#it really detracts from the characters

[fyodorloveclub]

jouno’s blindness could’ve been such an interesting part of his character and really added depth to both his story and the hunting dogs’ story but it simply was mentioned like once and never again! a waste!

#i think of it a lot in the context of toph from avatar the last airbender #it was a part of her and played into often but never detracted from her as an individual or a character #it was never erased as a disability but also gave her strengths that the others didnt have #plus it made for some really funny moments #the same could’ve been true for jouno #and yet. nothing #bsd #ranting at 9pm on a wednesday abt nothing

[bassiter2]

#honestly i think it might be particularly useful to split the answers between #transfem transmasc and non-transitioning/neutral nb #bc i can imagine a split happening #but this is just simpler #but yeah this isn't even going into the fact that you really only see the transfem beam for the most part #i prob should've included an 'as long as it doesn't detract from female rep' button for that reason #i think transmasc hcs about canonically female characters are more universally frowned upon #just bc you'd be taking away women or whatever #anyway #ok to rb

[vt-scribbles]

Something seriously lacking in my art is the ability to tell a story in a single illustration.

I've gotten so used to drawing my characters standing around doing random things that I've never practiced telling a full tale/putting implications into my pieces that require more thinking/looking.

It also comes from a lower amount of details in my works by default [since I like to get pieces done fast], but I'm tired of using that as an excuse.

#vent #kinda #sorry I'm just having a rough one tonight but I'll recover lmao #I think the AI art thing is really getting to me cuz like. #Anyone can make pretty images if they study and practice hard enough #[not to detract from people who don't tell stories with their images!] #but something in my brain wants to fight back because AI will never be able to Tell a Story through its images. #It can't make narrative choices through its regurgitation of random elements. It will never tell a cohesive and interesting tale through #detail choice #the worst it can do is create surface-level 'pretty' images by smashing together a bunch of mushed up information #but storytelling? that's human touch #that's intention. Thought. Choices. #and idk it's really bothering me lately that my images almost never... 'say' anything about a character. #this does not apply to anyone else's art I look at #it's just a standard I'm starting to feel my head apply to my own work and nobody else's. #which I'm taking as a sign that this is something I'm unsatisfied with #but the thought of starting to develop a completely new skill like that? terrifyingly daunting. #Sorry for the wall of tags I'm havin' some hella moodswings tonight #happens a lot when I get inspired by art I see #which I'm trying to work on but yaknow #it's a long process #anyways how's your night goin #I'm gonna cheer myself up by eating some amazing asparagus casserole

[snixx]

got queerbaited into reading a book by chatgpt. is this rock bottom

#girlblogging.pdf #apparently coding isn't the only thing that thing is ass at. fetching basic information is too #i mean i Wanted to read it anyway and i knew it wasnt queer before. idk why i let chatgpt gaslight me into believing i was making it up #whatever. neither the main character nor her best friend are textually queer or in love with each other. they're both pretty boy crazy tbh #but the mc is giving big aro vibes. like she's so done with her best friend every time she starts talking about men or crushes #also her crush on this guy is giving extremely platonic im not biased i swear #she just throws herself at him because she thinks itd be cool to date her besties crushs bff #so she could feel normal like her #they do have a cute friendship though. mc and the guy. also they start dating like 2 seconds after her bff dies so it's not really romantic #also theres a very cool lesbian who gets more pagetime than the guy and whos friendship with mc is super angsty so #w #its a really good book ok i just went in with really wrong expectations #like a sapphic hiaylm #but every day i grow closer to the great truth of my life that sapphic hiaylm will never exist #and i should stop looking for it and find the beauty in things for their originality and what they are #anyway in this case the lack of sapphicness did not detract from the book at all dont get me wrong #i just found it funny

[inamindfarfaraway]

Concept: Duke’s pupils glow white when he uses his powers. White rather than gold matches his bat symbol and fits that he’s about light itself, not just sunlight. The pupil glowing represents how his retina, the part which the pupil opens to and actually responds to and absorbs light, would probably be the part affected by his metahuman power to absorb light in superhuman ways; is a somewhat more subtle power indicator than glowing irises; avoids giving yet another black character/PoC unnaturally non-brown eyes, even temporarily; and tell me circles of bright white inside dark brown irises isn’t an immensely cool image. Light in the darkness. Like the classic solid white eyes in Batman’s cowl in some art styles.

#and this might be a stretch but gnomon’s face on his helmet has a big white circle in the middle #so it might kinda reference that ‘cause gnonom is where his powers come from #but with gnonom that power and superhuman state of being has completely overridden his human face #i’m a duke power purist #no ‘touch of ishmael’ in my version of canon thanks #super light PERCEPTION is a really cool and versatile take on light powers #i’ve never seen in any other character at least not as a main/only power #it’s the kind of ability you need to be clever and thoughtful to use well #and being non-physical means it can’t detract from his own physical strength and skill #adding the more common and generic manipulation of external light cheapened it for me #and why add darkness powers?! duke is thematically ALL ABOUT light! #darkness makes no sense and corrupts that thematic cohesiveness! #we have enough dark-related batfamily members #let me have my SUNSHINE BOY #i think seeing every wavelength of light; the ‘ghosts’ of past and future light; x-ray vision; and microscopic and telescopic vision #are enough powers for a vigilante with loads of other skills and talents that deserve weight and recognition too #duke thomas #the signal #dc signal #batfamily #batfam #dc comics #dc

[atopvisenyashill]

I am wired to develop hatred against any character the author doesn't only favour but tries to shove down our throats, which is why I will always hate Daemon, Tyrion, Bloodraven (Blackwoods in general). It helps that all these are despicable men with very little redeeming qualities. Then there is Arya who as a whole is a hero, despite her progressively darker nature, but I don't hate her because she is a child, I just don't give two fucks about her.

i get it but also EYE am a fantasy enjoyer i like the weird tomboy who identifies as both a wolf and a girl who has wolf dreams where she guards her mother’s bloated and decaying body from being nibbled on until the magic fire zombie nearby can come and kiss her mother awake! like, yes i DO like that benjicot blackwood with the fun sigil and the cool pagan religion experiences being responsible for death for the first time and rises to the occasion even as he’s continuously hysterically crying over all the death he himself has a hand in, to the point that he keeps the bones of a man he loved from that man’s brother for years because he can’t let go of the terror he had a hand in.

like i definitely get you, we all know i have bitched about tyrion being overwritten ie just relying too much on his pov to move the plot along so the scenes can get repetitive (how many scenes do we need of him and shae fucking and feeling weird afterwards) or how some of arya’s time at harrenhal drags a lil bit but imma be honest i don’t quite understand when people are like “he made this character too cool so i’m gonna spite hate them” like everyone’s so mad about how there’s no way we should know what dialogue was exchanged before daemon and aemond died and meanwhile i’m over here rambling on the phone to my cousin like “and then daemon did a sick backflip offa caraxes’ neck and had his sword angled Perfectly to get aemond right through his good eye it was awesome” aksjdjd I like to laugh at how obvious his favorites are but it’s HIS story i think it’s ultimately fine if he thinks tyrion is cool as fuck or wants to give me like 5 chapters in a row where arya is just chillin in braavos, if it bothers me i put my audio on 2x speed 😎

#i do understand spite stanning where it’s like ‘the author clearly doesn’t like this character so the character is mine now’ #altho i think u should be aware how much of that is necessary for the story and how much of it is Genuinely a weakness in the writing. #asks #anons #i also think sometimes people get deranged talking about barba bethany melly and naerys but that’s just typical misogyny #but like yeah i do think there’s parts of the stories that are Slightky weaker bc of his favoritism. #but that’s mostly f&b i mean so long as tyrion getting chapters doesn’t detract from say cersei’s arc that’s fine. #like i think you can tell he REALLY loves sam (who doesn’t) but sam’s pov and jon’s are evenly handled AND sam getting a pov doesn’t detract #from gilly as a character or jon or small paul or alliser thorne etc instead he gives us slightly different insights than jon. #i think agot does a good job of balancing all the povs in kl for example. the middle of acok struggles imo. #i’m not like picking at you specifically anon just like rambling with you about the series in general btw #idc if u hate daemon tyrion or the blackwoods so long as you’re not weird about arya & don’t call tyrion like #straight up slurs akskd 💀

[liquidstar]

I'm working on my next oc set rn (as always) and this one is going to be the first, like, trinary guild to have more than 8 characters on account of twins sharing a spot lol

#they're actually replacing a different character i felt didn't really work well lol #my concern so far is to not design every single character to have a blue color scheme since they're naval themed #I'll have to like work around it for some. some blue as highlights maybe #shades of green or ourple #at least one character will have a red and orange color scheme and I don't want them to stand out too much also #I'll figure it out lol #anyway the secondary guilds have 10 characters. and the knights have 14. obvs the main one has the most at 31 #i feel like you can assume theres more members of those guilds beyond what i show. theyre just not all as relevant lol #bc having 30+ for a side side guild would be sort of pointless and detract more than add #but a lot of them are big guilds so. i think you can assume theres more than 8 that just happen to pop up around the main characters lol #also anyone who wants to play with ocs like dolls could make their own characters for those side guilds and it will not mess w the story #even come up w relationships to other characters and say we just dont see them for the same reasons. not relevant to the main bunch #bc even tho i have a lot of fun w the more gimmicky side characters focusing on them too much would take away from the main guys #thats part of why they have to be gimmicky to stand out too. not as much focus to give them like detailed backstories and hypothetical arcs #so you get the gist of them based on what their Thing is and they can stand out w that #like i dont want them to be too intrusive. but i want them to have character! #not just bland extras and all. if they were i wouldnt keep drawing these sets for them #i have too much fun designing them to do that! #anyway after this current set (cobalt heart) ill only have 2 left #and one of them is actually on the smaller side! the timber scouts only have 5 characters #w similar outfits so they shouldnt take as long i think? also 4 of them are children #then is tartarus which will probably take longer but im really stoked for them #especially pluto. and deimos and phobos and juliet (dumbass duo and their fucking babysitter) #i also have some solo characters i wanna do too #i for sure have to do the royals . and some historical characters maybe #but i want atlas to be the last one i draw. my insane guy who tried to claw his own eyes out because he saw it #i wonder what the next phase will be after i finish everyone tho

[theygender]

Yeah sure growing up abused may have left me with permanent scars on my psychological state that I'm still working to unpack, but on the bright side it gave me the ability to give a thoughtful in depth analysis of Roald Dahl's Matilda and all of its adaptations

#rambling #i love matilda so much. its such an important story to me. its literally just an abused childs power fantasy #where she gets to get back at the people who hurt her and protect other kids and then get a new loving family and everything is alright #my gf and i just watched the movie adaptation of the musical and we have Opinions on it. some good and some bad #so weve been discussing it and analyzing different parts of it #and its kinda nice to get to use my history for something good #to be able to give thoughtful analysis on how the changes they made in this adaptation have changed the allegory for abuse in the story #from the perspective of someone who grew up with that #and to just. have that be normal. my gf knows my history and its not gonna stop the conversation if i say #'this change works well for trunchbull's character bc it makes her seem more like a real life abuser' #'this detail is very subtle but it really captures some tiny part of the experience of growing up with an abuser' #'i dont like this bc it detracts from the narrative of the main character feeling alone and makes it less relatable to abused kids' #'i dont like this because while it IS something that happens under abuse it detracts from the fantasy where the kids all win together' #idk. of course everything that happened to me as a kid was awful and should not have happened but like #for a long time i had this problem where i didnt know how i was ever supposed to be okay about that #like no matter how much therapy i go through it will never UN-happen. it will always still have happened and it will always have been awful #and i couldnt figure out how i was supposed to recover from that besides 'bury it and try your hardest to never ever think about it' #and. i think maybe this is it. yes the abuse i went through was awful. thats kind of the whole thing about abuse #but. its also just a fact of my life. im better NOW. but that will not change what happened then #the abuse was awful. but the fact that i am an abuse survivor is a neutral fact. the same as any other fact from my childhood #its just a fact. a part of my past. and maybe being able to talk about it that way is... good for me #i dont have to break down when i think about it bc im okay now. my partner doesnt need to stop me and express sorrow for me bc im okay now #i can talk about my past in a neutral way and use my life experience to analyze movies #the same way that i used my experience of growing up in arkansas to analyze hollywood hillbillies when we watched it together #theyre both just two facts of my life. and analyzing movies is fun #that woman has no power over me anymore and hasnt for many many years. im okay now #abuse mention #child abuse mention #request to tag

[aparticularbandit]

I need someone who's versed in Danganronpa to let me explain what I want to do with Chiaki and Junko in relation to this fic to tell me absolutely not, this is unnecessary, and this takes away from Junko as a character and/or completely changes who she is.

....

Or maybe I just need to tell myself that.

-sighs-

But I LIKE it.

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#musings #bandit brainstorms #dr1 end rewrite fic #i think this is a case of 'detracts from the story trying to be told' #even if i use it as a last straw catalyst #i think that takes away from junko #as junko #unless i play significantly more into the idea of the lotr themes i have ALREADY ESTABLISHED #like this is me looking at the story and thinking yep actually this plays in very nicely with what i'm doing #but i think it changes JUNKO in a way that i don't like #in terms of motivation #because it changes her motives from obsessed with despair to something else entirely #and i don't think i want to do that #unless i lean in harder to a strong difference between ryoko and junko #and ryoko being aware of that unhealthy obsession and separating that into the junko persona #which - again - fits with the story and the themes and etc. #but i think takes away from junko as a character #so like #maybe i really do need to hash this out with someone #with the understanding and caveat that this comes with major fic spoilers #assuming i even keep this #which i might not #i'm playing with this the way a jewelist looks at a diamond for flaws

[bangtanagan]

it's such a bummer that army is so much more active on twitter than here because I see mis- and disinformation spread around by well-meaning teenagers approximately 500% more often than I ever do on tumblr and it really detracts from cool fan art and fic and tannie content and whatnot

#and it's impossible to have a real conversation in 240 character soundbites about like #why the sbucks boycott is a union issue and being mad at idols for drinking coffee is detracting from outreach and action #and why if you want to put pressure on companies there should be goals to accompany your pressure #and why you should ask yourself ''what are this candidate's actual policies'' when given a long list of 3rd party platform points #like sure you're going to end the american imperial war machine but like. how. #tbd #the sbucks one really annoys me. be mad but be mad about something more useful. understand the thing you're mad about.

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Some souls are bound by destiny. From the moment they meet, a thread of fate connects them which none may tear asunder. But what if you could see that thread? What if that thread - and the one it ties you to - is all you have to cling onto in a world that threatens to pull apart at the seams? Would you keep hold of that thread, trust in the powers-that-be that this MUST happen, regardless of what your love might say? Or would you let it all go, and cut yourself adrift from the one thing you care about most in the whole world, so they could be happy? Would you accept Destiny... or embrace Doom?

Here's more drabble about Ralsei - now in a strange two-shot style thingy! It's its own thing because I liked the idea of pairing these together and that couldn't really be done very elegantly within the larger scope of the Dark Menagerie. Consider it a benign offshoot of that style of fic, if you like :p

Also horray the title of the fics show up in the links again instead of that vaguely-ominious "New Session" it said before! Party poppers and balloon animals all around :D

#ao3 post #fiction #fanfiction #deltarune #Ralsei #Kralsei #Krisei #drabble #character study #destiny #love #two shot #mirrored narratives #I actually really want to write a “proper” fic covering this subject one day #There's so much promise inherent in this premise #It'd be the most angsty and horrific thing I'll have ever written :D #Not to detract from this work but I've been thinking about it for a short while now #So be warned I guess lol

[saturnsuv]

8 episodes into tlok trying to fill the atla hole in my heart again and my impression so far is that it’s aggressively mediocre. sorry

#i think it does have real potential but my main complaint so far is that the characters feel VERY flat especially in comparison to atla #all of the main group are pretty much just one type of stock character #korra is the tough tomboy girl that kicks ass mako is the brooding guy bolin is comic relief asami is rich girl subverting the prissy #allegations by being a strong and independent woman except thats the way writers subvert every rich girl character so its not even a #subversion of the character anymore thats just the character #the only ones with any dimension so far have been tenzin and lin #this one’s more of a personal taste complaint but to me the industrialization of the atla world does make sense narratively BUT it really #detracts from the appeal the original show had #apart from having absolutely incredible writing the world of atla felt very deep and immersive and creative and fantastical and for me #making it just a city but there are benders takes away some of the magic of the original show #sorry if any of my mutuals love tlok and read all this <3 #OH also the love triangle between korra mako and asami has not been working for me but thats mostly bc i automatically think the answer to #all love triangles is that they should just all date each other #sam speaks #OH ALSO my biggest question out of all this is. where did they get more air bison from if appa was the last one #air bison reproduce asexually confirmed

[5qu1dink]

dad doesn’t know how to approach child with autism more at 11

#hey reddit am i (420 m) the asshole because i don’t know how to sound different when i’m complaining versus when i’m talking #which led to dad (46 m) trying to combat a point i made not realizing i was complaining #idk how to carry a conversation normally when i’m talking about my interests sorry dad #he said that this is a me problem and he shouldn’t have to specify when he is and isn’t being combative or arguing with what i said #i also don’t understand having a conversation and going ‘well here’s this from a different point of view that isn’t my own’ #THEN WHY ARE YOU SAYING IT IF YOU DONT EVEN AGREE WITH IT #just continue the conversation with questions not with things that are against the point i was making #i was talking about renfield and how it handled mental illness #and i don’t even understand what my dad was trying to say. it wasn’t even a poiny #it was just ‘well it’s hard to make a crazy character nowadays bc cancel culture’ OK AND? #it is not that hard just don’t go into stereotypes and you’ll be fine #IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POINT I WAS JUST SAYING HOW IT DETRACTED #FROM THE ORGINAL CHARACTER AND HOW RENFIELD BASICALLY BECAME A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHARACTER #there was nothing about hollywood or the directors. it was about the CHARACTERS. the MOVIE CHARACTERS #i can give a rats ass about the directors and what they were doing IM TALKING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS. #ok sorry autism attack again i don’t understand where i went wrong in that conversation #and my dad explained it but in a very attacking way #so i still don’t really understand. #squid.txt

[sssusuki]

The real secret to writing? Don't take your shit seriously. Oh! They are the destroyer of worlds? Well, they are also the destroyer of stoves and microwaves get them OUT of the kitchen! Ah, they were cursed forevermore till true love? Well, can they stop shedding everywhere I keep having to vacuum

#swan speaks #seriously though. I have a story in the works and its really finding that balance #because if you focus too much on what they do and who they are you can lose the character and story #so sometimes just be silly. find that balance and make them the sillyest guy around with 14 felonies and a warrant for arrest #sometimes it just be like that #yet its also important to not focus the entirety of their character on sillyness because they are still a person at the end of the day in #whatever story they are in. if they are too silly it can still detract from the character and story #so just find that nice line and go to town bois #okay back to bullshit #MY CHICKEN MAFIA ESCAPED AND I AM FURIOUS

[maraschinotopped]

relating to those doodles i posted yesterday, i actually have more vitamin connection doodles that i made like. just before new years. here (inflicts onto you)

#[cherry on top] #i remember getting obsessed w in when it first came out like (checks calender) IN 2020? #jeez. that was a while ago #watched a whole playthrough of the game bc of the fixation (thank you stormsfunnygaming on youtube.com) #personally its not like a goty or anything its got issues #its mainly story issues like plot holes #(also taking a really hard turn in the last act which was .. sort of foreshadowed? but not very well ig it still feels out of left field) #but the artstyle + character designs are cute #and the music goes really fucking hard for no reason (kururi casmir pavlovs bell and 'final boss 1' (according 2 yt) are my favs rn) #most of the ost is up on yt !!! go listen to it #..also i think i should mention that elec-tron (yellow one in bottom right) has a new yorker accent #i dont know /why/ the developers chose to do that but. i approve of their choice #it doesnt detract from the game experience at all. i think it adds onto it actually #im an elec-tron stan. 4 evah ✌️✌️✌️✌️ #fhdsjcghdsjgddz

[kirnet]

Every day the 2 hour valkyria chronicles video essay in my brain tries to claw out of my ear and every day I have to push it back in

#just ordered a mic so I finally have audio for my pc #what if I… no I shan’t… lest? #i still have a ton of research to do into a lot of antisemetic conspiracy theories around ‘controlling the world’ bc my point is that the #game is explicitly about anti racist/bigoted themes and accountability for your ancestors actions and the fact u benefit from them as a #privileged member of society BUT the game also fumbles in some ways that detract from it #i would need other peoples perspectives too bc I think it’s trying to subvert that trope but I cannot tell if it’s a successful subversion #or not. i think not #it does subvert the fantasy trope of ‘these race of people should be oppressed bc of their powers bc they’re dangerous actually’ which is #good but. argh. i need to replay and take detailed notes and read up on a bunch of stuff #the whole essay is about the game of course but it’s really about rosie and isaras dynamic bc Rosie’s character arc is the most important #one for the theming #UGH ITS TRYING TO GET OUT AGAIN GET BACK #ramblings