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❤️ for tintin if you're still doing the unpopular opinions ask game

OH RIGHT THIS GAME! OF COURSE! THANK YOU 💕

❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom?

*deep sigh* The most huh? What if I said Tintin himself? Look, I'm not against fanon interpretations and just going against canon because that's what you like and want to do. However, it gets really annoying when people take some interpretations as canon when it's actually not canon or, even if it is, not in the entirety of canon. And I think a big reason this happens with Tintin is because of the animated series, you know the classic one. Let me elaborate.

For many fans the cartoon series was their first approach to The Adventures of Tintin and for many of them it was a childhood favorite. This alone creates a bias, realizing it or not, especially if you haven't read the comics, the original material. Don't get me wrong, I love the cartoon and it's the most faithful adaptation we have of the comics but that doesn't mean it is faithful. Many scenes were cut, violence and alcoholism were limited to the point of changing scenes entirely (I'm looking at you Crab with the golden claws), heck even the official order of the episodes doesn't match the original publication order. There are many reasons for these decisions to have been made and it doesn't mean they're wrong, they just worked for this kind of media and for their target audience at that time (90s cartoons had many limitations regarding what it could be shown, including violence, but that's how we got artists getting creative with how to depict violent themes in a nonviolent way). Yet I have seen fans taking the ideas of this cartoon as if they are the original ones.

Tintin isn't a goody shoes. Tintin is very kind and caring but also chaotic and with his own values and ethics. He doesn't curse out loud and he represses many of his feelings and anger but he is also very patient and understanding. And most of all HE HAS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! Tintin from the first albums and Tintin in the last ones isn't the same guy! I understand people liking his character more in the first adventures but you can't characterize him the same in the later albums. And it's not only because decades passed during the serialization and Herge as an artist and writer changed. It's also showcased in the story, Tintin slowly gets stable companions, friends he shares his adventures and even his life and slowly he becomes mellower and yet more open and honest, he likes his peaceful life and doesn't chase adventure unless it comes to him. How can you have Tintin after Picaros behaving like prior meeting Haddock? As if his previous adventures didn't happen and affect him?

And what the cartoon depiction of Tintin does is to take his softer and calmer traits of his character and show them during all his adventures, regardless of how he acted at each adventure. This works for making an iconic and stable hero of a cartoon but it's not like that in the comics. The movie does the opposite but I see more fans accusing it of mischaracterization although this wilder side is also part of Tintin.

So in summary, my annoyance comes when I see Tintin characterized the same throughout all his adventures although this isn't how he is in the comics and I think this is because of the effect the cartoon had on the fans. In my opinion, Tintin's character is hard to grasp and get because he's the two ends of a spectrum at the same time, calm but violent, patient but impatient (his limits are known to himself only, you can try to kill him and not yell at you but you try to kill yourself and he'll make you regret it), selfless to the point of not caring about himself but selfish enough to do what he wants and believes is right etc.

He's such a fascinating character with many layers and it makes me sad when I see people read him as one dimensional character with no space for changes and development. However every person can have their own interpretation and such and I'm not the fandom police here so go have your fun!

#YES THIS #I grew up on the comics and would read them cover to cover #Literally #I would rest the publication info and everything I was that invested (and I also wanted to prove my reading skills) #The reason why I love writing Tintin so much is because he's such a broad yet niche character #There are so many facets and changes and evolutions and he also grows up that it's difficult to keep track of #Ultimately I ended up writing him a backstory that helps explain his strange balance of calm and dignified yet chaos and reckless #(First half of his childhood was spent with a VI mother who taught him many things esp patience and respect) #(Second half was ww2 and him learning to break all rules and not get caught while living in a children's home #Where all the children were feral but in a kind way) #Anyway I'll shut up about that before I go into too much detail #We somehow learn so much about him but also so little #Why the change? What makes him enjoy a quieter life? Is it having someone to spend time with? #Does he actually enjoy his job by the end of it? Honestly who knows and that's what I like trying to experiment with #Tintin is chaotic good (mostly) disguised as lawful good #He's young and impulsive and reckless but kind and intelligent in many aspects #I just like pulling him apart and putting each section under a microscope okay

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Little Belgian guy that will get the culprit in jail, no matter what:

Tintin 🤝 Hercule Poirot

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Do you think water has a taste and if yes, do you like it?

I can taste water, I think it's good.

I can taste water, I think it's fine.

I can taste water, It tastes bad.

I can taste water, I hate it's taste.

I can't taste water.

See results.

#IT DEPENDS ON IF ITS COLD OR HOT OR WHAT CONTAINER IM DRINKING IT FROM OR WHICH STATE IM FROM #I can't leave NSW without a filtered water bottle #Especially if I'm going to WA #disgusting honestly #I don't know how they live

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I'm losing my mind with people calling Tintin and Haddock "father and son goals" because I don't know about you guys but I want my dad safe at home and not following me around when I do shit I am sure he wouldn't approve or like

#When I say Haddock is Tintin's fraternal figure #I mean that in a very vague way #As in sometimes he is totally dad goals #And other times he's that weird great-uncle that you can't help but spend the entire family reunion talking to #Long story #Basicaly Haddock has a whole spectrum of potential vaguely-caring roles he can fill #Just as Tintin rages from “golden child” to “absolute demon spawn” to “could run an entire nation if needed” #I think we just like Haddock as a dad because he actually cares about our feelings-

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going to vomit i love tintin so much

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#La vie en rose #I've been learning мы едем едем едем #Muusika and Et Kiitke Jumalat with a choir #There was a Japanese song from studio ghibli that I could sing along to as well #And a bunch of Swahili and other African songs I've done in choirs #Ummmmm I can also sing Bella Ciao #If you give me the words and a lower key I can sing Anoj Pusėj Dunėljo #Ummmmmmmmm #Oh and I can sing hymns in French if you give me the words also

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me

#Begging your pardon I'm still listening to music from 90+ years ago

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

#Flashbacks to my friends and I on roller chairs dueing English #Looking around the tables and singing this song #Absolutely iconic

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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warm fuzzy blanket just came out of the dryer. reblog if you agree

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This is a neutral post

Feel free to stop here and rest before journeying to the posts below.

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me, presenting my latest hyper-fixation: this is my new favorite thing

my followers, putting on their squeakiest clown shoes: this is our new favorite thing

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

#I would scream and run for my life #Or I would just stare in a frozen panic

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i hate it when people are like "ummmm actually [x minority/illness/whatever] makes up only 1% of the population so it's unlikely that i would meet multiple of them online or irl, it's super super extra rare, you must be fakers" are you aware that 1% of the current world population means 80 million people

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Sorry for the long post :)

#Undescribed