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socialbutterfly19 Ā· 5 months ago
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To whom it may concern
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tossawary Ā· 28 days ago
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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.
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wolvesandshine Ā· 7 months ago
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Barty: Iā€™m 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:
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myfavcharacterdidntdrown Ā· 9 months ago
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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 whatā€™s 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 donā€™t tell me that-
James: Surprise?
Sirius: JAMES FLEAMONT POTTER, YOUā€™RE DEAD YOU LITTLE BROTHERFUCKER
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thepersonperson Ā· 3 months ago
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Sukuna is Peak Gap Moe. Iā€™ll 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 凔夫 (bonpu) for Gojo even gayer.
In summary, 凔夫 (bonpu) can be translated as painfully ordinary or unenlightened. But in the individual kanji readings, 凔 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...
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So you can read this line from Sukuna as the following:
ā€œYou 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. (Itā€™s no different than the Megumi Activities wordplay he uses with Enchain. Alt. link if the Twitter dies.) Gojo apparently makes him feel very conflicted. Heā€™s boring, he can do better, he shouldnā€™t even call himself the Honored One, heā€™s his equal, theyā€™re married. The irony here is that no one except Sukuna can understand this.
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that-bitch-kat3 Ā· 4 months ago
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james and sirius really do match each others freaks and i love them for that
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lezbigarf Ā· 1 year ago
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i saw this palette and was like "i know who you are"
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padfoot-lupin77 Ā· 5 months ago
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Remus: Iā€™m not joking guys Iā€™m fucking serious
James and Peter: *Le gasp*
Sirius: *grins*
Remus: oh fuck the lot of you thatā€™s 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: couldnā€™t you guys have waited until after Christmas? I would have won the bet then
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evanrosieroff Ā· 7 months ago
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Sirius ā€œi need attention, moony!ā€ Black
Remus ā€œiā€™m trying to do my homeworkā€ Lupin
James ā€œpad!! can i bother remus with you?ā€ Potter
Peter ā€œpoor rem'ā€¦ i should bother him too!ā€ Pettigrew
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j0ly0n Ā· 1 year ago
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i am jack's sleepover MASH game
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atlantis-area Ā· 1 month ago
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KEY Ending Fairy - Pleasure Shop (Music Bank, 241004)
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blorbocedes Ā· 3 months ago
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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 šŸ‘‡ 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 šŸ˜“
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 šŸ¤” 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 šŸ˜“ 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 šŸ™šŸ™šŸ™
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?
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crocdocz Ā· 3 months ago
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Bad day
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pyotrkochetkov Ā· 1 year ago
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@TSN_Sports:Ā Mat Barzal in the house for the #MemorialCup final!
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my-castles-crumbling Ā· 3 months ago
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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.
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daddiesdrarryy Ā· 10 months ago
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Remus: Listen, Pads, I know Prongs kissed your brother and lied to you, and that was wrong, but donā€™t you think you could at least hear the guy out? Heā€™s your best friend
Sirius: Okay, if Prongs had kissed me and lied to you about it instead, would you hear him out?
Remus: ā€¦thatā€™s a good point
Remus: So how long are you gonna punish him?
Sirius: Five years
Remus: You sentenced him?!
Sirius: Hey! Donā€™t do the crime if you canā€™t do the time
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