#sue me!!

[gabbileonisonhere]

july Archive 23’ | the O’Sullivans

[mrbexwrites]

Last Line Tag

@kaylinalexanderbooks tagged me here . Thank you <3

From Blood Union:

“Life’s not fair,” I retorted. “I’m not like you. I’m not going to roll over and accept defeat. James made me into a weapon, so I’m going to keep fighting.”  “But the cost!” Hadley pointed to my butchered arm.  “A price that I’m willing to pay.”

Passing the tag onto @cowboybrunch @queen-tashie @sarahlizziewrites @surroundedbypearls @scifimagpie and leaving an open tag as always!

[nia1sworld]

Ya'll......shut up

You better shut up, sue me for god sake....

[propertyofkylar]

i like the running gag of calling Landry Laundromat

im like 90% sure i have an unanswered prompt event request in my asks that says "laundromat" in it

[bredforloyalty]

compilation

[therealvalkyrie]

you are so dang cute honestly

stop being cute in my inbox you'll send me into cardiac arrest!!

[divorcetual]

I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

[etherealhoneypie]

your pov (if you’re under me while someone else is fucking me)

[tossawary]

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.

[dino-boyo-agere]

@littlespacereader Dean Winchester coded

Day 1/25 of Agere Moodboards!! My favorite animal is a dog, specifically dachshunds! Added some petre aspects to this one as well because I’m also a puppy regressor 🐾

[spellwound]

last ooc post of the night for this but i want you to know i went "word? you can use glaives?" and i feel like gale looked at zynth and went "you're so stupid" in the most affectionate way

[courtana]

Damn why the hell is everyone playing on Xbox cloud gaming today?! My wait time to play A Short Hike is 45 minutes 😭

[great-and-small]

I was reading the Wikipedia page for fans of taylor swift and their “industrial impact” and now I have a crazy idea that will most certainly not work

[hinamie]

corvidae

[tojisun]

the squad goes to an aquarium for team building whatsoever and simon falls absolutely in love with this nerd who keeps spewing fish facts to their own group who, for the most part, are interested and intrigued.

he doesn’t even realize that he started shadowing them until one of the girls turned around, perfectly trimmed brow cocked up, and goes, “uhm sir, what the actual fuck are ye tryna do?”

“uh,” simon utters, unintelligible because yeah, what the actual fuck was he trying to do? “fish facts? i, uh, wan’ t’hear more, s’all.”

“oh!” you cheer, chuckling, vibrating from where you’re standing. “that’s great! we’re on our way to see the invertebrates — d’you wanna tag along?”

“sure,” simon murmurs, not really clocking into what you said, just that you are finally looking at him and simon is gone. taken away by the crinkles of your eyes and the creases when you smile, and the way your hand flaps in uncontainable excitement. “i’d love that.”

you hum, nodding, before turning around to go. only then does simon notice your friends’ knowing looks.

“what,” he bites out, blushing in embarrassment at being caught.

the one who’d confronted him just sighs like this is a common occurrence.

(meanwhile, simon’s friends are blowing up his inbox because they just fucking lost their tank of a best friend.)

[birdiedoesdc]

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