#this is not spell-checked. so it might be a little fucked. also i didnt reread it extensively so if its incomprehensible let me know

[lizard-isms]

whoever is responsible for the culture around ocs having to be “good” i will hunt you down and biting kill you. if i see one more “ouhhgh but ONLY if they have believable flaws” or “nooo you cant do that it’s unrealistic” i am going to animorph into the jokedler. im not writing a novel over here im just making up some strange little guys. and that ok. more under the readmore (it is long)

i think this came up mostly around that huge wave of. oc “fixing” or finding and making fun of “”bad”” deviantart ocs, and the mary-sue mockery that was Ridiculously Prominent. and still has not died like it should have years ago. but like. god. who is it harming. if someone wants to make a ceepy passa self insert oc that’s like. ouuuugh evil powerful murderer in a haunted videogame kills you through the screen. jeff killar’s wife and boyfriend slander men’s daughterson. who are you to corner them out of that y’know. its fun. my first oc was a sparkledog-esque warrior cats character who started her own clan when she was a literal child. and i loved her with every ounce of my 10 yr old body. but once i gained a certain level of awareness of the greater art community (??? what should i refer to this as??)’s attitude towards characters like her i was TERRIFIED to publicize any of my ocs. i would agonize over them like ohhh is this too much is she too overpowered is he too boring is he too unrealistic etc etc. and. man. i wish i was able to have fun with that stuff. NOW agonizing over character motivations is fun to me but theres a big gap between being like. cornered into it when you have no interest in it beyond not being mocked mercilessly and doing it because you choose to. i am choosing to agonize. when i was twelve i just wanted something vaguely me-shaped to project my desire to run around in the forest onto.  i know im not the first person to bring this up but GOD it still makes my brain twist into a new shape every time i see a Horrible OC Take. and only recently has there been a notable push to have people Not be evil and awful over this. at least that ive noticed, im sure there’s been plenty of people talking about it before??? i would like to believe there were plenty of people talking about it before that i just didn’t see. please let me live in blissful ignorance if i am wrong. and it wasnt just people having a chuckle over an un-spellchecked deviantart oc bio this was people putting out MULTI PART YOUTUBE SERIES that were DEDICATED to tearing peoples characters apart. shits kinda fucked maybe idk. a lot of people that were the targets of this kind of stuff i feel were Not looking for criticism, constructive or otherwise, also. many of us were not focussed on getting Better, we were focussed on kissing fictional character of choice. or running around in the woods. or projecting poorly-processed trauma.