#because no chatacters that i like

[absolutedarkstar]

Me at school: ohoho I am going to do SO many things when I get home

Me when I get home: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.mmmmmm. no

#nyxnco.txt #girl help the executive dysfunction is beating my ass #i want to artfight but cant find any characters i like #i want to draw for myself but . artfighttt #i want to do homework but i didnt do any attacks yesterday so i gotta do one today #but i dont want to draw #because no chatacters that i like #someone please kill me . please #ok it may be that im just EXHAUSTED from school and the bus ride #but at the same time the GUILT that comes frlm not doing stuff i looked forward to #urgh

[quinn-pop]

taking care of your demigod child is exhausting

so they have a carpool lol

other car shenanigans

oldee w the grandchildrens <3

#yes im randomly dropping my waddle oc and saying nothing #and the last one is a dhmis reference lol #this isn’t an actual headcanon or anything it just amused me so much i had to draw it #kirbyposting #my art or something #kirby #meta knight #king dedede #bandee #clawroline #elfilin #queen ripple #sailor dee #Kirby oc #metadededads #leon isn’t here because uhhh idk i like carol i think she’s cool #chatacters doing domestic things will always be so funny to me #hmm does this count im counting it #quinn does comics

[bunnyhysteria]

a few people are bringing up depression in response to my shen yuan post, and while do what you want yes, I feel this does go back to how people don't know how to write disabled characters as another person brought into light. including mental disabilities.

mayb now I'm projectin on this one, but seein the absolute cluster fuck of shen yuan, it feels strange to go "it's depression!". I see narcissistic personality disorder, other cluster b traits, I see autism, mayb even ocd. he's a paranoid, hot head mess whose constantly calculating every moment. but people don't really know how to contextualize mental illness, especially not the "scary" ones, even if they have mental illness themselves. just slap on depression and anxiety as a bandaid and don't talk about the rest! it's not that people don't want to go further (or at least I have some faith), I just think our current society has not prepared people to step out of the "nice" mental disorders.

so I don't fault anyone who reduces his nonsense into the socially acceptable depression, but I can't act like that it doesn't make me uncomfortable. but also not uncomfortable enough to directly respond to strangers on the interwebs HSKDHDH.

but I also did want to talk about the depression to slob pipeline as well because that's I suppose the part that gets me. he's unwell, so he's a slob and a disgustin mess. a statement that could be made about someone who has depression, but I have a hard time applying the "he" to shen yuan in this case. I'm personally under the "I care so much about my image that I feel like I'm gonna rot from the inside out" type, and my response has been to hyper clean. clean and clean until I can't clean anymore and so I'm stressed that I can't make my space (and by extension myself) better in a small matter of time. I was once a slob in the past as a teen, but I'm immensely embarassed by it. I'm vain, so I take photos of myself with my backdrop being my room, and I will loose my marbles if someone looks down on me because I threw my pjamas onto my bed while gettin changed. no one but me and my family enter my room. no one else even enters the house.

*picks up shen yuan by the scruff of the neck* yer telling me this rich pretty boy obsessed with tryin to get people to take him seriously wouldn't have an instagram or whatever the equivalent would be?? honestly I feel like it would be expected of him, and he might also flaunt his wealth (that he didn't earn) to try to feel better. if you couldn't tell I'm tryin to shove a superiority/inferiority complex onto him over his status. that's just cause I think it'd be funny I don't have any text evidence off the top of my head for that lmao.

ultimately with all this, I just want something different. I want people to step back and look at shen yuan for who he is and then extrapolate out from that and into how they want to play with his character. I don't know how, with all these complex thought processes and characterizations of binghe, we have landed with a very 2d, copy paste version of shen yuan every time. maybe I just need to dig more into shen yuan fan creations, but I have yet found one to step out of the invented fanon version mold or their small variations. and its quite strange to me given how divorced fanon shen yuan is from canon shen yuan. I suppose I'm not used to a fandom with a character so warped away from canon well accepted. dare I say, ooc.

#svsss #shen yuan #text #mine #shout out to my first therapist who looked at my cluster b clusterfuck and went 'yea that's just depression and anxiety' #mam I have psychosis. #also now I'm briefly thinkin of shen jiu and shen yuan in a blender known as DID. I wonder if that's been done. #I feel like its has to have been??? #I'll look it up on ao3 later. mayb. if I feel like it. I will most likely forgor since I'm not that invested in the idea #also shen yuan doesn't have to be my flavour of mental ill that's not the point of the post. I am sharin my experiences as an example of how #he might be instead or just in general mental illness that doesn't fit the mold of 'nice' mental ills #binghe has bpd though I'll say that. the fear of abandonment is strong with this one #strangely im gonna make a wild claim for a character I relate to but I don't see shen yuan as a bpd bitch #that's a new one in my books. usually every character I relate to I slap bpd on like it's flex tape #but it's just not a part of how I interpret his character and I'm not gonna pretzel him into how I am just because #if I'm gonna project I'm gonna use text based sources to at least say that it could be in chatacter #cause do what you want with characters but at some point of pretzeling yer just slapping a canon name onto an oc #and I'm not clickin on a shen yuan fic to read about your oc. like I'm sorry but I'm just not

[velvetjune]

the chapter songs in Alan Wake 2,, flawless

#they deserve more love and discussion #saying this while also not knowing what to say other than they’re so fucking good #alan wake 2 #i think it’s partially because poets of the fall’s tracks are iconic so of course they’re in the spotlight (as deserved) #but also the CHAPTER SONGS. them being made for a given chatacter(s) with the help of Sam lakes poetry #the changes with ‘this road’ by Poe with every Alan chapter. becoming more distorted and revealing lyrics and the spiral #the scratch song being 1) hilarious and 2) similar to Zane’s poetry in the aw1 arg #the emotion in superhero when saga feels lost at the story making it so Logan was gone #the lines of her feeling like a ghost in this story forming around her.. how she feels guilty and absent for both what the story’s doing #and being away from Logan because of her job. ashdhhhhjhh my heart #AND. follow you into the dark HAS to be alice. which kills me because at for at I thought of Alan #but no. Alice jumped in the dark place after him. it’s so !!!!!!!!!!! #the rabbit hole line. Alice spiraling deeper and deeper into a dream—into wonderland #the Lost at Sea one is also good. intrigues me. the Bowie and Lynch references are blatantly aw2 Zane #but it’s so similar to diver Zane and the ‘originals’ death. being lost in the dark place with illusions of escape #and losing any sense of identity. whether he’s real at all or the monster of this sea or just a lost soul. #the soft and calm vocals / instrumental really makes the whole thing #NEED to stop typing more tags because this is a Lot. however. #‘no one left to love’ is also a phenomenal song and one of my favorites from the album. GORGEOUS vocals and how it all flows together. #such a powerful and beautiful way to end a chapter #anyway that’s all I had to say :) #god. I’ve started to watch a few playthroughs of the game and 90% of people have skipped the chapter songs and every time im #that’s fair but my brain and soul might implode if I don’t see anyone else talking about how good these songs are

[simplywarriors]

i totally, one hundred percent, fully honestly believe that the only acceptable abusers to the warrior cats fandom are the female characters that are abusive and the male characters aren’t like i cant even begin to describe the way this fandom bends over backwards to uplift male characters just so they can tear down a female one. like what was with calling appledusk, the known canon cheater who only rejected mapleshade when it suited him, a great father and making up au’s where mapleshade was terrible to him?? what’s with people constantly making these sad posts about spiderleg and constantly using the excuse about his poor, wittle littermates dying (did he even have a reaction to their death?), what’s with no one hating stormtail?? what’s with people constantly shoving the “nightcloud clawed crowfeather scene” in everyone’s face but turning a blind eye to the way he hit his son on the ear in one scene and was never shown to be vocally / physically kind to him… ever… until his super edition?? why do people always make up terrible headcanons about her so that it matched the mental image they have of her?? EX: saying she is a helicopter parent (only mentioned in a field guide that little of the fandom actually read and most of the stuff in that book isn’t even canon anymore) or treats breezepelt like her therapist, or was controlling over crowfeather. why is it that absent fathers are always given the benefit of the doubt but if a mother says something wrong like curlfeather (she didn’t say anything wrong actually people just love to hate moms) they’re hated on so harshly?? what is with this fandom and constantly infantilizing the male characters?? why don’t people ever give lizardstripe the benefit of the doubt for having to raise a kit she didn’t want to raise?? why doesn’t curlfeather’s actions get chalked up as ‘bad writing’ like every male character does?? why is sparkpelt dragged through the mud for not connecting with her children for only a month when characters like crowfeather, spiderleg, stormtail, and so many other male characters who NEVER bond with their children (unlike sparkpelt, who did.) are just… not hated?? bramblestar is literally the ONLY male character i have seen get the appropriate amount of hate for but why is he the only one?? why does this fandom always gets so close to loosing their internalized misogyny ways only to never follow through with it?

#warriorcats #idk why but stuf liek this just gets to me #probably because it’s very similar to the real world #ermmm am i gonna tag every chatacter i mentioned #yes #also unpopular opinion but i like lizardstripe ☹️ #idc if she was mean to brokenkit uhh the second the erin’s chalked up all his actions was bc lizardstripe didn’t like him was the day i #liked her #who cares about brokenstar anyway i sure don’t #this is not in any way pro rainflower btw hate that woman #appledusk #mapleshade #spiderleg #stormtail #crowfeather #curlfeather

[starpros-sunshine]

You know what I can live with the detco news I can but mostly I am pissed off that that recontextualised Kaitos parents into being just horrible really and also who does that.

#this woman really just left her teenage son alone for years to bif off to France or whatever and the father faked his death #but also weird writing choice honestly it's been 30 years who does rhat #I'm mostly just confused as to what thw poijt of that is does it add anything to thw story no it doesn't #i mean I suppose it does but like. what about the main plot? #my main grievance with detective conan is that the main plot isn't really moving as far as I know at least it's just kind of dragging #which is a shame because I really do love the chatacters #it's so unnecessary after 30 years really after 30 years you're gonna come out with info like that they were in five movies together already #it just feels so shoehorned in is what I mean #stuff like that should come up a little earlier than that dontcha think #but I haven't seen the movie yet I will not pass full judgement until I have seen the movie #detective conan spoilers #I guess?

[neurotypical-sonic]

god I have GOT to catch up on idw. I am so so intrigued by lanolin and I know absolutely nothing about her. apart from the fact that a lot of people apparently hate her as a chatacter which tells me nothing

#do they not like her bc she's poorly written? or because they just dont like that she exisists or bc what she as a chatacter is doing #because. there are characters that I fucking detest but LOVE as characters. looking at you hank brba #egg.txt #anyways. its been months and months since I last read idw. should start again soon

[bigboysteveharrington]

Thinking about how two key points in Steve’s character development are:

At the end of season one when he chose the girl he liked over his shitty friends that treated her poorly

At the end of season three when Robin turned him down and he chose having her feature just as heavily in his life as a friend (even if it could potentially send confusing signals to some girls) instead of keeping his focus romantic and writing her off or just hanging out with her at work

I just think it’s so interesting how at first glance it’s like he’s learning to prioritize romance over friendship then friendship over romance and there is a contrast there, but really it’s very complementary development

Like he’s learning a balance of people you’re interested in romantically matter more than shitty friends who treat them horribly and make fun of you BUT ALSO friends that actually matter to you and make you happy are just as important and being with someone romantically isn’t everything

And what it all really comes down to is the core of his character development: prioritizing the people he cares most about instead of taking the self-centred/easier road out and putting in effort to fix his mistakes/show the people he cares about that they matter to him

#This is part of why the ‘I might have been a shitty boyfriend’ line end of season 2 bothers me! It erased everything post season 1 and went #let’s ignore that development right there and the fact that they fought because Nancy’s trauma had her in a bad way and just #act like Steve was a shit boyfriend and everything was on him to wrap up their dynamic #Idk if I worded this right or not but I can’t be bothered to try to word it better #Every hour is loving Steve Harrington’s chatacter arc hour and pretending the writers aren’t trying to undo it hour #Steve Harrington #Stranger Things #ST #ST4 #Mine

[fanthirtheen]

I love Stolas and Blitzo’s struggling relationship so much because I relate to Blitzo (and Stolas) in ways I've latched onto. I guess I can see why some people don't like Stolas and his attitude and selfishness and his struggles give them an ick, because ultimately, fiction reflects life. Our favorite characters tend to be people we can project onto or people we wish we had in our lives.

Blitzo doesn't think he can be loved. He makes himself useful so he has some control over the terms in which he is in other people's lives. He doesn't want to be alone, and he doesn't want to be vulnerable enough to chance someone seeing him for what he is and deciding they didn't like it, they didn't like him, and leaving. So he makes himself into something they need, rather than finding someone who wants what he is.

And Stolas wants what he is. Stolas wants him. Stolas's love for Blitzo is an incredibly selfish love, and I understand why so many people don't like that. I can see a lot of people don't like that selfish love, they see real world people they have had bad experiences with in Stolas, and you know, that's what fiction is about.

But I love Stolas and I love Stolitz because I am incredibly satisfied and fulfilled seeing them together. Blitzo needs that selfish love. He needs someone to be selfish about him, to want him unrelated to all the bullshit he hides behind, to want him enough and in such a selfish way they can want him past the bullshit he pulls to push people away.

I've explored that dynamic in other fandoms some, but I cobbled it together from scratch. Not headcannons or anything lime that, just, from writing stories so much I corner myself in a dynamic that feels so right to me and so satisfying. One character doesn't know how to be wanted so they make themselves needed instead. The other character is so tired of being selfless or giving up things they want or not being allowed to have something of their own that when they get attached to the character that commodifies themselves, they decide with their whole heart that THIS is what they want. This person. This will be their first thing they want to keep and they want it selfishly.

And maybe it isn't picture-perfect healthy but it's good for them. The struggle isn't admitting they're in love with each other, the struggle is believing someone sees you for what you are not what you pretend to be to make yourself useful, and they want you so selfishly they will keep you even when you're not breaking yourself to be useful. And in getting what you want for the first time in your entire life and it being better than you ever dreamed.

So I kind of get it when people don't like Stolas. He is a bit selfish. But Blitzo needs him to be selfish, because Stolas’s "selfish" doesn't necessarily mean Blitzo giving anything up except his facade.

When the selfish character wants to keep the other character, not in a "you have to change your life to accommodate me" kind of way but in a "I love your life the way it is don't change I just want to be there with you" sort of way.

#holy shit that got away from me #the point i wanted to make was “we project onto fiction” #and i ended up on a rant about codependency #it took me years to realize i projected onto all my favorite characters #no no you like exploring these character traits because you have them not because theyre neat #i was writing characters that would fit an autism diagnosis years before I even considered it irl #so if anyone ever hates a chatacter i just assume that character reminds them of someone irl #and try not to take it personally if that character they hate is similar to me #especially if the parts they hate are the parts i relate to #context is important

[foxgirlplushie]

I don't fit it anywhere

#im online too much and i dont understand the chatacters everypme is obsessing over and j feel like im faking everything and i dont know how #to stop or be myself or do anything thT I want to do #(this is bullshit look at the fic you wrote earlier tonigjt) #but like. i dont know jow to empathize or connect in a way that isnt just regurgitating other peoples words and patterns and thoights #ah. this is fhe autism again isnt it #but even like. among other autistic pepple. feel like im doing it wrong and i keep judging tjem for doing it wrong wjicj is BAD and i KNOW #its because i spent so long desperately masking bc i jusy wanted some kind (any kind) of social interaction #and now i cant even do that right #and im comparing.traumas which is another thing i knoa you shouldnt do #but every other sysgem i see is so much more impacted by it and i dont knos if im faking it or what #o dont know why im crashing like fhis i took my fucking meds. why am i crashing. i cant crasj theres too much to get done #keep ot the fuck rogether dont blink dont break dont even bend #which is NOT healthy but o dont know any other way through #in conclusion fuck me please tell me njce things we could rrally use it right now #bc god knows tomorrows gonna suuuuuuuuuuuck #gotta be up.and moving in 6 hrs

[icewindandboringhorror]

the struggle of just coincidentally disliking a piece of media that a lot of conservatives also dislike, but for completely different reasons, so sometimes you'll see youtube recommended videos like "here's why X was so bad" and you're initially like "oh yaayy, yeah I had a lot of criticisms of that too, I'm curious to finally see someone really break down why the plot didn't work! I love media analysis" and then the video is just "it's bad because there's WOMAN in it!!!" ..........ok....

#especially with fantasy type media because there's so many weird dudes into that #and I'm just like .. innocently wanting to see if anyone else shares my opinion that the plot was silly or the character was #badly written or boring or etc. and instead it's always just like 'and they made a chatacter BLACK!!! >:((( #WHEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES which is when ALL fantasy is set. black people did NOT exist yet! so unrealistic!!! dragons and magic on the other #hand are very realistic.. ANYWAY.. women BOOBIE should SHOW' #so before clicking on something it's like... I also really did not enjoy this thing and want to see soomeone talk about it #so manybe it can help me better analyze and verbalize precisely what my problems with it were and why I came away from the movie/show #feeling annoyed or etc.. HOWEVER.. dare i?? dare I wade into the waters and risk being bamboozled when the first half of the video #lures you in with some vague promise of actual analysis and then quickly is just devolves into brainworms 'grr its bad bc sjw WOKE media' o #whatever... please.. please.. I just wanted to hear about the plot structure... w hy ..

[tea-with--honey]

Schmigadoon enthusiasts, please reblog this post with whether you preferred s1 or s2 and why 🙏 I've seen really mixed reactions and would love to know why the opinions seem to differ so greatly

#Its so cool how I can see a bunch of people saying they wayyy preferred season 2 #and then turn around and see a bunch of different people say they preferred s1 and i just wanna know why #i personally enioyed season 1 but season 2 had me ballistically happy #I was in a constant state of excited buzz and joy #I think its mostly because I actually knew the musicals this time around #and how this specific era of musicals is one of my absolute favoirtes #but its also because Josh and Mel are a team this time instead of arguing with each other yknow #I just much prefer that dynamic #AND ALSO s2 explored the other chatacters much more and gave them the time to shine which is another thing i absolutely love #Josh and Mel were kind of the center of all the action in s1 but I enjoyed seeing different characters and their journeys #this also allowed aaron tveit and dove cameron and jane krakowski to be absolute standouts this season #and dont even get me started on the spectacular job Tituss Burgess did as the narrarator #Also the songs are so catchy but thats probably a side effect of me just liking this era of musicals #anyways s2 just appealed to me a lot because of how much it fit into my tastes #schmigadoon #schmicago #schmigadoon!

[dreamsy990]

drew my dnd character who i made up on the spot the other day because i forgot to prepare anything (his character sheet was online)

turns out the sheet SAID he was a girl but i only read the name nathan and went 'okay thats a dude' so hes trans because i didnt read my own character sheet

#i dont have any strong idea of him other than that he's a little bit of a coward #i was like 'okay what will contrast with the other party members' and we had a lot of confident guys #so i went as far from that as i could #whats wrong with him? no clue!! #theres something though #anyways i got the first word in at our first sedsion #so the first thing said in chatacter in this campaign was 'well fellas... fuck!' #because i forgot what i was gonna say #shits going great honestly #the first 2 doodles are what i did while we were playing #im not good at character design hsbshsbshs #oc #i guess #probably gonna mess with his stats later to reflect my idea of him more #bc we didnt do anything with our sheets last time #so its not too late to change things i think #oc: nathan chai

[caindiis]

would you trust this mc with your social security number, guys?

#obey me #obey me oc #obey me mc #all of these can be summed up by one word. autism #except the literal cain and abel image #hmmm no actually they’re autistic too just because i say so and i’m literally cain so like/hj #also yeah it’s saiki AND kusuke it’s detrimental i include them both because he’s more like kusuke but his delivery on things is sooo saiki #i could go on a tangent… why? because these chatacters are JUST LIKE ME!!!!! #🌾 cain talks to himself

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Actually, I'm obsessed with Postmaster Cassie now. I made a post in my drafts over the course of several hours going insane over it so I have a lot more to say about it for sure lmao

Once I get some food, it's gonna be Cassie Hours! Let's talk Cassie cause I love her and we don't talk about her enough! Hit me with your headcanons for her we are building her character tonight!

#yeah!!! cassie hours!!!! #woooo!!!! #also gonna make a funny thing and maybe open a Tubehell Adoption agency... #because i CAN #dndkdnj would be fun #anyway yeah hit me with your Cassie headcanons i am building her character today!! #dedicated cassie time!!! #ohhh i could also do a funny like... ask the chatacters thing here if people so wanted that #like an 'ask them anything [day of the week]' kind of thing #that could be fun i like that #and gives me an excuse to make little scribbles of the guys!! #hmmmm we'll see!!!

[violet-traitor]

One of my red flags (? Is that the right term to use) is probably the fact that I want my ocs to be happy and have good relationships, which takes away the funny and the interesting. The trauma is there but I won't rest unless they have a good ending. Would it be more interesting if the ending was bad? Surely. Do I have the guts to do it? Absolutely not. Wouldn't it be interesting for 2 of my ocs to have a toxic relationship whose themes are explored and made interesting? Yes but I'll be sad if my character and their significant other aren't all cutesy and happy with one another. I would be making an antagonist/villain with the idea that my characters will finally dislike someone, but then I feel bad for them, give them a redemption arc and throw them in the main group. They're all friends now. In the early stages of a story I am making a character used to be the main villain set out to conquer the world (don't comment on it I was 12) and now he's a very innocent and sensitive person

#ok the reason I made that chatacter good was because I wanted him to be homoerotic with one of the main characters #but that would make their relationship pretty toxic so I made him good LMAOO #honestly it would've been more interesting if they did have a toxic relarionship #wait. what if I make an au #or make a brand new story out of this idea #it's too late to change the story as it is now holy shit #I should change their genders I should make them lesbians #in rhe new story/au I mean they'll be entirely different characters #princess set out to save the world falls in love with the villain #wait maybe I shouldn't make it toxic it would be cute if I follow the right path ofc #SEE WHAT I MEAN I DID IT AGAIN I AM AVOIDING TOXICITY #I'm a fluff enjoyer. angst is good and it's obviously very interesting but I don’t think my heart can take it #I'm gonna make this story rn #even though I should be working on the other one I like making ocs and stories hehehe #valposting #valerian's ocs #valerian's rambles