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marinecorvid · 9 months ago

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watching random totk video and. damn Nintendo rlly did just make explanations for a bunch of shit and NOT put them in the game. incredible

#back on my totk dislike #like supplemental info about a book/movie/whatever can be neat #but if you don’t convey important information about your world #in the canon text #then like #youve failed from a writing standpoint

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veliseraptor · 25 days ago

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the weird schrödinger's emotion that is "that character death was narratively satisfying and emotionally impactful and ultimately the best way to handle their character arc" simultaneously with "noooo but I wanted them to live :( :( :("

#this is why fix it fic for me existing alongside canon tragedy is great honestly #because it lets me hold both in my head at the same time #like. i would probably not be nearly as fixated on yi city had it not ended horribly with everyone at least undead #but do i want everyone to get a chance at happiness? also yes #it's a complicated emotion #important text posts #liseproblems

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drolta · 10 months ago

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#this is a canon exchange in my heart #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #claudia #iwtv #text post meme

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bearloonz · 11 months ago

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I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

#I always get so weird about being specifically excited about making two characters be friends #and be really close esp compared to canon.#and I’m like eujhh what if this is. Weird.#and then u remember I wouldn’t feel nearly as weird were it a ship bc that’s just like. Standard behavior.#more giving a fuck abt guys being buddies 2024 #text posts :0]#todays post is brought to you by isabeau and odile interacting in isat

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year ago

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The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

#dungeon meshi #mithrun #Cithis Ofri #Pattadol #Fleki #Lycion #Otta #Happy Canary Debut Day! These guys wont really get to be very present until the next season of Dungeon Meshi #But I can still be excited to see them animated!!!#Shout out to Pattadol - I also tend to occupy 'The Punchline' niche of the friendgroup.#The punchline differs from 'The Jester' who willingly absorbs the jokes. The punchline is often unwillingly the joke.#You are either the one no one likes or the well beloved little-sibiling-esque friend. Good luck figuring out which!#Yes it is canon that Otta is into Women. YES she dates younger women and dumps them when they age.#This isn't a fan made bit. It's real.#Dungeon Meshi has no romance but it does have canonically queer characters.#Shipping is fine and all but it is a running theme in the series than *everyone* who expresses romantic interest in someone -#-finds that love unrequited. Just something to be mindful of to measure your expectations of this series!#Ah! In other housekeeping notes; I'm going to *try* and add Alt Text to my dungeon meshi thurday posts going forwards.#I might not be able to do it day of but I will try to get it done within a week.

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chamerionwrites · 1 month ago

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Honestly this gets at my chiefest complaint/frustration/discomfort with fandom as a whole. Which is: in their rush to defend the artistic merit of fanworks I think a ton of people have really valorized transformation and remixing and reinterpretation in and of themselves, when imo those are all quite neutral actions. When done well, they can expand and build upon and subvert meaning in really powerful and thought-provoking (and fun!) ways. When done poorly, they are just as likely to flatten and oversimplify and decontextualize and completely erase meaning. The simple act of changing something does not imbue the choice to do so with creative validity. It is entirely possible for a cover song to be bad (or just boring!). To exactly the same degree that it is possible to transform a pretty shallow and straightforward work into something deeper and more nuanced and subversive, is possible to transform a work into a vastly shallower and less interesting shadow of itself. As with nearly everything in art, it's all about the execution!

But the second you voice this position (which should honestly be a pretty uncontroversial one imo), you get people shrieking at you about being gatekeep-y and pretentious and betraying the sacred fandom etiquette of Don't-Like-Don't-Read.

And like...listen. I was not raised in a barn. I am 150% capable of quietly back-buttoning out of a fanfic I think is bad or boring - which is exactly what I do when I encounter them - and I am obviously not advocating for stupid ships wars or any kind of harassment or leaving hatemail in people's AO3 inboxes. (Which some people will also accuse you of the second you say anything less than lavishly positive about fandom, in true piss-on-the-poor fashion.) Literally all I am saying is that you can't have your cake and eat it too - that if fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) have artistic merit then fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) are fair game for artistic critique. Which means, in practice, that I can go on my own blog and make a post exactly like this one - critiquing broad trends, or stating that some interpretations are bad actually, or pointing out that subverting or talking back to or reading against the grain of canon is very different from simply ignoring it, or saying "fandom's culture of collage/remix/fuck-canon-I-do-what-I-want can lend itself to to really creative and interesting art but also to a lot of really bland homogenized cut-n-paste art, not to mention some pretty troubling decontextualization." And that if you feel this rains on your personal parade, you are then free to DLDR by back-buttoning out of my blog and/or blocking me so you never have to see my hot takes again, rather than clamoring in my notes about how I should let people enjoy things.

#i am enjoying myself! if my preferred mode of fannish engagement is different than yours you can go nobody is stopping you #i'm just tired of people acting like chucking canon out the window only ever leads to beautifully subversive queer romance #just as often it leads to people chucking out anything unique or challenging or thought-provoking in the original text #in favor of making two personality-less background white guys kiss to the tune of plot beats we've all seen 10 billion times #i'm not even condemning anyone for enjoying a tropey low stakes romance sometimes!#but i AM allowed to observe that fandom has a marked preference for tropey low stakes romance #over (eg) touching ANY canon engagement with imperialism with a thirty foot pole #and to like. draw some critical conclusions about that lol #fandom #my posts

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shyjusticewarrior · 1 year ago

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lil-vibes · 8 months ago

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was sick this whole week so im beaming it straight to narinder

#his ass is under five thousand blankets send tweet #he did get his cuddles btw i just didnt have the energy to draw it 😔#affectionate red crown my beloved idc abt canon material shshshs #i found a bunch of these lil text ss on pinterest beware #ive also started another cotl save and now im plagued with ideas abt a Bad/corupted version of my lamb #spinning it in my head at top speeds #cotl #narilamb #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #cotl fanart #cotl narilamb #my art #cult of the lamb

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doctorpaw · 2 months ago

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Hey, you. Yes you. Hold that fictional person's hand immediately

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demigods-posts · 10 months ago

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i'm one hundred percent certain that after percy and annabeth made out underwater. and he wanted to make their relationship official. the question was not "will you be my girlfriend?" but "can i be your boyfriend?" i don't care what the canon says. percy gave annabeth the space to take the lead in the relationship. because after a lifetime of being abandoned by everyone she dared to care for. and then watching her on the brink of a panic attack at the thought of losing him the last four years. he wanted to honor a new beginning between them by follow her lead and moving at her pace.