finally got it

ripley is literally just homoerotic serial killer mr. bean

[tippenfunkaport]

You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"

[drulalovescas]

Why do this??? Why show us that Dean wanted out?? That Dean thought about quitting hunting. Retiring. That Dean wanted to LIVE. When you intended from the get go to impale him on a rusty rebar. Because "it was always gonna end like this." Because "it was supposed to end like this, right?" Because Dean „HAD TO DIE?????” What do you mean Dean would never stop hunting when you’ve literally showed us he wanted to???? What do you mean Dean wanted to die hunting when he literally said he DIDN'T??

[caffichai]

More Aurora!

Hey, if you're here, check this out!

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

BBC Merlin & Text Posts (18/?)

[idkwhyyouaskingm3-blog]

TMA Trevor would want TMAGP Trevor dead for being a posh prick. TMAGP gives me the impression that he'd want TMA Trevor dead for being homeless.

[scapegods]

neither of them are thinking about makeup rn