#especially badly written ones

[bbreaddog]

Practising Goncharov Theme by @caramiaaddio on violin bc I thought it would add an extra layer of haunting…ness (is that a word?)

Here’s the excerpt I’m playing in the video:

Despite it being in a fuck off key for violin it is a really beautiful piece and it’s absolutely worth the trouble of practising in second position (world’s most hated position) and I’m HOPING 🤞 I can record and (maybe) post a full cover of it someday

#goncharov #music #violin #goncharov theme #oh man i have not posted my face in a very very very long time #possibly years #am i freaking out about it? a little #could i have converted this to audio instead? #well. yes but. it’s not exactly awesome quality in this practise room lmao #i so so badly wanna write out all the technical things I’m doing/focusing on here bc GRRR TECHNICAL WORK IS SO INTERESTING TO ME #but i would be typing out a whole essay probably and i don’t think my followers really. care that much about violin tech #lest they also play violin #i have one (1) known mutual who plays violin and that’s IT #apologies for the metronome ticking in the video #it can be very irritating to listen to #alas… it is also important for not speeding up when playing #anyways #hi caramiaaddio you don’t know me but big fan of what you’ve written here #ESPECIALLY THE CHROMATIC BITS OUGHHHH #the little semiquavers that poke their heads through like TWICE are surprisingly hard #but also they sound extra creepy in a good way #BIG fan #wait wait WAIT WAIT #i think this is my first time posting any of my violin playing here like. EVER. #I’ve been here for OVER A DECADE #AND I’M POSTING MY VIOLIN FOR THE FIRST TIME. FOR FUCKING. GONCHAROV. #i don’t have the right emoji for how I’m feeling rn #personal #mine #my face

[its-the-ratdawg]

jsyk even if you think Alana was just a "filler character" or "plot device" to the writers, she can still be more than that to you (if you want)

#especially if you're one of those 'canon means nothing to me' mfs #like im sick of that being used as an excuse to literally despise her #yall will make blorbos out of the most useless badly written men with five minutes of screentime. if you hate her just say that #no shame in that #alana bloom #hannibal nbc

[eliotquillon]

i think some of you need to sit down and interrogate why you dislike sabina so much because from where i’m sitting a lot of it is just thinly veiled misogyny. you don’t have to ship her with alex and you don’t have to like her but i’m so tired of people treating her as nothing more than an obstacle to their ship of choice and then trying to shift the blame onto horowitz for writing her poorly when there are literally dozens of male side characters who we know nothing about that get more fandom attention than sabina does. she’s not some evil irredeemable wench for struggling to support alex after the events of eagle strike. she’s a fifteen year old girl whose entire life was upended and has to watch someone she cares about be blackmailed into putting himself in danger again and again. if you can forgive yassen for sending alex to scorpia or k-unit for treating him like shit in brecon beacons, why can’t you forgive sabina for pulling away and trying to live a normal life. you can find her annoying or boring or pointless as a character, but alex very clearly cares about her. acting like he doesn’t says more about your attitudes towards female characters than it does horowitz’s lol

#alex rider #i’m not going to deny that she was badly written at times #especially after eagle strike #but that’s not her fault as a character. that’s on horowitz for being weird about women #the truth is that sabina is one of the only characters to point out alex’s own hypocrisy to him #she was the only person who suspected something was going on before he told her #her family literally took him in after he thought jack died #i can totally understand not shipping her with alex. #but you cannot deny that they care about each other. alex didn’t leave san francisco because he didn’t care about her #it’s not sabina’s fault that he’s traumatised and it’s not her fault for wanting to move past her own trauma #she didn’t do anything wrong. and like i’m sorry but this is anthony horowitz we’re talking about #he erased the mention of a gay couple just EXISTING in christmas at gunpoint when it got reprinted in secret weapon #i promise that even if sabina never existed yalex/tomlex/fredlex still wouldn’t be canon #she’s not getting in the way of anything. #so please stop fucking punishing her in fics where those ships DO get together #just stop punishing her in general. you dont have to write about her if you dont like her

[rexscanonwife]

Grrggh...good morning everypony = w = I rewatched the episode of the ppg reboot where Utonium gets a girlfriend...

#jane journals #self insert talk #🔬 starkissed scientist 🔬 #i woke up at 5 in the gah damn morning and MY HEADPHONES are gone so im gonna have to ride the bus w/o them >:[ #hell on earth 10 dead 4 missing!!! #and i choose to do this before i go ajfjg #anyways this sucks #like im not bothered by love interests but this whole reboot is ass and the characters are badly written #but theres like....at least one or two cute moments where utonium is smooth with it >//< #it cant even get the FIRST THING RIGHT ABOUT HIM THO #in literally THE FIRST EPISODE he says that spiders creep him out and they basically just. not even ignore but contradict it entirely #for why? the purpose of this ep where the love interest studies spiders and turns into one ig #they could say that hes PRETENDING to like them because he likes her. but they didnt do that #ALSO why spider? why not werewolf? that would be hot #and the love interest is that bland brand of 'adorkable' thats so disingenuous #on the other hand i DO like spiders. and the way she talks to one and like treats it like a pet...yeah id do that ._. #and idk they always write utonium as way more harsh than he'd usually be especially with bubbles #he wouldnt tell her shes being SELFISH by not wanting to give away her last piece of popcorn to a spider #especially when she barely got any #maybe he'd remind her that its GOOD to be generous BUT NOT CALL HER SELFISH #but yeah....theres maybe a moment or two 😒 #like when his love interest spoils a whole MOVIE for the girls and ofc theyre upset #but he holds her face and says 'everything i need to see is right here'...>//< #THAT was smooth #and idk they don't play with the idea of the girls wanting to break them up ENOUGH #they just write one fake email and its done. then spider reveal #it sucks maybe i shouldnt have started my day this way 😂😂😂 #whatever hopefully work is good!! #and i always have og utoniom to think about 🥺👉👈💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘💖💘

[thvnkpink]

what is the general consensus around interacting with OCs that don't yet have a MASSIVELY fleshed-out bio but a general one? 🤔

#like one that's essentially like “yeah here's the basics of what you need to know” #because i don't yet have all the details written out but they are in my little noggin #because i am very excited about this oc and want to write them SUPER badly but fleshed out bios take a while!! #especially because i'm describing what she does for NINE SEASONS IN A SHOW!!! #it's gonna take a while and i wanna write her while muse is here <3 #but yeah if you'd be okay with interacting with an oc like this lemme know #i will follow you from her <3 #⸻ ❀ 𝑰'𝑴 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑳𝑰𝒁𝑨𝑹𝑫 𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 ꒷꒦꒷꒦ ooc.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

You know, I'm glad that some of us take the step to embrace things that we like even if they're "cringe" or "objectively bad"

But perhaps we could take the next step forward and embrace the idea of reading into books/shows/movies/etc even if they don't seem deep. Perhaps we could understand that the two kinds of media aren't either "shallow and meaningless so you're weird and brainrotted to read into it" or "incredibly and profoundly deep in every way so if you don't analyze every single angle of the thing then you're brainrotted". Some media is deeper than others, but all I propose is that no matter how deep it seems it's acceptable to dig into the thing and take the media seriously instead of just assuming that because of ____ thing (such as target audience or how cringe it is) the media not deep and will never be deep and everything good about it happened on accident.

#fandom wank #i just be ramblin #I'm not putting this in any tags #I'm just frustrated that Sonic Prime is going to be remembered by the bulk of its fanbase/people who watched it as a shallow stupid badly #written kid's show where the only thing good about it that we can even consider was created on purpose and is deep is Sonadow #I'm frustrated that when people learned that sometimes the death note creators did things because it was cool and not because they were #planning for it to be some great symbolism that so many people jumped from 'death note is a masterpiece and every bit of it is meticulously #thought out the curtains are never blue' to 'pack it up guys! the curtains are just blue! Everything good about death note like that #profound relationship I like and the neat symbolism completely happened by accident and Ohba sucks as a writer otherwise' #I'm frustrated when I see people talk about 'a kid's show' as if it's not gonna be deep at all or written well *because #it's a kid's show and then turn around and complain that said show sucks and isn't deep at all (even if that's how they're choosing to look #at it and they could see the care put into the story if they didn't go into it assuming that it will be lesser and shallow and dumb based on #what it is) #I guess it's also just getting me on this random Wednesday the idea that the bulk of one's viewers determine the legacy of a piece of media‚ #no matter how close or far away they are from painting the media as it actually is or tries to bw #It's also just bleak (especially from a manga/anime standpoint) that if your work is considered profound and intellectual‚ then any reveal #of something not being deep is grounds for people to completely swap how they think of your work and how they see you as a writer #And any work that's considered 'not actually that deep' from the getgo ends up with people only engaging with it seriously saying stuff like #'I know nothing about it is purposeful or deep but I like it' #and just ends up with prevailing opinion putting down anything percieved as 'good' or 'profound' about the work as a complete fluke

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

The HORROR of hearing your little five-year-old voice singing awkwardly along to a pristine backing track because your dad was just dying to shove you in front of a mic and produce a song as soon as you could enunciate words semi-intelligibly.

#Barely fifteen minutes of practice just “Here’s the lyrics; here’s the mic. Sing my Angel of Music!” #Mostly my fault because you could not pay me in stuffed animals and candy to get in front of any microphone at that age #mostly because my dad was constantly pressuring me to and I didn’t like that #I wouldn’t be opposed to it now if he hadn’t been instrumental in destroying so much of my own work for being gay and satanic #so uh… he’s not getting any asset of mine to use for his projects. No sir. #It’s offensive. #“I hate every single poem you’ve ever written and believe they need to be destroyed EXCEPT this one and this one because #they’re about my dad and you expressed what I was feeling in a way I can’t articulate 🥺” #Well guess what buddy I articulated MYSELF too and you didn’t respect that; you don’t deserve anything from me #especially not my voice which you have so heavily censored and punished me for using in the way I please #I’m kind of glad I sung so badly because that’s all he’ll ever have of my voice

[goldenkid]

ok now that wild blue yonder was actually good i can be honest and say i didn't like the star beast

#it just felt messy and badly paced and i didn't like side characters acting #and i didn't like the way they did the metacrisis #AND honestly biggest one of all i didn't like the way they wrote donna's life. like sure she's happy now she has a family who loves her #her mum especially has changed a lot and you could argue that has had a knockon effect on her overall self esteem and relationships #but the point of donna originially was that her self esteem was shit! and nerys didn't really like her but donna settled for a shit friend #and her mum was mean and lance was horrible but she thought that was the best she was gonna get #and then the tragedy of her ending was that she loses all the growth and confidence she got with the doctor and goes back to being shallow- #-because she doesn't think she deserves anything more than that. because that's all she thinks her life is ever gonna be. #gossip and hangovers and the first bloke who's 'quite sweet' are as good as her life is ever gonna get #and tbh i really really needed to see her growth and change EXPLICITLY. like her mum being better to her -> that having an effect #her having rose -> that having an effect #the doctor's subconscious -> that having an effect on her self esteem specifically #etc etc #i just feel like rtd kind of ignored the tragic ending was like look her husband is a himbo who loves her how cute! #like ok. good that she's had character development OFFSCREEN that goes UNREMARKED ON. #also her + the doctor didn't have enough interaction + the metacrisis ending felt cheap #i liked rose and the scene with donna dying and i liked the meep a lot and the trans conversations when they didn't feel shoehorned in #i thought binary binary nonbinary was stupid but fun and very doctor who #but that was mostly it #but yeah. wild blue yonder was good. solid. felt like a proper rtd episode aka well written and acted and paced. lovely lovely stuff #doctor who

[solunstell]

I go on pinterest. I find godawful takes about bungou stray dogs. I leave a comment with evidence that supports otherwise for the most absurd takes. I leave pinterest.

#i found so many saying naomi is a badly written character. hello??? strategy? #intelligence? false innocence? communication skills? kindness and empathy? have you even watched the anime? even the anime #renouned for butchering characters #emphasized these points adequately #please just read untold origins if you want to say naomi is badly written #AND THE MORI TAKES??? FOUND ONE SAYING HE IS PURE EVIL WITH NO REDEEMING QUALITIES #amazing advice? strategy #? leadership abilities? learning from his mistakes? he has some amazing character development #especially in beast where hes given an opportunity to work with people that he has no reason to manipulate #like fam yall came into the gray morality anime and brought your own colored pencils #sol text #rant #kinda ig

[iidsch]

btw you know what's kind of weird about ai art? it was supposed to be the scientific discovery of the decade, the kind of thing you'd see in newspapers for weeks, but instead it was an annoying twitter trend led by the worst people on earth, tons of apps to make your face look like an anime or a disney character appeared out of nowhere, the internet became kind of useless with all the written ai articles and ai images infesting searches, and also bigots are using it to make really bad political propaganda. like if you had told me ten years ago we would have machines making art i would have never guessed it would be this big of a letdown

#m #art stuff #not to glorify the past or whatever but i get sad when i see those pictures of like. soviet people celebrating the day gagarin went to spac #or how millions of people listened to neil armstrong when humans went to the moon #why dont we celebrate major scientific discoveries anymore? i mean not saying ai art is one of them but i cant remember any good - #pieces of scientific news that were internationally celebrated #the ai thing is especially off-putting bcs every sci-fi movie told us ai would be super cool and fascinating #but instead we have badly written articles that say nothing and anime girls with huge breasts and six fingers

[ezraphobicsoup]

fuck man my life would be much much easier right now if there was not an inspector calling, yet we stay jesting (AAAAAAAAAAA)

#i mean like i’m fine #written a page and a quarter which is just the introduction and one paragraph someone stop me #annotating my work too so then the teachers have an easier job and know what i think i’ve done badly (is that a good idea??????????) #ezra’s real life rambles #not quite silly hours posting #right yeah i think i did fall asleep for an hour or so or maybe a little more so i’m alright on that front #i get this done in another 40 minutes or so?? #ignore everything else i still have to do #go straight to sleep (please) for like three hours and ah shit that’s a smaller number than i wanted #i’m sorry #idk maybe i was asleep for two hours before i honestly don’t know #we can pretend and therefore i will(?) have more wnergu(??) today #i have a singing lesson uhhh ok i’m just rambling now what am i saying #anyway!!!!!! take care of yourself and show yourself some extra love. from me #have a good night/day/other everyone and one person especially #i love vague mentioning in tags it’s like the funnest thing ever #ok but actually i’m gonna finish this essay now ba bye :)

[marivenah]

btw if anyone ever happens to need some help with writing something in german, feel free to ask me, I'm always happy to help! :)

this also goes for any cultural things or names!

#just to let y'all know I'm always happy to help 🤗 #haven't really seen any german ocs around except for one but just in case! #now that we have german speaking canon characters I thought maybe? #looking at a VERY CERTAIN character rn... #ahem. it's always better than google translate. please don't use that if you don't speak a certain language #please ask native speakers instead 😩 they'll always be happy to help! #I've just seen some really badly written stuff and idk it feels off #especially the usage of ä ö ü. please remember they exist for a reason! #and if you don't have them on your keyboard please use 'ae' 'oe' and 'ue' respectively instead of a o u only #technically the other ones are wrong too but i digress

[salsa-di-pomodoro]

Does anyone have nice Volo content? I'm having a very bad mental health week for some reason and i've come to discover Volo is one of my comfort characters, along with Ingo and a few others. However as you may have noticed most of the content about him villanizes him and has other people take revenge on him. I have nothing against the people who choose to characterize him this way, but you might understand that it's really depressing when your comfort character just suffers or causes suffering in every piece of media you consume. I've even been triggered by some of the more villanous takes on him (ao3 authors, please chill out with Those Takes) and it left me worse off than before.

I've had to settled for Ingo content, which is always good, but again if the content that helps me cope also makes me feel worse by pitting two of my favourite characters against each other it's not really going to accompliah anything.

Anyway yeah i needed to get that off my chest. If anyone has any good volo fic recommandations, or any recommandations at all for nice fics (or even just art, comics. A picture of your pet. Really i'll settle for anything) send them to me or reblog them here.

#also i'd appreciate if you chilled out with the evil volo takes especially the more triggering ones. yeah #i just barely saw the fic premise for one of them and instantly felt horrible. chill out people #this is a little bit of a call for help i guess but dont worry about it its just a bad brain week #it Will pass. someday #volo #ingo #should i tag him? ill tag him #it doesnt have to be angst-free #just make sure it has a happy ending #and that its not super heavy #please thank you sorry for bothering you but also not sorry at all i deserve this #ill even settle for the badly written/grammar disaster ones as long as theyre nice to him and everyone else mostly lol

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

my mom’s been reading a book lately that has a lot to do with mental illness, and she was telling me about it this afternoon and about how the author is urging people and especially Christians to understand the difference between spiritual counseling and mental health counseling and to seek the appropriate help in specific circumstances they may be facing—

which of course prompted me to go on a whole spiel about my opinion that the mind body and soul are all parts of one cohesive whole and should be treated as such and how much it rubs me the wrong way when I hear people start saying things like ‘well xyz is a sin problem and should be dealt with by praying and reading your Bible more’ when REALLY sin itself is also a multi-faceted concept that encompasses ALL areas of that mind-body-soul union and different remedies must be sought for sins effecting different areas of one’s life and person

#anxiety is a sin! and so is self-harm! and so is murder! #and yet all of these sins have different consequences and different ways they must be addressed and dealt with #completely different ways the person struggling with said sin should attempt to seek healing and restoration #because ultimate that’s what any sin is—a brokenness or skewedness or not-right-ness about ourselves and the world around us #you don’t #broken bones and the most basic of physical ailments are also products of sin; consequences of the original fall and introduction of pain #anyway this is not worded especially well because I am tired and still feeling not-entirely-well and my energy is largely depleted already #but this is one of my personal Soapboxes that I occasionally climb upon and holler around the house about #and I feel like some of the knitting circle people would feel the same way I do about this subject #so here is a badly-written post that y’all can feel free to add to if anyone wants :) #mobile #gurt says stuff #mental health #health #spiritual health #christianity #faith #edit: adding on here that praying and reading one’s Bible and genuinely earnestly seeking God’s face more is always important #and I didn’t meant to minimize it in my original post #yes of course we should all do those things more. especially if we’re in the midst of any sort of trial or temptation. #I just don’t like people offering it as the only possible solution when there are other ways that I believe God has given us #to help ourselves and others be well

[sonknuxadow]

ok Well it was a little longer than the other ones but they still barely showed anything smh

#well they showed eggman and that weird crystal thing with no context at all but other than that #im a bit worried about why sonic and shadow are fighting #like please dont tell me theyre gonna reduce shadow to ''sonics rival whos a complete asshole for no reason'' AGAIN #but. we dont really know the context of that scene because again theyre barely showing anything #so i wont immediately go WOW shadow is written so bad here. i will wait until the show comes out to form an actual opinion on that #im still excited for the show overall though despite what this post might lead you to believe lmao #im just really frustrated with the complete lack of information theyre giving us and also worried about shadow #IM SORRYYYYY shadow is one of my favorite characters and i wanna be excited at seeing him #but hes just been given shit writing too many times for me to be excited to learn hes gonna be in some new thing anymore #especially when some past stuff has just used shadow as a marketing tactic #putting him in trailers despite him having little involvement in the story and being written really badly

[souldagger]

Autonomous by annalee newitz has a robot as one of the main characters! I read it years ago though so can't remember if it's good or not

anon. anon i'll be real with you. i absolutely hated that book

#it was such a disappointment too #the blurb sounded promising! the cover's done by my favourite cover designer! one of the main chars is polish! #but jesus christ everything abt that book sucked dont get me started. especially the romances. #one of which was incredibly questionable wrt consent and the other i can only describe as a transphobic garbage fire #(on top of like. being badly written.) #ty for the opportunity to complain fkjgnk anyway yea worst book i've read this year.