#people write similar shit about characters

[miloformula123fan]

Could you do fic for James Vowles with wife author!reader? ( He's at Williams ) He always goes to her events even though he's busy but he still makes time just to support her. And vice versa. Just something fluff and cute. Thanks!! :))

this is definitely not amazing, but im secretly quite happy with it

(also updates are gonna slow the fuck down because i have assessments and exams this term yay /s)

Please keep requesting - y'all have awesome ideas we agree on a lot of stuff :) - my guidelines are here, and if you want some prompts, they are here.

also feel free to come in and start chatting to me in my asks, would love to get to know y'all better

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james vowles x wife!author!reader

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book talk:

Y/N watched as a teenage girl walked up to the microphone. She clearly looked nervous, as had many other people coming up, but Y/N tried to make her feel as at ease as possible.

“Um…hey Y/N, my name is Elodie, and I just wanted to say how much I love your writing…” - Elodie

James quietly shut the door, once Logan and Alex were through, and didn’t try and push through the crowded room, they instead settled for a spot near the back where they could still see Y/N. They were sure that if people recognised them, they would be shunted towards the front or ushered backstage. They didn’t want that, they just wanted to stay inconspicuous at the back.

“Aww thank you Elodie, what was your question?” Y/N smiled reassuringly

“Um…well, for your book, ‘a sweet sting of salt’, I was just wondering if you had any inspiration for the character Tobias. While he isn’t the best character in the story, you said he was one of your favourite characters to write, and I was just wondering why?” Eloise asked

“Oh, that is a good question, thank you Elodie. Um… while the actions are obviously not based on him, a lot of Tobias’ so-called ‘good’ elements are actually based on my husband. So…okay I’m gonna hope that everyone has read the book, so I don’t spoil it,” she smiled “Um, so for those of you who are unaware, my husband is James Vowles, and he is the Team Principal of Williams, which is a motorsport for those who are very out of the loop. So I guess the main words I would use to describe both Tobias and James, other than loving because Tobias is definitely not, are logical, quiet, grounded, organised and productive.”

James smiles, watching his wife talk about something she was so passionate about.

“So for example, for logical qualities for Tobias and James in chapter 10, Tobias uses deductive reasoning, which I would like to say is James’ strong suit, however he sometimes misuses it, like deducing who ate the chocolate, the wife or the dog. Tobias uses it for more evil, using it for working out how to do the things he does. Maybe they are more evil and similar and similar.” Y/N pondered, garnering a small laugh from the audience

James stopped smiling, as he listened to his wife compare him to a literal murderer in her book. Logan and Alex were standing next to him, trying to avoid their laughs.

“Then for quiet, in chapter 16, James likes sneaking around and scaring the shit out of me when he gets back from the factory and from races to scare the shit out of me, and Tobias uses it for murder. Huh, maybe these 2 characters are closer together than I thought.” Y/N pondered, laughing as she saw her husband’s face

“Darling, I’m not a thief and a murderer. I honestly don’t know why you based Tobias off of me.” James tried to mediate.

However it was enough for Alex and Logan to burst out laughing, joining in with the rest of the crowd, who had discovered that James was there and found it very funny.

“I’m just saying you share similar qualities, more than I initially insisted. Are you sure you didn’t secretly murder someone?” Y/N tilted her head, as if genuinely thinking about the question

“Darling…” James tried to plead again

“ANYWAY - Then for grounded, in chapter 18…” - Y/N, moved on, continuing with her ideas.

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garage:

“And during this safety car period, Alex, our camera man has gone for a wander and he has gone down to the Williams garage, and while we’re normally looking at the team principal or other important people, we have instead zoomed in on Y/N Vowles. Now for those who don’t know, she is a writer, and she seems pretty hard at work at this book on her laptop. Now that will be good news for anyone who reads her books, including me, she writes very good books, available at all the awesome book stores, and no she hasn’t paid us for that, we just think her books are amazing. Oh and she waved at us. Hi Y/N!” - Jolyon said from the commentary box

James smiled at the sight of Y/N on his screen. While this weekend had been very stressful, it was very nice having his wife be there for him in the garage and then back at the hotel rooms, even after all the late meetings. He watched as she smiled and waved at the screen, and he was unable to resist the temptation as he smiled at the picture and waved back, earning another laugh from the commentators.

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book talk part 2:

“Sorry Y/N, my name is Leo, this is a bit of a personal question…” a teenage boy asked

“...as long as it’s not when I’m having a baby, or where I live, it should be okay, hit me!”  Y/N tried to put him at ease.

“Your schedule for this book tour is a little all over the place, if you don’t mind me saying, it was basically like the first 2 months of the year, and now there’s just kinda weeks off or even months off, and I was just wondering if there was any sense to the schedule.” Leo shuffled awkwardly, unsure of how she would react to the question.

“Ah, well there actually is. First off, I cannot tour every week of the year, because I think I would just simply die. But the reason I picked those weeks off is because if my husband again. Are you guys sensing a pattern here? I love James, and I really want to support him at all the f1 races. So those are the weeks I took off, basically. And second, Baby Vowles is due in 6 months, thanks guys!” Y/N laughed as she put down the microphone and walked off stage, laughing as the cheers from the crowd grew louder.

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taglist: @leosxrealm, @tallrock35, @wolf-knights, @janeholt3, @pear-1206

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[jankwritten]

Jasico Bingo Challenge: love letter

A sheet of paper, folded into thirds, dotted in places with what must be water and grass stains. The handwriting is legible in some places, and shaky in others. In the margins are small doodles of birds, clouds, trees, and other miscellaneous, abstract shapes, as if the writer’s mind kept wandering. 

TO: Nico di Angelo 

FROM: Jason Grace 

Hey, Nico. If you’re reading this, something probably happened to me. Maybe I hit my head again and lost my memories, or something, and you went through my stuff to try and find things to remind me of who I was. Maybe this fell out while we were hanging out, one day, and you saw it was addressed to you and you picked it up. Maybe I died—

However you found this, I guess, surprise! :) 

First thing’s first: I’m sorry for leaving. I know I begged you to stay, and then turned around and left, and I really hope you understand - I didn’t leave because of you. I needed to find Leo, and leaving with Piper was the easiest way to do that. I had to try and get him back. 

I wanted you to come with, but you were still healing and things were going really well with you and Will. I hope things still are, in fact. Wherever I am, I’m so proud of you for how far you’ve come, and how much I’m sure you continued to grow even after I left. 

I really love you, man. I never got to tell you that, but you’re one of my best, closest friends. You mean so much to me. You showed me a side of the world that I never would’ve seen otherwise, and gave me a space to be myself, and I will never, ever know how I deserved that. How I deserve you. 

Is that out of left field? Haha it definitely is. Sorry. 

I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Nico. I didn’t want to leave. I’m so sorry for leaving you. I’m sorry I had to go and I’m sorry it had to be me, but it couldn’t be her, Nico, it can’t be her, it can’t be. It has to be me. 

It has to be. 

Here, some of the words are smeared from the water marks. Lines cross through some words that have then been re-written, as if in after-thought the author realized they were too important to delete. 

If you really are reading this, after the worst case scenario, I understand if you’re angry. I understand if you never want to think about me again, after what I’ve done. I’ll understand if you storm to your father’s palace and demand I be placed in the worst of the worst punishments for being so stupid. 

Gods. Gods, Nico, I’m never going to get to tell you how I really feel. About all of this, about everything I’m going through, I’m never going to be able to tell you and that hurts. It hurts more than knowing I’m going to die, it hurts more than getting stabbed and poisoned. I’m going to die loving you and you won’t even know until it’s too late. 

Maybe this is a stupid bad idea. Maybe I should let it die with me. Is it cruel, to tell you how I feel if I’m gone? Does this make me an awful person? 

Shit. I think I’m an awful person, Nico. I’m awful and I’m selfish and I can never choose things for myself, it always has to be for the greater good, so this is it. This is as selfish as I can be. This is all I can be for you. 

I want to see you on the other side. I want you to punch me for getting myself killed and hate me for being a hero and I want you to know that I didn’t want this but it needed to be me. It has to be me. 

I’m still wrapping my head around it, but it has to be me, okay? So if I’m really gone when you’re reading this, okay, you have to let me stay gone. Please. If you get hurt, if you die, and it’s my fault, I could never— 

Here, the letter abruptly stops. Then, it continues: 

That’s all I wanted to say, anyway. That I love you. I love you in any way I can, and even if I’ve done it silently, and stupidly, from a distance, just know that it was there, the whole time. It’s still there, wherever I am. Dead, or lost, or whatever. I love you, Nico. I’m sorry.

-- Jason Grace :)

#jasicobingochallenge2024 #love letter #tw major character death ment #tw suicidal ideation #i haven't read TOA so I don't really know what Went Down with this shit but I think Jason did journal-type letters to people #he wrote down whatever it was he wished he could say to them before he died #I think there's one to Piper about how much he loves her and wishes things could've been different for them #I think there's one to Leo where Jason pours his guts out about how much he hates him and needs him and wishes he hadn't died #(the irony of that is lost on him) #he writes one to Reyna about how he wishes they had more time to be friends again #He writes one to Hazel begging her to keep an eye on Nico. pleasing for her forgiveness because he knows she'll be so angry #one to Percy and Annabeth in a similar vein. #i thik Jason just had a lot of feelings that he never let himself feel until he decided to die for everyone #and in that moment his dams broke and he realized that he was never going to have the chance to be himself #not really #he was destined for this. he was destined to be the son of jupiter champion of hera sacrifice of olympus. #who knew the boy raised by wolves was really a lamb for the slaughter #ANYWAY. :) #pjo #jason grace #hoo #nico di angelo #jasico

[esteemed-excellency]

💫 :D

Some urchins elected Hiram's roof as their base, to snatch as many hats as possible from his guests. They don't trust him enough, as they don't trust any adult, and they would never accept an invitation, because the house is always so full of adults, but they sneak in sometimes when the place is not crawling with people. Coincidentally, they always seem to find a warm meal waiting for them. The house staff is always nice to them, and if they're lucky they'll find a spectacled captain or an old zailor willing to spin a yarn. The Precocious Tosher seems to like Hiram's company and the others agree he's fun to be around. Still, it's better not to get too involved with him, and better to avoid the place if there's no one inside. The mirrors hiss too much. They do appreciate the attic though, it's a bit creepy and full of interesting items, the best place to hang out and tell scary stories.

Hiram finds the hats thefts hilarious and he knows about the attic visits. He always keeps the most hazardous items in his rooms to avoid unpleasant accidents with his guests. He offered to adopt a particularly tempestuous girl once, but she couldn't accept the offer, and he doesn't mind her friends running around on his roof.

#i thought about the urchins and the house staff for the party story (rip who knows if I'll ever continue writing it) #the precocious tosher and the tempestuous urchin are there for sure #and the house staff is similar to the yacht crew (ex criminal or people in witness protection with a veeery good pay) #(thanks to prophet for brainstorming jamie's townhouse staff btw it made me want to elaborate too) #for now i have a disgruntled butler who may be the most annoyied and funny character I've ever thought about #he does his job very well but he just. doesn't give a shit. raising an eyebrow and silently judging type of guy. #he always keeps talking to people at the entrance to allow the urchins enough time to snatch the hats #oc asks #hiram hargrave #hiram lore #handsome townhouse

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

If youre ok w sharing then i would love to hear your thoughts on lotor........ Hes such a weird guy. Dissecting him like a frog

If i get hate for this, i am blaming you/j but in all honesty i apologize if this kinda messy, as i have said it has beem awhile since i saw any of the episodes about him. Most of it is my personal interpretation and opinions of his character-

First of all i personally hate both "L0tor is evil rapist imperialist who did not have a single redeemable quality" and "L0tor is uwu poor baby who did nothing wrong", because yeah he had good intentions and he seemed to genuinely love Alura and care for Alteans but also he very much did do a lot of things Wrong. I am pretty sure a lot of his actions fall into category of Very Wrong

Lot0r to me is an absolute control freak, he has to be 10 steps ahead of everyone, he needs to be control of the situation no matter what. Whether it be through a silver tongue or by his blade (see N@rti's death, him vs White Lion). This is as much as a ruthless strategy as it is a trauma response. Being raised under Z@rkon, a father who only saw him as inferior half-bred, he had to learn survivor tactics. He will do anything to survive whether it be beg, lie, manipulate, and kill. He is a survivor of some genuinely godawful abuse he suffered for 10,000 years, combined with racism he suffered for being half altean

However this need to be in control extends to his allies and people he cares about. I am sure Lotor may have loved Alura, it doesnt change the fact that he very much abused her trust. Their entire relationship was based on a lie. He knew Alteans were still alive and not only did he not tell Alura about it he leaned into the "last survivors of Altea" for their relationship, which is why it was doomed since the beginning. And if it had not been this, then it would have been something else. Cause lying and manipulation are very much core of his character, that is how we are introduced to him

Like i see people going "Oh Lot0r could have been good if he had therapy and a hug", and i am not really not sure about it, cause like would he? Would he choose to be vulnerable and actually let his feelings out and be truthful in a an unbiased reliable way that will neither serve him in any way nor make him look better nor is a part of some machivilian scheme he cooked up because he doesnt trust the therapist he is paying? No

And thing is he does desire connection. He looks for connection in people who are similar to him. Half galran, altean survivors, Alura these are the people who he chose to get close to. He looks for similarities, people he can relate to, people who he sees as like him, people who he thinks can give him a sense of belonging. He is deeply lonely. However his desperation for control, absolute mistrust in anyone and everyone, and his inability to be actually honest dooms any relationship he'll ever have

Also this is probably just me, but for someone who is this morally complex character he has tendency to see things in black and white? Like it is His dad and empire= bad, alteans=good. He idolizes Altea to the point of seeing it as an Utopia, and this ideal was more important to him than any Alteans who are alive and with him. I also cant remember him ever caring about someone outside of the Dichotomy. Like at most i remember is after he became the emperor Lance pointing out how other planets need to be freed and he just brushed it off

Overall he gives me the "smart people dont always make good decisions, but they are good at justifying their bad ones" vibes. We dont know exactly why he decided to use alteans as batteries but i am choosing to go with my interpretation- "Lottor saw something fucked up in that future showing space whale thingy, decided the only way to solve was altean batteries except in true self fulfilling prophecy greek tragedy way it only made things worse and started a series of event that will cause the thing he saw causing real trouble a few years after his death.

Another thing! I think it should have been him being the focus of Evil Altean episode instead of A//ura. I hate that episode and everything it stands for but like if there Had to be an evil alteans episode then it should be around someone who is you know? Obsessed with Altean culture? Is big on control and manipulation? Is more geared towards big picture and "greater good" over individual? Is worried about turning into just like his galran father and so desperately wants to connect to his idealized version of his altean mother? Yeah

#empty answers #This is the type of shit that used to get you sniped from both sides of the shitty discourse back in ye old days #I probably have more thoughts but i also need to rewatch vld to have a clearer picture #Also i dont get when people say it was bad writing that he turned out traitor #Like it was handled in abhorent way but also- we are literally introduced to him manipulating an entire audience #The fuck yall mean yall thought he was genuine?? #I used to like him but come on man #That was the most obvious disney twist villain if i have ever seen one #and vld writers are not smart enough to do something actually subversive #Also gonna be real with you while i do have a lot of thoughts of him i kinda also dont enjoy his character?? #It is-how do i put it? A bit lame #Like the eps were going on about how he is this Most Complex Character and instead we have is- #a disney twist villain and sad anime backstory that is supposed to absolve him or something #I can think of so many villains/character that had similar aspects to him but were just Way Better #A convincingly manipulative man with black and white morality who thinks he is in the right even though his actions beg to differ? #B3los is right there #Villain who uses manipulation as a defense mechanism which only drive all their friends away? Grace monr0e and Sash Waybrigt #A tragedy who just wanted peace for his people only for things to spiral so horribly they destroyed the very people they sought to protect? #M0rdred pendrag0n hnoc my beloved <33 #A hot villain who is morally reprehensible but is really hot? M3dusa G0rgon <3 #And just. I think the problem is the writers wanted him to be all of those things and he ends up being none of them #Not to mention the plot armour. You mean to tell me he is being this obvious and yet no one suspected anything?? #Yeah right. Detective!Hunk for the win! #Anyway sorry this is late and so rambly #Thanks for the ask!!!! #Anyone else reading this. This is just a personal opinion ok? No fights ok??

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Kinda funny how still in 2023, people call Mabel the worst character of Gravity Falls simply because she acts like a 12 year old child, but they silent as hell when it comes to Dipper.

#the vibes off 'girls must be perfect while boys will be boys' are strong here #like people get mad at mabel for being a 12 year old basically #while dippers allowed to be that in comparison by them #like mabels done shit that gets people mad at her but when dipper does similar shit its okay to them #(looking at how the two treat romance but how the two get treated by the fandom here #plus looking at how people treat dipper and mabel when it comes to doing shit with bill) #like i dont drag dipper cause again hes 12 #its like mabel: they acting their age in show #but mabel haters really do have standards for how girls can act and how boys can act #and honestly the fact that mabel gets hate for shit bill did...oh i have too many thoughts #and dont get me started on that video that blamed mabel for gideosn actions #like this got made cause someone posted four worst characters on twitter #and honestly its definitely bait vibes cause they included agent p from paf #like yeah bait vibes strong #but like damn if their replies didnt make it clear they did mean what they said about mabel and the two other girls #aka katara and sakura from naruto #i dont know much about sakura but like blame the writing for her issues #anime has issues with writing women #thats been known for a long time #and katara...girl the audacity is all im saying #just...too many thoughts there

[sailor-aviator]

Always annoying when you see a fic with the same name as one of yours, so now you gotta decide if it’s worth it to change the name of the fic even though you had it first

#have I started writing the fic yet? no #do the two fics center around the same character? no #are they even similar plots? no #but people will start shit about it regardless #so now I need to decide if there’s another title I’d rather use #it was so good too

[lavenderjewels]

brings me joy to see fanart of hana. she is funny!!

#I’ll always be her defender #writing wise it’s a disappointing and bad choice for gege to write hana and by extension angel out #when there’s SO much there that was skimmed over the second they failed to kill sukuna #and for what? because Hana’s missing an arm?? even then there could be more dialogue between characters or angel flashbacks #but that aside fans also say the worst shit #that typical thing where a teenage girl is kinda cringey and silly. then suddenly there’s people ripping her apart for being annoying/whiny #same w the fan polls where i saw comments saying maki and nobara being low is bc jjk is bad with women #and yes it absolutely is bad in that department. but that is Not why inumaki or naoya place so high above 😭 #I’m glad there’s more love for Mai too. she falls into a similar place as hana where she doesn’t have a huge role #and there were missed writing opportunities (although I think Mai’s presence is pretty great tbh) #but fans overlook everything (and esp. their relationships and trauma) and just call her names #that’s enough of my monthly rant where i want to vent a little about characters deserving more from fans and the creator #look all I’m saying is if inumaki can have such a huge fan base just bc people like his design #then why not hana!! she has an interesting backstory - is funny - AND has amazing fashion

[mafukasa]

the day people finally understand whats the actual deal with mafukasa parallels is the day I will achieve inner peace.

#prsk lore rambles #you see my point is. #from my experience people tend to either completely deny there being any similarities between them #or say things like 'omg theyre so similar' without ever elaborating or digging deeper into the topic #and it annoys the shit out of me #because people fail to understand that what makes tsukasa and mafuyu specifically so interesting to compare to eachother #is that they are so similar yet so different at the same time #they are polar opposites in so many ways but at the same time have many almost identical themes/tropes or whatever you call it going on #even their character designs scream 'the writers wanted to make these two be 2 sides of the same coin' if you look closely enough #I could write an entire essay on them but thats for another day. #I think about them a normal amount i promise

[floorpancakes]

recently ive become a mawarin meki childhood friends truther and i cant wait to write a whole bunch of it

they were clearly already friends before tanuki came into the picture but i like the idea that it goes back further and mawarin was the first to reach out and that while these two were the popular ones of the friend group in highschool they were also weird kids once (they're still both pretty weird. nothing about this friendship group is normal)

like mawarin is pretty good at holding in the things that make her different from other people (to the extent she seems like a normal friendly girl that could get along with anybody) but I keep thinking abt the idea of meki being kind of a loner for ages and being shunned by his classmates and stuff. after a point he probably wouldnt care but mawarin seems like the type to reach out even if she knows it could get complicated cause of her bad luck curse/non curse situation. like shes so much of a sunshine character its kind of hard to dim that kind of light. anyway I feel like even if she got deterred by the people around her she WOULD go up and make friends with the weird kid, and WOULD go do that again a second time no matter what (even if the latter is the type of guy who hisses at people).

plus its a good intersection of the traits of like

- meki is noted specifically as having a rough time growing up from being sick, spiritual nonsense and also the whole Situation (which I am choosing to interpret as trans stuff but like in general)

- watanuki being the latecomer to the friend group, and also notably a lot more of a loner rather than the popular type so he was probably adopted into a preexisting friendship at some point

I just like the idea that mawarin has an affinity for bringing weird kids out of their respective shells and that all three of them kinda see themselves in each other as individuals and a group bcs it adds an added layer of sentimentality to what's already been established. and its very found family vibes. I rly like the framework of what's already there in canon but my brain wants to make it even more compelling so it comes uff with stuff like this out of nowhere lol

anyway imagine if mekis mind was already set after the rain incident but himawari comes up to him one day like 'so like theres this kid in our year with no friends and i think he needs somebody cause he keeps eating alone at lunch can we keep him' 😭 like he's some sort of cat in need (he is) (thats exactly what he is)

and doumeki immediately is like yeah go for it (hes already had a life altering experience and at this point without himawari even knowing he's basically ride or die for the guy at first sight)

i like the idea that this like a lot of other things in the story is cyclical idk how to end this thought anyway this probably doesn't make sense im sick and thinking about holic is a good distraction

#apologies for having 95849495959 nicknames for every character from every series ever #i am aware it can become borderline unrecognisable but thats just who i am #when i start writing my original characters for heart render visual novel its gonna start getting so hard to keep track apologies in advanc #anyway #xxxholic #listen i came up with the idea a while ago and got REALLLLLY into the concept #oddly specific holic thoughts #thinking abt meki going from being picked on to being mega popular #then immediately realising its kind of a pain and being like lmao fuck that #then immediately becoming head over heels in love with the weirdest loneliest hissing at people est circus clown he meets #truly a disorganised ramble just bear with me on this #hope this makes sense to somebody #theyd probably make friends in middle school or sometime slightly beforehand #sometime when doumekis already kinda settled into his idgaf era but not enough that he feels fully ok about being alone #middle school class rep mawarin being surprised all her friends want her to stay away from the weird kid that eats alone in the corner #i feel like meki would get a reputation for saying weird shit and living at the temple and being 'haunted' and creepy and quiet #along with all the other stuff #him having a different but similar reputation to watanuki as a kid just kinda checks out to me

[probablyaseamonster]

After a lifetime of foolishly and dickishly thinking low of the Mario franchise, I have been converted to the fandom by SPM specifically.

I repent for my sins. Lore is love, lore is life.

#super paper mario #praise the writing of this one game in particular #thanks ao3 for introducing me to the concept of mr l #who i initially thought was a character in luigi's mansion 3 similar to the narrator from the stanley parable #in reality he was much more dorky #also got a love-hate relationship with dimentio #what is mimi's deal #istg if she wasn't a child people would be so weird about her #haven't exactly gotten to the part where we get count bleck's backstory but like. i know it's coming #stan razor pearl #if anyone fucking remembers that character #every year i become less of a hater #my growth journey #i do not mature. i learn to not be a little shit with bad taste #squirps #just. squirps #spm

[bullforgery]

2am rant cause idgaf.

#it's 230am and i still can't sleep which means it's truth hour #the reason it's taking me so long to write #is that i fucking hate canon Dundee :) and i mean /fucking hate/. even more than joffery from GoT cause at least he died. #and it was easier to write in the four months that dundee was dead #and now that he's back and poking at every trauma response deep in my soul and making me sideeye certain... “character decisions” #it makes me fucking hate writing him and thinking about his now very yikers mindset #regardless if i've moved my version of him out of canon interpretation because i still have to see/hear about him in NP #so i usually write between bursts of rp where dundee has no interaction with any bbmc and i don't have to read #about his dumb fucking shit in the meta channels #and if there's anything i could will into existence #it would either be dundee permas or this version of bondi move to NewDayRP. cause i love bbmc and their rp but NP ain't it. #and one man seems determined to not let them have fun #while claiming that it's fun for him (because he suffers no consequences). so... #hate it or not. idgaf. that's just my 2am rant. #or maybe i just transition all my writing to the OC i re-found a week ago that I made for “post-apocalypse/solar-punk novel” years ago #and the character called “duke calamity” cause he shares a shocking amount of similarities #(minus the very yikers traits of dundee) #except Duke is actually gay and doesn't no homo panic about it because he's too self aware about being a character for people to enjoy #so he's perfectly happy to drive the commuter bus across the desert for the miners #and tell you sappy stories about his badass husband who murdered a mouthy fucker who was going after one of the other miners #and he'll fuck you up if you insult his very nice bus that he built himself even if a few parts are missing after a trip through a storm #and he'll back up his husband when shit starts going down at the mine even if he has no idea how it all works. but husband is mad about it #so now he is too #.....i just don't know anymore. i do like writing for it. but knowing the corrupted source of it makes it not fun

[marcirose]

Randomly started thinking about Fairy Tail after all this time and all of the things wrong with it and how all of the other guilds are just Fairy Tail with a different coat of paint and I'm two seconds away from writing self indulgent fix it fics because good lord

(I'm mainly talking about post-Tenrou cause that's where most of my criticisms are. I have very few complaints about pre-Tenrou cause those arcs slap)

#fairy tail #this is coming from someone who watched the shit out of it #i hadn't watched the anime in so long but best believe i tuned in for that last episode #i started sobbing when snow fairy started playing #but anyway it's the way that the series was too scared to keep characters evil and/or perma kill them #like i think only 5 PEOPLE died in this entire franchise pre-100 year quest #only 3 people deserved redemptions imo and for some reason more than those 3 people got redemptions #i also wish the guilds had different dynamics because when it comes down to it they're all pretty much the same #blue pegasus is just fairy tail but with ouran high school host club mixed into it #lamia scale is fairy tail but snake themed #mermaid heel is fairy tail but with lesbians #sabertooth is fairy tail but they're assholes who eventually become fairy tail 2.0 because they got a power of friendship pep talk #you could tell me the other guild characters were part of fairy tail and i wouldn't question it that's how similar they are #anyway gonna write about sting and rogue leaving sabertooth cause their boss was homophobic (canon tbh) and they become mercenaries

[chaotic-history]

I will die on this hill

#cause the whole thing in Candide is he's arguing against Leibnitz who's saying it's the best of all possible worlds and that everything #that happens happens for an eventually good reason #and Voltaire's not just arguing that everything is terrible; for all that he's smarter than Pangloss Martin is still wrong about Cacambo #coming back. #and Martin's idea was that there's a Good god and a Bad god that control everything #but Candide (book not character) shows that things like the Lisbon earthquake or good men drowning simply don't have a reason; good or bad #things happen essentially randomly and there's no order to it #*but* #(and this is moving away from the absurdism point but I want to talk about it) #despite all the random uncontrollable things Candide faces there's also much that's manmade #and I've seen some interpretations of the book that seem to thing the ending is saying to just escape from the world and don't bother #with trying to change it but I don't think that's the point because first of all obviously Voltaire didn't think it was useless to try and #change things or he wouldn't have written the fucking book; and also Martin and Pangloss share the similarity of believing that #any attempt to better the world is pointless because Pangloss thinks it couldn't get any better and Martin. well. also thinks that but in a #negative way #and the way I see it the book is as much a critique of fatalism as it is of Leibnitz's optimism #and really those are one and the same; if this is the best world it means nothing can ever improve and we're stuck in this pile of shit #tldr; shit happens for no reason; ya can't fix it but at least you could make it a bit better for the people around you; and you might as #well enjoy some pistachios while you're doing it #guys i promise i do know how to write actual literary analysis and someday i'll post it #but it's easier to just rant in the tags for 5 minutes #also jacques and the old woman both fundamentally changed the story through being willing to help candide + pangloss/cunégonde

[dmclemblems]

It absolutely baffles me how someone can say “if x character was x gender I would actually like them” and think that’s not completely and utterly sexist.

#like man i know twitter is full of shit takes but like #now we out here in THIS territory? y i k e s #it's even worse because the character they were talking about DOES have someone very similar to them of said gender #now see the only reason people aren't canceling that person for it on twitter is bc it's a man they're talking about #but if it was about a nonbinary character and they said a nonbinary character should be another gender #you know there would've been a whole stink about it and it's like #imagine thinking it's not sexist to say you don't like a character simply bc they're a man #the person was basically like if they had the same story but were a girl i'd like them #like... no that's still sexist buddy. being a male character doesn't give you a free pass for sexism #that's basically saying ''if you were a girl i'd actually like you'' even though they otherwise like the ideas? like. okay. #and I'm not saying it's wrong for people to argue a situation if someone said they wanted #a nonbinary character to be another gender. I'm saying the only reason nobody is calling them out for it #is because it's a man and so nobody on Twitter cares bc nowadays all Twitter is is like #toxically supportive of anything but men so if you shit on men for no reason except being a man then That's Just Okay #and like yeah it's a fictional character but imo that also says a LOT about people who think like that #generalizing character writing based on gender is so scummy #DCE Comments

[eventually--darling]

I feel like just between lovers has just... rlly good disability representation in general? I can't speak too overly much on the topic but idk. It feels really authentic.

#like wan jin being treated as a whole person #whose life and arc is very much affected by her needing a wheelchair #as it would be #but she has hopes and aspirations and a personality outside of that #she's just a good character in general. like her function is the best friend(tm). but they made her very three-dimensional #also gang du #his knee is BUSTED and that flows so much into the narrative and his everyday life without it JUST being about that #like it connects to his dependence on painkillers and his self harm tendencies #(do not get me started on that lol one day i will write an essay) #and how he wouldnt know x or y characters without it #and wouldnt have as much of an understanding of people who are in similar situations #like he has so much compassion bc of all the shit he's been through #anyway im spewing #kdrama posting #just between lovers

[hardestgrove]

there’s a part of me that wants to ask for harrringrove content recs for people who don’t like harringrove bc while thankfully i’m basically back to neutral on it i still have a lotta “ugh” surrounding it from the advent of the ship that i’m still fighting from when i genuinely almost shipped it. but i just got fucking bombarded by so much of it that i couldn’t escape bc no one tagged, got exposed to the just shittiest “boil the white boys down to caricatures and make them kiss” shit that reminded me too much of other fandoms and bad experiences in rp around it to really get into it and it’s still haunting my exp around it.

like i only recently opted to even become a vocal billy stan bc i remember when i got into stranger things i was still rping on here and you’d see people be like “billy’s/pro-billy people do not interact” and the rp comm on here was already so toxic and ready to callout and cancel you for the smallest shit so i just.... didn’t lol. for years. 

but i also at times feel like the only billy stan who isn’t into harringrove and the billy tag can at times just feel like harringrove pt 2. so i feel a bit like i’m standing out front of chuck e cheese in the rain watching everyone have a good time.

i’d love to give it a shot again bc i have literally years of distance between me and my bad experiences with people who made me so iffy with it, i can understand the appeal and i wanna see more of that if just to appreciate people’s work. also like, despite the fact i could write a thousand page essay on why billy is god’s most perfect little boy i cannot fathom a world where steve’s into him lol like how???? when??? i would love to see how people get us there. a steve harrington who’s into billy??? i wanna study him in a lab.

but also if i just wander in on my own and pick up a fic on my own i might hit up against all the shit i don’t like and scuttle back into my cave for another decade.

#train.txt #like all my issues w/ the ship are either the complains i have about all popular gay ships on tumblr #(you know the ones and you know the type who do them) #or like no one TAGGED SHIT and i COULDN'T SEE MY MEMES or people around me who were just shit you know? #and sadly i have a brain that stores the ambient negativity around something with the thing lol rip #i have similar issues to the 'can't fathom x is into y' when i write my own characters too lol it's just a general issue i have sometimes #so i'd LOVE to see how ppl make it all work but sadly i cannot look at most things bc i might doom myself #also i'm REALLY iffy on a lotta variations on fanon!billy and steve. especially fanon!billy #he's just not.......... scrunkly enough you know? like sometimes i skim the x readers in the tag bc they're there and i'm just like #nope not billy he's too nice or he wasn't gross enough. he didn't crawl out of a ditch blaring dio it's not billy enough try again