#my favorite media trope

[zarkishere]

my favorite media trope

[1nk-ling]

Brains and Brawn aren't Braining or Brawning

So I noticed a thing. There's lots of times when one or another of the brothers gets knocked out or hurt in some way, and usually another brother just scoops him up and runs off. BUT (as far as I can remember) they never did this with Donnie. They always companion carried him.

It made me laugh thinking: with them legs he's got (lanky spider boy) would the shorter brothers even be able to get him off the ground in a piggyback situation? Like, I know he's skinny in comparison with the others, but he's also tall and, like all the 12 boys, SUPER heavy looking.

I may have egsadurated Raphs shortness here, but I'm short and short people problems make me happy.

Also, who's gonna give up a chance to draw slurry blood loss Donnie and frustrated short Raph in the same picture, huh?

Figuring out the pose was a nightmare, though. For reference, I usually only have one or two thumbnails. This time I had seven.

HOLD UP HOLD UP HOLD UP I WAS WRONG!

That still looks super hard, so my point still stands. Partially. Mikey is known for breaking the laws of nature anyway.

[delicatewhumps]

characters reuniting after one of them was presumed dead >>

just think about it!

maybe whumpee faked their death.

maybe magic or something was involved, so they actually died, but somehow came back to life. like maybe they were a ghost who gained a physical body back, or maybe some otherworldly power granted them a return to the living world (ahem, cw’s once upon a time….)

maybe they were left for dead — fatally injured and caretaker had to leave them — but they miraculously survived and found their way home!

maybe they were lost in an accident / natural disaster, and caretaker finds them among the survivers in a shelter or hospital.

maybe they were wrongfully declared dead by doctors, sent to a morgue across the country so their body could be used in a cadaver lab, and then they woke up! (….totally not based on a plot to one of my own fics.)

however it happens, it’s perfect. especially if whumpee is still as physically injured as they were before…

caretaker gasping and crying and wrapping them in an enormous hug. or maybe rushing to their hospital bedside, taking their hand.

“i thought i lost you.”

“i went to your funeral, whumpee, i— i… this can’t… oh, god… oh, god!!”

“you died! how— how are you here?!”

caretaker might think they’re dreaming. after all, they saw whumpee. it was hopeless. they’ve spent god-knows-how-long grieving whumpee. but now whumpee is back, alive, in front of them!

“i’m never leaving your side.”

“don’t ever do that to me again, you asshole!”

“[insert setting-appropriate higher power here], thank you. thank you for giving them back to me.”

[biasomnia]

Chat, I have realized something while watching one piece (currently at the start of marineford)

If you give me siblings that love eachother deeply.

That would sacrifice anything to keep the other safe,

and no mater what happens, no matter if they fight or argue,

will never stop loving the other.

[starry-bi-sky]

okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.

So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).

Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021 Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021 San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021

Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.

Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)

Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.

It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.

[anony-lynn]

Akatsuki basically

[junebugdunes]

about once a month I think of these two and start going crazy again

[kikikoijo]

Queer media really just always be like ✨HANDS✨

She Makes My Heart Flutter (2022) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | My School President (2022) | Fragrance of the First Flower (2021) | GAP The Series (2022) | A Time Called You (2023) | Moonlight Chicken (2023) | My School President (2022) | Dangerous Romance (2023)

Gif creds: @damnthosewords @tomystars @forcebook @firstkhao @gabrielokun @weiwuxian @liveasbutterflies @mantrisanu @bevioletskies @liyazaki

Part 2/? (Part 1)

[touyafootfetish]

Tokyo Revengers but make it MHA and it’s Endeavor who keeps going back in time—first to fix his mistakes with Touya but every time he goes back to the future one of the other kids and maybe even Rei ends up down a path sort of like Touya becoming Dabi and no matter what he does he can’t fix his family and he drives himself insane because he knows it’s his fault and he can’t find a timeline where his family is actually happy

[creative-shine]

another favorite trope: when the void consumes the characters

[mintaikkcorpse]

What's a popular trope that you don't like? I'll go first. I don't like the trope of character A changing for whatever reason, telling character B to look away and Character B days, but takes a peek EVEN THOUGH A SAID NOT TO LOOK

(No hate to anyone who likes this trope, I can see the appeal of it)

[spaceaviator]

In every universe,

In every timeline

Destined by fate

Doomed by the narrative

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Sorry but like

I think it needs to be said at this point

[0heartangel0]

I don’t know, thought it’d be funny

[croxovergoddess]

Carol the Carrier

Character for a Zombie series idea

[woundedearth]

people are so quick to laugh at other people for taking extremely loaded and upsetting representation in media ~too seriously~, but also conflate the words of some of the most powerless marginalized people with censorship by the FUCKING US GOVERNMENT. it’s so disingenuous it’s so silencing it’s so fucking shitty

it also very much feels like the cultural moment we’re in right now, where bringing up issues rooted in deep irl power structures is automatically written off as oversensitive and reactionary. it’s just media, until it’s an example from real life—then it’s just not that serious, or it’s childish to draw those connections, or it’s censorship to bring it up in the first place. allusions to irl violence are chump change but irl violence is always an isolated incident. and no one cares that this attitude magically seems to exclusively benefit the extremely conservative worldview that holds power

like lmfao no i don’t think it’s your right or anyone’s right to cover your eyes to obviously shitty offensive media writing laden with cultural baggage…. so that you can ~just enjoy it~! does this say nothing about you when you jump to silence the critiques of folks who noticed the harmful shit that went over your head? hot take… media is actually made and consumed by human beings who live in a society