#i dont care if you make or have a character like this but if theyre supposed to be bad. like commit to that right

[a-whispering-echo]

Dust is blorbo, lets go-

Gender identity: UE Dust is trans male, FC Dust is trans male, Band Dust is intersex and identifies as male, heathers au Dust is ???? vaugly fem??? maybe masc?? depends

Sexuality: uhh, none i dont think? i tend to make Dust bi, while i myself identify as pan - similar i guess? im probably ace too, though i dont really care about figuring that out rn, and i definetly could see Dust as that.

Race/nationality: i like making Dust korean, because of his au. im white. most of them are skellies which doesnt apply, or if they are human or human adjacent, theyre asian, or fantasy based. band Dust is half american, but im british.

weight/body type: yeah, i do that. i like making the guy stick thin to the point he looks like hes dying. all of them i think? wait, no not all of them, but most.

physical feature: uh, dont think so? i guess scars? but i dont have as many as i give the characters.

mental: that man has autism. that man has depression. that man is paranoid. thank you. (obviously he has MORE than that, but were talking overlaps here.)

Physical: i hc Dust as having fibro, and i have some kind of chronic pain - not sure what, but ill say thats probably projection. MM! Dust is 'selectively' mute! you could say for DR, AS, the Asylum au, and possibly MM all have links to not being able to move fully, or feeling restrained. FG Dust has chronic pain from, yknow, having MOLTEN GOLD spilled into his joints, and like, i have a LOT of joint pain, lol.

allergies: none! im not allergic to anything! im diabetic and vegetarian, but i have no Dusts that are like that!

habits: uuuhhh, bed rotting? oh, potion making! i love potions, and while i dont practice alchemy like i picture him as doing, i do do spells and such like! im also inclined to divination and such, which, like - shosts are my jam. thats OBVIOUS with yknow, MM! also, UE. spray painters au Dust i guess for art? i dont do spray, but i draw! i used to do ballet -> ballet au. im not into murder, personally. thoug i like a bit of true crime? i wanted to be a forensics expert when i was a teen?

music/media: band au, full stop. MaGM Dust is goth. MM au is based of a lot of 'ghosts haunting one area and one person can see them' type things. theres the Cludo au, based on, yknow, Cludo. the whole heathers au.

animals: nah. hes the rat man. i have cats.

conclusion: lots of them, ay? probably hobbies and media i would concur from this!

you may even project all of these but some things get reused more than others... for me it's being aspec, giving the blorbos a cat, and headcanoning them as being good at singing lmao.

[umblrspectrum]

Can we get more of the murder drone x rain world au?

ok

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Still very wild to me when people try to gotcha Jason with the whole "if you can kill other people for being evil why can't they kill you" when jason is like. One of the most passively suicidal characters I've ever seen. What if man

[urineedward]

i completely agree and im too pissed to just put this in the tags. you explained this perfectly enough, but i wanted to highlight why that's the problem with jayvik and this new act/season

this is not necessarily about old jayvik fans, and especially not about lol jayvik fans, you guys arent the problem.

the problem is the people who hated jayce or didnt care at all about him in the first season, but now that the show went the jayvik route, suddenly "care" about him. but the thing is, they dont. they care about him and viktor being together.

the problem doesnt matter that theyre gay, it's nothing about that, i dont give a fuck what they are. it's that this turn in their relationship and the sudden importance of it as well as the sudden influx of shippers of them that makes it bad. because being honest... they are not a well written gay relationship.

and you wanna know why? many reasons. first of all, they were retconned. in the first season it was not the plan for them to be a couple. their relationship was not planned to be romantic, it was planned to be complex, unhealthy. intense, yes, but not romantic. jayce had a romantic partner, and viktor obviously had a crush on sky. jayce having a romantic partner already moves me on to the next topic on why it isnt a well written gay relationship and therefor should not have even existed, mel. mel is that reason. when mel and jayce were a couple, the people in the fandom who actually cared about them respected and understood them both as characters and indiviuals (like said above.) i could write an entire essay on why their relationship (at least before it was thrown away like it was nothing) was well written.

but those two reasons there are the difference. one relationship (meljay) was well written, planned, complex, etc. the other relationship (jayvik) was thrown in suddenly to make an ending so that the mass amounts of viktor stans would be happy. cough cough yaoi bait cough cough queerbait cough. but i digress.

and yes, i know it's not explicitly said in the show that jayce and viktor ended up being an actual couple, but with the amount of writers that are now saying they are and the general public reaction to the ending, we have to unfortunately say it's somewhat canon.

BUT I DIGRESS!!! I DIGRESS!! I WILL NOT GO INTO IT FURTHER!! I AM FINE AND NORMAL

Meljay fans were the only group to consistently like both Mel and Jayce as individuals, but I digress.

[sonknuxadow]

my honest reaction

[perenlop]

havent seen this take in a while thankfully but it popped up in my head and i wanna post this anyways. i think everyone who talks about how siffrin “got off too easy” at the end of isat and his friends should have abandoned him should go read warrior cats if they want an example of a character using their trauma as their god-given jailbreak card to treat their family and peers (a good amount of whom who were completely innocent) like dogshit, and who faces zero consequences from the narrative for it (and in fact bends over to blame their peers). like read all the shit jayfeather does while the narrative sobs over how tragic but awesome and quirky he is and then look me in the eye and tell me siffrin’s ending was poorly written.

[ehlihr]

people will make a villain oc and then its like ok cool they murder BUT they have perfect political beliefs maintain perfect hygiene treat their friends and subordinates well and tips at restaurants and actually other than not liking the “heroes” is a moral pillar of greatness

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

not to be a hater for a second but i am mildly peeved at how much the internet is screaming that spirk is canon now because... it's not? feel free to enjoy unification as much as you want and there's certainly a romantic angle that's very easy to see but there's nothing in the content of the film that makes it "canon" and i highly doubt it was the intention of the creators. at the end of the day, similar scenes with romantic subtext are in pretty much every one of the tos movies. they're just like that. ship all you want but... i just don't really understand a need for ships to be canon for them to be enjoyable? spirk is always gonna be famous for being the original slash ship, it's always gonna be famous for being realllllly (mostly unintentionally) romantic, it doesn't need to be canon to be validated?

[wizardsix]

about 30 hours into veilguard and while I have an essay worth of my problems w the game and how this is absolutely not ten year's worth of developing I do want to say what I do like. the maps (visuals/progression/exploration), combat, and the companions (only five of them. neve and taash annoy me and I would absolutely not recruit them if this game didn't force you to)... overall it's all right on its own but it's no dragon age game.

[paging-possum]

on some level I understand that welcome to hell is probably a little harder to sell than hazbin given the *gestures vaguely* entire main plotline of w2h THAT SAID im going to be mad about it forever. because one of them is actually funny and has good character design and compelling dynamics and a good plot and its not the one about the freaking hotel.

[triglycercule]

How do you think the fandom somehow turned Horror into a really nice sweet guy who can practically do no wrong when his original counterpart is just such a fucking dickhead

ERUAGH this topic always intrigues me as a proud asshole horror truther BUT ALSO i love fanon horror too 💔💔 because for me i was "there" for the og years of horror's character getting turned into this total baby but i wasnt THERE THERE (aka here on tumblr because i didn't even know what tumblr was back in like 2016-17 💀)

so for me i can only guess. imo i think it was just a combination of flanderization & lack of canon knowledge PLUS the fact that the only info that was first known about horror himself was just from the flashgame (since all of chapter 1 of horrortale is about toriel and the ruins so by then horror's already got an established stereotype and image and people just dont read the comic enough to actually correct this). its just a bunch of layers of mischaracterization that quickly piled up and its packed TIGHTLY now in this current age

horror in the flash game is presented REALLY simply,,,, he's just this guy that taps on wood with a cleaver that kills you if you get too nosy or dont listen to papyrus and makes jokes about food. we dont know if he doesn't eat food at all yet since the panel establishing that horror hasnt eaten food in 7 years comes out in 2018 in pg44 💀 (and technically the hint that he hasn't eaten humans at all came out in pg33 but again making comic pages takes awhile and i know that horrortale's had its fair share of hiatuses thru the years,,,,) so this lack of knowledge about his hunger can ALREADY lead to the "foodie" trope that he has since he makes jokes about head dogs n stuff

the protective part can also be assumed by how he's always making sure that aliza plays along with papyrus's games and when we get later into chapter 2 and learn about snowdin that he also provides for everyone there by feeding them with humans. i always see people bringing up these arguments of how "OH WELL horror feeds everyone in horrortale and protects them from undyne so he'd do the same for others too!!!" well yeah sure but like,,,, he also feels incredibly guilty about the position that he's put them in and feels obligated to do that just because,,, MAYBE he'd provide for others like how he does in snowdin but REALLY? youre using the bare minimum of him providing BASIC FOOD AND PROTECTION as a way of justifying his protective tendencies??? i feel like that could work better (in a bad sanses context. because you always see this bullshit in nightmare's gang,,,,, (nightmare is a catalyst for bad characterization WHEN I CATCH YOU WHEN I CATCH YOU)) if his provider tendencies were given a more unique approach than just feeding them and stuff. horror wouldn't have the same attachment he had to snowdin with any of the gang so he wouldn't treat them the same or even similarly!!! AT ALL!!!!! oops i got sidetracked BUT ANYWAYS

and then for the big bear giant thing where people make him 3x the size he normally is (WHICH IS PEAK KEEP DOING IT,,,,,, epaugh small dust big horror would be the second only thing to put me to death if i was 95 and on my deathbed. right after any mtt fanart poly or not) i feel like just came from the simple idea of Big=Scary because idk megalophobia or smth. like people saw him and maybe horror was too much of a kicked puppy to be scary in their eyes so people were like lets size him up!! i do remember seeing a post where the reason why people hced horror was big was bc all his limited magic was put into sustaining his body and thats why his bones are thick but that just like,,,,, doesn't make sense to me. like even animals here on EARTH with normal diets have limited growth capacity simply because a larger body means more sustenance for it so why would he be bigger if that would just make him hungrier??? nevertheless I STILL LOVE DISPROPORTIONATELY BIG HORROR but unfortunately it does contribute to fanon horror 💔💔💔

this fandom is notorious for not reading canon info too sooo,,,, LIKE I SAID it was a mix of lack of canon info + horrortale being underdeveloped + flanderization of his basic traits which were then amplified when people came up with hcs for this flanderized version of horror and not his canon one. i mean you gotta be honest that fanon versions of characters will almost ALWAYS be easier to make fun jokes and art and writing of just bc of the fact that they are simpler!! almost all of the utmv au characters have this trait where their fanon version is a really really REALLY simplified/flanderized version of themselves which like,,,, you go you! just make sure to read horrortale pls :3 its peak fiction pls :3 the comic is so fire :3 the gore isnt really that graphic (in my opinion) you might be able to stomach it :3

[discjude]

Yeah this is about right (as always my thoughts are in the tags so there's actually kei content there lmao)

[gibbearish]

ive seen ppl saying smth in the wider plagiarism discussion to the tune of "don't worry anxious people, it's impossible to accidentally plagiarize!" and i feel like that lacks a lot of nuance that anxious brains like mine latch on to to just dismiss the possibility outright, as well as a lack of life experiences fueling it.

it is possible to "accidentally plagiarize" in that you can read something, forget about it, then a while later have your brain spit the ideas back out without telling where it got them. so of course you just assume they're yours and share them as such, because That's Where Most Of The Thoughts In Your Head Come From! and it both is and isn't plagiarism, you weren't /intending/ to pass someone's else's work off as your own, i'd even say in a way you were just as much a victim of misinformation as your audience. but you very much so did still resuse the work of someone else, even if you don't remember it.

but in my experience, this kind of thing also happens to a lot of people. you tell a friend a joke then wake up in a cold sweat two days later realizing the reason they didnt laugh was because they'd told you that joke a month ago. you reply to a friend's text and after sending you realized you ended it with the same exact phrase as theirs. you're writing edgy poetry and write a line you really like only to see it in a text post two days later saying youve already liked the post. like, it happens. so if it DOES happens and you're just honest and explain, people will understand. something like "oh shit im sorry, i totally have read that, i mustve forgotten and only remembered bits and pieces and just thought they were mine. thank you for letting me know and for the source" works wonders.

people know you can forget things. people won't automatically doubt your apology just because all true plagiarists say it was accidental. HOPEFULLY people can understand the nuance between a genuine remorseful explanation, and a thief who hoped no one would find out scrambling for excuses for why they did it. and those who can't, that's a them problem, not a you problem, you've taken responsibility for your actions as much as you can. they think the answer is simple, that the only thing stopping you from saying "yes i did it on purpose, i knew the whole time and deliberately copied them" is shame/inability to admit to your actions. but sometimes things AREN'T that simple, so imo ppl who are shitty to you for not following the script they made up for you in their head should be ignored

[cerealmonster15]

IM GOING TO TALK ABOUT ALHAITHAM AND KAVEH AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

i love this fuckin argument kaveh and alhaitham have on the port ormos bulletin board

it's one of those instances where kaveh and alhaitham are arguing and alhaitham is saying that like, while he disagrees with kaveh lol, he also doesnt deny theres truth to what kaveh says.

but i also think it's funny how alhaitham is like "end of conversation. ALSO-" like bitch you kept going IMMEDIATELY fkjsjfklds and then that stupid bit where theyre like "he said this" "he did not fucking say that" "he did" "no he didnt fuck you" "he did give me a month ill prove it!!!!" THEYRE FIGHTING LIKE CHILDREN ON A PUBLIC MESSAGE BOARD😭😭😭

also i have this one bit stuck forever in my mind from kavehs hang out

[video source i screenshot from]

MAYBE im reading into it way too much bc i have terminal haikaveh brain. maybe. BUT!!!! art is subjective i can do what i want :^) anyway i think a lot about this part because TO ME it sounds like kaveh keeps assuming the worst from alhaitham - makes sense, they argue all the time and they def have a turbulent relationship. HOWEVER!!!!! while alhaitham does like poking fun at kaveh and gets annoyed with him dskjfdsklf i FEEL LIKE theres an implication that he like, does not enjoy seeing kaveh suffer the way kaveh just assumes he does.

like here, kaveh is like oh, youre not hoping to see me make a fool of myself are you >:(?? just bc alhaitham was like. in a location unexpectedly. lol. and then alhaithams phrasing is just so specific where he like, doesnt say yes but doesnt say no either lol. hes like "oh so you think i get joy from seeing you in pain day in and day out? well if that were true id be entertained always because youre always in distress"

but like. I DUNNO MAYBE IM BEING STUPID BUT JKSDLFJDKL to ME it felt like he was deflecting the question. to be fair it was a silly question so maybe alhaitham didnt think it worth answering lololol but like "are you here to watch me struggle" "why do you assume i enjoy you struggling" is the vibe i get. but then with bullying also bc alhaitham is still poking at him and his distresses lol jdkslfdskl

and then like the moment the traveler is about to be like "kavehs feeling sad" and kaveh tries to deflect it, i personally think alhaitham managed to come up with a distraction to get kaveh to walk away for a minute so he could hear about kavehs troubles bc hes IMMEDIATELY LIKE

ok now that hes gone tell me about kaveh and his issues. and then goes on to explain kaveh and his behavior

and there are SEVERAL INSTANCES i mean this is an obvious thing lol but like, many such cases where kaveh and alhaitham will be like "yeah this guy is incredibly smart but his personality is fucking unbearable" i just enjoy that as much as they rag on each other theyre still like "no he is a genius though im not gonna deny that" AND ALSO [help]

alhaitham says stuff like this a few times, i think hes got a teapot line or so where he says similar things 🤔 but hes like "yeah people go about their lives doing different things and thats fine everyone should stay in their lane as long as theyre not disrupting the lives of others" AND YET!!!!!!!!!!!! he and kaveh endlessly fight with each other on how they go about their lives. trying to get the other to see their way of thinking even though i think they both acknowledge [or it says somewhere in the lore that they do] that it is a losing battle bc theyre both really set in how they see things and their methods of doing things. I JUST FIND IT REALLY INTERESTING that alhaitham is like, "mind your business and ill mind my business what ever bye" but when it comes to kaveh hes like. no actually i have to debate you. the way you feel isnt wrong however your actions make your life really hard for yourself and you could be living better if you changed" like he cannot stay in his lane when kaveh is involved!!!!! and like the whole reason he's even IN the parade of providence event at all was bc he was pursuing a thread of research that he figured out was connected to kavehs dad and his disappearance!!! mister "i dont want to get involved if it doesnt disrupt my life" got involved to give his boy some closure on the haunting of his dead father!!!!!!!!!! I am going to explode now goodbye!!!!

[sonknuxadow]

I think the main problem with people misinterpreting stc super sonic is that they hear about stc super being evil and decide that they want to make their own evil super sonic and then name it fleetway super sonic because the core concept of him is what inspired them (and they probably think of him as a concept instead of an actual character that appears in a piece of sonic media).

This could be solved if they called their evil super sonic "evil super sonic" instead of calling them fleetway super sonic.

tbh i dont think this begins and ends at fleetway super i think a lot of mischaracterizations for some of sonics transformations, and also some counterpart characters like scourge, in general are a result of people liking the idea of an evil alternate sonic or a sonic whos dangerous in a way that he cant fully control (which is understandable im very obviously not immune to that stuff) and just applying their ideal take on that to whatever character/form they like the core concept of most without really taking into consideration if its in character or if it would fit a different character/form better. for example a lot of the common werehog mischaracterizations would work perfectly for fleetway super sonic but people keep applying them to werehog anyway because they like the idea of a werewolf sonic . or maybe they just dont know what fleetway super is actually like . idk

[perenlop]

imagine if instead of having vic mignogna keldeo, we got an iris movie about her relationship with kyurem