#honestly this guy

[meowdymista]

Evelyn Miller: Come! Prepare to be shocked! Come along, follow me.

John: You should know, unless you're showing me Big Foot, Im not so easily shocked, Mr Miller.

Evelyn Miller: But you will be! Wait until you see the waste! The boundless appetites of these men! I know you will be horribly shocked because I see that frontier spirit in you. The self reliance, the harmony with nature that us modern men have so lamentably lost-

*trots over bloodsoaked wagon tracks*

*tramples over 3 corpses in the road*

*passes by a campsite of 5 slaughtered civilians, 2 burned, 1 scalped and blinded by blood*

*passes by another campsite where a man was sobbing 30 seconds ago about a slaughtered woman before he calmly picked up her body, stowed it on his horse and rode off without a word*

Evelyn Miller: Oh no! Look! That poor creature is caught in a bear trap! 😥😭😫 also look at these hunters! 😱😡😤 Let's confront them!

[malwen-sosialaidd]

Quite looking forwards to Fascist-in-Chief Stan Robinson's laughable Donald Trump LARPing fail spectacularly

[halewynslady]

I was researching Cruella de Vil for vampire fanfic purposes and turns out Dottie Smith got Cruella’s name from Dracula, this makes things even better/easier.

[ratcandy]

we just keep naming bugs like this

[getrope1]

You cant make this shit up

[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.

[mercuryflan]

“Checkmate dance”

Just them walking around after one of their adventures.

[hinamie]

I'm always pushing you away from me / but you come back with gravity / and when I call, you come home

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[fulcrvm]

illya is so dramatic oh my god i love him

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Michael refuses to be gaslit on “THE BITE OF 83”

[cyath]

👁👁...

[chiptrillino-art]

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Howl!AU zukka = me going all out with zukos outfit, and shiny silver sokka hair! you perhaps already saw the first part of it in this post here LINK and like past me predicted... the day to post what i have has finally come...

[omgellendean]

Wheeling out president Wedding-bomber to scold Muslims for not supporting Harris is a really bold step.

[cheekylittlepupp]

[gerrykeay]

im not putting this post into words. beams into your mind The Parallels

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