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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.
#I didn't watch Teen Wolf but I know this happened to that Stiles character#I'm not active in any DC fandom but it looks like this happened to Tim Drake and to a lesser extent Dick and Jason#In prequels-era Star Wars it seems to be Obi-Wan; he's the spark/focus of this post here; bring back his flaws I like that he kind of sucks#sometimes a Fandom's Darling comes out of an Author's Darling! usually Fandom's are vessels to fuck the āhottest guyā available though#I will probably turn reblogs off if this spreads too far because I really don't care if people write Mary Sue fanfic; can't cast that stone#squinting at every āintersexā tag like Inigo Montoya: āI don't think that means what you think it means.ā#honestly the fantasy intersex thing is a separate & more serious post; but the fandom usage is a red/yellow flag for me when searching#tossawary fandom#fandom's darling
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Barty: Iām going to kill my dad
Evan: Sure we can kill my dad too my house is on the way
Regulus: I volunteer killing my parents as a trial run
Everyone else:
#they are being 1000% serious btw#they all come from shitty households#let them have this#regulus black#marauders era#jegulus#marauders era funny#marauders era textpost#harry potter#marauders#james potter#starchaser#sunseeker#rosekiller#evan rosier#barty crouch junior#slytherin skittles#harry potter funny
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Sirius: Hey Prongs, I hope our children will get along just like cousins, you know not like me and my cousins but like other cousins that get along so well, I always see cousins having a really good bond
James: Yeah I hope so too
*5 years later*
James: Hey Pads, you know when you told me about that cousin thing with our children *sweating nervously*
Sirius: Yeah whatās up with that?
James: I took your words too serious
Sirius: What do you mean?
James:
Sirius: James what do you mea- oh no no no no. Please donāt tell me that-
James: Surprise?
Sirius: JAMES FLEAMONT POTTER, YOUāRE DEAD YOU LITTLE BROTHERFUCKER
#James be running for his life#James: I thought that was what you wanted#he took his words too serious#Sirius said: just like cousins#James only heard: cousins#at least heās going to be an uncleš¤·āāļø#marauders#marauders era#sirius black#james potter#regulus black#jegulus#wolfstar#starchaser#sunseeker#trans regulus#ftm regulus#trans pregnancy
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Sukuna is Peak Gap Moe. Iāll never be over this. This bastard talks tough, eats people, and kills like a woodchipper and yetā¦he is a poetic little sap. Getting mad over an improper haikus, the misidentification of flowersā¦and confessing his feelings to Gojo Satoru under several layers of wordplay no one except those well-versed in ancient Japanese would catch.
I've been over this in greater detail in Sukuna's Negative Rizz, but @tangsakura added more context in the replies to that post, making Sukuna's use of å”夫 (bonpu) for Gojo even gayer.
In summary, å”夫 (bonpu) can be translated as painfully ordinary or unenlightened. But in the individual kanji readings, å” is mediocre and 夫 is husband. You could read this as Sukuna calling Gojo his mediocre husband. And that's just the modern readings! The ancient readings...
So you can read this line from Sukuna as the following:
āYou were born in an era without me and hailed as 'The Strongest'
1) And yet you turned out to beā¦painfully ordinary.ā
2) And yet you turned out to beā¦unenlightened.ā
3) And yet you turned out to beā¦a mediocre husband/wife/spouse.ā
4) And yet you turned out to beā¦the ordinary one who could stand by my side.ā
Sukuna seems to be saying these things all at once. (Itās no different than the Megumi Activities wordplay he uses with Enchain. Alt. link if the Twitter dies.) Gojo apparently makes him feel very conflicted. Heās boring, he can do better, he shouldnāt even call himself the Honored One, heās his equal, theyāre married. The irony here is that no one except Sukuna can understand this.
#cactus shut up#Also he said this live on TV and the chapter ended on ''the one who will teach you love isā¦''#Iām isolating this from Sukunaās Negative Rizz because I want more people to see and understand Sukuna called Gojo his wife.#Well his girlhusband boywife spouse who is also totally mid and ordinary and the one who could stand by his side.#When the ''Sukuna is having dead wife flashbacks'' is no longer a joke.#I am once again asking. When the everloving fudge did Sukuna decide they were married.#I understand wedding ceremonies werenāt really a thing in the Heian Era. But what the hell Sukuna.#What a fudging sap. I hate him. Iām going to call him slurs.#When I say this motherfudger is Beatrice Iām serious.#He killed Gojo by making him the center of his world and expected this physics major to understand the abstract symbolism of the violence.#Sukuna doesnāt know what to do with his feelings for Gojo and he made it everyoneās problem.#Gegeās toxic doomed yaoi has me Obsessed.#sukugo#ryomen sukuna#jujutsu kaisen#jjk spoilers
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james and sirius really do match each others freaks and i love them for that
#no one has ever done it the way those two did#and no one will ever do it again#it is that serious#marauders#marauders era#sirius black#james potter#the marauders#harry potter#the marauders era#mwpp era#prongsfoot#padfoot and prongs#marauders headcanon#dead gay wizards#marauders incorrect quotes#prongs and padfoot#prongs#padfoot#sirius and james#james and sirius#young marauders#dead gay wizards from the 70s#atyd#hp marauders#the marauders fandom#marauders fandom#atyd fandom#mwpp#is somebody gonna match my freak
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i saw this palette and was like "i know who you are"
#this is so serious#shadowsight#my art#warrior cats#am i in my active era again ?????#probably not but hm
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Remus: Iām not joking guys Iām fucking serious
James and Peter: *Le gasp*
Sirius: *grins*
Remus: oh fuck the lot of you thatās not what I meant and you know it
Sirius: is it not true though? *winks*
Remus: *sighs* I suppose it is
Peter: Pay up James
James: couldnāt you guys have waited until after Christmas? I would have won the bet then
#I just realized I have no memory of taking my morning vitamin. do I risk taking it twice? yes yes I do#anyways. we always have Sirius make the Serious jokes but all of them at one point said#āIām not joking mate Iām fucking seri- Iām- well Iām not joking!!!!ā except in Remusās case both things were true#marauders era#the marauders#marauders#sirius black#remus lupin#james potter#peter pettigrew
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Sirius āi need attention, moony!ā Black
Remus āiām trying to do my homeworkā Lupin
James āpad!! can i bother remus with you?ā Potter
Peter āpoor rem'ā¦ i should bother him too!ā Pettigrew
#yes sirius isnāt serious#and remus are tired of his bf#wolfstar#sirius black#james potter#remus lupin#peter pettigrew#the marauders era#marauders#incorrect marauders era
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i am jack's sleepover MASH game
#fight club#soapshipping#marla singer#as a tyler x narrator x marla truther...#tyler & marla to the narrator: hey we saw you across the room and we dig your vibe#I'm in my SILLY fanart era rn though. least serious arc. goofy#etc#my art
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KEY Ending Fairy - Pleasure Shop (Music Bank, 241004)
#Key#Kim Kibum#Pleasure Shop#giffedbyme#Music Bank#era: pleasure shop#solo: key#other: ending fairies#userbexrex#uservamptae#sophiesee#dailyshinee#kpopccc#ksoloists#ultkpopnetwork#dailybg#malegroupsnet#kpopcreators#Giving me serious Matrix vibes#Amazing today's look
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BLONDE TWINK BARES IT ALL! GETS A MASSAGE ;)
williams!era nico gets a massage by dr.dot for RTL in a video that looks like a casting couch bad porn intro. 1/2/2009
below i explain the lengths i went to find this š its v long
so our story starts a few months ago when i began frantically dming my oldest nicologist friend @colors-of-feeling if she remembered this video. I had only half remembered recollections at this point, and i really only remembered the video because it looks so much like a casting couch porn intro. I know I screenshot it but I went through my gallery and couldn't find it. i knew I had seen it a very long time ago and care is one of my first mutuals, so anything nico I've seen she's seen. she doesn't rmbr š
now im like holy shit did i make it up. still i plead care to turn her archive public so i can go through it. no luck. i went through my own archive, even though i know I didn't reblog it because it had been a youtube link instead of the video. and i regretted it so bad, because i know that low quality few hundred or thousand views videos from 2000s is basically lost footage because youtubes search is basically incomprehensible. I also went through the archives of other blogs that nico posted back in 2021 for any sign that I didn't just project and Imagine it. no luck.
feeling defeated i go to my final hope, the nicologist of all nicologists @distantlaughter... with only half baked and increasingly hysterical descriptors "umm its like a casting couch video! a boat! but the boat is parked š¤ maybe the masseuse had pigtails" i rambled, normally like a normal person.
ren the absolute darling immediately pops up with a video of shirtless nico get massaged. its not.
and another one. not that either š we underestimated just how much nico posted getting a shirtless massage.
finally. FINALLY. ren dms me like 10 seconds of this video hidden in a nico rosberg compilation fan video that is even in worse quality. but it's this video!!!!!! it EXISTS!!! im not crazy....... but that 3 pixel collage was proof that it was real, but alas not post worthy. There was an RTL logo in the corner so in one final futile search, we searched RTL archives which unfortunately did not go far enough. We were doing literal detective work like from the 10 seconds of the fanvid we concluded it was like, probably an RTL monaco promo video hence the coastline and the boat, and given nico's hair length it must be williams (or 2010 merc). but nothing further than that. still ren is the absolute goat nicologist who figured it out from just my descriptions alone ššš
with that I ended my search, knowing it was real at least, even if it wasn't the full video.
today i got a storage full notification. so I started frantically deleting random videos I had on my phone from years. and buried in august 9, 2022 almost exactly TWO years ago . was 5 seconds of this video and the when the screen recording closed you could see it was from a video called Dr. Dot.
this time im posting the video, im also going to ask @argentinagp to gif it so this buried, almost lost footage less than 1k youtube video can get a second life again, and so we can all enjoy weird late 2000s whoring drivers out. ā¤ļø
all of this could be avoided if simply 2 years ago I had reblogged and tagged the original link. archival work is often thankless and pointless but wow, sometimes it can feel so rewarding. so enjoy!
which brings me to the most important part. doesn't he totally look like a twink in a bad porno here?
#casting couch nico is real š„¹#why did they make him take his shirt off and get a massage that's filmed like this#Nico Rosberg#williams era nico#please read through the absolute bothering I do my mutuals when I get brain poisoned to find something#is it ever that serious... no... but yes...
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Bad day
#crocdocz art#I promise I will draw something serious instead of shitpost redraws soon#persona 4#persona 4 golden#tohru adachi#adachi tohru#P4G#Ignore how itās not time era accurate shhhh
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@TSN_Sports:Ā Mat Barzal in the house for the #MemorialCup final!
#slipping back into my mat era i'm so serious hhhhhhhh!!!!!!#mat barzal#mathew barzal#new york islanders#hockeyedit#myedits
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New game show, but it's putting two fandom people in a crowd and timing how long it takes one of them to bring up The Hyperfixation. Whoever brings it up first loses.
#fandom things#marauders fandom#fandom#fandom culture#fanfiction things#fandom meta#harry potter marauders#the marauders#marauders era#fanfic#i would lose in five minutes#someone says 'serious' and i'd be like OMG sirius
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Remus: Listen, Pads, I know Prongs kissed your brother and lied to you, and that was wrong, but donāt you think you could at least hear the guy out? Heās your best friend
Sirius: Okay, if Prongs had kissed me and lied to you about it instead, would you hear him out?
Remus: ā¦thatās a good point
Remus: So how long are you gonna punish him?
Sirius: Five years
Remus: You sentenced him?!
Sirius: Hey! Donāt do the crime if you canāt do the time
#wolfstar#jegulus#sirius isāwellādead serious about this#sirius black#remus lupin#remus x sirius#remus lupin x sirius black#incorrect wolfstar quotes#incorrect marauders quotes#incorrect jegulus quotes#sirius x remus#the marauders#marauders era#harry potter#incorrect harry potter quotes#daddiesdrarry on instagram#incorrect hp#hp#hp imagine#hp incorrect quotes#hp rare pair#hp ships#incorrect hp quotes#hp marauders#wolfstar squad#incorrect sirius black quotes#incorrect remus lupin quotes#source: friends#james potter#regulus black
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