#i call that character development!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[yourocdoeswhat]

If your OC is considered over-powered for your setting, what is it that sets them apart from the rest? How do they use it to their advantage? How does it impact them?

#tag your oc #oc questions #original character creation #character development #ive been thinking about mary-sues a bit and how steamed I am that young creators get shamed for their first exercises in writing #and also how characters who are interesting or powerful are called mary-sues just for existing #so i wanted to make some prompts to indulge the folks who have characters that might fall victim to being called mary-sues

[comradekatara]

toph in "the chase"

4 episodes later...

by the season finale...

book 3...

and of course, the finale:

#it helps that she weighs like 5 pounds #id in alt text #toph #sokka #sokka&toph #TOPH. IS SO CUTE. AND IMPORTANT. #for a girl who claims to 'carry [her] own weight' she sure does like being carried! #to be clear i'm not calling her a hypocrite or a liar. i'm calling it good character development #and also the power of sokka #i mean aang and katara too. but let's be real sokka is her favorite #anyway. sobs

[queermentaldisaster]

#blorbos #i put them through so much suffering #it's character development #call of duty #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #call of duty mw2 #ghoap #ghostsoap #soapghost #meme #memes

[iamhereinthebg]

๋࣭ ⭑unexplainable sorrow⭑ .

#toilet bound hanako kun #tbhk #jshk #jibaku shounen hanako kun #jibaku shonen hanako kun #my art #akane aoi #I am so scared for her #the way she clung to Nene was NOT good at all #her character development is probably gone I am in tears #what have they done to you mah girl? #why does she call Teru 'Teru-kun?' is Akane gone from her life too? ToT I have sm questions #I hope she still knows Akane #I am so afraid this asshle is not known from everybody he cares about in this reality #I want her to be important in this arc #and I hope others characters than Nene will have flash of the old present #I doubt it a lot but let me dream #toilet bound hanako kun fanart #tbhk fanart #posting this before the new chapter #jshk fanart #hanako kun #Aoi seems all alone and now Nene is running and screaming about someone she doesn't know

[choiliner]

BLUE ORANGEADE || 2019 -> 2024

#userhev #ayabestie #0x1zone #usersemily #useryeonbins #rosieblr #userzaynab #majatual #userfairy #ninqztual #kpopedit #mine #choi soobin #choi beomgyu #choi yeonjun #soobin #beomgyu #yeonjun #txt #ult tag 💖 #i call that character development #at least he's not on the floor this time

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

#our experiences are very different lmao #pjo show crit #sure the show isn't completely out yet #but id argue that the characters (namely the trio) seem way more developed and well-rounded in the book by this point in time (episode 4) #and look im not saying every change the show has made is bad #but by and far there has yet to be a change to characterization that feels like an IMPROVEMENT from the source material lmao #the closest contender I'd say is show Percy does seem a tad angrier than book Percy #but again I wouldn't call that an improvement... its just different and I think that /change/ works because it feels like the same essence #but even that has had some issues because I feel like the show has inadvertently cut down some of Percy's canon book empathy here and there #I think the show has nailed Annabeth's pride and intelligence and her warped worship of her mother #... but they've also made her hyper competent to the point that she's not making half of the mistakes she did in the book #which ISNT good because book annabeth is smart but she isn't infallible #its a big point that she has the theoretical intelligence but none of the real world experience/application #she gets tricked by medusa and goes to visit the Arch just cause she loves architecture and that's okay!! she's twelve and a nerd! #I also dont like that they've cut/toned down her little crush on Luke #actually they've not even showcased the familial bond between annabeth and Luke either in the show so like lmao #and then grover #by now grover's fear of failure and repeating this past mistakes and wanting a license has already been acknowledged in the books at least #in the show?? not so much #and his canon book suspicions and wariness of medusa... were given to annabeth #like medusa in the book was Grover's moment to shine cause his instincts were right! #and in the book fight he even very intentionally attacked medusa #but his highlights there were cut completely in the show #and finally sally #...idk who that is in the show but that's NOT my sally jackson #percy jackson #mine

[beaulesbian]

i was rereading some water 7 chapters, and the introduction of kaku was so funny. i love when luffy and zoro are using the same braincell even at a distance

luffy meeting kaku, ch. 325 "usopp?"

and zoro meeting kaku, ch 326 "oh, just usopp"

vs. Egghead arc and meeting kaku again post time skip - with nothing really changing of how luffy perceives some people (ch. 1078)

and also kaku meeting zoro on the sunny on Egghead prior the scene above and their lines echoing the first meeting on Water 7 - "I'm sorry. Did I wake you?" vs here "Who dares to disturb my nap?"

#love when characters has this sort of consistency thoughout arcs and years of other development #but when they meet some annoying guy they already fought before they revert back to that age just to shittalk each other and fight #and call them a name thats not their own (same with lucci. and luffy calling him pigeon guy lol its always funny) #one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #kaku #usopp #one piece manga #water 7 #egghead arc #zolu #luzo #mine #gif:op manga #gif:zolu #egghead spoilers #ive just been rereading and skipping through some water 7 chapters. but i will have to reread it more carefully #the zoro luffy sharing braincell is so similar to that fishman island part where luffy says no to being hero bc itd mean sharing food #and zoro says the same thing with sharing drinks. independently of hearing luffys thoughts on that. really same mind for them

[revelisms]

Lil' comic of a scene from a fic I haven't gotten around to writing.

(basically Vi and Jinx have reconciled, Silco is alive, and Vi is begrudingly finding herself beginning to look up Silco as a mentor/father figure. She accompanies him on an errand run, one of which winds them up at the old cannery, and emotions bubble up biiig time 🥲)

#y'know the 'makings of greatness' treasure planet scene? #yeah #arcane #arcane fanart #silco #vi #drawing #this is so messy lkg #just going to call these my post-it note doodles #vi with parentification issues resenting that she wasn't the soft image of their mother that powder likely needed #and still not knowing how to work through that - especially since she feels like jinx no longer *needs* her (even though she does) #and dad silco daughter vi just #hits something man #because they *hate* each other and they have every reason to #but there's just #aughghg #so much potential for character development with them #silco and jinx is codependent central and we love it but silco and vi is the hard hitting boundary setting raging arguments and i eat it up #very much hcing that silco sees his inner child in jinx vs. his angry young adult self in vi #and both of those effect his (somewhat disastrous / sometimes okay) parenting #it's a sliding scale

[iooiu]

mature... sure thing bud

#me writing: hmmm future mikey would be the cool uncle #future mikey in the fic: i want to kill someone so bad my skin itches #its called character developement! #anyway peepaw mikey has no chill zero (0) chill #he wants to throw hands every second bless him #old man (threat) #too lucky to count #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #unpause rottmnt #save rottmnt #leo #leonardo #mikey #michelangelo #future michelangelo #ok good night forever folks #kk im done

[visenyaism]

visenya had a husband and a kid meaning she clearly had sex eith him she’s bi

i do not know how to tell you this but long ago like especially in the feudalism times (where the entire paradigm revolved around using women and their potential future children as social currency between families) but even still today women have not always had control over who they married and who they had sex with and whether or not they had kids. if you’re coerced into marriage with someone because it’s your “duty” and then you have their child out of political necessity does that 100% determine who you are forever. come on now

#asoiaf #also it just simply is not that serious. i will call a fictional character a lesbian and then everyone wants to go do gold star discourse? #develop a hobby. improve your community. clean your room or something #does fucking a man once consensually mean you can’t ID as a lesbian later? i don’t even think that’s true

[k233-0]

who am i without my powers?

#also small rant about crystalized nya because like #why did they remove her whole character development???? #like call of deep was such a good episode it really resonated with me #and everything was super cool until nya got her powers back #like what????? what was the point #it literally made me so mad like srsly what was the point!!!!! #like why can't she be a ninja without her powers??? #and it literally easered her entire character development throughout the seasons like why!!!!!! #and i decided i wanted to rewrite her character arc in crystalized #and this drawing is a cover for the book i'm writing :3 #it'll probably be super cringe but i'll share it when i finish it!!!!! #also i can't draw water #lego ninjago #ninjago #nya ninjago #nya jiang #nya smith

[obsessive-dumpling]

Kudos to Katsuki who really said "you ran away on my birthday so imma be dead on yours". Who doesn't love a good revenge arc?

#bakudeku #bkdk #its called character development #😈😈😈 #i hope horikoshi gives izuku his kacchan back as a belated birthday present #happy birthday izu #make a wish #dekubaku #dkbk #decchan #katsudeku #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki #katsuki x izuku #bakugo x midoriya #bnha #mha #🧡💚 #💚🧡 #dumpling speaks #dumpling celebrates #🥟

[inalandofsadclowns]

Arthur went from having his daddy's men to protect him to having his *daddy's* (Merlin) men (Lancelot, Gwaine and Percival) to protect him.

#i call this character development #merlin shit posts #enough you're going in the queue #merlin #arthur pendragon #knights of the round table #merthur #bbc merlin

[sainamoonshine]

My unpopular opinion is that in languages with grammatical gender like french, it does make sense for Murderbot to be referred to by whatever pronoun is usually used for robots or constructs. (In french, therefore, grammatical masculine.) Because there are no traditional « it » pronouns in these languages for objects, and while there are neo-pronouns, they are things one must choose for themselves. Do you honestly think MB actually spent time thinking about its pronouns?! No it didn’t. On forms it picks « non-applicable ». When people ask it what pronouns they should use, its honest opinion is « why do you even need to talk about me. Just don’t fucking do that. Don’t think about me either. Just fucking stop perceiving me altogether! »

Thinking about what pronouns to use probably makes it way more uncomfortable than letting people call it what they’ve already been calling it. Making a conscious choice about its identity? And telling other people about it??? No thanks bye, it’s just gonna walk into the ocean now, see you never.

Lbr it probably thinks the only bots that get fancy pronouns are comfort units, and the pronouns are probably shoved into them by humans same as everything else. MB would meet a bot using a neopronoun and it would wish it could barf. Because in a language like french, he/him and she/her, when applied to objects, ARE fulfilling the function of the english « it ». Nobody is saying the table is a woman or related to feminity in any way outside of stand-up comedy; when it comes to objects grammatical gender really has fuckall to do with human gender even if we use the same words. Even animal species names have grammatical gender and everyone gets that there are male and female turtles even if the word « turtle » is a female word, it’s not that confusing.

(I know this is strange when your language has different pronouns for people and for objects, but understand that english uses the same word to indicate if I’m addressing one or many people, and that is confusing to me.)

TL;DR; stop harassing international fans for not getting the correct MB pronoun in english right off the bat. Yes in english calling it « he » or « her » or « them » is upsetting because it’s projecting an identity unto it. But same goes for trying to get a foreign language translation to use a pronoun intended to express or showcase an identity (or even a lack of one!). Murderbot has not thought about it this hard, refuses to think about it this hard -> and that is its only canon accurate gender identity.

#the murderbot diaries #taking a bat to an hornet’s nest there but I said what I said #I go by she/her because that’s the default people use for me even tho my own gender identity is also #ugh I would sincerely prefer not to have to deal with this think about it or even be perceived #and I would be hella pissed if a book of my life came out and people got into fights about my pronouns #trying to assign me the most politically accurate agender pronoun possible #when my own choice has always been specifically to let people call me the default because idc #and I don’t want to be identified by any identifier that might indicate I do care #and using a different pronoun even if its a gender neutral one is a CHOICE! #it does indicate a preference! and caring about it enough to pick a word and tell people about it!!! #Murderbot didn’t pick IT that is specifically the point! #it was used for it and MB just kept going with that #I mean imagine it if wrote down a different pronoun on its ID form one day and someone actually called it that #it would set itself on fire #its discomfort at having made a personal choice and the personal choice being respected would be off the charts #maybe it a later book after hella character development but I just don’t see it happening tbh #respect the agenders who just don’t want to get involved and use the pronoun equivalent of the default avatar that came with the account #PLEASE #that is all

[denkisauce]

literally when has another ship given as much as bakudeku has. when has another ship encompassed so many tropes all at once while also having the relationship develop the way it has???? sometimes i’m just like dumbfounding by the depth that exists between them like they’re not just childhood friends, they’re not just rivals to lovers they’re not just starcrossed they’re not just punk x nerd or jock x jock or nerd x nerd or whatever the fuck they’ve gone from best friends to broken to fixed to i would die for you x i would kill for you like????? the nicknames???? the fact that katsuki has never told deku to stop calling him kacchan even when their relationship was at their lowest???? the fact that he was carrying his all might card with him the whole time???????????? the fact that izuku is so defensive he unlocked new powers multiple times because of kacchan and katsuki is so defensive he was willing to die TWICE for izuku?????? even the smaller things, all might rooting for them, aizawa saying his whole thing about how the two of them push their entire class to go above and beyond,, house arrest boys???? ohhh my goddddd like i know we all know but i can’t stop thinking about all of this all the time 😩😩😩

#i still cannot believe that the story has developed to a point where bakugou is so open and honest about his feelings #and dekus still out here ‘controling his heart’ MFER PLEASE TELL US HOW YOU FEEL IN RETURN #BOTH OF YOU SAY IT TO EACH OTHERS FACES #kacchan held izuku when izuku passed out in his arms and now izuku is holding kacchan in his 😩😩 #i’m sorry no shade but no other ship in mha is this multidimensional #just the depth of their individual characters combined with their history and the development of their relationship??? #UCH I WILL NEVER BE OVER IT #honestly having trouble coming up with another ship in GENERAL that has this much going for them like they’re insane #being a bkdk makes you insane #me whenever someone calls them siblings: what da hell are you talking about #bakudeku #bkdk #dkbk #dekubaku #my stuff