#(for either character for the record)

[theminecraftbee]

okay REALLY STUPID superhero au concept: scourge of the city, poultry man, hated by everyone for sort of gunking up all their public works projects. darling of the city, cuteguy, beloved by everyone for generally being a very effective superhero at fighting crime. intrepid normal guy, iskall, person who has discovered a bizarre fact about one of his friends, grian: he's somehow both poultry man and cuteguy... at the same time??? frankly iskall doesn't know what to do with this information. why would someone even do that,

#this is so silly but it's in-character for them i think #anyway mumbo resolutely doesn't know either secret identity if you ask him and iskall is going to tear his hair out #scar is too busy signing posters and being entirely ineffective at his actual job #and the REAL threat lurks behind the scenes... #i Will Not Write This for the record but i thought it would be funny #can we somehow bring the salmon ghost into this too

[skallyeen]

GLaDOS's insults are interesting. Because they're so clearly prejudiced, right? She's making fun of Chell for being fat and adopted. These are scummy things to make fun of someone for, and things that would realistically be punching bags for prejudiced people interacting with this character.

But I don't think GLaDOS actually holds the sentiments she's expressing. Rather, they're a means to an end.

I get this mostly from her lines in co-op on the subject:

"Did you know humans frown on weight variances? If you want to upset a human, just say their weight variance is above or below the norm."

She calls Chell fat not because she thinks she's fat or that she personally finds anything wrong with weight variances, but because she knows calling humans fat makes them feel bad, and she's bitter about being killed and wants to make Chell feel bad.

Same goes with her being adopted. As soon as it doesn't emotionally or pragmatically benefit GLaDOS to make fun of Chell for being fat or adopted, she actively refutes Wheatley's attempt at bullying her for these things:

"And...? What, exactly, is wrong with being adopted?" "Also: Look at her, you moron. She's not fat."

She walks back her previous derogatory assertions as if they don't mean anything to her, because they don't. She never believed them in the first place.

She treats Rattmann's schizophrenia much the same way. She uses it to try and manipulate him, to make him doubt himself enough to come out of hiding where she can kill him, the same way she tries to make Chell doubt herself and turn back when she's escaping the facility back in Portal 1. The ableism she expresses is not a genuinely held belief, but a means to an end that she has no qualms about using.

Whether that makes it better or worse, I have no idea! I'd say worse on account of the intention to cause doubt or hurt to the target. But it's a very unique combination of values, isn't it? You're much more used to seeing the inverse: people being insulting, with no actual malicious intent, as a result of unchecked biases. Like, for instance, friendly little Wheatley unintentionally being super condescending about Chell's brain damage and muteness.

#for the record this isn't a condemnation of either character #in the 'therefore you shouldn't like them' sense anyways #like obviously these are immoral intentions and actions #but so is murder #moral slights are nothing new for her #i just found this really interesting #glados #yeenwords #portal #portal 2 #character analysis #portal analysis #skall got into the ramble jar again #i do think glados is legit ableist in regards to wheatley #but so is the writing itself #so it's hard to make a character judgement off of that

[lazycranberrydoodles]

its prosecutor jiang wanyin!!!! oh fuck!!! / gifs + au rambling below the cut / follow for more mdzs x aa crossover stuff :3

all the gifs i made (poses traced off franziska):

hes so similar to franziska when you think about it. theyre both deeply insecure tsundere adoptive younger sibling of successful main characters. who carry whips. something something edgeworth choosing death and wwx actually dying also

his share code is HWFEFF if you wanna use him in a trial! you can't share backgrounds but heres the scenery from the donghua i used.

the easiest way to put custom stuff into objection.lol is to send it in discord and then use the link from opening it in your browser :)

a whole lot of AU stuff

the art im making is for if mdzs was an ace attorney game, playing from WWX's POV to solve various mysteries/cases over the course of the plot. so this scene would be from turnabout goddess, which would loosely cover the dafan mountain mystery.

cases include:

Turnabout Revenge (Mo Manor, quick introductory first case)

Turnabout Goddess (Dafan mountain, the good times flashback)

Turnabout Saber (the man-eating castle (omg hiii nhs))

The Blind Turnabout (Yi City arc)

Turnabout Deviation (the Koi Tower conference, Empathy on NMJ ala turnabout memories or beginnings. opening cutscene is his qi deviation)

The Blood-Soaked Turnabout (second Burial Mounds siege, flashbacks: Xuanwu, Sunshot, YLLZ, Nightless City massacre)

Turnabout Lotus Seeds (testimony about JGY, tree scene, golden core reveal, bathtub scene. opening cutscene could be JGS' death but that would make it canon rather than ambiguous)

Turnabout Confession (Guanyin temple)

the problem with splitting novel!mdzs into turnabouts is that flashbacks are a huge chunk of the book but they don't have mysteries/ cases to solve so they've gotta be lumped together with present day stuff. imo? many of the flashbacks would likely have to be abridged so they could be retold ala DL-6, SL-9, or the fourth grade incident, where characters talk about it over some pieces of art. this is really difficult when theres a metric ton of unspoken, complex, and signifcant history between every character lmao

there's not as much of a problem with the cql timeline but i have not finished it. so.

the opening cutscenes in ace attorney always show the murder and/or the murderer plotting. the first cutscene of the game would be MXY summoning WWX, muttering about getting revenge on his family (it would also be good for him to mention the yllz being dead because that's how the novel starts.) cut to WWX's POV as he wakes up covered in blood and the investigation segment begins.

for investigations of monsters (goddess, saber, etc) the cutscene would be a scene of some poor throwaway cultivator getting their shit wrecked.

it would be cool to make a breakdown for JGY but again I need to review that scene cause I don't know who I'd base him on. maybe Vasquez or Dahlia.

tell me your thoughts!! i'm working off of a mdzs summary/ skimming the novel because i don't remember it too well so if i get anything wrong please yell at me

Jin Ling's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost

#PLEAAAASE send it to me if you do actually use my animations in a case🥺 #here im adapting mdzs to aa gameplay rather than making a mdzs AU where they are lawyers #so jiang cheng is not a prosecutor in this hes just angry. and on the right side of the screen #that man has not graduated law school but then again no one in ace attorney has either #the names are based off of how ace attorney cases are either named after a distinctive item/location (bigtop bridge samurai etc) #or the main emotional/character type thing that happens (goodbyes reminiscence farewell) #the mdzs/aa au where the stories get blended (ie my tags on the nhs post) is very interesting but i would have to think about it very hard #and i dont want to . i would rather think about what the court record would look like (its full of severed limbs) #MDZS' EXPLORATIONS OF MORALITY MAKE ME CHEW ON ROCKS #urrgh i got carried away writing this post & wrote a couple hundred words comparing aa and mdzs' attitudes towards morality & public opinio #i could write an essay on this topic tbh. #can i call this an au? its the same story in the same universe just in a different format. hmm #mdzs #aa #art #mo dao zu shi #ace attorney #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #cql #the untamed #jiang cheng #jin ling #objection.lol #flashing image tw #pixel art #animation #my art #franziska von karma #i guess?? #mdzs aa au

[aq2003]

"the doctor is aroace," i say into the mic. the crowd boos. steven moffat throws a tomato at me. i walk off the stage. then, several voices arise from the back of the room. "they're right", say over a third of the actors that have played the doctor over its 60 year long history

#dr who #misc #aspec doc tag #ok edit this got more than 3 notes so i will clarify the actors in question that im talking abt #are tom baker colin baker sylvester mccoy chris eccleston david tennant and matt smith #(who have all either a) said the doctor was ace or b) talked abt disliking romantic storylines w/ the character or c) both) #giving me a 5/14 batting average. also moffat is throwing a tomato at me bc hes on record #saying that sherlock being ace/aro would be 'no fun' and 'uninteresting'. Which i will never forgive him for

[sadisthetic]

hanbok!!! for fun!

#just because i wanted to see my favorite boys in them #ninjago #ninjago jay #ninjago kai #jay walker #my art #i feel like with the sheer amount of orientalism thats in the show i feel like i have full freedom to draw the fuck i was as an asian dude #for the record i actually dont headcanon either of them as korean i hc kai as japanese which like #i feel like he couldnt be anything else? as the one of the two characters in this show who are actually strongly japanese coded? #like waves hand he could be mixed but he at Least needs to be part japanese #but thats not my personal headcanon tho i just generally headcanon him as japanese #and ninjago doesnt have fucking countries and theyre just legos i know but like #the world is def still based on this one. so gestures very hard. #i do what i want. #and also i headcanon jay as a one fourth chinese wasian who never fucking realizes hes part chinese BC HE NEVER MET HIS MOM #this is funny to me personally #he will never know..... im normal about jay never meeting his mom i swear. #anyways all these tags are irrelevant to the art drawing them in hanbok was just sheer indulgence #lemme have this #(bc sometimes i think about s4 specifically and scream) #closes eyes. at least s4 had best episode ninja roll at least.

[o-wild-west-wind]

tumblr algorithm stop feeding me takes that this show is just a silly goofy comedy that shouldn’t include death or that Izzy is the token disabled elder queer on the show where an actual disabled elder queer is literally the romantic lead or that Lucius and Pete being called “mateys” is diluting their gayness because it’s not “husbands” or that it’s sexist that Zheng lost her fleet and later prioritized her love for a man or that Ed is Izzy’s abuser because we conveniently forgot all of season 1 or that trauma is never followed through with because sometimes actions are used instead of words or that Ed learned nothing because the inn was apparently a whim as if he hasn’t been obsessing over retirement from day 1 I swear did we even watch the same show?? I literally feel like I’m in backwards land?

I have a really novel concept for y’all complaining about character’s arcs not being fully resolved or healed and that’s called there is supposed to be another season of this show

I also have another really novel concept as to why every single character did not have a one on one trauma apology session and so much time was spent on Ed and Stede and that is because this is literally the Ed and Stede show and also sometimes parallels are meant to be inferred and extrapolated because that is what efficient storytelling does instead of spoonfeeding you

And my most novel concept of all as to why some beloved characters had less screen time is because Max is a massive jerk and cut the budget

Y’all this wasn’t personal and maybe this show was never about Izzy maybe the show called our flag means death is actually about death maybe sad does not equal homophobic letdown maybe the brown gay character introduced as the love interest from day 1 gets to outlive the angry white guy that had a redemption arc after actively bullying and trying to break up every gay couple for a season I don’t know what to tell you just can you please let non-white people have this arc for once without assuming it’s an attack on you I’m BEGGING y’all

#I’m sorry for overusing y’all I grew up country lmao #anyway. critical thinking when #I didn’t want to make more posts about this I’m just tired and seeing people denounce the show as homophobic #for killing the subtextually gay internalized homophobia character #in favor of the canonically gay brown protagonist #makes me feel more and more uncomfortable the more I see it #WHY do you defend him over the actual gay people esp. poc gay people like make it make sense #be sad he died I have a million posts about that but this strawmanning is getting concerning #bc what does this mean of your ability to recognize real homophobia #it’s not about you!!! and if you think his death means something about you PLEASE unpack that #I had a lovely night with friends and am not sober lol so if I seem salty that’s why I’m sorry for being a broken record #this is not anti-Izzy this is anti-baffling takes on Izzy #I’m sorry we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled kiss gif programming soon I don’t like these posts either #I just can’t resist a good hill #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #fandom crit #our flag means death

[paradox-n-bedrock]

me in big fandoms: oh cool, it's so active and there's so many people to vibe with, this is amaz-

*finds my niche angle that appeals to approximately six people*

me: okay, folks, it's you and me now

#doctor who #shaun temple #doctor x donna #donna noble #fourteen x donna #doctordonna #fourteendonna #donna x shaun #this used to be how romantic doctordonna felt back in the day #but now it's wanting to know why shaun is how shaun is #like why are you THAT chill with all this #what life experiences have led you to this place #and where the lines where he would actually get frustrated with the doctordonna shenanigans are #coming up with a reason is more interesting than just blaming it on a flaw in the writing #though that absolutely may be what it is #why he can seem a bit flat #because rtd does not have a great history with black characters #for the record #i respect the different takes #mostly #but i always seem to do this with something #and overall i think donna might have a more complicated time adapting to the new situation than either shaun or the doctor #but let's not reduce shaun to a cardboard cutout

[set-wingedwarrior]

I need to talk about Adam Taurus and James Ironwood, and why they are good characters deserving of apreciation.

You see, as much as it's true that a lot of fans of their are crazy stans who see them as men who did no wrong, I don't think it's fair to get mad and attack all the people who enjoy their characters. I do enjoy them for example.

Yes, they are terrible people, but that's what makes them good characters! I love them for playing their role well, not because I condone their actions or think they are in the right!

Let's take Adam for example. I hate him as a person, while watching the show i wanted to beat the shit out of him, and that's precisely why I love his character! He gave me emotions, and played his villain role in Blake and Yang's story arcs masterfully! It's partially thanks to him and the way he played his role that their relationship got to shine this way! He is part of why I love bumbleby so much, and I can't just ignore that.

He's the victim that turned into a monster (even if we find out specifically about that very far in his story), the wronged person who took that in the worst possible way (the fact that you got influcted pain doesn't give you the right to inflict it to others). A boy who had no control over his life that decided to get revenge and control everybody else instead. It's tragic when you think about it this way, and I love that!

Or, even more clearly, Ironwood. From the beginning we see good intentions and terrible actions, that later on, under so much stress and pressure and ptsd, just made him go down. All of his faults come from a place of untrust toward others and the idea that only he could know the best course of actions, never taking into account other people and ideas. This obsession and hero complex is what leads to his and Atlas' fall and, again, even if I really wanted to bash his head for all the stupid things he did (or wanted to do), I still loved watching him play this part and fall deeper down every episode. Again, it's sad and tragic and I love it!

This isn't meant to be a full blown analysis of the characters, but I just wanted to point out that it's unfair to be authomatically hostile towards anyone who likes their characters. I understand that so many of them are people defending their actions, and it is very frustrating (and sometimes worrying) when very clear evil actions get misinterpreted or justified by someone, but it's not like everyone is like this.

They are characters, vessels to tell a story, and people aren't just allowed to enjoy a well played part, but it's actually good being able to apreciate the executions and characterization of villains! Both understanding their roles on a "technical" level, but also understanding their characterization and why they do what they do.

I love when it makes all sense, when I completely see how a character is reasoning and it's consistent with everything else around them! It's part of what I enjoy in stories, and the fact that I do have a good time watching, analyzing and understanding them, doesn't mean I am condoning their actions. Understanding and justifying are two very different things.

So, take this post as a little show of love and apreciation for Adam Taurus and James Ironwood: you are two assholes, but you are so good at that, entertaining and you played your roles well; thank you for your service in the story!

#rwby #adam taurus #james ironwood #please do not start dumb useless discourse #I'm just here to remind people that liking characters is not the same as liking a person #i judge a person from their actions #i judge a character for their consistency and role in the story #people need to remember the differences between reality and fiction #also for the record #i am not saying you HAVE TO like them either #i personally enjoy villains and to see their roles #you might not #and that's fine!

[thelaurenshippen]

we need more names for men in stories. as a tumblr user in certain fandoms the steve/stede, ed/eddie, buck/bucky of it all is really getting to be too much, you're always one typo away from being in a completely different universe

#have I made this post before? #perhaps #I am just copy pasting a tweet of mine from 9 months ago lol #bc cherokee and I were talking about this today in recording DD #and I brought this up and she waas like HOW is there not a tumblr post about this!! #and I was like I made one! #except then I remembered that I deffinitely tweeted it in the time when I used to tweet #so here it is #we need to talk about this #we need more names for men!!!!!! #unfortunately I love the name buck/bucky/buckley so I probably will name a character that at some point #but steve and eddie I think I can stay away from #I think...? #have I named a character either of those names? #they're solid names #but they belong to those guys you know? #we have reached capacity!!!!!!! #steve/eddie AND stede/ed AND eddie/buck AND steve/bucky #what are we DOING #lauren feels things

[unicorncoalition]

#several years ago i challenged myself to write romance without 'i love you's #can't remember the last time i had character say they loved each other in so many words #it's a fun game for myself to SHOW the relationship in a fun way #but now i'm curious about what people think when they're reading #i don't care either way for the record

[thronealigned]

[template]

these are unfinished i'm just posting them to give myself permission to be more obnoxious about my bg3 ocs on main

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #oc: memento #<- not their name. an out-of-universe nickname. i make things very confusing for myself #the scratched out text above 'the dark urge' is robin fairbairn - the name given to them by their foster family #oc: impulse #oc: luc sauveterre #uhhh what are my notes. aberrant mind sorc doesnt exist in-game or as a mod but it's impulse's canon in my heart #i also havent actually played them as that rogue multiclass yet... 2 bonus actions + the awakened buff will be Fucking Busted i think #as for lae'zel being listed as their bestie: she was the first to make it to 100 approval. trying hard to make that make sense #luc is a brand new character i made him like 2 or 3 days ago. he's a painfully earnest wife guy. going for squidlach with him #not picturing but still existing: my evil durge my wyllmancer and my vague laezelmancer #pictured* #is that it. i think thats it. idk if the volume of oc posting will actually increase #i would reblog the tav-as-companion ask meme but theyre all so wrapped up in their respective bits of the main story/romances. i wouldnt be #able to answer most of the questions #it's not like i can reblog shippy ask memes either. mementostarion is on a one-track road to a messy divorce #impulse's relationship is................. #let's leave it at that. luc & karlach are normal and healthy and cute but it does end with one of them a mind flayer so #(impulse also ends up a mind flayer for the record) #siiiighs. just gotta start reblogging things to fill their tags with. and maybe go take a nap

[theflavorofmyautismisspicy]

The only explanation I have for this is that it kinda looks like Deniz is in the Saw bathroom in that specific scene and that’s funny on so many levels

#ngl michi putting the team in saw traps wouldn’t be that out of character #his criminal record has already atleast 11 entries #this is not the first time i’m making this joke #and probably not the last time either #die wilden kerle animated series #dwk animated series #dwk deniz #shitpost

[rotisseries]

link is sooooo. character of all time. he's like if a silly little guy was a butch lesbian

#posts about link being gnc and very androgynous and femme especially botw link go hand in hand #with him also being incredibly masc but in a distinctly dykey way ok. like the climbers outfit. #if he's a guy that's twinkish but if he's not then that's butch #shout out to zelda dev team on record saying he was designed so he'd either read feminine with a masc touch #or masculine with a femme one #shout out to the fact linkle is not and will never be a canonical character because the existence of a canonical female link counterpart #implies that link is distinctly male. also a real thing that has been said I believe #link oh link I'm so obsessed with him #loz #botw #totk #link

[muffinrecord]

Card art for Kagome Satori (Hyakki Yagyou ver.)!

#Magia Record #Character Card Art #Kagome's Hundred Monsters Event #Kagome Satori #Kagome Satori (Hyakki Yagyou ver.) #cant say im a fan of either of them tbh

[katsigian]

#can't believe that i saw someone #with conviction #try to claim that just because a show has lgbt characters the creator can't be transphobic #and then proceeded to try defend a proven transphobe #before deleting all of their messages and acting like it never happened #they're blocked now bc that's not the first time they've supported either transphobes or zionists #it's just very funny to me how they made *me* out to be toxic one when i asked if they knew they were supporting a transphobic show #i shouldn't be surprised though [redacted] fandom has a track record of supporting questionable shit #anyways #not about any mutuals or friends reading this i'm just venting about bullshit #tbd #ugh #that's the tag

[jesncin]

Hey hello what is your opinion on darkside and have you made a design for him

I have not made a design for Darkseid and likely won't. Completely subjective vibes based personal opinion for me- but I really don't like the big world ending powerful deity baddies. If they have a climax with a cgi army of monster soldiers I skim the pages. At least from any media or comic I've read with Darkseid in it, the minute he shows up I get bored. I understand the need for a character like him, and his place in the DC universe with Apokolips and all that- but that doesn't mean I end up liking it!

To make this about Martians again- J'onn and Ma'al origin story as flawed as it is, was still pretty interesting. We had this dynamic of a wayward faith-and-authority-questioning Ma'al contrasted against his twin J'onn, who is the most Goody Citizen Martian Best Boy. Then Darkseid and his pals show up and the story loses all momentum for me. Ma'al is now a Darkseid cultist with no agency or personal beliefs. He's just does Darkseid's bidding. We don't even get to see what convinces him to Darkseid's cause. He's just evil now.

So yeah, not a Darkseid fan! But it's a very subjective response for the most part from me and I recognize that.

#askjesncin #when he was teased and ended up being a fake villain for the Reign of Supermen movie I was so happy #for the record I don't like Thanos either. I get both Darkseid and Thanos' deals as characters but man #my brain just hits snooze whenever I see them