#is villain behaviour

[oifaaa]

I understand when people say that they don't like Jason being a villain, there's a Lot of those issues that just suck because the writers lost the plot (but I also like Jason as a Robin and then the very first after-death iteration and a lot of the stuff concerning him later tends to get really fucking weird, but that's true for literally all comic characters)

but saying he's better off with the "batfamily" is so funny

like i don't wanna be hating on someone in your ask box but holy shit

Yeah I also get it especially between Morrison Geoff Johns and Bruce Jones I don't blame people for being adverse to villain Jason but still saying Jason is better off with the bats makes me question how much a person actually likes Jason as a character

[themolluscasometimes]

Fresh blood mites for Shizun 😘🥰😳🌺🛫✨💅🥒🌹💖

This was not the plan and I think halfway through this I entered some kind of fugue state where compositional and aesthetic sense goes to die but tbh I think it's what he deserves

[kindaorangey]

"are you asking me or making me?" is soooooo interesting to me because i think armand only asks it when he can't gauge whether he's letting louis down. it's barely even sexual - it's a hail mary. it's a show of trust, indirectly admitting that he wants to do something other than what louis expects of him, but that he's willing to obey louis anyway, for the sake of their relationship. it's sort of heartbreaking watching them at the sacré-cœur, because if louis had said "i'm making you" armand would've done it in a heartbeat. he would've taken it as a show of committment on louis' part, and he wouldn't have betrayed him. but louis takes the question just as an expression of disagreement, and so he doesn't play the game. ironically, he respects armand's independence too much to make him turn madeleine if he doesn't want to. and so armand isn't convinced of louis' commitment to him, and he betrays him.

and by the time we see them in san fransisco, louis knows what the question means now, and answers "no, arun, i'm not asking" without question. and armand accepts it without complaint, even as it pains him. companionship really is the most important thing in the world to armand, just like it is for lestat, and he's willing to do any number of horrible things to louis and himself just to keep him as a companion, just like lestat. louis' biggest mistake is not realising how to use that to his advantage sooner.

edit: HELP people are reblogging this again. i misremembered the context of the scene - louis is asking armand to witness the turning, not do it himself. still, if armand had gone along to witness, that would have 100% been taken as implicit permission for louis to turn madeleine (thereby adhering to the first of the great laws) and, in essence, "agreeing" with her turning where before he ordered claudia to drive madeleine out of town. this hypocrisy, and the further bending of the rules for louis' sake (he's given permission to turn a mortal despite neither of them being in the coven), would have been seen by the coven as betrayal. armand knows this; he doesn't think madeleiene should be turned for these reasons; that's why he asks, "are you asking me or making me?"

still. if louis had said "i'm making you" i think armand would've gone along to witness, implicitly giving his permission for madeleine to be turned and functionally changing his allegiance from the coven to louis once and for all. so the core point of the post still stands.

[r-biter]

Just read a 'shen yuan is yue qingyuans reincarnation and transmigrates into his body' oneshot and it fully hit me with how firstly shen yuans name is almost the equivalent of yqy doodling mr shen qingyuan into the margins of his notes like a dork, and secondly how funny that concept is in general. Like assuming shen yuan looks a bit like sqq like is often fanon, yqy thought so hard abt a dude he popped out into the reincarnation cycle looking just like him, proceeded to be so weird abt that guy in a new different way and then immediately after came BACK to the world to keep being weird abt that guy. The brain worms are eternal. Incredible

[reislesbian]

I saw someone on Tiktok saying that Mace Windu ended as a villain and I wonder if that person has braincells.

[ineed-to-sleep]

Just saw somebody trying to justify their shitty use of generative ai by saying "commission artists only say that ai isn't valuable because they want you to believe you don't have value as the commissioner" and I just wanted to crawl out of my skin. Like WHERE did they get that idea? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever had to read with my own two eyes

Let me tell you, as an artist who does commissions, yes you have value! Obviously the art that I make will be very different depending on the instructions you give me and having good material from the start will make the result much better. When artists say that AI isn't as valuable as a real artist, they're not saying you don't have value as the person giving instructions, they're saying that they have value as well, being the person who went through the process of spending hours carefully drawing the ideas you've given them. When an artist says "AI isn't going to do as good of a job as an artist", they're defending the value of their own work, not dismissing the value of yours. An artist defending their own value should not be twisted and villainized like this like jesus fucking christ that was such an asinine take I had to say something

[gudvina]

In regarding to Effie/Hayffie (just briefly mentioned but i will include it) I feel like Katniss being a limited narrator (in the sense that she doesn't take a third party approach, and tells her story from the point of view she held while living its events) is something that's important to take in consideration.

What we do know of book Haymitch and book Effie (more so the latter) is limited to what Katniss sees firsthand.

Solely speaking about Effie, Katniss tells us a few things:

1. she's compassionate towards her and Peeta, and towards other victors too ("Oh, not Cecilia..." and her talking about Chaff)

2. Haymitch has an habit of defending her, and she does the same in the limits of her capacity

3. She is very observant; she sees that Katniss isn't able to sleep and gives her sleeping pills. She cares.

4. She was the one who proposed the tokens for the 75th HG.

Of course we don't get her full point of view or opinion, but that'd because Katniss genuinely didn't know, nor does she know about what happened to her in MJ until Flavius, Venia and Octavia tell her.

There is a lot that's said between the lines, that's easily forgettable but that make up her character and give us more context about what goes on with her.

Again, she's a character that's highly open to interpretation, because we don't know anything about her apart from these little tidbits Katniss shows us, and so it goes with Hayffie, if we want to make a stretch.

We only know that they often bicker, but we also see her defend Haymitch's role as a mentor, ally with him for Katniss and Peeta's sake and, again, we are told Haymitch will defend Effie.

And we are also told, in the end, that Haymitch and Plutarch take great pain to keep her alive.

Can't stress enough that the interpretations are endless, but the idea of Effie being more than a morally grey character (like an antagonist, or worse, a villain) is a stretch, given what we do know about her.

[afurtivecake]

It's easy to get the impression that Tetsuji never cared enough to rein in Riko's behaviour and temper but I think it's the opposite. I think Riko grew up constantly being told stuff like, "You have to learn to control your temper" and, "Is that any way to behave?" by Tetsuji. I think Tetsuji would have even disciplined him harshly every time he was caught acting out of anger. But all that is coming from Tetsuji - the man who would beat a kid if they displeased him in any way. How can you ever really take to heart the words of someone who demonstrates the exact opposite of what they preach? How are you supposed to not learn that the real lesson is, "Become the one who has all the power over everyone else and you will never have to suffer criticism for how you behave ever again."

[sandumilfshous]

if you hate the emperor because he is "manipulative" and "evil" and "irredeemable" i hope you learn empathy and seeing from other peoples perspective ✌️

[barleyalive101]

I said it once and I’ll say it again

Writers who are hired for adaptations or continuations should deal with characters with neutrality.

We all have our faves but here’s the thing you’re not writing a fanfic for yourself, you’re writing an adaptation that’s going to be shown for everyone, for the entire fan base , for newcomers too and getting paid a good price for it.

regardless of how you feel about said character , they should get what they deserve, the fans of this character deserve to see their fave properly written, to have them well showcased in their own media, do the characters justice.

Respect all the characters and Respect the established plot line.

Respect the fans of the individual character not just the shippers.

Don’t let shipping and bias influence your writing decisions to the point where you lose and sacrifice major characterisation and plot points for their sake.

( this is honestly for all writers in all media )

Let your characters exit outside of their ships . don’t change them to fit into the ship.

let them exist outside of your own influenced view of them.

[talk-danmei-to-me]

There is no heterosexual explanation for naming yourself a peerless cucumber.

[c-kiddo]

heard a taliesin character was up to some dumbass self destructive behaviour again

[bibibbon]

I feel like Kenjaku as a villain was wasted tbh especially when I think of the dynamic we could have got between them, Choso and Yuuji.

Hi @doodlegirl1998 👋

OMG YES!!! I have been in the process of making a post about kenjaku and how I hate how the narrative treated him especially with the lack of kenjaku and yuji/ choso content we have.

Gege introduces kenjaku as this weird maniac who literally does stuff because he is bored and why not. Like the guy was like won't it be interesting if I just created the culling games to almost pass time before going ahead finding tengen and killing them. He also just wants to merge humanity for fun and giggles. Heck the narrative itself says that kenjaku just wants to commit acts of sorcery terrorism because why not.

Also it's such a shame that we never got to see kenjakus relationship with itadori and choso to a full extent especially when its never fully tackled by the story. Strangely enough there seems to be something quite interesting when it comes to how kenjaku views yuji, maybe something akin to care for him (even a tiny bit maybe) which could be heavily explored if gege chose that kenjaku would be the one to take over gojos body in jjk 261.

Also I think kenjakus whole existence and how it effects jjk society needs to be talked about and explored heavily within the narrative. Kenjaku seemed to have a friendship with tengen until something happend and they stopped being friends. Gege could of taken this and fully ran and expanded with this idea especially because there are some similarities with kenjaku and tengen and how they both use human bodies as vessels.

There's also kenjakus last fight which was a great way to add humour into the story while giving both him and tsuaba development. Kenjakus hunger for something new seems to parallel ishigori and sukuna but with kenjaku he has went through multiple journeys and has supposedly seen many views and beliefs of others. Yet one thing that he hasn't experienced is grief and love which could be a great arc for him to go through.

I think kenjaku seemingly becoming the mastermind in the series could of been a great twist and there are so many more things for his character that haven't been explored.

[thehollowwriter]

I could write a goddamn essay about how the "Nazis are inhuman pure evil monsters" logic has actually helped Nazis but unfortunately saying "Hey Nazis ARE people, choosing a group that you don't like and deeming them subhuman and okay to treat as such is not only nazi logic but also makes it easier for Nazism to rise" will probably just have people claim I myself am a Nazi because there are way to many idiots who think that dehumanization is ok when they do it to those who "deserve it"

[protagonist-art]

negaverse ur ocs RIGHT NOW !!!!! it's so fun

[prettyflyshyguy]

Not in the traditional sense, no.......

But she sort of was one all along.

"If I kill her, is it murder or suicide?"