#you are valid for it

[burntoutwaxwings]

Disliking Fictional Media

Guys... it's time we have "the talk." No, not that one. We need to talk about how disliking a character is different than disliking them as a character.

Note: before we go all pitchforks and torches, this is not me saying these are bad characters. This is me saying I don't like them. Except for Captain Marvel. I just don't like her. I think, in the MCU, she's a bad character. (I have not read her comics, nor will I. Too much money. I'm sure she is much better in Comics.)

Let's shoot off the definitions I will be using. A character (for disliking a character) is as follows: a person in a novel, play, or movie. Disliking a Character means disliking a person in a novel, play, or movie. Disliking as a Character is different. The definition of character has changed. It now is no longer a person, but their mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.

Here are two Characters I just dislike: 1. Captain Marvel. 2. Draco Malfoy.

Here are two characters I dislike and dislike as a character. 1. Augustus (from the book Citadel by C.M. Alongi) 2. Lucius Malfoy.

Here are two characters I like, while disliking them as a character. 1. Loki (specifically from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series) and 2. Luke Castellan (from Percy Jackson and the Olympians).

Let's start with the first two. Draco Sucks (as a person). He's rude, vindictive, and mostly just a jerk. Captain Marvel is a Nepo Baby who had *everything* handed to her and why is she smug? Because she did the right thing (stopping an extinction level genocide) to break through societal expectations. A.K.A. I don't like how they act.

Next two. Augustus is an evil motherfucker who deserves every single warcrime on earth to happen specifically to him. I'm going to leave it at that, go read the book, it will show you exactly what I mean. Lucius Malfoy. He's a wizard nazi. I don't need to explain myself here.

And finally, the last two. Loki is well... Loki. Norse Mythologies bad guy, fluid as water, stiff as a snake, morally ambiguous. He literally has a human he mothered, and well... he almost started Ragnarok but he was too much of an insecure bitch to start it (in the books). Now we have Luke Castellan. Morally, he is kind of in the right. He's competing directly with Magneto for the "I JUST WANT PEACE AND SAFETY FOR MY PEOPLE" award, but like Magneto, goes about it the completely wrong way. Also, He was attracted to Annabeth. Alright, I think that's done. Luke is a cool character. I like him. Until we find about him *as a character* and he fucking sucks. He's a backstabbing traitor with a god complex and a grudge he refuses to let go.

Also, It's important to note that characters can change from Movie to Movie. Like Wanda was an exceptional character in WandaVision. Loved her. In MoM? She sucked. Her character had been torn to shreds. She went from a grieving mother trying to do what's not only best for her and her children, as well as who she was surrounded by, to someone who so desperately needed children to love that she went on a murderous rampage in which she would replace herself as as mother to her own kids. She had no sense, and I hated it. It was so much better when she was grieving Vision and brought him back to life as a shell (and then WandaVision shenanigans ensue). "I'm a mother, not a monster" dgaf, you were a literal monster in Multiverse of Madness.

Oh gods I hope I explained this well. "A character" and "as a Character" might be too confusing. There just feels like too few English words to describe them. Dammit, guess I just gotta learn Japanese, or something. (I'm already learning Norwegian. Jeg lærer allerede norsk. [it took me way too many tries to get that right. I almost put Jeg er allerede lærer norsk, which translates to "I already teach Norwegian" when I put it into google translate. For all my Norwegian Speaking/Reading Tumblr Users out there, is google translate accurate? I use it to double check. I promise I am not using it to write in Norwegian as a baseline. and the only line. I also put in the guitar and vocals. {pun, for you musicians out there}])

[slfcare]

ten years ago you were so scared of such different things, but you survived them anyway. the same goes for five years ago and two years ago. everything that has ever felt like a hurdle, you’ve passed through. so be afraid, identify your fears, and then allow yourself to remember that in just a little while, this will be another thing that you have overcome.

[the1andonlyjes]

none of my moots have TikTok so I’m posting this here

[traumatizeddfox]

“but it wasn’t that bad”

did it hurt? did you feel scared? unsafe? were you embarrassed? humiliated? terrified? did you feel confused on why? does it keep you up at night? do you avoid being in a similar situation? did you cry? did you want to cry? who told you it wasn’t that bad?

[pennymaykittensworld]

Would you like to date a naughty girl like me ?

[jakeperalta]

I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

[lesbianfakir]

You’re placed in a room with an animal. The door is closed and you cannot leave. The animal is completely calm and has no intent of harming you. You are in no danger unless you provoke the animal in some way.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

[lazylittledragon]

dndads s1 you're so special to me

[bluegiragi]

field practise.

early access + nsfw on patreon prints

[jekyll-hatepage]

I will forever be obsessing over Laios imaging himself as a wolf (a dangerous animal, and one that is [albeit falsely] associated with loneliness) and Marcille imagining him as a cute dog. It shows how negatively he thinks of himself after his fight with Shuro, and how even if he worries now that he's a nuisance to people/can't fit in, NOBODY PERCEIVES HIM THIS WAY. HE'S JUST A SILLY GUY. MARCILLE ASSOCIATES HIM WITH THE DOG BECAUSE HE'S LOYAL AND LOVEABLE.

[cronchy-baguette]

When all this is over, will you stay with me? For good?

[noahsfault]

I’m going to tell you something nobody told me:

It is O-fucking-Kay if you think you’re trans except for that one thing

If you think you might be a girl but you like having your hair short, or you don’t like wearing dresses, or you don’t want to wear makeup, that is totally okay

If you think you might be a guy but you like having long hair or you really love skirts or you wear lots of sparkly jewellery, that is totally okay

If you think you might be nonbinary but you really like presenting in a way that aligns with your agab, that is totally okay

If you think you might be trans but you aren’t sure if you want hormones, that is totally okay

If you think you’re trans “except for…” that is totally okay and get this: you don’t have to change that part of yourself to be trans

You can if you want to, but if you don’t, that is totally okay

[cometblaster2070]

i'm making myself laugh thinking about this but I wholeheartedly believe madame morrible absolutely HATES the thought of glinda and elphaba being together like the mere mention of gelphie would probably send her into immediate cardiac arrest and it's not even because she's homophobic or anything I just fully believe she dislikes glinda so so much she's just like this is absolutely NOT happening in my house.

glinda and elphaba are having their gay ass moment and she's like "I sense a disturbance in the force; the wind is telling me those fucking lesbians are at it again."

like IK this woman hates to see glinda's fruity ass coming for several reasons but first and foremost I believe it's because she's so fucking ANNOYED by how much elphaba loves and cares for her, like this pink bitch is throwing a wrench in her plans just by EXISTING and being herself.

and she can't even really do anything to glinda because it'll make elphaba upset and she really can't have that so she just has to sit there and be like

[orbitganymede]

18+, MDNI

asking ghost out on a date is…odd to say the least. utterly bold and fearless of you if someone was to ask other people on base, you’re big balled they say. the masked assassin had given a gruff “no”, clearly uninterested as he turned away and lit a cigarette as if you’re nothing but a nuisance. you’d shrugged your shoulders and went on with your day, what could you do? you’d tried.

but now ghost is interested, you’re the first person that’s approached him, usually he’d have to find hookups at bars or he’d have to resort to making his sergeants do their unofficial duty of stress relief. he refuses to leave you alone a mere week after you asked him. opting to sit next to you in the mess instead of haunting his usual corner, not that he’d make conversation. this went on for a few days before he decided to be the bold one and placed his obscenely large hand on your thigh. you’re confused to say the least, he’d denied your invitation to dinner, and honestly you’d prefaced it in a way that could have been taken as just the bedroom. but here he is hand so close to your crotch that the gesture couldn’t possibly mean anything but his want to try you out. you let it slide, let him fondle you, what bad could come from letting this mountain of a man take you back to his and give you a few, hopefully earth shattering, orgasms?

That’s how you end up with your ass in the air, stretched impossibly wide around his cock, little ah ah ahs falling from your lips, with him telling you to shut up, take it, you asked for it, pet. and after, when you’re trying to steady your breathing, clenching sporadically around nothing but his warm spend inside you, he’s on his phone, googling how quickly a marriage license can be drawn up.