#they’re both a fantasy

[michelleelizabethtanner]

Related to your psychology of Brio post - why do you think so many fans put Rio on a pedestal? Seems like a lot of fans across the spectrum ignore his humanity (and villainize Beth for doing the same thing). What is it about that guy that makes people so rabid? Gimme your headcanon

Ahhhh, Anon, you’re here with the difficult questions. 😂😂😂 First of all, I appreciate that you liked my Brio Psychoanalysis enough to have a follow-up. So thank you for that! I always feel absolutely insane with the amount of thought I’ve given these characters. It’s gotta be unhealthy!

So, I haven’t really seen a whole ton of opinions from people who I know and can comment on with any amount of reliability. The majority of people I interact with have not vilified either character. Do you not like Rio, Anon? It’s fine if you don’t. He and Beth are both flawed characters so I can get behind criticisms of both of them. But if you were to twist my arm as far as the whys…

Rio is a charming character. He’s a handsome, charismatic man with power. He appeals to many demographics. He’s just the love interest we all want, isn’t he? He’s a trope. Perfectly imperfect. Obsessed with his love interest and willing to forgive her the greatest faults. A man of honor who lives by a personal code. Someone who can be both ruthless (in just the right ways and with just the right people), and unbearably soft (in just the right ways and with just the right people.) He’s intense and reclusive, but can’t seem to stay away from ✨his one true love✨. He’s a patient teacher, a loyal supporter, a generous and skillful lover (we are led to believe.) He’s a fantasy.

Beth, on the other hand, is not made for universal demographics. The show’s target audience is supposed to be able to relate to her and aspire to her. She’s a different kind of fantasy than Rio is. So much about her was made to represent “what women are or want to become.” But Beth also is blind in so many ways. She doesn’t see so much of her own power and privilege. So for demographics who don’t see themselves as a Beth, who don’t live the life she does, who were kind of left out if the show’s target audience, it’s likely difficult to muster up empathy for her when she places herself into her own difficult situations the majority of the time. And then she decides that her life is unfair and that Rio has to pay for it. And he keeps on pandering to her. Over and over, despite it all. Yes, he is also a flawed character, but the disproportion between what he offers her and what she offers him is pretty glaring.

I personally forgive them both all flaws. Because I love them and they’re my babies. I feel like the show gave us enough crumbs of backstory and characterization to infer their trauma and understand why they are the way they are. I love them for their trauma. Idk what that makes me. Some sort of weird voyeur who likes to dissect people’s emotions and get inside their brains. (Which I do 🤷‍♀️ I know my flaws.) I put them both on a pedestal. There’s so much potential to them and so much they can learn about themselves and each other.

[ewwww-what]

I don’t care what you guys think, to me they have always been inseparable. Friends who die together in freshman year cyber bully their enemies together for the rest of their lives.

[starstruckodysseys]

i can’t tell if it’s worse if the ratgrinders have always been solely acquaintances forced together by the adventuring party system, or if they were really, truly friends but emotionally split apart after lucy’s death

[littlestpersimmon]

The Sultan’s bride

[feelingtheaster99]

I know Beardsley already alluded to thing but it was really sad and powerful when Kristen tells Cassandra that she knows “chaotic is not cute.” And then Cassandra straight up tells her, “I can’t rely on you.”

And Kristen and the entire audience have to agree. It’s really humbling for me as an audience member but I’m guessing also for Kristen in that moment

[jibberjibbsart]

Happy birthday Mass Effect 2! Have some awkward Shep flirting

[rainedroptalks]

What is it with fantasy high and girls dying before their lives ever began. How we can never really know who they are, or who they could’ve been. Brennan Lee Mulligan I will find you

[rotteneldritchhorror]

If there’s one thing I love that Fabian and Kristen share is their crushes on pretty women with LOW voices lol

[lucraven]

Mha fantasy au but make it DUNGEON MESHI WOOOOOO!!!

Individual pics and races under the cut!

Ochaco - Human, Jirou - Halffoot, Aizawa - Gnome, Todoroki - Halfelf, Kaminari - Gnome, Tsuyu - Beastman, Mina - Orc, Mineta - Halffoot

[royaltea000]

Peregrine Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck

[cetrais]

very anticipated comeback of pretty boy tseng with this “draw as your ship” trend ;3

[the-fault-of-the-deceiver]

hey haha did anyone else notice how the only bad kid not to jump up and celebrate when mazey and fabian kissed/had their whole moment in the finale was riz 👀 and also how he’s only ever been outwardly ambivalent about her at the most, except for when he offered to let fabian try out pickup lines on him “for practice” 👀

how else was that supposed to end, huh gayboy ??

[tempestmothstorm]

Ok since Monika still has her admin powers in the side stories you think she could just discover them accidentally or use them without realizing

Anyways au where Monika and friends discover her admin powers but dont know about the wider context of what it means. So they just go around thinking Monika has magic and try practicing with a bunch of silly fun shenanigans because they figure it’s some chosen one bloodline stuff and not like. A product of their reality being a constricted digital science experiment.

This au will not end well

[feelingtheaster99]

The fact that both Fig and Kristen both essentially said, ‘Would it be weird if I did the thing I’m supposed to do in class?’ 🤣

[coldblooded-angel]

FORCED FEMINIZATION BUT

it’s Felix kidnapping Oliver because he refuses to listen to what he wants when he tells them that Oliver shouldn’t be out alone. He drugs him, takes him to his room and dresses him up while he’s passed out. Then he shows off in front of the mirror, telling Oliver exactly why he should be listening to Felix and the dangers of a pretty girl wandering around without a big strong man (like Felix) to protect him.

UPDATE: IT’S IN THE WORKS !

[macy-bee]

just finished one dark window and looking at fan art and im not sure what I expected… all these abysmally white Ravyns and Elspeths when Dev Patel and Jesse Mei Li are RIGHT THERE???