#fave archetype

[sgt-dignam]

are you mr. schmidt? dr. schmidt. he's in there. he don't eat anything on wheels, so put it on a table. the man you're serving, he's the one who put those astronauts on the moon, built the rockets they rode.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

#indiana jones #indiana jones and the dial of destiny #the dial of destiny #mads mikkelsen #boyd holbrook #vlaber #vollber #filmedit #loyal right hand man is my fave archetype #bonus if they're a meathead which he clearly is

[lu-polls]

#linked universe #character poll #lu hyrule #lu legend #lu time #lu wind #lu four #lu twilight #lu sky #lu warriors #lu wild #(id vote for war but I feel like his character archetype would put him around early-middle #(based on that I’d say sky woukd probs die first tho #(possibly rulie but he’s my fave so he gets to live <3 /j #(but yes congratulations to war for escaping my bullying of him for a day

[britcision]

Anyway in case anyone was wondering why I do firmly aver I did not get to DPxDC from DC and am not a DC fan despite having consumed all of the Harley Quinn and Suicide Squad runs up to 2018

(And have an exciting grab bag of shows, movies, and assorted trivia under my belt besides

Batman vs Dracula was fucking great fight me)

It’s because DC as a whole is hostile as fuck to the concept of being a casual fan

(And about 90% of the main heroes annoy the hell out of me for the very tropes that DC is known and praised for in their heroes I am here for villains, antiheroes, and sidekicks exclusively)

There is no such thing as consistent characterization, especially as you consume more content or fall down a rabbit hole, and the rabbit holes are ENDLESS

Everyone cameos everywhere else, referential jokes are often dropped in as Easter eggs for people who have read every single other DC comic put out in the same decade and yet within the same comics you get glaringly inconsistent characterization and different retcons for the same events

Big stories are retold and retconned every couple years, we got 3 separate Spiderman origin movies and the exact same Batman origin in more than half the live action movies; DC PAYS PEOPLE to make up their own different versions of canon events

There is a REASON that the Marvel and DC cinematic universes are both officially divorced from comic canon; the sheer volume of canon content is inaccessible to most of the population, and DC and Marvel know it

That’s why the New 52 was a big divorce from all previous canon too - it’s an on ramp for new fans, because sorting through the web of old content is off putting as fuck

It’s the one thing not a single DC fan I’ve spoken to who complained about “canon characterization” has bothered defending or even acknowledging, and yet it has been the core of all of their arguments:

“Canon is what I want it to be, not what any of the sources say”

And listen, I was a Torchwood fan, we were the archetypal example of “canon only happened if I acknowledge it” (so sad that show ended after only two seasons and nothing else ever happened again Children of Earth who), you just gotta acknowledge that that’s what you’re doing

But you frankly cannot have a serious conversation about canon characterization with someone who does not acknowledge entire swaths of canon and cannot understand why that makes their argument completely invalid

Any kind of conversation about the “right” characterization for a DC character necessarily has to involve the acknowledgement that it’s your personal preferred characterization, not a One True Canon, because I guarantee there are canon incidents for every single big name and most of the small ones that directly counter the ones you like

You may note I share a bunch of posts with things like “My Batman would never do this”, as opposed to “canon Batman would never do this”

Hell, on Batman specifically there are hundreds of beautifully put together posts talking about how the different canon runs get him wrong; I too prefer a Bruce Wayne who does genuinely care about his family and tries to protect them, but isn’t perfect or always right over the massive asshole elitist who just grunts and treats them like soldiers

Canon Batman slaps his kids around, it’s the meme that broke containment and you don’t have to like it or accept it as something your Batman would do!

But it’s still canon

Both versions have a massive well of canon support, and exist simultaneously in the multiverse

Every single characterization of a character is true and exists in the multiverse

And that is why the idea of a “canon version” of any DC character is utterly meaningless

TL;DR: write DC characters however the fuck you want and do not worry about it for more than 10 minutes together, that is what the paid DC writing staff do

There will be at least two pieces of canon media to back up whatever interpretation of the character you pick

Not everyone will like that characterization or agree with how you see the character, and that is all fine and good! But “canon” is meaningless in this context, neatly encapsulated by the “multiverse” explanation

Everything is canon, which means that nothing is canon

#dc characterization rant #i am a happy harlivy fan #i am not a dc fan #and tbh batman is actually the least interesting dc character to me #he’s just the example that everyone knows #lord death man remains the best dc character with music meister in a close second i take no bribes #tbh all my favourite comic rec posts have also included some runs or whole writers to avoid because the poster knows their shit #petty posting #this is what plays in my head every time anyone apologises for not knowing any comic canon #do not worry friends the paid writers don’t know the canon either #they don’t let that slow them down #superheroes are archetypes and everymen for a reason #have your favourite characterization for everyone! pick your best bits! #just remember that it’s your favourite #not the one true #i will read a billion rants about why you love one specific version #with all your favourite runs and bits and pieces and supporting arguments #but i especially enjoy the tea of ‘and this goddamn run is doing them WRONG’ 😏 #you gotta acknowledge that your fave is not the only canon #and apparently that is hard? for some people?

[hermanunworthy]

whenever i think about lark and sparrow being codependent siblings i want to dig a hole and bury myself in it

#codependent siblings in media will be the death of me #as if greenblings (yttd) isnt fucking enough #i love them sm theyre so real #and to make things worse i kin sparrow #they are the perfect character duo archetype for me to obsess over #i am SHOCKED i havent been talking about them much or havent posted fanart of them #YET. #sparrow is my fave kiddad actually she means the world to me #lark oak #sparrow oak #dndads #siren says

[bluest-planet]

EDIT: I'd appreciate knowing why you picked what you did in the replies 💙

DW about the colors, they're just to see certain patterns and color values, not concrete. The main vibes were supposed to be; figure skating, magician, and prince.

(Just thought I'd give the wayfinder trio some post kh3 redesigns, based on the idea of Aqua as a Prince, Ven a Princess, and Terra a Ronin, and my own taste in fashion design.)

Link to the latest design and the rest individually, here!

#kh #kingdom hearts #kh aqua #birth by sleep #bbs #kh fanart #redesign #planet paintings #lol i feel like u can tell what my faves are #amy that arent used will probably be recycled for smth else #excited for thie to be over to fo VENNNNNN my precious princess son #might even do vanitas bc of. fic reasons #but like. its more complicated than these guys #esp since he doesn't fit into any of their archetypes ive picked #anyways laterre wich i could limit this to 3 days instead of a week tho #ignore her keyblade ik its probably wrong idc i was using her base art for simplicity's sake #im here for fashion design DAMN IT i hated her og outfit so much u dont understand how much it grates on my nerves to look at #some of these might be more Japanese influenced bc of eraqus' influence bc idk. the kh characters need more flavor in their clothes #and they already have hints of it #or at least terra does

[iwaasfairy]

How did you know Iwa-chan was your best boy? <3

I felt it in my loins!!!! no I sorta wish I had one moment? that I could point to but I really don’t,,, I just one day woke up n knew he was the one for me because when I think of an ideal guy it’s him! To me there’s no one that I can imagine being in a better relationship w than haji haji haji he’s my favorite my bestest most amazing man of my dreams the one I could fantasise about forever and not get tired

I’ve always said I very much kin atsumu, got a big mouth but a little heart and I care a lot and I’m very enthusiastic and like firecracker type person,, and all I really want in a partner is someone stable? and a slow burn sort of person

And when I saw Iwa and watched the series I just knew

#also he’s so fucking hot like #I obviously didn’t know this when I started haikyuu but all my faves are iwacore #he is the origin #he’s the archetype to what I find Hot in a guy #I just love him very much I probably rambled too much my bad pNNDJFJFJF #honey mail

[mariocki]

Simon Templar meets his match in the shape of Roger Delgado, as Peruvian police chief Captain Rodriguez in The Saint: Locate and Destroy (5.12, ITC, 1966)

#fave spotting #roger delgado #the master #delgado!master #the saint #locate and destroy #itc #1966 #classic doctor who #most policeman characters in the saint fall into one of two archetypes: they're either competent but deeply suspicious of Simon by #reputation‚ if not downright vindictive‚ or they're bungling fools who Simon gives the run around and generally makes idiots of #the longest serving of course being Ivor Dean's Chief Inspector Teal‚ who sort of bridges between the types (he's generally good at his job #but his grudge for Simon clouds his judgement and often leads to embarrassment) #Roger actually gets to play a fairly different type of cop: he's both clearly a good‚ honest man but bears Simon no real ill will and #actually gently nudges him in the right direction. i mean it helps that the villain of the story is a nazi war criminal (even Teal would #side with Simon for that i suspect) but it is a nicely gentle performance compared to many of the other guest cops. unable to act himself #because of the power wealth and influence of the villain‚ you can tell Roger really wants Simon to succeed; indeed‚ even after finding him #in a highly compromising position after a gunfight‚ the captain gives Simon a whole day before he has to leave the country #also it's worth noting that this guest spot is like.. universally better than Roger's previous episode (the dreaded 1.10 The Golden Journey #aka The Episode We Don't Talk About)

[pabouritou]

WE'RE GETTING LAKAN NEXT EPISODE LET'S GOOOOOOO

#the apothecary diaries #lakan #FAVE CHARACTER ARCHETYPE

[queerlyhalloween]

*twirling finger in hair* Soooo, there's this wizard of Waterdeep..... and he keeps missing every fucking spell I ask him to cast 💜 teehee 💜

#god i love pathetic fruity mages #truely my fave fave fave character archetype #balders gate 3 #gale of waterdeep

[dankovskaya]

trigger warning shitty anime

GODDKOJSFJdfs the memory flood that just hit me is insane. Not afraid to admit that I was one of those ^ truthers back in the day 💀 and also the anime feminizing h*nge for no reason was crazy I kinda forgot about that

#They were my fave by far and honestly probably part of the reason that I love “mad scientist” archetype characters so much

[puppyluver256]

Should I be glad I don't know how the wider Xenoblade fandom on Tumblr sees Taion? Like literally the only things I've heard about him from fans rather than source/promo material are the two people who threw me tips for drawing his hair and a like-minded Chugga praising him in the middle of a TRG playthrough (Metroid Prime, I think? it was the one where he kept interrupting to show his Switch clips and accidentally showed a XBC3 clip with a BIG blink-and-you'll-miss-it no context spoiler oops), everyone else I have no idea. I can imagine the usual suspects of being a black character in a fandom that...well, I was gonna specify something there, but let's be honest these problems probably crop up with black characters in any fandom even if they're the majority of the cast, in fact I remember briefly seeing a fanart of Ouroboros where he was somehow lighter-skinned than Sena in the same picture, thankfully I'll never be able to intentionally find it again. Other than that, no clue. Something to be grateful for, perhaps?

#jess rambles #xenoblade chronicles 3 #taion xenoblade #look taion is cool and he was the first one of the cast to really connect to me #and here i thought sena would be my fave cuz her archetype is one i often go for #but nope! stoic glasses lad with a soft center c:

[kujakumai]

Blair’s deck is the funniest thing in the world. Every turn is a telenovela where Jaden is forced to watch in horror as his monsters speak in flowery prose and are laid low by the power of a cute girl, with a bubble filter and piano music. I hope she never leaves. I hope we get seven more duels like this. 

#this is now my fave gx deck archetype bar none and she's only played one monster #if they weren't cowards they'd let him play burstinatrix and have her be gay #seto kaiba's school of duel

[sojourner-between-worlds]

*ahem* No one asked but I'm going to talk about my favorite archetype to play anyway:

Aromas!

Its not competitive in any way, really, (too reliant on continuous spells/traps for the current meta) but it sure is fun (and that's all I care about, haha), and for a 5D's-era archetype, it's actually really pretty decent. When you see that the highest rarity is only 6*, you might be tempted to think otherwise, but with the phenomenal monster effects, they had to be nerfed somehow.

The basic premise: Gaining Life Points utterly destroys your opponent's field, hand, and graveyard.

Extra Deck:

Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram - 6* Synchro - 2200 ATK, 2000 DEF - When summoned, you can add one of three archetype continuous traps to your hand. Once per turn when you gain LP, you can destroy a card on your opponent's field. Any card you want. (Idk if this effect stacks as I only have one copy in Master Duel because she's UR. I really should craft another one if for no other reason than to find out, but I have not yet.)

Aromaseraphy Rosemary - 5* Synchro - 2000 ATK, 900 DEF - When you gain LP, you get to nullify the effect of one card on your opponent's field, monster or spell or trap, they are all up for grabs. When your LPs are higher than your opponent's, all Plant-type monsters on your field gain 500 ATK and DEF. And both of these effects stack. Which means you can potentially nullify the effects of three cards and grant all of your monsters 1500 ATK. Which is sick, by the way. I have done this.

Aromaseraphy Jasmine - Rank 2 Link - 1800 ATK - Can you say "card advantage"? When you gain LP, you can add one Plant-type monster from your deck to your hand. Also, when your LP are higher than your opponent's, this monster and any it points to cannot be destroyed by battle. You can also tribute one monster she points to to special summon a monster from your deck in DEF mode. (This is a great defense strat if you choose to run Chirubime but more on that later.) (Obviously if you're writing a 5Ds-era duel then you can't run her, but she is quite nice.)

Main Deck Monsters:

Aromage Bergamot - 6* Effect - 2400 ATK, 1800 DEF - This bad boy is 100% worth the single tribute. Once per turn when you gain LP, he gains 1000 ATK and DEF. If just being a beat-stick isn't good enough, ALL Plant-type monsters deal piercing damage when your LPs are higher than your opponent's. Goodbye, defense.

Aromage Marjoram - 5* Effect - 2000 ATK, 1600 DEF - You can special summon her from your hand if a Plant-type monster on your field is destroyed. If you do this, you can gain 500LP, and whenever you gain LP, you get to banish cards from your opponent's GY, one for every Aroma monster face up on your field. Goodbye, graveyard.

Aromage Rosemary - 4* Effect - 1800 ATK, 700 DEF - Admittedly I do use her for synchro fodder more than anything simply because in the easy duels I'm usually in with this deck, her first effect tends to hurt more than help which is that when you gain LP you have to switch the position of one monster on the field. Key words being have to. You don't get a choice so if you're not careful you end up having to switch your own. Her other effect, however, of your opponent not being allowed to use monster effects during battle, is slightly cooler and more helpful (especially depending on what type of deck you're battling against; once again, I'm usually in easy solo mode duels).

Aromage Cananga - 3* Effect - 1400 ATK, 1000 DEF - When your LP are higher than your opponent's, all of your opponent's monsters lose 500 ATK and DEF. You also get to bounce a spell/trap back to their hand when your gain LP. And, yes, these effects DO stack. So if you've got three on your field, all of your opponent's monsters lose 1500 ATK and DEF. (I've never had more than two on the field once, but still. The possibility is there, lol.) Goodbye, ATK points.

Aromage Jasmine - 2* Effect - 100 ATK, 1900 DEF - Can you say "card advantage" again? Once per turn when you gain LP you get to draw a card. If that wasn't enough, you can also summon an additional plant monster during your turn (when your LPs are higher than your opponent's). When combined with some other card effects, she makes it very easy to synchro summon 5*s very quickly. (I looped out all three 5* synchros in one turn once with her. That was sick.)

Aroma Jar - 1* Effect - 500 ATK, 400 DEF - This little guy is a great defender because when flip summoned he can't be destroyed by battle. (Doesn't....doesn't work in anime duels unfortunately then but hey.) During the End Phase of each turn, you gain 500 LPs. So he becomes a very handy way to quickly gain the LP advantage as well as proc'ing other effects during your opponent's End Phase.

Aromage Laurel - 1* Effect - 800 ATK, 0 DEF - Oh, this handy lil dude. When your LPs are higher than your opponent's, you can special summon him from your hand. If you gain LP, you can select another Plant-type monster on your field (including him) to treat as a Tuner until the End Phase. When he leaves the field for any reason, you can gain 500 LP. Tiny but mighty.

Aromaseraphy Angelica - 1* Tuner - 0 ATK, 0 DEF - Aside from being the only archetype tuner, she's got some neat effects. You can send her to the GY, select another Aroma monster already there, and gain LP equal to the selected monster's ATK points. While in the GY, if your LPs are higher than your opponent's and you have another Aroma monster on your field, you can special summon her (though you have to banish her when she leaves the field; had to nerf her somehow, haha).

Spells and Traps:

Aroma Garden - Field Spell - As long as you have at least one Aroma monster face up on your field, you can gain 500 LPs and ALL monsters on your field gain 500 ATK and DEF. If an Aroma monster is destroyed by battle, you gain 1000 LP.

Aroma Gardening - Continuous Spell - Once per turn when you summon an Aroma monster, you can gain 1000 LP. Also, if your LPs are lower than your opponent's and they declare battle, you can special summon an Aroma monster from your deck (and then gain that 1000 LP for summoning it). Summon Bergamot and that about stops any attack, lol.

Dried Winds - Continuous Trap - Once per turn when you gain LP you can destroy one face-up monster on your opponent's field. (This is really the only effect I use, but there is a second one that allows you to pay LP to destroy your opponent's monsters. You can only use this when you have 3000+ more LP than they do, and you have to pay whatever the difference is. So if you have 5000 more then you pay 5000 to destroy up to a certain number of monsters but no matter how many you choose to destroy, the cost is the same.)

Humid Winds - Continuous Trap - Effect one: you can pay 1000 LP to add on Aroma monster from your deck to your hand. Effect two: if your LPs are lower than your opponent's, you can gain 500 LP. You can use both in the same turn. This combo has occasionally been a life-saver, haha.

Blessed Winds - Continuous Trap - Three effects on this one, but you can only use one effect once per turn. One: you can send one Plant-type monster from your hand or field to the graveyard to gain 500 LP. Two: you can shuffle one Plant-type monster from your GY back into your deck to gain 500 LP. Three: you can pay 1000 LP to special summon an Aroma monster from your GY. The third one gives you an infinite synchro-summoning loop. Or an infinite healing loop, depending on your immediate needs. (Both made possible when used with one non-archetype card listed below).

[Insert other spells/traps here] What else you run is entirely up to you. I typically run Monster Reborn, Raigeki, and Skill Successor, but I have run other things like Call of the Haunted and Trap Hole with Spikes. (And I'm honestly wondering if I really even need Raigeki but then I have to find something else to add because it's only a 40-card deck as is, lol.)

Non-Archetype Winners:

Rose Girl - 3* Tuner - 800 ATK, 600 DEF - I would not dream of running this deck without her. When she's in your GY and you have a Plant-type monster on your field, you can add her back to your hand. Not to mention having a tuner that's not a 1* makes synchro summoning much easier. Her effect combined with Blessed Winds creates "endless" loops for either gaining LPs or synchro summoning. Additionally, if a Plant-type monster leaves your field, you can special summon her. She's a must for this deck. (Even if she is nerfed with a hard once per turn.)

Queen of Thorns - 6* Synchro - 2200 ATK, 1800 DEF - This lovely girl makes it almost impossible for your opponent to normal or special summon monsters. Both players have to pay 1000 LP to summon monsters unless they are Plant-type. Which, ya know, isn't a problem for this deck since the only monster in it that isn't Plant-type is Aroma Jar (lil dude is a Rock-type).

Chirubime, Princess of Autumn Leaves - 8* Effect - 1800 ATK, 2800 DEF - While I'm not currently running her, she is a good defensive tactic with L2 Aromaseraphy Jasmine due to her high DEF and her effect which makes her the only Plant-type monster your opponent can target for attacks. Additionally if she is sent to the GY by your opponent (by battle or card effect), you can special summon another Plant-type monster from your deck.

Botanical Lion, Botanical Girl, and Violet Witch - I'm lumping these together because I don't currently run them either but they do work well within the deck. BL gains 300 ATK for every Plant-type monster on your field which comes in handy sometimes, and the other two allow you to search out cards when they are destroyed. They are also useful as syrchro material, obviously.

If you actually read all of that, I am both impressed and kissing you gently on the forehead in appreciation, lol.

But yeah, I love this deck. You get a few key cards in your opening hand, and it's over before it even really starts.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh 5ds #ygo 5ds #yugioh master duel #deck profile #i guess? kinda anyway haha #autism brain go brrrrrrr #on a niche part of an already niche interest lol #lightsworns will always be my first love but man are they a lot harder to not brick your opening hand with so uh #yeah aromas might just be my fave archetype to play haha

[raayllum]

like here’s the thing, right. when a work like TDP has a variety of races in it, you’re bound to have some fave characters who are white and some who are not. in my past fandoms my fave characters were a dark skinned black man, a dark skinned black woman, and a disabled, mentally ill asian man. if i didn’t have that background in writing subversive fic centred on their experiences, and seeing how their fandoms treated them with varying degrees of racism, stereotypes, and ableism - yeah, i may question my fave being the one (1) white girl amid a main trio of 2/3 boys of colour.

however

representation wise the odds are stacked that you will have more ‘white faves’ than non white faves. certain archetypes also tend to be based more in race than others

however

if you only ever love white characters, and hate the characters of colour that are canonically important or involved in their lives (harrow with viren; terry and callum with claudia; callum and ezran for rayla, etc) i will and am absolutely side eyeing you so hard & sincerely hope you do some major self reflection

#tag ramble #in regards to #like i still remember the way a lot of white afabs who Love claudia & insisted she was a lesbian #responded to terry #a brown trans man #and even lesbian claudia being the hill ppl would die upon when like don't get me wrong she wasn't head over heels for callum #but like?? there was still very clearly Something there #every time a white character gets their canonical attraction to a character of colour erased so they can be Gay #esp when asian men rarely get to be love interests either?? #it's my villain origin story #like rayla is very much allura from vld so again: i know My Fave Archetype isn't dependent on race #but it was absolutely exacerbated in allura's case as a dark black woman and her writing was informed by racism #100% #thus i don't think rayla is effected much by race (whereas someone like claudia or ezran absolutely) in fanon spaces #but i think she is defs impacted by misogyny #like janai is my fave non Main character and the way ppl talked about her plot line in s4 #as though How Dare she take more focus than amaya and it's like. cool ur colourism maybe

[seasaltmemories]

Hot Take: but as a fanfic writer I hate the attitude that the only way to transformative engage with a work through the written media is through fanfic

People go on and on about how fanfiction gives mythology back to the masses and other really flowery pretentious things but like even before commercial IP existed, artist’s works weren’t just in response to one singular thing

Yes Paradise Lost uses Biblical figures, but honestly what it is more in conversation with than the Bible itself is with epics like the Odyssey, Aeneid, Beowulf, or even Milton’s own experience with the English Civil War. He wanted to create a modern epic for the English language and his culture specifically, the Biblical backdrop was just equivalent mythological base that those other works used

Yes the Aeneid is a commissioned sequel to an already popular work, but the most powerful connections to Homer comes through Virgil’s original characters like Dido. Rather than plop down just any already established "delaying seductress" like Calypso or Circe, he crafts a sympathetic and compelling figure that humanizes Rome's greatest enemy and gives complexity and conflict to Aeneas' fated conquest

Ppl argue for the end of copyright by saying we can get queer Harry Potter and Star Wars adaptations quicker but like why must we be so tied to fundamentally limited texts? Why cant we use those works as springboards for how we think about wizarding schools and space mystics without feeling beholdened to play in another creator's world

For example this video recounts all of New Hope purely by using footage from Lucas' influence. Yet despite this unavoidable lineage, Stars Wars is not Flash Gordon or Kurosawa fanfiction. It stands on the shoulder of giants and wears its influences on its sleave but it is able to go to incredible far off galaxies by being an original project

Transformative media is about more than just namedropping an iconic character or retelling a story from a different POV. Literature and media is always in conversation whether you want it to be or not. Dont think the only way to comment on your latest passion is to demurely play with your dolls in the creator's shadows

#seasalt talks #writing workshop #i want this to be positive and empowering bc I find fanfic fun #but serious the deluge of classic retellings that just take the plot points of old faves has worn me down #bring back the concept of literary influences and archetypes let's get weird without tying ourselves to corporate IP

[eggedwitches]

This is a post dedicated to Eli Vanto I love Eli Vanto so much muah muah. I love watson archetypes and Eli Vanto is such a well written contrast to Thrawn aka the Holmes in the situation. But also he is babygirl. Like i love his character I love how he feels like he is in Thrawns shadow but near the end he doesnt mind because it means he gets to be with thrawn and be thrawns friend i think. I love him in a deep character analysis way but also in a scrunkly way yknow.

I blow a kiss to the stars every night hoping it would land on Eli Vanto <3

#Eli Vanto #Thrawn #thrawn 2017 #My fave #Watson Archetypes #Babygirl #IDK WHAT TO TAG THIS #ITS LIKE 4:30 AM OKAY