#wrote my own post bc i saw poll results about if characters needed to be likable and blacked out with rage lmao | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

queenerdloser · 29 days

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"how to make your character more likable" "where do you rate likability when you think about characters" "top 20 likable characters" "likability is so important for books" "your characters absolutely must be likable or your book is a failure" "how to make unlikable characters in a likable way" i hate it here i hate it so much. i am going to rip out the throat of likability culture with my own teeth.

#it's coming to the point where i cant even handle the term 'likable'#no!!!! shut up!!!!!!#the fixation on character likability is genuinely such a bad trend for fiction #im sorry. but if you only care about whether your readership will like your characters youve lost in some way #make believable characters. make complex characters. make insane characters. make weird characters. make heartbreaking characters.#but my god stop thinking so much about if your characters are likable.#who! gives! a! shit!#the reality is some people will love or hate your character based on literally nothing than their own subjective opinion #there is no way to make a character likable to everyone. or even most people.#so just dont care about that! and we as readers really gotta stop making this the number one thing to care about in a character #i dont give a fuck if a character is likable or not. are they complex? are they a little weirdo i can rotate around in my mind for days?#do they have motivations and dreams and heartbreaks? do they feel like a real person?#all of those metrics matter 10000x more to me than if i personally like them or not.#there are perfectly unoffensive bland ass characters who exist to be likable and are boring in literally every other aspect #if you focus on likability you have to sand so many edges off of your characters #they cannot be mean or offensive or rude or harsh or weak or vulnerable or or or #bc! they have to be LIKABLE! which means they can only be strong powerful perfect lovable #wrote my own post bc i saw poll results about if characters needed to be likable and blacked out with rage lmao

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