#they’re the exact same character

[wienwat]

Guys okay so I was in the shower and thinking about how badly characterized Danny sometimes is in fanfics, and then my mind frittered to Peter Parker and how bad his character is sometimes screwed up and fics, and so I was thinking about their characters and

Guys

Danny Fenton is literally just comic accurate Peter Parker

[kidovna]

your Viktor looks a lot like your Will

i mean…

[royaltea000]

[jttw swk oc children] tried out giving them some new clothes but I dunno bout this one… 🤔

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[python-nebula]

Do you see the vision

[mossytrashcan]

me when I have a cunty bob and everyone wants me to diiiiiie

[yellowraincoat]

How do these authors who write stories that sort of jump off of Harry Potter keep writing these Simon Snow, Orion Lake, Luke Sunborn golden-boy archetype characters, and WHO are they based on bc it sure as hell isn’t Harry Potter himself

[solasfenheral]

ngl. I do think pointing to disliking solas as this massive lynchpin to weaknesses (imo) in John Epler’s writing is kind of silly.

like I think we can gesture far more convincingly to like the way Bellara’s intro writing specifically keeps undercutting dramatic tension without it really contributing to our understanding why the character Does That. Let alone if that writing choice is even appropriate when we are still trying to establish the stakes to our plot?

[sillyghostnerd]

oh my god… parallels between jayce/viktor and simon/betty RELEASE MEEEEEE

[morsmortish]

james and barty who, contrary to popular belief, grew up together. their fathers both worked at the ministry together, and with both families being well-respected pureblood lineages, it was in both of their best interests to let their sons of similar ages play together. and so they did.

james and barty who always found themselves on opposite sides of a war. whether it was supporting different quidditch teams, or getting sorted into different houses, or each befriending a different black brother and getting caught in their feud, or eventually the real war where they stood on opposite ends of a battlefield.

james, who was betrayed by barty before peter even considered turning. barty, who saw the face of one his first friends right before he died.

[gusujay]

Everyday goes a little something like this. I open tumblr and check the pathologic tag to find art because the vibe patho artists capture is exquisite.

I immediately see someone making fun of Daniil for having highly specific special interests that he likes talking about.

I ignore it and scroll further only to see another 5 posts calling him annoying for oh wait give me a second *rereads text posts making fun of Daniil* showing symptoms of autism.

I sigh like a depressed disappointed father. I close tumblr.

[4ce-of-2pades]

I watched Princess Mononoke for the first time yesterday. I really liked the movie, but my one complaint is that Ashitaka and San should have died at the end instead of being cured of their curses. (For plot reasons, I mean. I have nothing against the characters.) Ashi had made peace with a fate that was inevitable, despite being undeserved. San decided her fate when she stayed with the old boar god to try to help him and was consumed by his demon mass (far more contamination, far faster spread and fatality). The forest spirit could heal Ashi’s wounds but not his curse. It only makes sense that they were doomed to die like so many others.

I mean, it’s good for them that they got to keep living on, but it felt sort of weird to watch them both go off to their lives and promise to keep in touch and visit, like friends going off to separate colleges. It seemed oddly… easy. How quickly they could return to peace, with nothing more than a few faint scars.

I think their deaths would have really drilled in the theme of lasting consequences. The gods are dead and aren’t coming back. Our heroes were cursed and died because they tried to help others. The actions of humanity have hurt the world and its people, and though there is hope in the return of green land, some things can’t be taken back, like unhealable curses.

I was VERY sure throughout the movie that this would be different from all those other deadly curses that find miraculous healing in the end of a story. The tone of this movie felt different. Ashi was too accepting and melancholy, too resigned. The world was too dark and had too much finality to it. I think it would have meant more for him to be told he’s going to suffer and die, and then suffer and die. It would have been tragic and awful, but I think it’s what was needed. It felt… off balance, to have them both saved in the eleventh hour. Some things can be healed, yes, but some things can never be taken back.

Sometimes you can do everything right, and give everything you have, and it still won’t be enough to save you. It doesn’t matter what’s fair. You can’t cheat death.

Other than that though, I thought everything about the movie was absolutely AMAZING. I especially like how much importance they placed on Ashi saving those two injured guys, making all the background characters whose deaths barely registered into real people who matter. I also love the little white tree spirit guys, because they are adorable.

(Also I firmly believe that no arrow could possibly decapitate a person so cleanly, or pop their arms off like that. Not in a million years. It was jarringly cartoonish. But admittedly pretty funny.)

Also, next time I watch this movie I need to keep lists of A: every time Ashitaka gets injured, and B: every place Ashitaka gets banished from on pain of death. He’s so injury-prone and banishable. I’m struggling to think of a significant location he’s gone where he hasn’t been told at least once to leave and never return.

[elluminis]

my anime hot take is that fairy tail is like if one piece had better pacing but was 10 times worse

[ninootny]

EEUEUEUH I dont like my recent drawings but take this because I need to talk abt him

[iwoulddieforienzo]

They’re fucking with us

[misspermitted]

For personal reasons and because I loathe generalisations I hate the analysis of Vi and Jinx as the dynamic of “classic older sister takes on too much weight and younger sister is immature.”

However, Vi and Jinx are, in my opinion, a scrumptious example of the trauma bonded sibling dynamic: dangerously self-aware sibling versus emotionally constipated sibling.

What is this dynamic you ask? Well:

Dangerously self-aware sibling

Deals with their trauma by trying to fix the world, because they see their trauma everywhere and are so mad watching others turn into them. They desperately want to stop the cycle but feel powerless to do so because they can never be the "correct" person to change the world. They're already ruined! So they put other “better” people that could change the world on an unmeetable pedestal. They can’t actually have close connections because they distance everyone from them in this way. The people they meet inevitably fall from the pedestal - leading to a constant sense of betrayal and isolation and growing disdain towards people in general.

Meanwhile emotionally constipated sibling

Deals with their trauma by trying to fix people, because they are physically incapable of not blaming themselves for the trauma, so believe they can protect the people they care about from the same fate by fixing the people to not be as inherently flawed as themselves. The obsession with fixing people leads to single minded focus and devotion to their projects as they repeatedly debase themselves for them. But because of the unequal power dynamic now they’re being abused by the object of their devotion? Growing frustration, why isn’t the person being fixed properly? They bathe in self loathing. It must be their fault for not being a good enough sister/friend/lover. Repeat ad infinitum.

[stargirlfeyre]

I think the main problem in this fandom is people are totally out of touch with human emotions and they don’t believe these characters have a right to react to things. And this logic ONLY applies to characters people dislike. If it’s your fav then they are allowed to be the vilest and disgusting person in the world but yet no one is allowed to react to it.

Feyre isn’t allowed to still have negative feelings towards Nesta because “they made up in book one”.

Rhys isn’t allowed to hate Nesta for hurting Feyre because “he hurt her too”.

The inner circle isn’t allowed to react to anything hurtful Nesta says about them because “they’re 500 years old and should be more mature than that”. Which is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard because at what age do you stop caring when someone says something triggering to you?

This especially applies to Feyre because people in this fandom expects her to ALWAYS do right by people. No matter if said person has hurt her in terrible ways. She isn’t allowed to be a bitch or dislike even her abusers and if she does then it’s “she’s just an unreliable narrator and she’s painting people out to be in a bad light to victimize herself”. It’s kind of insane how even Feyre not having positive thoughts about the people who literally abused her is somehow twisted back onto her. “She victimizes herself” no she’s actually just a fucking victim.