#me and mari

[punkeropercyjackson]

you're doing God's work by finding and rb'ing all the hazel Levesque/underworld sibs fan art bc I can literally never find any and they're my fav characters (especially hazel she's literally me)

AYYYYYY I'M GENUINELY GLAD TO BE OF SERVICE BECAUSE I HAVE THAT PROBLEM TOO AND WITH PERCY!!!!Take my fave Hazel posts i've made too♡

And more Hazel art!!

The last person has the Hazel design ever!!

[orangesavannah]

Anyone done the Pietà pose for Mouthwashing yet? No? Well.

[mirror-mariposa]

Never gonna get over how the anime made this scene just so,, haunting and elevated. Like I love the manga but I love how the anime has taken these scenes and elevated the themes of death and rebirth with simple shots like this and it’s why even after reading all of the manga I still get excited for the anime because I *know* the anime will not only be a faithful adaptation, but also an artistic masterpiece as it uses the medium to its advantage

[divorcetual]

I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

[catholike]

[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.

[epicawesomewin-art2]

grandkids said they can't argue or they'll get kicked out :(

[and-her-saints]

not a day passes where i don't think of this butch mary magdalene painting

St. Mary Magdalene (oil, 2009) by Jim Vogel

[jaemongus]

hi sorry for being gone for like 5 years i am back with x-men cuties

[trashmouthsworld]

NEW HEADCANNON. Mary Puppins thinks Wade and Logan's names are Bub and Peanut because that all they ever call each other, like Lady in Lady and the Tramp thinks her owners' names are Darling and Jim Dear.

[literarymerritt]

Thinking about Them 🥺

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[punkeropercyjackson]

HI i'm so sorry to bother you but ur one of my only blk mutuals and i need help deciding what color braids to get. do you have any suggestions?

PURPLE!!!!You are literally Hazel so it's perfect!

[ophanim-vesper]

A short-ish fancomic poem thing about my hc for Zelda

(best read from left to right)

[gatoburr0]

I HATE how this turned out WITH A PASSION.

[hamletthedane]

Nobody was doing it like Mary Magdalene. Tits out. Standing on a mountain. Holding a skull. She’s like the lesbian catholic hamlet. Aesthetically an absolute win for the gays.

[cloudmancy]

burn the incense of our innocence and in a sense we thrive