#but just saying the way it was narrated is weird

[tossawary]

When writing both original fiction and fanfiction, it's my personal preference and style to remind people who characters are in the narration when I feel it might be needed. It's especially handy when bringing OCs into a fanfiction. Example: "The person calling out to them was [Character's Name Here], the baker they had met earlier that morning." This quirk of narration often reads to me as the POV character internally reminding themselves who someone is.

Sometimes, a character is quite bad with names or wasn't given one, which is where it's handy to refer to this other character by a fixed epithet. Example: "The person calling out to them was the square-faced man from yesterday, who had given them those bad directions." OR: "The person calling out to them was the mayor's daughter." This reads to me as though the POV character is distinguishing people by a particular feature or remembers them by their relationship to someone else, which is a common way to remember people, until their own name becomes more fixed in your mind.

I also think it's important to keep an epithet / title the same across a scene. Epithets are best used, in my opinion, when that particular feature or quality is actually relevant. It's a little weird for a POV character to suddenly think of their own husband as "the tall man" unless his height is suddenly important in some way, and it might confuse the audience into thinking another person is in the room. If a character doesn't have a name, then "the square-faced man" or "the mayor's daughter" effectively becomes their name, and it's confusing to have a character's name change too much with every other paragraph. (It would be fine to also refer to "the mayor's daughter" as "the girl" or "the young woman" as long as there aren't any other nameless girls speaking in the scene.) Keeping the same title allows it to blend in in the same way that the word "said" does, rather than break up the flow of a scene.

Not every person or character is bad with names and remembering people, of course, or is inclined to give them funny little internal titles. There are people who are very good at names. There are tricks to use to get yourself to memorize names as you're introduced to someone. Narrative styles are going to be different by author and by the current POV character. (Sometimes, you might want the audience to be confused and disoriented!)

In fact, thinking about how different characters think about each other is one of my favorite starting places for crafting a perspective voice. A single character might be referred to in the narration as "His Majesty" by one character, "my husband" by another character, "the king" by a third character, "the usurper" by a fourth character, and "Dad" by a fifth. The name that a character calls someone else by will often say a lot about their relationship and their opinion of that other person. If the prince appears to think of his father as "the king" rather than "Father", that implies something about their relationship.

But back to introducing character names, you as an author, in my experience as a writer and reader, generally can't rely on the audience to easily recall very minor character names unless they're very distinct or the character was introduced in a particularly memorable way. Like, if you introduce a character as the protagonist's best friend, Mary, and immediately start refering to her as Mary because it's followed by a conversation between the protagonist and Mary, that's fair! It's reasonable to expect the audience to just learn Mary's name here! But then if Mary disappears after Chapter 1 and doesn't show up again until Chapter 10, I think it's reasonable to subtly reintroduce her to the audience again. Example: "It was Mary smiling at me from the doorway, and I jumped up to hug my best friend immediately."

Like, there's no one way that you have to refer to characters and introduce them and reintroduce them, of course. Characters have different levels of importance and sometimes we don't really need to know who they are. Sometimes, an author wants an audience to feel grounded, to recognize people, and sometimes they want their audience to feel lost and scared. It's all situational. Style is a thing.

But because it's all situational, this is something I like thinking about and I think it's something worth studying when you're reading original fiction. It's interesting to pay attention to how characters enter and exit scenes in different forms of media, and how the narrator introduces them and how other characters greet them aloud. (Shakespeare comes to mind as a neat thing to look at, to see how theatre does it. Comic books and films and visual media will do it differently to a text-only story.) The audience doesn't have the background that you, the author, carry around in your head all of the time, and you often need to give them a helping hand in keeping your cast of characters straight. Even in fanfiction, without including OCs, not everyone in the audience has the whole canonical cast perfectively memorized, and not every character in any given cast actually knows every other character! It's not just OCs who need introductions, whether those introductions happen subtly or a character enters the story with a bang.

Kind of another side note:

One of my favorite character introductions comes from the book "The Princess Bride", in which Princess Buttercup is kidnapped by three men who are referred to only as "the Spaniard", "the Turk", and "the Sicilian". You don't know their names for quite some time. Buttercup doesn't know these people.

You only learn the Spaniard's name when the Sicilian leaves him at the top of a cliff, tasking him the Spaniard fighting and killing "the Man in Black" who is pursuing their kidnapping. When the Spaniard is about to fight someone to the death, the book pauses to tell you that his name is Inigo Montoya, and then there is an ENTIRE CHAPTER dedicated to Inigo Montoya's long and tragic backstory, in which you learn about his decades-long quest to find the six-fingered man who murdered his father. And then the book abruptly dumps you the audience back out onto that cliff, where Inigo (no longer just "the Spaniard" and no longer just some random kidnapping thug) is about to fight for his life.

I think it's a terribly fun piece of whiplash that suits the comedic style of the book really well. (The book is a little different to the movie and there are things about it that I don't like, the movie gets across a level of a sincerity and love through the acting that the book misses in places, but there are lots of really funny elements to the book that the movie sadly couldn't cover.) The transformation from "the Spaniard" into "Inigo Montoya" is really neat to me.

#tossawary fandom #tossawary reading #long post #tossawary tpb

[violettierre]

I just watched oshinoko and im really confused about the concept

#there's so much going on just from the first episode #im hesitated to continue #im curious about this revenge plot but also not that interested i really didn't get it as much #like like let me get this straight so the doctor and the random girl reincarnated as her kids and they're just simping over their mom ?? #ew dude reincarnated ir not it's still your mom #im mostly disgusted about the 'love' concept in there not gonna sugarcoat it #And by that i mean tf is a grown ass doctor most likely in his 30 doing falling for a pregnant 16 y/o #aside from unprofessional AND illegal the reasoning is really dumb like ? just cuz a sick kid is a fan of hers you're just in love now? #what? #that's just some of the stuff #i suppose it's like a mystery crime drama musical romance supernatural or some shit what's the genre again ? #i suppose i understood some ideas about what the anime is about #like the dark side of the entertainment industry i think #but just saying the way it was narrated is weird #alot were hyping the anime this spring so there's probably more to it than i saw #i understand many saw the good stuff in it that i didn't #so i don't know

[fisheito]

Me: Everything i make is garbage i shouldn't even bother

The eiden in my head:

Me: Sorry eiden you're right my efforts have value

#any time i feel down about the act of creation #actually. any time i feel this way about... saying words in public too #when i'm typing up a comment anywhere on this site and the internal narration is constantly trying to stop me #with LOUD whispers of No one cares!! or even worse... people actively do not want to know ur thoughts!!! zip them fingerlips!!!!!! #during moments of struggle like this #i summon eiden like the powerful support assist he is #into my battle against myself #hey if he can fix kuya he can definitely fix me 😂 #he is a stellar therapist for the clan. so strong. how does he do it #a new coping mechanism!! next time you feel down about your work #imagine you're one of eiden's clan members #exhibiting Mental Illness #and he just gives u that empathetic loving look. with some weird combo of words that makes u feel infinitely better #love u eiden u damaged sweetheart ty for the cbt #eiden

[adamshallperish]

listen. i love bruce springsteen. i love ethel cain. american teenager is not the new born to run. it is not born to run if it was written by a bi trans woman instead of a cis man. they are two very different songs in terms of sound and tone, and even theme-wise they run parallel to each other rather than down the same road.

a lot of ethel's music draws from/can be compared to a lot of bruce's songs, especially on his nebraska album, but i'm not seeing where people are getting the born to run comparisons from. if anything, american teenager reminds me of born in the usa if it was sung by the narrator's next-door-neighbor, a secondhand account of the suffering springsteen explores in first person in born in the usa.

also like. both of these songs can stand on their own just fine. a thing can be good on it's own without being compared to another thing.

#also another nitpick is just like #so many people being like 'american teenager is born to run updated for the modern age' #first of all #ethel cain's story as told in the album preacher's daughter #canonically takes place in 1991 #it has a bit of a timeless energy #which brings me to the fact like #born to run is not out of date??? #it has that timeless narration energy #and it's not even that culturally irrelevant #bruce sprinsteen released an album last year and is touring Right Now #they both sound timeless! #but ethel cain is her own artist with her own inspirations and idk #it feels kind of pandering to be like 'she's bruce springsteen but woke' #which is weird because it implies that springsteen was never revolutionary in his own sense #like he had an integrated band in the 70s! he regularly kissed a black man onstage! he plays with gender in a way that is interesting #and resonates with a lot of queer people #also it kind of feels insulting to ethel's artistry to go 'she's the trans version of [insert other artist here]!' #still not over the pitchfork review that was like 'what can ethel cain say that lana del rey hasn't already said' #like it just reduces her art to her being trans #instead of letting her music stand on its own #and while her gender identity is important #she is a good musician outside of that #and it's kind of insulting to her clear love for her art and her talent #to consolidate the value of her music to just her identity #ethel cain #bruce springsteen #born to run #preacher's daughter #american teenager

[gothamcityneedsme]

hopefully smtv vengeance like. adds some stuff to clarify on things left by the wayside in the original game. im looking at some forums and such on some of my remaining questions and they're like. nobody knows lol. smtv has suffered a bit too clearly from the cutting room floor i think

#shitpost #tao and her whole. situation. #aogami is weirdly nonpresent in all endings except one #Yuzuru honestly gets so little content esp compared to Dazai! #and my current irritation--the beginning of the game narration is just. not voiced by any existing characters in the game #like. who the HELL is that supposed to be. #and WHY isn't that answered in any way whatsoever #(and before anyone says smtiv's beginning wasn't answered: incorrect. it's very clearly the White) #(and almost everything they say is easy to decipher. there's like 2 lines that are references of some kind that ive never seen anyone figur #(but like. i assume those suffer due to translation jank? who knows. anyways. the hebrew is right though lol) #but anyways. back to smtv. there's just some disjointed unorganized parts #i hope the next game just like. i hope they don't feel like they have to bloat it with all the new plot? #idk i just hope some stuff is. elucidated on. the world of smtv IS good #and the characters ARE really interesting. but there's a lot missing and a lot of weird jumps #things picked up and sort of dropped etc. #i still LOVE it you just feel a distinct difference of it vs smtiv/smtiva especially #also compared to strange journey redux. aka all the 'newer' smt releases

[twodlover]

the more i think about it the more interesting it seems

#bnha 407 #not going to lie i read afo as an apathetic (bro be feeling the bare minimum and does not understand what it is — and i think it's both + #+because he didn't have anyone to teach him and because he would have trouble interpreting what the feeling is) #saw people saying the pov is from an unreliable narrator and yeah i agree #afo is not telling all the story and he clearly is pushing a specific narrative #in some way you can say he cares about yochi but i think he never understood what this feeling was beyond “possession” #i also don't mind the fucked up atmosphere since it was told to us time and time again that the past was... like that #now i'm thinking that hori has some kind of plan for afo ending's (i am doubting he would die so 'everything will end well') #weird thought but what if he gets stuck in the vestige realm with yoichi and the others? #i think he should meet his brother again and have an actual talk to him and be forced to realize that he is just another human #instead ot the bid baddie he wants to be seem as

[starfxckersinc]

I literally told a hot goth girl I wanted to be the narrator to her tyler last night & she rejected me what do I have to fucking do around here

#aberdeen spoken word #it wasn’t in a weird way we were talking abt performances we wanted to do for the talent show in the future #and I said someone should do fight club #& she said if I do fight club I’d need a- #and I cut in and said I’ll b narrator u be tyler. #& she said no I’d wanna be all 3 of them which is a much more slay idea but that’s not. #what I’m. saying #please hit me and blow up my apartment ifk #and it wasn’t bc I’m one of those weird mommy milkers goth sexualizing assholes #she was just special #& im waiting her out bc she had a bc #bf* #like what else do I have to Pledge like I just told u to fucking hit me and try to kill me or w/e JESUS

[mummer]

me when i lie

#i love th white because idk if hes making the narrator intentionally unreliable or not #the whole narration schtick in toafk is soooooo crazy i have NOT looked into it enough..... #like the entire ending completely disproves this so i dont think this was white’s actual authorial opinion #but idk he was a complicated guy LOL #Wait. well this quote is in a section that sort of centres around sir ector and HIS thoughts so i feel like it’s possible #that this bit of narration is actually from ector’s perspective? it’s a distant 3rd person with a present narrator #idk if that means that the narrator’s ‘opinion’ moments shift with the character they’re focusing on #or if this is meant to be read simply as an extrapolation of ector’s thoughts #not distant* i meant omniscient i know how pov works it’s just done in a really weird way in this book lol #and the way the narrator refers to you the reader all the time. its so good man #THE ANACHRONISMS!!!!!!! EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU ANACHRONISMS

[metanarrates]

hi! I know you said you probably won't answer (and honestly that's ok I'm just curious!) but what's the main problem with the high school/college au trope? I'm asking because like. while the rest have some clear red flags that's the only one to me that seems decent enough

I don't think it's problematic or anything i just find it really boring lol. especially if you're transposing characters from a fantasy or sci fi setting into a regular american high school or college! you get rid of a lot of the cool shit about their world, and most critically, the context in which those characters exist.

I guess that's the main reason I find it boring. almost all the characters I find extremely compelling, especially when it comes to their dynamics with other characters, are so informed by their extremely specific circumstances that it just strips the appeal to remove those circumstances! character dynamics especially are NOTHING without the really weird context in which they were formed. it's tough to replace the context with something else and still get similarly compelling characters or relationships. and since the context for high school aus are always "these characters are normal american high schoolers," it invariably ends up lacking any appeal those characters/relationships may have had for me. where's the genuinely weird shit!

idc if people enjoy it, to be clear. i think it's a boring way to interact with media but that doesn't mean it's totally bad. I just don't like the trope because it's everywhere in certain fancontent and I'm really tired of seeing it yknow?

#maybe hate is a strong word. i'll just say it rubs me the wrong way #it also rarely hits on the genuinely weird parts of being a high schooler or college student imo #which is fine i just never am able to find much interest in anything about it! #plus since the context is missing for the characters theyre just boiled down into their base recognizable traits most of the time #which just isn't fun. wheres the MEAT #im fine answering publicly about these things I guess btw i just don't want people to show up in my inbox starting arguments #which is the main reason im probably gonna keep my stronger bitchin's private #also disclaimer that i havent read a ton of fanfic for at least a few years. most of my opinions are based on what i saw in high school #narrates

[j-esbian]

thinking about the time i was criticizing a male fantasy author for not including many female characters (and all but one were incredibly generic) and people were really like "be nice to the author, he's said he doesn't know many women in real life :/" like. yeah i can tell

#mine #delete later #cause im not trying to start shit #it was on tiktok so like all of that tracks lmao. i dont know if that's even true but if so. INSANE. #idk what made me think of this #but my dude if youre in your 40s thats not an excuse #tbh i feel like the book in question would have been completely forgettable and id just kind of roll my eyes and move on #if not for the fact that people whose taste i trust!!!!! recommended it!!!! #like what the fuck. the betrayal #like im still driving myself crazy thinking about it years later and trying to figure out what i'm missing #honestly could not say if the rest of the book was good bc imo the way the narration treated the female characters was too distracting #'this one is Mom. that's her whole personality.' #'this one is the hot older woman but she likes me anyway bc im the specialest smartest boy in school. #it's weird cause there's barely any women at this school anyway. she even tried to seduce me but im too in love with Main Love Interest' #'this one is the Main Love Interest and she's so pretty and sexy everyone wants to be with her. she has a tragic secret past #she wont tell me why but we cant be together and she also spends most of the book seducing other men. But I Know She Doesnt Mean It #i will learn her secret and wear her down so we can be together because we vibed pretty well a few years ago' #and then there's the cRaZy OnE #and that's it. those are the only female characters #apparently the last one has gotten her own book. maybe that's what people praise this guy for? but i am not willing to give it a chance lol #p****** r******* meet me in the pit

[autism-corner]

cant believe that the delusions i had at 16-18 y/o were just autism again.

#i used to have full on delusions that every single thing around me was fake. 100% simulation style. #very bad. #but i now think a root cause of that is the lack of theory of mind autistics often have #which means i cant really understand that other think the way i do. its hard to believe that. #that looking back can be very much a huge factor in starting my delusions. #ofc there were other reasons that i got delusionol but. #ive connected the dots #man i really like cognitive science this shit is awesome. #sillyposting #i was gonna make a post saying 'why am i in a class about autism im already a pro at this' but WHOMPWHOMP apparently not lol #the autism was not really the main topic but it is a little part of it. bc were so special and cool. #were talking about the mary-ann game or whatever its called. #and the narrator just goes 'xxxx should have said so-and-so' which. #just plainly came across as: look at this dumb tizzy ass child. getting it WRONG. because he's STUPID an WEIRD #but maybe thats just me projecting lol #anyway in other good autisn news: the 15 y/o coworker who is an absolute sweetheart is autistic!! YIPPEE #its so nice to see...... i feel like i have a lil sibling under my wing bc im the one that trained her <33 #ok! =w=b

[katakaluptastrophy]

The thing about having read our way through two previous books full of necromancers and weird eldritch shenanigans is that the absolute horror of what happens to John as a person doesn't quite register.

John's own glib, matter of fact narration tells the story as an apotheosis. He was doing great. He'd have fixed everything if only people had listened.

But reading between the lines in the John chapters, you glimpse something rather different.

John basically spends the first half of the Jod chapters sitting in the dark with his creepy yellow eyes, not eating or sleeping, literally stroking his favourite corpses and coming out with chill and fun statements about how he can feel their skin when he's away from them and he's 'waking up'. Cool, cool.

Passing swiftly over the cow dome, Presidential Puppet Pals, and the suitcase nuke, day to day life in the cow dome must have been fun... You're all on the Interpol watchlist, the Vatican is asking a lot of questions, the police are outside and John - who hasn't slept in a week and doesn't eat anymore and is probably wearing some kind of weird novelty tshirt - comes wandering past while you're eating breakfast, followed by a dozen silent, dead-eyed corpses like some kind of mother hen. He makes a cow joke, and then zones out because he got distracted by listening to the bacteria in your gut.

And then some guys die accidentally and it turns out he can eat death energy. So now he's got creepy Twilight eyes, an entourage of corpses, a cape, some very dodgy eyeliner, and he's barely breaking a sweat as he instantly kills over 100 people, says it was an accident, and then, dead serious, tells his followers to drag dead UN peacekeepers inside to add to his 'skeleton army'.

By the end, he's not slept or eaten in weeks, is tweaking his own bodily processes on the fly, is puppeting the dead US president and possibly an army of over a hundred corpses, monitoring G- in Melbourne, carrying on at least two conference calls, and helping to build barricades out of chairs.

And I just keep thinking how weird it must have been for his friends. How sometimes he would have seemed like the man they'd known and loved for so long, and sometimes he would seem different. Did they ever find themselves mourning the man he was? Did they ever stand there as he tuned into something they couldn't fathom, staring at them with those yellow eyes, and feel some awful, uncanny valley terror? Did he ever feel like he was losing himself? At what point did the cow jokes stop feeling like oh, classic John and start to be a reminder that his desire for vengeance and the scope of his powers were outstripping his remaining...perspective?...restraint?...humanity?

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #john gaius #We think about eldritch Alecto lots #but I think John's whole 'I'm just a guy' routine sometimes obscures that in many respespects he's just as unsettling

[mx-paint]

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#the way this person worded this is. something. #that theyre mad a canon bisexual character is. bisexual. #taking a line from him saying that he wonders if his new body turned him gay when hes a unreliable narrator. #YIKES. #and then lying to say the creator confirmed he was gay bc hes in the new body is still. bad #like she most definitely did not or people would have wrote down what she said for all to see #its just weird #like even in his first life he flirts and likes both men and women #but idk if the lying is getting to me like it should #considering they also lie about a trans character not being trans #when the creator only has said about them that their ex lover will only watch them for the rest of their life #instead of them ever meeting again

[medicinemane]

...so anyway, at that point I started... hmm? Oh hi honey

What's that? Oh no, this is totally normal, she just likes to stick my head to the ceiling some days. You know how it is, wives *chuckles*

...um... honey... do you think you can at least support my body while I'm up here? My neck... well it's really starting to hurt holding everything up like this...

...honey?

#mm writing #so yeah; it's weird; I could probably explain what's going on with it; but it's strange #had another one where guy talks about how he can't move anymore; his wife just moves him around; but it's better that way #before he finds himself hovering into the kitchen with a hot open oven and saying how much he looks forward to dinner #so yeah... there you go; that's the sort of thing that was narrating in my head while I lay there not getting up

[ddejavvu]

eddie being the speaker for venom’s adoring rant he eventually goes on at the end of your date when you’re just slowly strolling through a park, taking the long way home just to draw the evening out (but also eddie filtering it because some of the points are VERY INAPPROPRIATE and so venom gets mad and eventually takes over even though you are in public)

This post is 18+, minors dni.

"You're very pretty," Eddie narrates the voice in his head, but he shakes his head and tries again, "Pret-ty. He says- He says it weird, like prit-ty."

"Pretty," You try, voice low and gruff in a poor attempt to match Venom's, "Like that?"

"Spot on," Eddie laughs, and you let your chest shake with giggles as you roam down the sidewalk, "And he says your dress makes him think of blood, which," Eddie grimaces, "I'm sure, in his mind, is a compliment."

"Hm," You hum, glancing down at the red fabric you're draped in, "Yeah, I'll choose to take that kindly."

"And he wants to- woah," Eddie's eyes go wide and his hand tightens around your own momentarily, "Uh, hold your hand."

"What?"

"He wants to hold your hand!" Eddie insists, "And- Jesus, Venom! And tuck you into bed."

"I said fuck!" A voice roars from deep inside of Eddie's chest, and before you know it black ooze is emerging from your boyfriend's skin. You panic, yanking Eddie-turned-Venom into an alleyway between two apartment buildings and praying that no one is watching you.

"I said I wanted to fuck you into the bed," Venom clarifies, towering over you in the dark alley. If you didn't know him, in any other scenario, you'd be fainting from fear. But the hulking alien doesn't bother you now, and you put a hand over his mouth full of sharp teeth to try and get him to quiet down.

"Okay," You soothe, trying to acknowledge him so that he doesn't feel so misinterpreted, "Okay Venom. That's very- uh, nice. But you can't be out right now, you know that. Please just go back inside Eddie?"

"He is lying, I cannot trust him!" Venom huffs, voice not quieted at all, merely muffled by your hand, "I did not say I wanted to hold your hand. I said I wanted you to fuck my tongue!"

"Charming," You spit, face flushed with fire matching the heat in your belly, "Really, Venom, I- I'd like to, but- but we're out now, and I need you to quiet down and go back inside."

"Eddie does not deserve to take you on dates like this. He does not tell you how good you look."

"Yes he does!" You insist, still clamping your hand desperately over Venom's mouth. It does nothing, but you can't stand the thought of letting go.

"He uses words like gorgeous and beautiful. They are true," Venom promises, "But he never says sexy or delicious. Those are true, too, and you should hear them."

"Thank you, Venom," You croon, moving your hands to his cheeks to tug them closer to your face. He accepts a kiss to the teeth, seeing as he hasn't bothered to give himself lips in this form, and it's a rather odd sensation on your own. But it quiets him down, and he's calm under your touch.

"I'm happy you think those things," You grin, and you can't deny that you're flattered, "But if you want to say those things, we have to wait until we're home. I promise, as soon as the door shuts behind us you can join Eddie and I, okay? He'll say beautiful, you can say..." You fumble for a term, inches away from Venom's face, and he offers a helpful hint.

"Hot stuff!" He roars, definitely loud enough to be heard from the street.

"Okay! Okay, hot stuff," You nod, peering horrified at the mouth of the alleyway to make sure no one is coming to investigate, "That's very nice Venom, I'd love to hear that later."

"I will go back inside now," Venom tells you, and your heart rate spikes when you hear rushed footsteps coming your way, "But I will see you later."

"Later, later!" You promise, and the symbiote can't seem to melt into Eddie fast enough. As soon as the face in front of you is tan instead of goopy, you surge for it, locking lips with Eddie in a gesture you hope looks passionate and not rushed.

The man doesn't know what you're doing, but he doesn't care. He lets you slam him against the wall behind him with a soft groan, and you shut your eyes just as the footsteps thud beside you.

"Oh-" A resident of the nearby apartments scoffs, "Gross. Get a fucking room or something, you'll get an infection out here. Perverts!"

You flip the man off for good measure, and wait until he's a safe distance away to part from Eddie. He looks dazed from the kiss, but as soon as he comes to, he's got a message from Venom.

"He wants to know if he can bite that guy's head off," Eddie drawls, and you sigh, typical.

"No," You scoff, grabbing Eddie's hand and leading him back out of the alleyway, "But we should get home, he's got lots to say to me."

"And do to you," Eddie's face scrunches as he listens to Venom's rambling, shaking his head slightly at a suggestion you don't hear, "I- I don't think that's possible, buddy."

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[iron-sides]

i already said this on my ig so. sorry to mxofnames and frostiwars ig but liv and maddie is fuckin. underrated ok the parker tunnels were the funniest thing ever and still are and they had at least 2 episodes centered around the fact that women are more than their experiences. and thats just how many they Named there coulda been more im just now remembering. but like liv Likes fashion and shoes and shit but shes also very passionate about her art maddie is allowed to not just be a basketball player/tomboy but in fact be pretty darn feminine joey is autistic parker burrowed tunnels into the foundations of his home so he could watch girl TV shows and. hes never condemned by the narrative for that? like yeah some characters pick on him but its either his family doing it lovingly or theyre portrayed as being assholes and while hes embarrassed thats internal- the larger narrative cradles his love for linda and heather in the palm of its hands and sure its played for laughs but mostly whats played for laughs is the part where hes embarrassed- not the part where he likes the show. kristen bell went on it and expressed a violent rage and johnny nimbus? hilarious. jemma the voltage director? hilarious. i watched like 3 episodes today i am filled with love for this show sure its very clearly meant for a younger audience and its Very formulaic this was nobodys masterpiece nobodys venus de milo but by god was it good for what it was. and the music Really wasnt that bad

#even artie was Not as weird as i remembered him being altho that could just be thats ive had way more exposure now to gross boys #but like. cooking an entire christmas dinner at no cost for no credit and like 3 hours MAX before showtime? in exchange for. a picture w #liv? thats really not that much to ask in retrospect considering there are Definitely nick characters who wouldve asked for feet pics #my thots #sorry im sick so im watching shows i liked whenn i was a kid #i watched ea high earlier too but only one episode so id have to watch at least one more to have more to say than like #kitty chesire is cool the chesire cat is hot i love the dynamic the wonderland kids have apple is a bitch (beloved) annnd. i like #the narrators theyre implemented really well and its a clever way to move the story along and spell things out for young kids esp with #the introduction of brooke #anyway