#char rants

[charaie]

oh look it’s wishing someone would just fucking hug me o’clock

#yearning #touch starved #lgbt #char rants

[char-writes]

I have a terrible habit of coming to Tumblr-- incredibly motivated and victorious-- only to vanish entirely within a month or two.

I apologize. Let's pretend I'm back for sure this time

#char speaks #char rants #i promise i have good reason #like one of my beta readers and I had something akin to a falling out #and they still forwarded me the notes weeks after we stopped talking #and i've put off looking at it bc I feel weird about them now #but i know they have no ill intent and I appreciate the fact they looked at my writing at all #but still #weird vibes #anyway #back to writing

[thecharlottewrites]

(one of the many) things that grinds my gears about renting in london is,,,, clothes storage. the flats are small and never have built in storage. ever. last year’s flat was disgusting but at least space for furniture, this flat has a weird shaped bedroom that i CANNOT figure out how to make work.

like. don’t get me wrong, I love this flat. It is gorgeous. But my god- the furniture situation in the bedroom- the locations of the plugs and radiators ((and SLANTED CEILING)) is pushing my buttons in all the wrong ways tonight

#char rants

[mirrorbxlls]

might get stabbed for this but like the edits of walker scobell make me so uncomfy like ma'am that is a child. especially when they use clips of him from percy jackson like that is a 12 year old my good lady. and before you say "oh but im the same age as him" or "oh but i'm younger than him" that's still weird dawg. he is still a kid and so are you. while you shouldn't really be sexualising yourself when you're still in middle school or whatever that's your decision. walker, however, did not choose to be sexualised, so just don't.

#walker scobell #pjo #percy series #percy jackson #char's hot takes #shitpost #percy jackon and the olympians #rant

[crimson-nail]

GIVE ME CONTROL OF S2 DONT BE SHY I DONT BITE PUT YOUR FINGERS IN MY ENCLOSURE I DONT BITE

#BRING HER BACK #charlie’s art #they can BOTH exist. #the little l////li bait can be a whole new character. just bring back my wife #personal hc for how it works is that conrad has been gradually trying to produce plant-human hybrids #and a line of ‘crimsonnail’ clones is the result of that #max elendira was the predecessor to stamp elendira #stamp elendira was created by mashing together max elendira and knives. like a stepwise process #elendira and knives are nutty divorcees btw. therapy made them worse #they are also both still trans women. #i have a whole. thing. abt the fact they felt the need to make the genderqueer char explicitly nonhuman #but that’s a whole other rant and topic #that i will not burden these tags with. i love women love and light and peace #elendira the crimsonnail #legato bluesummers #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum

[charcubed]

I NEEEED people—especially those with unfathomably large platforms???—to start doing just a tiny bit of internal evaluation before they log onto a blue website and say “I don’t want these queer characters to fuck in canon” or “I’d be fine if these characters never kissed again” or whatever.

This is a post about Good Omens and the prospect of Aziraphale and Crowley potentially having sex in season 3. It's a response to a tweet that I'm crossposting, but let it be known the above statement and this topic applies broadly across multiple fandoms too.

But anyway, in regards to Good Omens specifically:

I am seeing this take that essentially boils down to "Canon has now made it clear that these characters want to have sex with each other through subtext (i.e. Aziraphale and the ox), but I don’t want that to reach narrative completion because the idea of them having sex makes me uncomfortable or isn’t my personal preference” and it is, to put it mildly and delicately, A Very Bad Take.

This is rhetorical (and I do not expect or particularly want an answer), but: explain to me how and why queer characters who are unavoidably visibly queer (aka 2 "man-shaped beings") fucking on screen wouldn’t be a net positive, especially when you can indicate how canon has set it up.

Presumably, some people say things like this because ~they want to see them as visibly ace.~ Okay. But by some of these people’s own admission, there IS more evidence in canon now to indicate these characters crave sex with each other (vs arguing otherwise)... yet people would rather that be ignored/erased all for the sake of them feeling comfortable or feeling better about what canon shows or doesn’t show explicitly??

I’m sorry, but—speaking as an ace person, to be clear—your personal preferences for the story shouldn’t / don’t affect anything here. There’s too much in this.

Yeah, I understand on a personal level not having “representation.” I almost never see myself or my unique experiences and identity reflected in stories. And yet, I also understand that that doesn’t change any story or the world in which we live. Things like this are not said in a vacuum.

Any queer characters having sex on screen IS a net positive. It is rare and impactful, and openly calling for or hoping for otherwise when canon points to its potential is a detrimental alliance with purity culture, whether intentionally or accidentally. Because we live in a Goddamn society!

Who knows (other than Neil Gaiman) whether Aziraphale and Crowley ARE going to fuck on international TV. None of us do! But the subtext right now blatantly says they’re starving for it. And you don’t have to like the prospect of that, but honestly? We SHOULD get to see it play out. There’s no truly legitimate reason we shouldn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whether you "prefer" it or not.

And my ultimate hot take is… if someone balks at the idea of that or doesn’t understand the importance of it, despite even seeing the subtext… then they should perhaps unpack that? Just a thought.

Truly the way fandoms are managing to hit either “subtext doesn’t count :/ ” or “let’s keep it to subtext so it’s ‘open to interpretation’ :) ” nowadays depending on what corner one visits is MADDENING. Whiplash-inducing. Surreal. And so much nonsense you can’t pick where to start.

So! I do genuinely hope I'm not kicking off discourse but I felt this Needed To Be Said (and on more than one site). Because posts like “even if they never kiss again, we’ve won <3 “ make me want to be like…

These characters are YEARNING. Do not doom them and us to it. For once, we can reach for the stars and maybe–against all odds–pull them down. Embrace it!

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[Update: after more discourse has occurred, I have somewhat elaborated on this further, from the POV of the significance of the queer themes in Good Omens and more specifically how they center illicit pleasure/desire]

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens season 3 #neil gaiman #aziracrow #ineffeble husbands #I'm OVER ITTTT. #this is the delicate version of this rant. trust me. I tried to keep it chill for the sake of posting on main #char writes things #PS adding some brief tags now that the discourse has Escalated: #Mr Gaiman can be pedantic on the internet and pretend by omission he's never heard of subtext all he wants. #it's not what his story is saying and I do actually think he DOES know how to do stories. so. love & light to whatever his deal is. #(what I mean: do not come into my house & try to say 'neil said the ox scene isn't sexual.' inaccurate + that's a whole suitcase to unpack) #(I have now written about All That at length elsewhere with exasperation but it doesn't need to be linked in this post lol.)

[o-i-w-u]

HELL YEAH APOLOGIZE

BRITISH BLORBO GETS APOLOGY REAL

HE'S STILL KINDA SUSPICIOUS BUT WHO GIVES A FUCK! HE'S A BLORBO AND HE DESERVES THE APOLOGY!

YIPPPEEEE WAHHHHOOOPOOO RUIN MY BOY RAHHH

AGRHTVVRDU celebratory doodles on their way for sure AGHHHHHH

anyway-

#char speaks #rants #ramblings #im too happy about this #sams ruin #sams moon #gush post #kinda #vaguely

[gobstoppr]

hey guys am i allowed to say on main that i dont like metadad . am i gonna get beaten up for saying this.

guys i think we all took the term found family too literally and now everythings flattened into a boring nuclear family. guys can we stop. hello . is anybody there

#text #it was kinda charming at first but it feels like everytime i try to look at the mk tag its always the same shit . guys. guys. #we can do so much more w/ their dynamics than just dad and son ugh its so . ughhh. #every since i realized i was like . really really aroace. ive started to grow a bit of a distaste for shipping culture #this is relavant i swear. iwanna talk about metadede #like ok in fandoms right. theres often #the enforcement of specific roles onto characters for a simplified understanding of them for memes and drawing ideas #we want gay rep but we dont quite have it canonically so we make our queer headcanons seem more legit #by giving a char a same sex partner. ok easy we did it. gay people are real now #and we get awesome art and its wonderful bc people are wonderful #but its like . the relationships themselves feel flat a lot of the times. #metadede never seems to be about dedede. its about mk having a boyfriend. bc we need him to date someone. #and im not like . mad at anyone about this. i participated in it back in the day. but like. #ok so. gay hcs are the most popular in most fandom things bc its easy; hot; and sweet #but things like aro or ace hcs? its just. they. how can you depict that in a single framed drawing of a char?so theres none at all. #its not even that i actively hc chars aroace its jsut this is my world view; how i default to reading chars #maybe this rant in the tags is unrelated after all. #but idk. ive got lots of thoughts about things. #anyways as ceo of meta knigth im right about everything #i can talk more about metadad stuff specifically if people want

[teratophilex]

Im gonna say it.

The cinematic cutscenes from TOTK sucked.

Theyre mostly just characters upright, idle, giving exposition. I was bored when sonia died because of how lacking in emotion the whole scene was played out, from the hardly-there voice acting to the models robotic movements.

I was bored every time a guardian ancestor passed on the stone, the "imprisoning war" was a footnote of a lackluster 6v1 where everyone just stood there or floated in slow motion in the periphery in a strike pose.

The only cutscenes that had a lot of movement were ganon-centric or reused preset animations for creatures (like the molduga assault or the creation of ganons army)

Its just SO LAZYYY

#and that endgame cutscene where zelda just looks at the camera and speaks for 2 minutes like a fucking dating sim char #at least in BOTW the memory cutscenes had so much LIFE and zelda moved with her emotions in scenes #where did that all go? #TOTK was a good game but not because of the story #totk desperately needs someone to go thru and reanimate every one of those stupid dragon tears #enough of my ranting tho #totk #botw #tloz totk #tloz botw #loz totk #zelda #link #ganondorf #dont look at me #the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom

[flareboi]

what if purple never calls him dad

#what if the word ‘dad’ is something purple doesn’t like. #what if it carries a bad connotation for them and a bitter reminder for mango. #family doesnt always have to look like one thing yknow? i dont think those two would have a traditional dynamic in that way #maybe purple does consider him their parent. they just dont call him ‘dad’ unless its in third person #and theyre fine with that and so is he #king is his father figure yes but he’s also a mom. a big brother. a sister. their dynamic just isnt captured in purple calling him ‘dad’ #maybe his name is the best way they can say it. the best way they can appreciate him #because for purple a father is someone who hurts you. someone who leaves you #i think ‘purple calls him dad on accident’ is a cute idea #but honestly it would make more sense if they called him mom on accident instead. or if it happened when they were afraid. not comfortable #(this is presuming orchid is his mother and navy his father based on the pronouns used in the react vids iirc) #because why would purple refer to someone he sees as a parent with the title of the one that presumably did not raise them? #and on mangos end #i think u can kinda tell who in this fandom has never lost a loved one in how they characterize him #guys. grief doesnt leave. it never leaves. #you just learn to live with it!!! #mango is not okay just because he has a new kid to take care of. i would know this my bio mom passed and i have a stepmother!!! #she does not fill that void and i do not expect her to because it cannot be filled. but she brings a lot new to ease the pain and is a #wonderful part of my life #the same thing here #mango will never ever just .. go back to how he was #he will never be the same since gold died. and thats okay #purple will not change that. they will merely add something new #their dynamic can be beautiful and nontraditional and a showing of how grief can change you #it doesnt have to be ‘replacement dad and replacement son’ #its so much more #oke. tag rant over #fett rambles #ava #uhh should i tag the chars

[kaelily]

why does the fandom mischarecterize ayaka, keqing, nilou and now layla so badly?

they're all completely twisted into these crazy yandere girls who fight with each other for aether's love when they've been nothing but sweet to us. these jokes made by aether harem mfs are not funny at all. aether is not a playboy, he's just looking for his sister. i'm not attacking anyone who ships them but this kind of mischarecterization is just... not great. they make girls' entire personality about being aether's yandere lovers and fighting with each other when they're more than that. some of them also hate on ppl who like harmless queer ships. i'm just a lil weirded out with that side of the fandom because these girls are just few of the sweetest chars in the game, i love them sm :((

this is just my personal opinion. if you don't like it, just scroll away please!!

#pls read the chars' backstory before making assumptions like this... #ayaka #kamisato ayaka #keqing #nilou #layla #genshin ayaka #genshin keqing #genshin nilou #genshin layla #genshin #genshin impact #aether #genshin aether #lily rants #genshin traveler

[charaie]

your app sucks ass @staff

#can it stop ejecting me into space every time i try to scroll thanks #the hellsite #char rants

[fisheito]

a taste of Things I Draw in the hazy juncture of drowsy---sneep

#sometimes i'll be lyin there in typical /too tired to brain///too active to fall asleep/ Zone #and a way to trick myself intofeeling some satisfaction that will permit me to attempt Rest #is to draw my thoughts without a filter. like a ranting journal! #unfortunately my thoughts are all nuca at this point so the before-bedtime-diary becomes...this #rotating kani chars for my own gigglesies #seems like i often go to bed with lingering feelings of violence toward yakumo #:BIG SHRUG: #yakumo #kuya

[hopelesslygaysstuff]

i hate it when a friendship ends with someone making the other person this big enemy... like we could have just drifted apart and outgrown each other, but instead false accusations about things that never happened are being thrown and i'm being blocked???

like i'm sorry that i was drifting away from you after you started consistently choosing other people over me and that made you feel insecure?? don't make things up just so i'm this big bad friend and you can feel justified with ending our friendship and make yourself feel like the better person.

jesus fucking christ the immaturity.

#char can't shut up #char is also drunk #and angry #and sad #and kinda numb #and now i don't have a friendgroup #pls ignore this rant

[mirrorbxlls]

"omg australia is the favourite child!" "ugh australia won!"

let me tell you something, my little american friend.

sure, we get really good (super fucking amazing !!) surprise songs. but this does not equate to being the favourite child.

we got seven shows for the whole country. we have a population of approximately 25.7 million, and while not everyone listens to her there sure as hell are a bunch of people who do. in addition to this, the shows in australia also have to accommodate for swifties from oceanian/asian countries who wanted to go and could pay to travel here (with the huge bump in air travel prices + hotel prices nonetheless), as there were are only four different locations (tokyo, melbourne, sydney and singapore, coming to a grand total of 14 shows) in the entirety of the oceanian and asian continents.

so while i do empathise with you missing out on some amazing songs, before you start talking about how australia is totally the favourite child, please have a look at the amount of shows america got compared to the rest of the world. thank you 😊

#taylor swift #internation swifties #taylorswift #swifties #taylor swift eras #eras tour #sydney n3 #char's hot takes #rant #sorry for the rant #sorry not sorry #tortured poets department

[miraculous-showtime]

i've decided to finally post about aroace akitoya

i so totally understand romantic akitoya shippers and even engage with the content sometimes. but. consider my viewpoint.

akitoya qpr. like. i have these 2 thoughts in my head:

1. akito has known he was aroace since sometime in middle school and actually helped toya realize that he was also aroace. they enter a qpr early in their first year of high school. they never really tell anyone because they don't think it's all that important. i feel like some people would definitely assume they have crushes on each other but... nah. they're just chilling. :)

2. "peer pressure" (not exactly but can't think of the right words) from others leads them to believe that they actually do have crushes on each other. (neither of them know they are aroace yet in this interpretation) so they enter a relationship on a mutual understanding of "i like you i think" and "yeah i'm pretty sure i like you too?" but then it all feels wrong and weird so it falls apart within a matter of weeks. then they later experience aroace enlightening <3

like... they have such distinct soulmate vibes but also they're both so aroace. they're so aroace. to me. <3

anyways if you read this lol thanks for indulging my silly thoughts. akitoya isn't even one of my fav ships i just wanted to put this out here because i never see people talk about aroace akitoya and they mean a lot to me!

#akito shinonome #toya aoyagi #akitoya #project sekai #mirsho_txt #i need to post aroace rants abt the other chars #aroace wxs and l/n you are so real to me #aroace knmf #aro spec ena #ace spec mmj.. aro spec haruka..... #every wxs and l/n ship is a qpr to me. especially polysho and polyneed #girls who are in love but are also literally JUST best friends #AROACE ICHIKA BELIEVERS WHERE ARE YOU #im gonna stop rambling now