#I had to think about this one a bit ngl

[cat-scarr]

What is something you feel people need to keep in mind when writing Ben in a fanfic or crossover? What is something that could instantly get you hooked if someone added it (except having Ben) or that could get you to drop the fic instantly?

Perhaps saying it like this is not specific enough, but I dislike when they don't make him seem real. I think that there's more depth to his character than just overconfidence or overconfident quips or whatever you'd call it. Similarly to one of the common criticisms which claim that Ben is either strictly a serious or comedic character, as if he can not have both qualities. As if those qualities don't actually connect underneath the surface.

And I don't say this to try to make him seem like some kind of insanely profound character. He's not that complicated. There are good fanfics that don't dive into character analysis territory. But, like all other (well-written) characters, Ben is the person he is because of where he came from. It's insult to that to dumb him down or ignore that.

Something that turns me away from a fic is probably if the author didn't bother to look deeper than the most simplified version of the character. Cartoon Network sometimes does this to a degree, too. I don't like when they make him like, a caricature. Or like, a mascot. I don't know how else to describe it. Often by focusing on one character trait (usually overconfidence) and then chalking him up to just being "a jerk" (overused descriptor that isn't even entirely accurate or deserved). That's probably due to how seriously I took the character, but there's just something disrespectful about it.

If you don't care to get to know a character, you're not gonna write them correctly.

#I had to think about this one a bit ngl #good question ig #truth be told I don't stick around a fanfic long enough to really know how bad the portrayals are if the fanfic isn't great to begin with #but I hope this answers your question somewhat #ask #ben 10 #ben tennyson #ben 10 fanfic #ben 10 fanfiction #ben 10 criticism

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

#tloz #a link to the past #zelda #link #my art #I was happy with that first one but for some reason decided it still needed a companion piece so I spent way too long on that second one... #I don't think there was any time during the progress where I was happy with it but hfduhdfu at least I got to Attempt drawing moss hell yea #I also at some point sat in Pyu's art stream and said I enjoy drawing legs As I was being murdered by the infamously impossibe (imo) squat. #it's ok I had fun !! but I need to learn how to let doodles be doodles or I'll never finish stuff at this rate dfsuhfd #if everything in my tloz tag looks like it was drawn by different people uuuh 2023 was art crisis year ngl...... #I'm falling back into my old ways rn though #anyway I think about these two a lot I think they're both stone faced and awkward ppl in different ways but they try rly hard to be friends #like I like to think it starts out so incredibly awkward and a bit sad bc they keep stepping over each other's toes accidentally the harder #they try but idk they find comfy middle ground idk in my brain they have a very interesting friendship I wanna get around to drawing it #in a proper way that might make sense.... #if I don't write 200 tags I will die maybe it's bc I grew up on dA or smth #and yes I know how to find 1 (one) type of mushroom /I/ am not mushroom girl unfortunately smh

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭

#meta knight #starstruck dee #have had this one sitting around for *months* while i bit my nails on posting it #and then i thought maybe i *shouldn't* during the shipaganza bc it's not a direct prompt; though i do think you can read it that way #and for ~Reasons~ i needed to post this one sooner rather than later so i had to bite the bullet. #though meta knight has understandably been the second most prompted. they do indeed have the Funnest Possible Dynamic for it #stoic guy and the bug eyed little Creature he doesn't really trust as far as he could throw her (long long way) #so just to clarify this one is NOT for the shipaganza but you can read it that way if you want to #this is just a canon scene between them from her storyline. this is just something they canonically share. starry eyed idiots. #also fwiw i think i probably picked up the shoe-patterns for the knights from postitnotes7 #been a headcanon in the back of my mind for a long while but i'm pretty sure i osmosis'd it from their work #especially after drawing post's designs so much for the hnkss. i temporarily forgot how i used to draw their armour ngl #and also btw starstruck deetectives psspsps #i'm planning a much better post about this later (probably in march) but i'm going to start using this tag for Important Posts for y'all #🎀🔍 #<- for the starstruck deetectives when there's something significant in the post. #i worry about making it 'too easy' but also want stuff to be accessible. it's just for fun? the OC lore game! ARG but it's just my oc. #that would be fun right? maybe? is that too indulgent? i could probably pull it off if folks were actually interested enough to participate #anyway!! go to bed starflung #also if you read this far: anon is open again! still open for shipaganza prompts but i'm not gonna be finished them in february 😂

[askblueandviolet]

Fave soap opera and fave true crime doc GO

#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk mayor #monkie kid mayor #blue and violet #monkie kid macaque #lmk macaque #ngl I had to do a little bit of research for this #For context: Armin Meiwes is a cannibal who ate a willing victim and was still charged with manslaughter #I think Mayor is solely intrigued by the morality behind consensual cannibalism #in fact- I think in general they are intrigued by criminals who do their crimes for peculiar reasons and go about them in strange ways #which is not too far off from how they themselves act. #'Dark Shadows' is a 20th century gothic horror #it's not that Macaque likes the vampire themes it has- rather I think he finds the paranormal activity that terorrises the cast hilarious XD #on top of soap operas he probably also likes reality TV and sit coms soley because its so easy to drone out #romance films and TV really isn't on his list of favourite genres- but he doesn't mind it #anyways- Mayor being a cannibal will always be one of my favourite headcons #but cannibalism is bad tho guys- don't do it lmao

[mechahero]

//Let's also not forget the discourse that would be "hurr durr trans character existing bad".

#//you KNOW that cause a stink bc stupid tweeter bros wouldn't shut the fuck about it #//meanwhile on the trans side of things i'd think it'd be a bit more complicated? #//bc it's really easy to see a trans character that kills and be worried if it's a demonization of trans people #//and when it comes to that it does require a lot care and consideration put into it #//and i'm ngl i've worried about this the entire time i've made lambda #//bc while i'm trying to write him as a person (although a flawed one because no one's ever really flawless and i'd like to think-) #//(-the same applies to characters?) #//i do worry at times if someone else would read him differently and he comes off as another trans killer (bad) to them #//because while that isn't the point i do wonder if him beating a guy to death for murdering someone would be enough to get him into- #//-bad trans rep or on someone's shitlist lol <- (said as tiredly as possible) #//sorry for the tag ramble i've had many thoughts about this for a really long time and i guess this is the first time i've voiced them? #//idk is it insecurity? and yeah fbhdngnhj #backup log {ooc}

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Summary:

Three little scenes on the theme of singing.

:) I was in the mood for something short and sweet. Hope you enjoy!

#gotta go back to work for a bit but i couldn't resist posting this as soon as i had a few free minutes #i originally meant to post these on here only but the middle vignette got away from me a bit. lol #i think the moment miles complained about rose humming is the moment that cemented my severe dislike of him. like. dude. #your girlfriend is snow-white mary poppins the most adorable princess ever #and you complain? that she hums??? im going to break your kneecaps???? #idk what else i can say about dorothy singing 'what'll i do'. that scene is everything it changed my life ngl #i guess i wanted a happier memory related to it than 'oh she sings it and then leaves forever four episodes later' #i hope rose's pov works well! i'm never quite sure about it. i should give a try to a whole fic in her pov soon #please tell me im not the only one who found blanche's beer jingle to be the sweetest thing ever. she sang it in such a soft voice #like it's funny ofc but i just melted #might be because im in love with her though #i always ramble in the tags when i post this stuff lmao. i hope you all have fun #hugs and kisses for you! #the golden girls #golden wives #writing

[mossflower]

finished homestuck!! and adding it to my ever growing list of ‘media near-universally labelled as cringe that actually kinda slaps’

#like i won’t lie parts of it? terrible. i can’t even begin to piece together half of the lord english plot #but i think a lot more of it was actually really really good. especially act 4 and act 5 they were my favourite hands down #act 6 not so much. like separately? i loved the alpha kids and the dancestors and the concept of the cherubs was really interesting #but somewhere the execution fell short. it’s gonna annoy me cause i can’t figure out why #i think it might be the retcon. which i didn’t hate as an idea!! but it occurred closer to the end than i thought it would #i feel like if they’d explored the impact of the retcon more it might have flowed better?? idk #idk. act six as a whole i’m split on. i either loved what it did or was massively confused and exasperated by what it did #it’s like half of the comic and i got through it in about a week when it took me like a month to do acts 1-5 #and it doesn’t feel like that much happened it’s weird #but yknow. it is the act that sold me on vriska!! like i liked her before but i really liked her ghosting it up in this act #the bit where ghost vriska and ghost terezi found each other nearly had me in tears #vrisrezi as a whole. what a concept. easily one of the best dynamics in the entire thing #i really hope terezi finds vriska post-canon. however i’m not sure if i want to read the epilogues and homestuck 2 or not yet #ooh ooh also!! john fulfilling his quest slapped!! that’s probably one of my favourite bits in homestuck ngl #and omg. did not see davekat coming i won’t lie but i was v happy about it #k ill stop now bc i will end up listing half the characters and my favourite bits about them. and as fun as that would be #i really need to sleep haha #homestuck

[plushiehamuko]

i'm the type of girl who will see two girls interact literally ONE time and then not let it go ever and act like that one interaction is sufficient evidence that they should get married

#squishy talks too much #this is how i ended up shipping tenkaede #and i'm ngl guys like. being totally for real #i am still thinking about that makoto (NIIJIMA) and hifumi (TOGO) interaction #OKAY I KNOW IT WAS JUST ONE CONVO #BUT WHAT IF MAKOTO HIFUMI AND HARU ALL HAD SOMETHING A BIT AROACE LESBIAN GOING ON TOGETHER #LIKE. LIKE. THEY JUST. THEY JUST. I JUST. #sorry. sorry. i'll be normal sorry #i can't keep doing this

[solradguy]

If I don't lose motivation for it, there's going to come a point in Interlude where Frederick, who has since been nicknamed Badguy by like the US government or whatever for blowing up Gear research facilities, introduces himself as just "Badguy" to someone, somewhere, and I'm going to have to contend with the fact that he very probably said it with a straight face and full, unblinking, eye contact.

It's so silly. He's got to know that's a silly name to go by. "Yeah I'm a bounty hunter and I blow shit up because I'm a real Bad Dude™️." Come on... But also... Sol does have a really dorky sense of humor so... Maybe that's the joke. He knows it's goofy and he's forcing everyone else to use it but then he used it for too long and the goofy factor has long worn off except now he's stuck with it

#textpost #NGL THAT'S HOW IT WENT DOWN WITH MY SOLRADGUY HANDLE LOL #'Ha ha silly shitpost OH no one had this url already..??? HMM.... Ok I'll use it for a little bit' #*several big translation projects and gaming news articles later* #'Well. Guess I can't change it now' #It's so funny I think I've laughed literally every single time I had to introduce myself/my scanlations as Sol Radguy when it was over voic #The only thing I don't like about this handle is that I think handles that kinda brag about the person using them aren't great #Like handles with king/queen or '[x name] Is Awesome/cool/great/etc' or whatever you know? #You gotta earn a name like that. It's like you can't demand respect you gotta work up towards it #Sol Radguy was just an intended temporary joke that I ended up becoming hahah #I don't necessarily think I'm rad except maybe in a like 1980s retrowave aesthetic way perhaps #So I hope people don't look at it and think that I'm trying to say I'm hot shit or something

[keeps-ache]

DARN, missed it again! 2nd anniversary of being a they/themer :D

#just me hi #i should cue a post for next year cuz i just Keep missing it hfhsv #cool though!! two years of queer yeah babyyy #i now have it/its but they/them was where i started hehe :> #i've considered neos but you know i think they'd be a bit much for me lol #character customization Truly #//i am NOT missing this blog's birthday. proooollyyyy hghfsh #these aren't such huge things but i like to know things have happened hfsh :3 #these are two things i really only celebrate on here so i've just Gotta say it :33 #//anyway i've been listening to the radio a lot (did i say that? i think i told you that some weeks ago lmao) and it's Funnn (mostlyyy) :D #yes they play the same 15 songs over and over and i'm starting to learn all the words to even the most unremarkable ones but that's part of #the Fun :DD #been listening to it because once in a while they play a song i already have in my playlist (yayy !!) or a song that i like (which then goe #in the Playlist (yayy !!)) that and it supplies a background track to whatever i'm talking about with my siblings which is funny at times #/imagine. you've slipped up. a secret of another's you were never supposed to know was mentioned by accident. so instead of #trying to excuse yourself from guilt you admit to knowing even More. the person you're speaking to is betrayed confused and overall upset. #and you're trying to get in contact with a ghost to give you pointers. it's not great. in the background Lovin On Me is playing #that's how our games have been going hfhsvhf #/i let them play in the plots of my stories sometimes and it's So Ridiculous Dude #i've had to ban specific organs from their characters because they were being wretched little beings. it Was funny though i'll not deny hfh #they've tormented shye + weirded out oath + killed and been killed many times #there were a couple times i saw genuine horror on their faces and i am living on that i'm ngl hfhsvbhs #like the horse thing! it would take a sec to explain so i won't go into it but oh i hurt myself laughing Lolll (it was dark but it was stil #funny hfbvs) #//OH i've gtg now lol -- #ciao ciao see you somewhere later from now !! :D

[ariana1881]

So I watched Wish and frankly If we forget what could’ve been, it was good

#Sure it felt quite rushed #And yes #we all wanted the first draft of it #But the message was beautiful #And I enjoyed every little Easter eggs #Also I could see that they wanted to do more with the group #Like they had a lot of importance and pretty much no screen time #But whatever #And no I will not talk about the villain song #this one just really sucked #However when he would absorb the power #his eyes??? #Pretty scary ngl #I liked that #The animation in the first bit did feel weird with the boats and everything #But the rest? #Didn’t bother me🤷‍♀️ #I think thy is something okay with what could’ve been great #But it’s Disney #What did we expect #it’s always hit or miss with them #I have a lot of thoughts but I’m done for now #wish 2023 #wish #disney wish #disney

[starrypawz]

Me revising for my theory test

App: PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE NOT THE EXACT QUESTIONS YOU WILL GET ON THE TEST THESE ARE JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA

Me during the test

#like yeah ngl most of the questions were the same ones i'd had come up in the revision questions #the only real differences i think were a couple worded a bit differently #and the bit at the end that's like 'watch a clip and we ask questions about the driving scenario in the clip' #but legit i had things like 'what shape is a stop sign' and that one was in my revisions lol #also no surprise but one of the things i really knocked into my head bc i kept getting it wrong wasn't on my test #it was about catseyes on the motorway

[xalittlefargonex]

T minus two days until top surgery

#personal #I might talk about the recovery and experience itself on here a bit #ngl it still feels like a dream #just looking at my chest rn and knowing it’ll be completely different in two days #this chest I’ve always struggled with and has prevented me from doing things like swimming or dancing #or even just walking without hunching my back #I think the transformation part of being trans is really beautiful #in all the different ways one can transform #ngl even tho I still want to get a hysto and bottom surgery #I know for sure this is going to be the biggest surgery just because of how much chest dysphoria I’ve had my whole life #I’ve wanted this since I was 14 so it’s just wild because nearly 9 years later it’s finally happening

[that-was-anticlimactic]

lol my student teaching supervisor sent me my feedback video because he observed me friday and it was twenty minutes long and he essentially said that he was disappointed in me and that i did a disservice to american poetry so i'm feeling pretty good about myself

#lol this week sucked #he also said that it looks like i put a Little bit of effort into learning about whitman before teaching him but i honestly think i did #more than that and now i just feel like crap lol like ik his masters was in american lit and content knowledge isn't my strong suit but i #have PAGES of notes about whitman and tried to learn SO MUCH about him and did SO MUCH studying of the poems we read #idk ik i need to work on my content knowledge but like some of my eng ed student teaching friends and i were talking friday and he's being #like really harsh with everyone like has made almost all of us cry? one of my friends is considering not even going into teaching anymore #because his feedback was so negative like dude you weren't like this last semester? idk it's just hard to feel good about yourself and your #progress when your supervisor says he was disappointed in what he saw idk maybe i'm being overdramatic... i like to think i'm really #receptive to feedback both positive and negative but this one hurt ngl ik the class discussions weren't the best but they all hated poetry #and i was dragging as much as i could out of them and they're all restless because we haven't had a day off since january and idk. well #hopefully dickinson goes better ig - God i'm so scared for my mentor teacher to watch the video because she always does and she's great and #i don't want her to be disappointed in me lol #sorry just had a mini breakdown👍🏻

[elegyofthemoon]

Spell your URL!

Spell out your URL using song titles that can describe your muse/OC, then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL!

OO thanks so much @cove-holdens !! This seemed like fun so I'll try ; v ; it's probably going to be pretty length though (> _ >) so i'll just put it under a read more

BUT want to tag beforehand idk enough people with ocs i think so i just toss it to @fayesdiary, @narzissenkreuz-ordo, @lemonbronze, @garlandgerard (i THINK you have some ocs sorry if i am misremembering), and whoever else I follow that has ocs :D let me get to know them!! (also of course no obligation <3)

I'm too fixated on my OC Octavia so here we go lmao

E - "Escapism" from Steven Universe: "I guess I have to face/ That in this awful place/ I shouldn't show a trace of doubt/ But pulled against the grain/ I feel a little pain/ That I would rather do without"

L - "Letter" from the Fragile Dreams OST

E - "Extraordinary" by Clean Bandit: "Am I the only one who sees what you've become?/ Will you drift away?/ We're running out of time, two wrongs can make it right/ Could I make you stay?/ People making choices, they can't fake/ Sacrifice it all and maybe say"

G - "Get Your Wish" by Porter Robinson: "Don't say you lose just yet/ Get up and move ahead/ And not only for yourself/ 'Cause that's your role/ The work that stirred your soul/ You can make for someone else"

Y - "Youth" by Daughter: "We are the reckless, we are the wild youth/ Chasing visions of our futures/ One day, we'll reveal the truth/ That one will die before he gets there/ And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones/ 'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone/ We're setting fire to our insides for fun"

O - "Octave of the Maushiro" by Chewie Melodies

F - "Future Friends" by Tilian: "Slow down/Give me a reason not to slow down/ I can feel the bottom and it's cold now/ I'm on the outside looking in/ So I'm calling on my future friends"

T - "The Hymn" by FLOYA: "I hope you understand that I cannot stay/ Don't expect you to feel the same/ There's a dream that I have to chase/ I'm feeling alive in the unknown/ Dancing to the hymn of the wind/ And though you and I are on our own/ I know you're close whenever I feel alone"

H - "here and now" by Tony22: "Here and now i'll find my hope/Yesterday is far gone and tomorrow never comes/Here and now's where I belong/So tired of using the present moment as my stepping stone"

E - "Eternal Sunshine" by Jhene Aiko: "Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today/There's not a thing that I would change, I've lived well/ Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain/ But all in all, it's been okay, I've lived well"

M - "Miss You" by trentemøller

O - "Old Weapon Testing Ground" from HSR OST

O - "OUTRO" by LUCY

N - "North" from the Ender Lilies OST

#this was fun because i had to go search around a bit #askdfjahl i have an octavia playlist but theres only three songs on there 2/3 of them were listed #the instrumental songs are ones that ive mostly written to for octavia myeheh #or it just gives off certain vibes for them #speaking of octavia #i had a call today with my friend and i accidentally rambled (i was off in my own world tbh LMAO) #about transduction arc and i was like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #but talking about it? it made me a little more motivated to write it #but HH WHEN? #ngl if i just dip out in june just to go insane in writing ✌🏼hbd to me ig lmao #but 'future friends' the more i think about it the more it reads a lot like transduction arc!octavia lmao #dont ask about the arcs im just rambling to myself LMAO #girls on a mission to destroy herself and shes only being stopped by the friends she kinda blindsided #oh god now that im slowly finishing this... #its mostly instrumentals LKAJSDAHF #okay only SOME of this ive written to #but theres certain vibes to them that give off octavia vibes #which is weird bc a lot of it feels like they contrast one another #like outro for example feels like the happy tranquil ending for them (fitting outro) #miss you feels like when they're lost in themself. which fits the vibe for octave #asdlfkadsjhaflk #tag games #again no obligation #also im sleep deprived idc if im posting about octavia here hi LMAO #and im about to do another one bc im just digging lmao #but anyways ~ #to tag later #bc i want to put this on the other blog for octavia #and then dissect it out further lmao #for octavia

[moondal514]

Whenever I see discourse about representation in media, all I can think about is how I have never ever once expected to see myself in a character, and in fact spent most of my childhood unaware that I was supposed to be seeing myself in the characters of the books/movies I loved, because the idea of expecting someone to write a character that’s an agnostic half-Korean half-Jewish Eastern European sex-averse asexual girl is laughable at best

#it’s like #I’ve always felt that my personal demographic experience is so specific that like #it would be wack for me to ever expect to see that represented #and ngl it would prob freak me out a bit if I did ever see it represented #I once read a manuscript where the mc was mixed race and had the exact same hobbies and divorce parents set-up as me #and lowkey that freaked me out and made reading the manuscript v uncomfortable for me #and all I could think is why do people wish to see themselves in characters so desperately? #I’m not saying diverse characters in media aren’t important #because they most definitely are #but it’s just #there’s a difference to me between asking for diversity vs. asking for representation #and anyways almost all representation discourse boils down to just needing more representation #this character might be unrelatable and stereotypical to you #I can guarantee that there does exist someone who can see themself in this character you call ‘bad representation’ #this applies to all rep in media btw #even the kind that gets called ‘fetishizing’ #the think about diversity and representation is it’s boring if only one kind of character is created for one group #so to me ‘representation’ is really just asking for a wider variety in the characters that are made #not just the constant same-old of what you see #what was the point of this again? #oh yeah #me not understanding the desire to see yourself in media #personally I do not wished to be perceived but that’s prob just a me problem #fandom be like #moonie posting