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"the pvp on this site is brutal" "this website's hatemail game is insane" you guys werent here from 2013-2016. they shot you if you reblogged from someone who reblogged from someone who liked kill la kill.
#.din#.txt#vague memories of the last callout post i read. the pvp back then actually was insane.#some of you guys dont know that the hivliving situation was sparked by tumblr pvp. which turned into pve very quickly.#this post has been edited
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Having even slightly popular mutuals is so cool. The king has bestowed upon me a like. Perhaps even a reblog
#should i make a random post tag#and start making more random posts?#sure why not#sparking conversation
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I remember someone saying "mad scientists in fiction aren't scientists because there's never a control group"
I think if you've created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir
#mad science#mad scientist#mad scientists#goat people#this post is blowing up so while you're here please play Spark the Electric Jester 3 it's really good
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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 “hottest guy” 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 “intersex” tag like Inigo Montoya: “I don't think that means what you think it means.”#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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Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)
*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.
This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.
#sparks art#comic#angel#robot#my art#my comics#keeper: the angel#keeper: the lighthouse keeper#my ocs#hoogh. this was a grind yall lmao. but i am pleased with it#i hope you enjoy :pray: also keep your fingers crossed for me that this wins the contest#like it. it wont. because i am up against actual SEQA kids that know what theyre doing. and i dont actually mind really#but it would be funny#long post#very long post#sorry#i hope the readmore works
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AO3: *goes down*
Everyone:
#Archive of Our Own#AO3#AO3 Down#Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs#Flint Lockwood#Sam Sparks#Straight From the Dragon's Mouth#Posts Worth a Thousand Notes
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Birthday boy 🎂
#Happy birthday to all birthday people today#Why do you think that boy Kacchan pouts? I would like to read you in the comments or rb#I know Bakugo’s parents have enough money for a big custom cake but do you think I have the ability to do it? Lol#Or is it just a detail from Inko? A homemade and loving cake for Katsuki?#An AU where they are true childhood friends please#I love the color of the cake#it’s something that I would eat with these sugar star shaped sparks that for some reason you chew and taste a little vanilla#bakugo katsuki#bakugou katsuki#bnha bakugo katsuki#my fanart#my art#my post#my hero academia#mha bakugou#mha fanart#mha#boku no hero academia#bnha art#birthday gift#bnha#art#digitalart#digital art#digital drawing#artists on tumblr#illustration#drawing#爆豪勝己誕生祭2024#honneydraws ⊹⃬۫🍜̸᩠໋࣪꣹۫
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kermit debt
#YESYES YES I FINALLY HAVE THE VIDEO INCLUDED IN ONE SMOOTH POST i love tumblr#the earliest xiao shitpost ever that sparked my lil spree#hes a very no thoughts guy i think [it is autism]#qiiarts#lumine#traveler#nahida#xiao#and kermit in a basin#it wasnt captioned like this but then a priceless reply said kermit debt and its become my label for his karma its the xiao agenda ever
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men will flay their soul bare before trying to talk about their feelings lol
#i have another page with prime id like to post but im still fiddling with some details. sigh#issss this too much for the main tag? i dunno#megatron#optimus prime#megop#my art#maccadam#or do ppl just use#transformers#now#g1#spark stuff is such interesting fanon to me. bring it back. can anyone hear me
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guy who can't live without them voice: whatever, I don't even care that much anymore
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[ID: A drawing of all the Hargreeves plus Lila riding in Diego's van from season 4, wearing the outfits they usually wear in the promo posters. Diego is driving and using a fist to mime singing into a mic. Five is reading a newspaper in the passenger seat. In the row behind them, Klaus is dangling his arms out the window, Lila is throwing snacks at Five's head, and Allison is sharing headphones with Viktor who is sitting behind her. Ben is in the same row as Viktor and is staring straight ahead looking shaken. Luther is taking a nap in the trunk. End ID.]
Family Road Trip!!
#tua#the umbrella academy#umbrella academy#tua fanart#ensemble cast tags lets go#luther hargreeves#diego hargreeves#allison hargreeves#klaus hargreeves#five hargreeves#ben hargreeves#viktor hargreeves#lila pitts#posting this before season 4 says the road trip is a drive to the corner store and they spend the whole 5 minutes biting each other#also at first this was supposed to be a scooby doo style because i saw the van and An Image possessed me#however the scooby doo style did not spark joy so i stopped#my art#tua spoilers#tua s4 spoilers#tua season 4 spoilers#also theyre wearing the outfits from the posters and not from the scenes theyre in the car because: those had better reference pictures
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"people didn't get canceled before these sjw" Dante put all the people he disliked in literal hell
#[.txt]#we're at paradiso now because i finished inferno and purgatorio in the last school years and. Babygirl stop staring at your wife in awe#no but it's. it's so fun to read. Blorbo from 1300s#i wish i could meet Dante he's a bit of a bestie to me. Wrote what is now the general consensum for hell and purgatory and paradise#and explicitly said in the beginning of Paradiso that he was just a spark and hoped better flames would grow after him. girl... girl.#i'm normal about historical figures trust me#divina commedia#<-se diventa un post con più di mille note ci finisco io all'inferno
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Broke: Acknowledging that a character who is an objectively terrible person is also a complex and intentionally well thought out individual with different levels of nuance you can empathize with in some ways while not in others is immediately “woobifying” or “poor little meow meowifying” them.
Woke: “This character is a bad person” and “this character is still a person” are two statements that can, should and do coexist and admitting that they exhibit nuance and depth and are more than just their bad actions doesn’t immediately excuse or condone their bad actions or mean that you’re ignoring or trying to soften the canonical version of the character.
Bespoke: That’s the whole point, that’s always been the point, to be made to empathize with horrible people so you can understand that they can be anyone, that bad people can be likeable, can be interesting, can be human, are human, and it’s scary to think about all the ways they’re just like you and all the ways they’re just like everything you hate, forcing the use of critical skills in media analysis, forcing a confrontation of the duality of man.
Whatever Level is Above Bespoke: But sometimes, yeah, sure, maybe they are a poor little meow meow, what are you gonna do, get a lawyer
#oh you would absolutely hate who sparked this post would absolutely hate it#and i am absolutely never going to tag who it is#writing#writeblr#books#media#movies#tv shows#poor little meow meow#media analysis#character analysis#literature#oh my god oh my god i shan't say it but i looked at the urban dictionary for something and oh my god#listen I’m not forgiving them I’m just observing the writers purposefully wrote more to them like they are the worst but hey#lying in wait like a spider to see if anyone tags this as the character that initially sparked this no one has yet#Upon last check 12400 notes someone has mentioned will not say when or who 👍
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"chilchuck isn't a twink, he's a DILF!" now i get why you're saying that but i feel like you've maybe forgotten what chilchuck tims canonically looks like
i'm sorry but this man is a twink. also DILF isn't a body type it's a status (and technically, an opinion) so he can be both
"but he's middle-aged!" look at him. look with your eyeballs. his age has nothing to do with the fact that he Looks Like That. he's a twink. the sooner you accept this the less angry his fandom will make you
edit bc this post has become the bane of my existence:
FAQ
Q: wtf do you mean he's a dad? he looks like a kid. A: he is 29 years old, and a half-foot. half-foots are dungeon meshi's halflings, or hobbits, or whatever you want to call them.
Q: wait, if he's 29, why the fuck are you calling him middle-aged? A: half-foots have an average lifespan of 50 years. chilchuck was originally drawn with grey hairs (you can see that in the manga fullbody) but the mangaka gave up on that over time. he's middle-aged for his race.
Q: hey, doesn't that look like a little angry face on his boot in the manga drawing? A: yea kinda
#as a proud member of the chilfucker fandom i think we should all accept his canon appearance even if we draw him way different#if you can only love him if he looks like a hobbit do you really love him at all?#by all means draw and think of him however sparks joy for you. but this is who he is in the manga and anime and you need to accept that#i love all chilchucks but i just love him in general. ideal man#chilchuck tims#tox.txt#edits made because the tags on this post are my villain origin story#i have now muted notifs!
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