#and ended the story as a protagonist

[disabilityshowdown]

Nominated for: Chronic pain/difficulty walking (widespread fan headcanon, supported by in canon evidence)

(art credit to planarbindings on twitter)

#this one i do have context for #he's a prominent npc that was introduced as a mentor to the party but intended to be an eventual twist villain #but also the party changed him a lot and by the time his crimes were revealed he'd begun to care about them #and ended the story as a protagonist #he also never walks anywhere and uses magic to move around #so in the 40 episodes between his introduction and the villain reveal essek's disability was considered canon amongst the fans #the dm when asked if essek was canonically disabled said he thought about it but didn't want to play into the disabled villain stereotype #which is fair and valid #but now that essek's no longer a villain it's kind of a moot point #and essek is still disabled in the majority of fanworks (and most human/modern aus i've seen have him in a wheelchair) #disability showdown #round 0 #essek thelyss #critical role

[silenceandm0ney]

Do you ever consume media so good that the end of a season feels like a funeral to you?

#frieren my beloved I strive to come even remotely close to your story telling #maomao my beloved you absolute legend of a protagonist #frieren at the funeral #frieren: beyond journey's end #the apothecary diaries #anime #manga #maomao #sousou no frieren

[kaiminluu]

happy birthday to our most beloved will byers :) here're some byler grease concept sketches

#byler #byler fanart #byler grease au #sandy will and danny mike #we've got the angelic pure imagery protagonist #who feels confused and betrayed by the group leader character #(who is like the corniest person alive) #because he is pressured by the norms of american high school to change the way he acts around them #DON'T YOU SEE #and then in the end they both compromise some of that to be happy in love #it's a story of change and LOVE #guys #when i tell you i'm so unwell about this #will byers #will byers fanart #mike wheeler #mike wheeler fanart #stranger things #stranger things 4 #my art

[rabbit-rays]

post canon mobility aids cloud save me....save me post canon mobility aids cloud

#ff7 #final fantasy 7 #cloud strife #tifa lockhart #blue had to send me his advent children outfit for this and i almost died laughing i love you girl what are you wearing #anyways. protagonists being disabled at the end of their stories is important to me. lalallalalaaaaa.... #i coulda fixed some of this but im not putting that much effort in. man its a sunday afternnoon who cares #EDIT. SECOND TIME IN RECENT HISTORY IVE FORGOTTEN AN ID??? I may be stupid. its in alt now

[thatswhatsushesaid]

psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously) #but he is just. /clenches my fists!!! #THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!! #who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war? #who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life? #who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession? #no one!!! that's who!! #ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

[wormsdyke]

hey have you guys heard of that movie. yeah the obliterating masterpiece on trans identity

#i know i’m frequently dramatic but i’m being so serious when i say you have to see this movie. oh my god #as these reviews hopefully imply it will hurt. it is a viscerally hurtful movie #i’ve never been so desperate for a happy ending to a story. i wanted a happy ending for the protagonist so much it hurt #just a remarkable story about transness and identity and fear and longing and isolation #god i’m going insane #i saw the tv glow #jane schoenbrun #orating!

[tavs-brainworm]

Ascended Astarion appeals to me as a horror/tragedy enjoyer. On the one hand, you get the tragedy of feeling like it’s too late to pull him back from the ledge, but also there’s this really ominous, tense feeling that the worst is yet to come, like he hasn’t hit the bottom yet.

The way Spawn Astarion breaks down in great, heaving sobs after killing Cazador — it’s painful and ugly, but it feels good. It’s cathartic, it’s a release of tension, it’s his first step towards letting go and starting his healing journey.

In the ascended route, the tension just keeps on building. AA doesn’t allow himself that moment of vulnerability, he just pushes the pain and fear down ever further, thinking he can keep it bottled up forever, but it’s only going to keep building and building.

And I’m the little freak who really really wants to be there to see how much harder he breaks when he finally hits the ground.

#will I ever stop being unhinged about him #astarion #ascended astarion #bg3 #aa at the end of the game is like the protagonist at the start of a horror story #want to. study him under a microscope

[unseconds]

watched Goncharov on a call with some friends and... yeah i can see what people are talking about

#goncharov #this is like so self indulgent it barely makes sense as a fan poster #its like a poster for the goncharov that is in my head #unreality #also #while im here #can i just say that i love how while goncharov is positioned as a masculine protagonist of a mafia movie #hes a surprisingly passive character #hes so willing to be lead by the wrist to his fate #he only really makes one decision and while (spoilers) it does redeem him it also dooms him #its like he knows how his story ends #i almost felt complicit as a viewer? #good movie basically

[agentc0rn]

Lonely earth-bound monarch figures whose existences and legacies extend past the bounds of time and space.

#pokemon x and y #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon fanart #pokemon xy #az pokemon #area zero #the indigo disk #pokemon legends z-a #terapagos #pokemon az #my art #glimmora #Pokemon #my favs who held deity-like status ties to time/space (timeline split/multiverse) vital lore and lost potential.. #flower motifs = glimmora and floette... #while one caused mass wipeout the other is a survivor of a natural disaster (though in some sense could take over the region with crystals) #both of their stories involved grand machine infused with potent power tied to the legendary mon #where in the end AZ/ai prof entreats the protagonists for their help to shut their creation down #both embody their themes - life/death #+ you need a special key item for the machine..the key and the book...sources and symbols of the creators' ambition #oh man do I think about them a lot... #at first I did not like the way this was going but im finally satisified with the results. I poured so many emotions in here lol

[notbecauseofvictories]

Hi, just wanted to say that you post sometimes about how important it is just to go to things sometimes and socialise. One of your posts inspired me to join the meetup website and since then I've been to 3 groups and had a really nice time and talked to some potential new friends! I moved to a new city a few years back and never really made friends and now I feel really pleased to be getting out there so thank you!

I don't know why this particular lesson took me so long to learn (or why I have to keep learning it, over and over again) but the simple act of forcing yourself out of your space to do things really does make an appreciable difference. Life gets richer and deeper the more you engage with it, and you will never, ever know if you stay inside the four walls of your apartment and wait for it to come to you.

#''the yellow wallpaper'' was both a horror story and a warning #no one should spend three months in isolation. you will lash out at the interior decorating. #(......actually there are multiple examples where 'trapped in the house' does actually end very badly for the protagonist. #is the whole haunted house genre secretly a reminder that you have to engage with the world? #that no house can be all things unto itself; that way lies madness? #huh. interesting thought.) #sarah gives advice

[blue-bird-lamentation]

キミの記憶 (Memories of You)

#persona 3 spoilers #aigis p3 #minato arisato #makoto yuki #kotone shiomi #minako arisato #ryoji mochizuki #the promised day #約束の日 #i spent the whole night finishing this :') i hope y'all like it #this game's story and ending are very special to me #my drawings #on the back there's the judgement arcana card. i tried to give some dark wings to ryoji reminiscent of nyx #Aigis on front as the character who has the mission to keep going. and both protagonists vowing to protect those who stay on earth #i struggled with the colours but i'm kinda happy with the result

[olreid]

[ID: Ally (as Timothy): I don't know about you, but my life does get worse and worse as I die.

Brennan (as the Sea Witch): Is your life supposed to be good? end ID]

work.

#catching up! #anyway there is something about the impulse to struggle for a better life in this specific setting of stories corrupted by who knows what #namely: how much of the party's righteous anger comes from being protagonists who have endured more than their allotted share of suffering #because of what amounts to a narrative glitch‚ and as such are now entitled to reparations for being robbed of their rightful happy endings #who told you your life was supposed to be good!! #neverafter

[darklove9314-blog]

Fine I’ll say it, I think Feyre being the first High Lady would have been a lot more impactful if Rhys didn’t give her that position of power. If the land choses the high lord or lady then why not have a story where the land chooses Feyre? Therefore it comes from her own power and not a man gifting power and influence to her.

#sjm critical #anti sjm #just in case #I don’t hate feyre but I wish her story had been done a lot better #why does feyre get the short end of the stick when it comes to SJM protagonist?

[stardustneeko]

"I hope that we meet in another life..."

#you ever be working on a starshipping thing for so long it makes you wanna do a different starshipping thing #been drawing a thing for hours and did this in about 30' to cool down ig #anyway let's talk about how their unique positions lend themselves to so many interesting ways to explore the challenges they have to deal #canonically it's sorta a “rule” that some problems with the universe can only be solved by the protagonists #but in the end they are only humans who for most of the stories are children #can one day a disaster come to seek one of them that's so great that only one of them is the “chosen one” to make it out alive? #or maybe their very coexistence in the same universe causes problems #but they want!!! to!! be!! together!!!!!! because they've always followed their hearts and it feels deeply wrong that they can't #hm i need to draw more angst is what i think #starshipping saturday #is sad #sorry #starshipping #yugioh #yusei fudo #yugioh gx #yugioh 5ds #jaden yuki #judai yuki #art by neeko #sketch #fanart #digital art

[meowzibug]

Do you ever think that maybe Gabriel dying could be a canon event ?? What if he's supposed to die in every universe ? Just like how Emilie dying is reoccurring event in each one.

We obviously don't know about the movie universe since the other part is still yet to come. But just think about Gabriel dying in the Paris special universe. Well, since the Gabriel in that universe is good and doesn't want to bring Emelie back. So, obviously his death won't be due to a wish. The only way I can think that he might die is maybe he was ultimately caught by the The Supreme and had to face his fatal fate ?? Im just bluffing im sorry but when I had this thought I just had to type this out for some reason.

EDIT : I JUST FOUND OUT THROUGH THE DELETED STORYBOARDS THAT GABRIEL WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE IN THE END OF THE MIRACULOUS MOVIE .WHAT-

#I just think its a bit sad that's all #I want this to be true tho #imagine how sad adrien (from the “evil” universe) be. #he finally had the chance to fix his relationship with his father #and he turns out to be the protagonist of the story all along #only to die at the end #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste #miraculous theory #ml #mlb #miraculous lb #cat noir #paris special #miraculous paris #betterfly #claw noir

[angy-grrr]

i have an issue I see with ppl trying to make shippers "understand" their ship could not become canon, and I dont think many would expect it.

Why are we pretending being in your late 30s is being middle age? Dont get me wrong, being a middle aged person doesn't have to mean anything about someone, but its just- not middle age literally.

I dont really understand bringing that up anyways, iit feels wrong to me to believe just ppl in their teens and 20s could ever do anything pro LGBT+ in general... I find it insulting, as if this is a new thing or impossible to believe older people could believe in queerness in a positive light or be queer themselves. The main reason in the west, and im assuming other parts of the world, there arent as many or as visible is, well, because people were dying because of the AIDS crisis + the isolation from being older and every single public space made for or just young queers or cishet older adults.

I get the point, but if I remember correctly every time I see someone trying to do that (of course im believing they have the best intentions in mind), they have to bring up how this is a Japanese middle aged man as a good enough reason.

I don't really mind about what others want to believe or how much they care in terms of shipping -if you prefer to be casual and not paying that much attention to what's canon or not, good for you! Many ppl are also like that and its completely valid, here in this side of Tumblr might seem like all of us believe and theorize about their endgame potential bc we are the ones that usually make more posts or longer content. But I dont like those assumptions about queerness being tied to young westerners, and I wanted to rant a little bit.

Again, I dont believe that was the intention in any of those posts, and im not trying to call out anyone, just rant.

#grrr talking #I just researched a little bit and well #Kaito who wrote blue flag with the first queer protagonists being serialized by shonen jump #he is literally just 2 years younger than horikoshi #he ended blue flag when he was 31 #idk I just dislike how aging is being seen these days in the internet #we could say middle age starts around 45-60s depending on how long ppl usually live in your area #it would be a little worrying if 37 is considered middle aged considering ppl in Japan are known for living until their late 80s-90s #and stilllll #what's up with the age??? #bring up the demographic bring up resistance from fans or how he just might not want to be remembered like that or be interested #but bringing age? why everybody that does this brings up age? #and also the sexuality of ppl we dont know #that has nothing to do with anything #an author being queer doesnt mean they want to make queer stories or characters #and an author not being queer doesnt mean they just want cishet stories #idk if I sound mean #I swear im just ranting ajdhjfhkdfshfksjh #you can look away folks