#she’s hypercompetent

[outtheoiseaux]

I don’t think a lot of saw fans realize how insanely stacked Amanda canonically is. Like that chick learned how to build huge death machines in a 5-6 month timespan, taught herself extensive amounts of medical information to help her mentor with terminal brain cancer, and did most of it while quitting a long-standing addiction.

She’s canonically better at engineering than Hoffman, who literally built the pendulum trap from scratch, and knows medical jargon Lynn throws around off the top of her head. She’s rlly smart! She’s not just the punk rock mean disaster #strongfemalecharacter some of u think she is

Up there with John, strahm and Perez, she’s probably one of the smarter saw characters

[earlgodwin]

"There is no one closer—" Oh, don't lie to me, Father.

[kabutoden]

i love it when people introduce their coolass adult trolls like yes. this is slayer martin the cruel. five sweeps ago he killed his way through his enemies and earned the title of worlds best assassin. hes the most competent warrior with swordkind in all of alternia and he had to duel his matesprite to the death when he was 7 sweeps old so hes rejected love and compassion from his dictionary literally and its like so cool bc it’s like. wow. i love slayer martin hes just like a real cool adult troll he’s so badass and epic and his themes and story is so complex i love it!!! but when i make homestuck ocs its like:

this is my babydoll cringe mcpeeper she’s 6 sweeps and her talent is screaming. really into defying the system these days. yes thats an ankle monitor. she shaved half her head a sweep ago. her mommy does not love her

[too-many-rooks]

Otto Farrant as Joshua Maxwell, in 'Salmon fishing in the Yemen', (2011).

In a fun addition to the 'british spy show extended universe', he plays the son of a character played by Kristen Scott Thomas, (aka, Diana Taverner from Slow Horses!), who plays a kind of Taverner-adjacent ruthless press secretary for the Prime Minister.

(Also also - this is what Otto Farrant looked like when he was 14. I don't think I could handle age-accurate casting of Alex with this fucking baby spawn child going through half the shit Alex does.)

[snowberry-pie]

game time. if your ocs were popular fictional characters how exactly would fandom violently butcher and misinterpret their characters

[orange-coloredsky]

the "3000 year old child" trope has the possibility to be genuinely intriguing and could explore the way children are treated across time no matter their apparent level of intelligence. it could be funny it could be heartbreaking it could be horrific to think about. too bad 90% of it is just an excuse to be a creep. sad!

[piranha-shan]

Theron seems like the kind of guy with the misfortune to lose his swim trunks on a water slide.

[yourocdoeswhat]

*raises hand* if we're getting rid of the term mary sue i propose we throw out "tumblr sexyman" along with it. its 2023 time to stop shaming people for loving specific fictional characters

Hm!

I know exactly what you're getting at. I had a conversation with a friend recently, where I was talking about how my DnD character would be seen as a mary-sue since she's the daughter of some powerful archfey and has multiple love interests, and he said 'Oh my dude's a tumblr sexyman for sure' because he's a tall white guy with a tragic backstory who loves blood and knives.' Both terms would really reduce our characters down to just bare minimums.

If your character is called a tumblr sexyman, you presume he's (usually) a tall, white, skinny, conventionally attractive man in a suit, sometimes of a character who isn't human-like. Ala: Onceler, Sherlock, Loki; Wheatley, Bill Cypher. It's largely seen as an archetype and a meme. And that's gotta suck, to make a guy who fits a certain image and then have him be treated like a joke.

Speaking from experience, it's hard out here for a Mary-Sue lover. You don't see a Mary Sue poll, or Mary Sue being used as a meme. Mary-Sue used to just mean a woman character who steals the spotlight in bad fanfiction (which I disagree ever needed mocking in the first place. Fuck the haters, how else can writers learn?) But now people use it to refer to any competent, smart, beautiful, or just annoying female character.

It's really unfair to people just having fun.

[midbyte]

cringe failwoman boyboss

[leavingautumn13]

one side effect of having four voices in your head is that you periodically get caught talking to them in public.

[i have commissions open now]

[entamewitchlulu]

there's a couple things i've been watching recently that really makes me think about how we were so mean to kids about their """mary sues""" for being "too competent" when there are whole genres of stories where the main appeal is that the character is hypercompetent and beloved by most characters....well-received and well-reviewed stories even. but when little girls do it to have fun it was cringe i guess

[shermangepherd]

her hair is naturally blue, which she has always liked. when she found her first gray hair she panicked and magicked the entire campus blue. now she's the university's president. it's not like she's changed that much from her twenties, it's just that she was literally the only person who wanted to do it.

[marklikely]

on further reflection maybe it isn't out of character that i liked the kens over the barbies when a lot of the joke is how the barbies are all blandly nice and hypercompetent which as you may know is like my single most uninterested gender dynamic for fictional characters

[howlsmovinglibrary]

ok i realized something today and i need you to know i mean this as a compliment. but in every fic of yours ive read i can see the howl/sophie influence. it is, genuinely, a delight

Read for absolute FILTH lmao (but yes, this is just a fact, the dynamic I am weak for is unhinged charismatic flirt/pragmatic introvert so ofc Howl/Sophie was one of the taproot texts lol)

[primeministerofantarctica]

wait wait wait. you know those memes making fun of people who write pages of analysis for male characters then for the female characters just go "she's so girlboss 😍 queen". that's what's wrong with 2021 smurfette.

[feralthembo]

this fucking fending for urself shit is hard but roomies out for funeral and i cant like. go places on my own. so im having to subsist off of house supplies. and fuck this shit dude. we got like. a pack of ramen. some oats. some grits. some taters. a few types of veg, mostly canned or rotting.. ive been eating scoops of pb while soaking dishes bc our sink doesnt like to do hot water so i wanna be able to do any dishes i need in one swoop. my chemical romance is helping.