#got characterization

[horizon-verizon]

Do you know why so many people didn’t like tv Jon snow?

Because he killed Daenerys Stormborn.

He was written as a male world-savior to her bastardized character. He is integral to the sexist & just plain horribly written end to this series. Daenerys was never meant to become something like a Paul Atriedes figure, someone with good intentions or looking only to survive but still ends up about to ruin the world or bring only destruction to an already fraught world. But the GoT producers, D&D, decided that this was the ending that made the most sense for her. Her death at the hands of her lover (which constitutes as femicide & intimate partner violence). And this, in turn, has speared a cult of Jon stans who think that GRRM will end the actual story this way or something similar. Harassing Dany stans online and people who actually have faith in her, or just have good media comprehension and are willing to use it. D&D basically enabled a lot of Jon stans (overwhelmingly male and entitled) to feel that much more superior to women, and we all know that's just what we need, right?

#jon snow #asoiaf asks to me #got fandom #fandom critical #got #asoiaf #d&d #got's writing #jon snow's characterization #got characterization

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

wintersberg princess peach and bowser

#ethan winters #karl heisenberg #wintersberg #resident evil #resident evil fanart #rebhfun #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #princess peach #bowser #based off a twitter reply i got #where it made me realize the way i characterize wintersberg is a lot like movie princess peach and bowser #hes literally on his knees #he tore up anything green he saw for a boquet #look ethan its green and leafy now kiss me on the lips

[sadevergreen]

someone told me ‘cringe is dead have your fun’ on my last homestuck post (which was somehow my first homestuck post on this site) and it a little bit changed my perspective so ty :,)

have some morning beta kids!!

#jade is first to rise but she takes frequent naps ofc #she is powered by coffee #art with jeddie #homestuck #john egbert #dave strider #rose lalonde #jade harley #homestuck fan art #beta kids #my art #when i first got into homestuck my favorite character was john for a long time and i vividly remember everyone characterizing him- #as being cutesy and innocent #but he’s like not? #perhaps in some ways #but he for sure has some stubborn/ pettiness in him that was under represented #so i believe in bitchy john rights <3

[mobius-m-mobius]

Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston at the FYC Emmys 'Loki' panel, April 13, 2024

#owen wilson #tom hiddleston #lokiedit #mcuedit #marveledit #loki #ft. owen's nonstop fidgeting and tom's heart eyes aka two of their best qualities lol #anyway y'all i'm never getting over how much he loves mobius #and how it means everything that FINALLY after all this time he's been able to expand on a character like he's always dreamed of #i mean. 'when you felt that you kind of contributed something' says the person who improvised every valuable moment of his characterization #and constantly works to make sure everyone shines equally #couldn't be more proud or glad he got to work with someone like tom who shares such an appreciation and journey of storytelling <33 #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[kaiju-krew]

stargazing⭐

#be prepared for godzillion amount of shimo-related comfort doodles i need her to be so happy #sidenote: for my personal hc i have no interest in characterizing her like she's kong's pet #she's just as smart as the rest of em #and won't be treated as more animalistic just cuz she's a quadruped and got a head pat. ty for coming to my ted talk<3 #shimo #kong #gxk #whats the ship name btw im steering it now it's my ship #kongmo ? #kimo? #shikong ? #idk #i might see them more as companions later but idk that head pat effected me. goopy goofy shipping goblin in my brain said yes

[novicedraws]

This fic is just- *chefs kiss*

#fanart #digital #doodle #my art #art #mk1 2023 #kung lao #mortal kombat 1 #mk1 raiden #railao #sorry I haven’t posted much this week #I got super busy this past couple of weeks :( #I love the characterization from both raiden and kung Lao and how it makes them both equally important. #also don’t point out the background #I don’t like doing bg :( #and I couldn’t find good screenshots

[ofswordsandpens]

circular discourse, criticism being met with death threats... pjo fandom we're so back baby

#having to put 37 disclaimers before I critique show Gabe's or Sally's characterization or else I'll be told to go f*ck myself... #I made a post like this the other night and deleted #but I just saw the unhinged anon @posallys got and I think this needs to come back #it feels very 2014 in here #pjo show crit #pjo #percy jackson #mine

[autistdazai]

cquackity was showing up to everything invitation or not. the election? he's running in it. pogtopia? fresh off the festival he's in the button room. tommy's exile? he's swimming to tommy's sad island. dream's in prison? so is he bitch. the red banquet? he's crashing it. what's wrong with him

#essential cq characterization i think is hes got to just. show up and serve #if hes a character in your fic hes got to be serving #scheming and executing plans and such #esp tntduoers keep him so. steady #cq is chaotic first and foremost

[pumpkinrootbeer]

I just have to sing my praises for Shadow's VA in prime rq I think Ian hanlin does such a fantastic job as shadow I am just. consistently amazed. I think some previous iterations lean a little too hard into the growl but Ian hanlin brings a modernization to the character that I think works really well. Still very clearly Shadow but sounds more natural imo. Genuinely wonderful would love to hear him as shadow in other productions

#:v #shadow the hedgehog #sonic prime #Honestly prime is all around a great time for shadows characterization #probably one of my favorite #The line ''is that all you got?'' was just SO shadow 😭 #This is truly the year of shadow we're so back #(would love to see a bit more of this type of characterization for shadow in IDW) #I love IDW and I am a IDW shadow defender until I die #I also think the last issue shadow was in was just. peak for his character fantastico #I would just like more 😁 #Me trying to convince people that Ian hanlin should voice shadow in the movie: it would be a perfect gift.. For Christmas 😏

[buckttommy]

umm. pause. guys. guys. gay tommy has been canon this entire time. what the fuck. like. oh my god. no. like. okay. okay. so. 2x9 (hen begins), sal [deluca] is talking about his girlfriend dragging him to see twilight. he makes a homophobic joke about tommy being team jacob and tommy's like "i don't even know what that means." chimney says "he's insinuating that you're gay" and tommy blows deluca a kiss. fine. whatever. but THEN you skip to 2x12 (chimney begins), and—i stg it's a blink and you miss it moment—tommy and gerrard (racist captain) are having this conversation in the background

tommy: what about that burger place? gerrard: tommy i hate that place. hey wasn't your girlfriend supposed to come and cook us dinner? tommy: uhh. next tuesday. gerrard: promise? tommy: uhh. uh. yes. yeah. i will promise.

and it's like. number one, this sounds like a conversation they've had before. something to the tune of "hey, how come you never bring your girlfriend around" which i can't help but think was intentional considering the members of the old 118 were entirely familiar with deluca's girlfriend gina. but number two, no straight man who has a girlfriend sounds that unsure that they have a fucking girlfriend. it was very much giving "ah yes. this human lady that i love that most definitely exists. absolutely. also i like breasts." and it's just like. ok. what the fuck. like. i don't know if this was the plan all along. i don't think it was. i still maintain buck/eddie were supposed to go canon after the shooting and the powers that be got in the way. but. but. the idea that this canon queer character has been hiding in plain sight (subtext) is just. wild to me. like. i've always headcanoned tommy as gay, mostly because every character he plays seems fruity as hell. but bro. i don't think it's a headcanon anymore. and i don't think it ever has been. what the fuck.

there's also the idea that. like. so i've been watching the begins episodes again trying to figure out what, exactly, tommy's crime against the members of the 118 has been. like. he worked in a -phobic/-cist environment. he was definitely complicit in making hen/chimney feel like outsiders in their workplace yes yes all these things are true. but as far as i can tell, tommy has rarely ever actively been anything except spineless. deluca makes a homophobic joke? tommy laughs. gerrard makes a bunch of sexist and racist comments? tommy looks, but doesn't say anything to encourage (or discourage him). hen gives her monologue? he looks chagrined.

and his complicity would be absolutely shitty and inexcusable if he was just a cishet white man. no questions asked. but if — if — you view his behavior through the lens of the fact that tommy is queer himself? that tommy is, and always has been, a member of a marginalized community who felt it was easier and safer to assimilate than it was to be openly queer and have a target on his back? his behavior becomes a whole hell of a lot more understandable. yes, it's still shitty, but. there's a purpose behind it. and this idea is supported by the fact that, when gerrard leaves (flashing forward to bobby begins again), even before bobby gets there (because we always credit bobby with making the 118 the family it is today), like. the atmosphere is completely different. tommy and hen? are friendly with each other. chimney and tommy? also friendly with each other. which we also know because in 2x14 broken, he calls him up for help. which lends credibility to the idea that the problems tommy had (or thought he had) with henchim were not about them as people but more about whatever manufactured conservative boys club bullshit gerrard fostered.

and it's just like. motherfucker. bitch. what the hell. like. first of all, leave it to 9-1-1 to tell a story like this in the most subtle way possible. like if that was indeed the intended implication, i'm throwing my tv off a bridge immediately. but also. second of all. what is wrong with this show. they're crazy. i want to eat it like a loaf of bread. just shovel it in my mouth because the idea that tommy has been queer all along, that he wasn't brought back just to be a stopgap on buck's queer journey to eddie, but that he's been haunting the edges of the narrative like a gay ghost is sooo like. ohhh. okay. [throws up]. like????? okay. anyway. i'm going to be thinking about this the rest of the day.

#tommy kinard #head in hands.....................HEAD IN HANDS #tv: 911 #jack.txt #There's also something to be said about the idea of FOX main characterizing Buck/Oliver #around the same time they put a stop to Buddie #Something about like. Conventionally attractive (dark hair / light eyes) white men are not allowed to be loudly quee #and like. I KNEW there was something there #I knew it. And I love Michael and David and Karen and Hen don't get me wrong #those are my emotional support gays #but I was just like ''hm. kind of funny how every queer character connected to the mains is a person of color right?'' #and I never vocalized this thought to ANYONE but I always kept it in the back of my mind #even the men michael would be seen with *before* David — always black #and there's nothing wrong with it it's fine #but the idea becomes a LOT more insidious when I consider FOX's politics—when i consider that both racism and homophobia are inherent to #their brand. and then it's just like ''ohh. you guys made the black people dirty queers because white is right. okay got it'' #anyways. let me stop talking. lol

[horizon-verizon]

D&D really did shit in making the north people not like Daenerys, and in the books there is almost no indication that targaryens were not welcome, sure, they were closed and suspicious but it's just a characteristic of them they didn't treat targaryens in the disgusting way they did with dany, imagine thinking the north hates targaryens

Less about Targaryens and more about how Daenerys brought in darker-skinned foreigners who the maesters and septons for years of "southron" Westerosi also have demonized as evil magic people posed to endanger Andal-following Westerosi. Her doing this, the northners being the most isolated Westerosi aside from maybe the Dornish, AND her having grown up in Essos, as D&D positioned and tried to present, then figured her as a "foreigner".

#asoiaf asks to me #daenerys stormborn and jon snow #daenerys stormborn #got characterization #got writing #got racism #got sexism #got

[pettyprocrastination]

broke: eddie munson has handcuffs in his room cause he likes kinky sex 

woke: eddie munson has handcuffs in his room because he was once arrested by officer Callahan for possession of marijuana at a halloween party they busted his junior year, but as soon as Callahan sat him on the pavement and turned around, Eddie jumped up and hauled ass into the forest until he reached the trailer park. His uncle had to pick the lock to get them off his dumbass nephew (making eddie swear to 1. never ask how his uncle knew how to pick locks and 2. never get fucking arrested again) Eddie kept the handcuff’s as a memoir of the night he outran the Hawkins Police Department. 

#tj talks #eddie munson #stranger things season 4 #sorry i just think its funny #hopper: what. what do you MEAN he 'got away' #callahan: HES VERY FAST AND SLIPPERY OKAY #but fr i cant imagine hopper like. giving a shit #probably has been called on that kid more than once and each time its jsut that tired sigh of 'i dont want to be here either okay' #edit: dont turn this post into a 'if you characterize eddie as anything other than my own personal hc i get mad' thing because it isnt!! #this is a simple littoe heeha i had late at night #relaistically the cuffs are most likely accessories/decor i just thought it was funny #but i keep seeing people do the 'THIS is canon ajd if you think otherwise shut the fuck up' #so lets all just be calm ajd play nice in our little fake land of blorbos

[coloriza]

"Sakura had never felt so validated in her love until she met a man made better by her burning."

The Void Between Fireflies by @renaerys

#sasosaku #sakura haruno #sasori #akasuna no sasori #this one was inspired by both jo's beautiful fic and a sasosaku month prompt “like fire” #jo is super duper talented and i highly recommend checking out her stuff #she is one of the few who truly nails sasori's characterization in my opinion #another fun fact is that she is partially responsible for the fact that i speak english #her stuff was the catalyst that really got me studying english back in the day #i read zero hour while having a dictionary open in front of me lmao those really were the days #anyways i'm rambling #my art

[detectiveforfree]

old timey pet-nicknames

#kid flash #wally west #robin #dick grayson #birdflash #young justice #dickwally #the og rob&kf got nicknames for each other and they are adorably dumb #YJ missed an opportunity for flirty wally that flirts with all his teammates. FFS HE CALLED SPEEDY BABY CAN U IMAGINE THAT IN YJ #i mean i know yj was made like in 2010s but still lol #i saved another panel where robin calls wally flasher and says PRETTY PLEASE take out all those goons. OvO like. #vital characterization lost in yj era

[freakadr0id]

Oh my GOD, I just realized why Donnie acts so weird in Man vs. Sewer. I always thought his behavior was odd in that episode, particularly in his nonchalance towards finding and saving Raph - but I had the most random thought occur to me during work that TOTALLY explains it. I'm sure some people have probably pointed this stuff out already, but I wanted to put this out there anyway.

The episode 'Man-vs-Sewer' is a personal favorite of mine. I love the episodes where the boys are just goofing off, and this episode is that plus some. We see get to see the boys having fun for a bit at the start of the episode, but it also adds a bit more depth to some of the turtles. We see a really surprising side to Raph's character with his fear of being alone, and Leo gets to shine a bit as a leader and hint at his true potential.

However, I was always a bit puzzled by the way Donnie and Mikey were written in this episode. As a rule, Rise is pretty good about keeping its characters, well, in character, so their behavior struck me as kind of strange, particularly Donnie's.

If there is one thing Rise NAILS about Donnie's character is showing that despite struggling with emotions and empathy, he is still NOT AN ASSHOLE. Donnie genuinely and deeply loves his family - he just has a hard time expressing it externally.

'Man-vs-Sewer' kind of stood out to me as an exception to that, however. At this point, Donnie's care for his brothers is an undisputed fact, so why does he seem so unconcerned about finding Raph after being separated? Even for Donnie, this seems like an ooc level of indifference towards the well-being of his brother (at least that's how I saw it).

Except, it isn't. In fact, this episode only reinforces that Donnie does care for his family, it's just a *bit* harder to see here.

One thing many neurodivergent people struggle with is a sudden change in plans. When they expect to do something that day it can be very difficult for some neurodivergent people to deal with it emotionally and can lead to immense frustration or even shutdowns. Since Donnie is confirmed to be, at the very least, autistic coded, this would absolutely apply to him as well.

The turtles planned to have a nice, relaxing day floating along New York's sewers and enjoying a small break from all the stress of finding the Dark Armor. No fighting, no mystic metal, no foot clan. Just a calm day of fun without a care in the world - only for it to be ruined by a bad pass and a lost brother.

I know if my plans were ruined like that, I would be in an absolutely FOUL mood. It can be hard to transition into a different mindset when the expectations for the day change like that, and it can make anyone frustrated, but Donnie doesn't appear to be that way. In fact, he's acting extremely casual.

Even though everything he was going to do today was upended and his brother is now missing in the New York sewers, why does Donnie seem so unconcerned about the whole situation?

Answer: It's a coping mechanism.

It would be very easy for him to be a bit more annoyed and frustrated at the whole situation (I definitely would be), but he isn't. Instead, he avoids getting overwhelmed and emotional by continuing through the day as if nothing has really changed.

The whole time they are finding Raph, Donnie behaves as if they are still on a peaceful, carefree mini-vacation. He makes snide jokes and jabs toward Leo, enjoys the drinks he brought in his shell, and constantly reminds the others that it is his "day off." If he can act as though he's still relaxing, it becomes easier to adjust to unexpected alterations in his day. This isn't Donnie being willfully inconsiderate towards Raph being lost and alone, this is just him trying to manage with the sudden changes the best he can in that moment.

If Donnie really was an uncaring asshole (as some may be inclined to believe given his apparent lack of empathy), he simply would have resumed their original plans, or been more vocally resistant to going after Raph. Instead, he joins his brothers in their search, and although he may not provide the best input for finding Raph because of his coping method (his brain is in "day off" mode which is why he keeps missing clues about Raph), he is still making an effort.

In a way, the episode which I thought portrayed a slightly out-of-character version of Donnie actually provides yet another example of how Donnie really loves his brothers, despite how it may seem on the surface.

~-~-~

(Actually, depending on the way you interpret his character, the same can be said for Mikey in this episode as well. Mikey is always a bit of a goofball in the show but in this episode, it is dialed up to 11. He also doesn't seem to much care or effort into finding Raph and acts like a child who managed to snag one of their parents' energy drinks. If we consider that maybe he is also struggling to adapt to the changes of the day, this could be him adopting a similar coping method to Donnie, it is just amplified because of his hyperactive behavior and personality.)

#damn I am continually impressed with how well Rise writes Donnie #seriously there are so many ways they could have really butchered his characterization #esp. as an autistic/autistic-coded character #but 9 times out of 10 the writers show that they *get* Donnie #and that they take time to consider how they portray his character in a healthy and positive manner #they have a couple missteps here or there #but overall Donnie is written just brilliantly #I hope I explained this well enough #I'm kind of thought dumping after this came to me in a vision during work #and I HAD to make this after I got home #shit this ended up way longer than I intended #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt donnie #rise donnie #rottmnt donatello #rise donatello #analysis #character analysis #I guess #not my greatest work #but it'll do #let's play the 'will it show up in the tags game?'

[jooheons]

“Maybe we just never cut deep enough. Maybe we didn't want to.” — Jason Todd (Titans: Beast World Tour: Gotham)

#dailyjasontodd #jasontoddedit #dcedit #comicedit #beast world #tuesday spoilers #jason todd #cn!e #* #i cannot believe we got the best characterization of jason in this event. of all things #the bar is so low but i'll take what i can get!