#i know we've already spoken abt some of this stuff before but i really want to get across that i'm thankful that you're who you are

[lilmerh]

for the choose violence ask game:

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about 

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Already answered 12, so I'll just do 8. It's been a while since I watched/read these things, so my memory is a bit rusty :/

[The Owl House]

-That Evelyn & Caleb are all that interesting lol. They practically took over the fandom (/hyperbole) when those portraits of them were showed, but I've never once found them that fun to think about. I don't know what it is that's grabbing other people and not me, but I just have zero thoughts about these people.

At least Belos is a fun character, so some fanart exploring him and Caleb's relationship is enjoyable, but other than his relation to Belos, IDC about Caleb. I care about Evelyn even less, and never cared about her being a Clawthorne either.

We got like, 2 minutes max of screentime of these guys, and 90% of it is just photos of them. We didn't even get to know them as characters. There's barely anything to talk about with them

-I don't think everyone is wrong about this (so doesn't really belong on this question?), but that Amity &/or Hunter are autistic. I don't necessarily disagree with this opinion, I just never picked up on that myself. I've seen people call them "autism coded" and I'm like "...where?" If I went looking for posts abt it, I'm sure I could get on board w/ it though

-Any romantic ship with Willow bc that girl is aromantic (Dana told me herself /j)

[Nevermoor]

That Ezra Squall is in any way good or redeemable. This is a divisive opinion in the fandom itself, so not "everyone", but as it stands in the series, I am nottt on board with this yet. If that's the direction Jess wants to take the story, I trust her to do a good job with it, but from what we've been presented of Ezra so far, I don't think he is good nor will become good.

I found the split between "Ezra the boy" and "Ezra the monster" and if those lines blur pretty fun to read, and I'm curious to find out if he has any motivations for the massacre (or any of the other stuff he did) besides power hunger. If it turns out he's just been unfairly villianized, manipulated, or just misunderstood, it'd have to be really well written or I'd be disappointed lol. I simply find him more fun as a villian

[The Walking Dead]

Prolly weird to bring this up out of nowhere, since I don't think I've ever spoken about it on Tumblr, but I am indeed a TWD fan.

Shane is a bitch ass motherfucker and not remotely fun to watch. Every second he's on screen he's nothing but a pain in the ass. I love Rick, so whenever he and Rick are arguing (which is constantly), I just want him to SHUTTT UPPPPPP. He keeps wanting to control the group in ways I hated, and is a bit too content with killing people to meet the ends. (For example, when he shoots a guy he's out on a supply run with JUST so the zombies will stop and eat him and let Shane run away?? He could'a just shot them when he'd gotten back on the bus, but nah, he had to kill his companion and wasn't even honest about it to the rest of the group.)

Some people say Rick is like this too, but he doesn't truly get murderous until several seasons of being the leader of a survivor group in a zombie apocalypse. And whenever he gets content with killing people, it's not framed as a good thing, it's a consequence of the stress, hurt, and lack of trust that builds up in the apocalypse. Rick is at his best when he's extending a hand to other survivors. Shane didn't even make it past S2 before being okay with unnecessary killing.

(Do note that sometimes, Rick killing people is a good thing. For example, when a group of men attacked the fam and one man attempted to rape Rick's son, to which he proceeded to rip out one man's throat with his teeth. That was quite cool of him.)

People who like Shane tend to also be unfairly judgemental of Lori, in my experience. Either because she started a relationship with him while being married or because she later wanted to end that relationship.

She started a relationship with him because she believed her husband was dead. Shane was even the one who told her he was. In her eyes, she was single again. It's fine of her to have sex with any other man at this point, and to slowly start viewing him as family, even letting him get close to her son.

When her thought-to-be-dead husband waltzes up to the survivor group, very much alive, though, it's reasonable she would want to be in a relationship with her husband again. It is also reasonable that she doesn't want her apocalypse fling to be a father figure to her son when his actual father turned out to be alive. She isn't unreasonable for ending the relationship with Shane, nor for not wanting him to act as Carl's father anymore. Shane doesn't have any right to act as the father to her son.

There may be other reasons to criticise her (she died pretty early on and I haven't seen TWD in a while so IDK) but if anyone criticizes her for either of these reasons they r wrong <3

Conclusion: Shane was an infuriating character and I'm glad he died

[unprocione]

it's always a joy to discuss and hear your big brain takes but it's obvious you've put a lot of thought into your portrayal of leon - his core characteristics, his background, his habits, his issues or relationships with others. you give the credit and weight to the things that deserve them but also keep that fun snark to him. your writing is wonderful and it's very refreshing to see someone else who also can't shut up! i'm looking very forward to seeing more!

god this means. so much. i've been holding onto this ask and going back and looking at it when i need it. i've been dealing with some real bad self-esteem issues recently? it's all dumb but there's alot of pressure from all sides right now in my life and roleplay is kind of the only outlet i have right now, so it means alot that the small bits of energy that i get to keep to myself right now, and choose to put into leon, are appreciated.

i'm having alot of fun with leon in all honesty, more fun than i've had writing other characters in a long time. he feels like a character that i can really make my own, and there's so much potential with him to interact with everyone else that i never really get bored! sometimes i get too into my own head and go quiet, but i have so much going on in the background for leon that i always find myself returning to when i'm upset and stressed and get to turn it over and over again for comfort until i feel ready to pen it all down and share it.

and people... actually enjoying it is like.. cathartic? and not only cathartic, it's like.. i don't know, there's alot of emotional connection for me in roleplay that i don't get in life because i'm always so tied up in super serious stuff, so when i write all these complicated situations with leon and go into detail with his bonds and his history, it puts me in a good headspace mentally and exercises my brain instead of staying in robot-mode as i call it and slipping into depression again.

i'm having so much fun writing with your heisenberg, and writing with you generally, and just talking overall. roleplay, it was more about what other people wanted than what i wanted for a long time, and i was kind of just trying to keep everyone happy so i had friends so i would do what they wanted instead of what i wanted, (most of the times it was ships, so i'm learning that not everything has to become a pairing for people to be having fun with my writing) and it feels alot more my own thing now since we've started plotting and since i've been hanging around you and cj both. i used to get alot of shit for how important or how interested in things i would get, from ex-friends and other roleplayers, and it kind of crushed me down for a while, and i'm healing from that now but god reading you and cj's headcanons and roleplays are like a breath of fresh air. maybe that's silly but i don't get alot of time for hobbies so what i do get time for i get really introspective and sentimental about? i'm always excited to see the little notification pop up on my phone that you or cj has posted something, or reblogged something.

there's so much i want to do with leon! i want to do more with his bonds with krauser, and ada, and chris, and sherry, and kevin and cindy both! i have no intention anytime soon of shutting up! you've inflicted a curse on roughly a hundred people who follow me, what have you done! when will you be held accountable for your actions!!!

thank you for this sweet message, seriously, this has been doing some work in my inbox for encouragement.