#similar character genre i think

[c4n1d43cup1d]

how have i never seen anyone compare these 2

#both of them are antisocial asshole rabbits who only care about themselves #well i guess max cares about sam #idk anything outside of the one tadc episode im not caught up on whatever lore jax has if any #ok they dont have THAT much in common #similar character genre i think #also their names are sooo similar #saw jax and immediately thought of max #sam and max #the amazing digital circus

[butchthirteen]

by the way i've been going through rtd's non-doctor-who work and the first thing i watched was queer as folk and i have to say. there's a lot going on in that show but my main takeaway is "it's extremely obvious that the guy writing this really wants to write doctor who." there are ten episodes and of those i believe seven mention doctor who in some capacity. the theme starts playing in the middle of gay sex. k-9 is there. the character responsible for most of these references breaks up with his boyfriend because the boyfriend can't name all the doctors. at the end he has a couple lines where i was like "wow this sounds like something the doctor would say" and then the next lines out of his mouth were about doctor who. all of this is retroactively much funnier now that rtd kickstarted a 20+-year-long reboot for the show

#doctor who #like the show itself is not all that similar to doctor who beyond like. rtd having a pretty clear voice as a writer #like the characters aren't similar the plots aren't similar it's a totally different genre #and like. ostensibly doctor who comes up so much because one particular character is a fan #but like. you can *tell* that it's coming from a place of appreciation and knowledge on the writer's part #i don't know. if i'd been an adult in 2004 and i'd seen queer as folk and then heard that that guy was going to be writing doctor who. #well i simply would not have been surprised. #i would've been like. yeah good for that guy. proud of him. #(i also found an interview with rtd from like. 2000. where he was like 'yeah i was going to do doctor who but then someone new came in so #that's probably not happening anymore :/' and again. very funny to read in retrospect) #anyway. the funniest reference was the theme playing mid-gay-sex because for half a second i thought i was watching the wrong show #and it had gone to the opening credits #also i need to find out if they used the original k-9 prop because i think that would be EXTREMELY funny

[kindaeccentric]

Why do I feel like a lot of criticism of OFMD here is widely exaggerated and it became trendy to hate on it? What happened to death of cringe?

#many people are like 'oh it's so bad' but it really isn't? what did you guys actually want? #I'm almost 30 i watched/read THOUSANDS of narratives and it's pretty reasonable writing for comedy trading about deeply un-comedic subjects #the characters are consistent the plot is going forward on a course that is quite expected (not a bad thing) #things get resolved quickly because why not it's comedy dealing about uncomedic things it can afford comedic timing instead of drama timing #it's warping reality the way horror warps reality even though the goal is different the genres are more similar than you'd think #nobody cares about the unrealistic aspects of let's say Malignant so why nitpick things here #anyway you'd think what you want but i just can't agree #ofmd #our flag means death

[averlym]

"oh my soul, is it here? or is it rotting somewhere with my head?"

#rtc #rtc musical #ballad of jane doe #? i think those are the tags? got into rtc over the december break and like. headless blorbos ig #it's oddly similar to six in the sense that six dead people have a concert competition with varying contexts #considering my prev obsession with cats the musical maybe there is a common trend here #hm. anyways!! found the ballad of jane doe online and spooked myself watching it at 3am and in hope to combat the terror (i am not good with #the horror genre. i'm fantastically awful i Will Cry) i went to watch like. the chaos compilations and read ao3 fics to yknow. make it less #scary. so like! yes?? rtc is a good musical. the greatest of my brainrot for it is over but it is really quite fun nonetheless. i may have #added another slime tutorial to my collection. #in terms of current brainrot. i am. a bit (read: maybe a Lot) thinking too much about dovesso. ??why is lesso so attractive in the movie?? #truly it is a specific mood when it's like. this character is so?? so akshdhdjsj but also clearly they belong in otps with other characters. #idk how to describe it lmao! anyway the school of good and evil movie (i just watched it) came and called me a useless gay in multiple fonts #as one of my irl friends likes to say. women✨✨ #mkay this shall end the tag ramble. thank you for enjoying the last khoward post we're back to just doodles now #(but seriously thank you i look into the tags and just go 'hehehe' :>>>>> it's nice) #along with miscellaneous not six musicals i might be going back into a firebringer tangent?? idk the plot bunnies are varied and plenty

[ganymedesclock]

Out of curiosity, any thoughts on the anime Bleach?

I consumed a fairly good chunk of it when I was younger. It's since faded in my passions. I think Rolling Star by Yui is by far my favorite of the openings but a lot of them are very good.

I think the visuals are fairly stylish but it suffers the shonen problem- granted, I think a lot of this is in the format of how long running shonens are produced- of starting out with a bold exciting concept and then sort of petering out in weird directions the longer it goes on. In Bleach's case, I really loved the design and concept of the early hollows, but from the Soul Society arc onward, this entire fascinating afterlife concept boils down to Fashion Sword Boys Fightin' It Out.

Most of my residual fondness for it has me eyeing @gallusrostromegalus's An Elephant Is Warm And Mushy, because it seems to be taking a lot of the later series and injecting that sense of weird monsters and afterlife ramifications back into it.

#Bleach #I actually really liked the intro episode of Don Kanonji #the idea of a 'hoax' TV medium actually having just enough of a foothold in this world to do damage #and then having to realize that and acknowledge his own relationship with it #I think this is why many of the later arcs disappointed; I was most interested in seeing how this world impacted and related to the mundane #similar powerful early episodes to me were the 'haunted cockatiel' and the episode with Orihime's brother #later arcs absolutely have their perks #I actually unironically like the 'king and his horse' speech #even though I think it plays to some limitations of the genre that everything has to be settled by hierarchical power levels and fighting #like I dunno maybe your ~EVIL SIDE~ isn't actually evil as much as someone who has not decided if they want to obey you or not #because why would they #do they respect you enough to actually want to help you with your goals #wouldn't anyone 'act up' in that situation trying to have their own priorities #ALSO ALSO it aggravates me that the closer to main character you get #the more boring your weapon powers get #some of the secondary characters and temporary antagonists and such #have REALLY COOL powers #but Ichigo is like ok. here's my power. it's basically a laser gun #pew pew #sorry Ichigo. you are trying to be main character while that one guy is over there with the executioner's weapon that weighs opponents down #Hanataro's the objectively best character though hands down y'all can fight me #(nobody actually fight me I have zero horses in this race)

[bardicious]

Well, I'm out. Damian content in the last decade is near none existent outside his... solo run, and that horrible teen titans run. oof. The golden age of Damian really was 2009-2013. 😭

Well, whatevs, time to take his character and transplant it into my own stories.

#A Robin Triumphs on Mount Olympia #dc comics #comics #youre going to be seeing drawings of a character that may look similar to him #but its not #what I love about how bad dc is is I could literally just take the parts I like and then bam - it's a whole new story #because their writing is SO convoluted - it literally doesn't fucking matter #hell I could probably make an oracle character and have her parapalegic - and like... it still wont even TOUCH whatever the fuck dc did wit #her #also no clowns #okay - maybe clowns - but only cause maybe Im thinking the story should be supernatural-esque #the genre not the show - thats another thing that got worse over time

[kil9]

i never played disco elysium but i could have sworn harry du bois was a famous musician (real life) before the game came out. so when ppl started talking about it im like "wow they named a character after that famous musician :)" but now its 100% impossible to find out who i was thinking of and i dont think theres actually a famous musician by that name ??? so.. did i make this up ?

#99.txt #but this was literally my first thought about this game. was that they named the main character after a musician. who apparently isnt real #also the game is called disco & im p sure the musician i was thinking of was in the disco genre or something similar ??????? #can anyone actually help me wtf. did i really make this up

[craycraybluejay]

I really really want to be a cis guy in an action comic who gets to beat up bullies in HS or go on a revenge quest or try to become the best fighter or something T.T

#action comics #action genre #gender envy of this random korean dude kicking mega amounts of ass all over #i dont even need to be a protagonist i just want to be a character that fights T.T #broke: trans person who gets gender envy for cute characters/magical characters #woke: trans person who gets gender envy of just regular real people #bespoke: trans person who gets gender envy from action and horror/thriller characters #(this is a joke all gender envy is valid and i hope you all can reach your goals in gender presentation :3) #yk what would be kind of sick #me an action gender envy trans man meeting a horror gender envy trans woman and we become besties and rant at each other #about the latest horror/thriller and action comics and shows and books and movies #and i try (and fail) to help her do some freaky makeup and she tries (and fails) to help me with arm wraps for boxing practice #i just want trans friends with cool hobbies and gender vibes similar to mine DX #and i rly rly want to get into martial arts again-- hoping when i get a good stable job i can take a class #there is nothing in the world quite as simple and fun as 2 people beating the shit out of each other and then patting each other on the back #for a job well done #honestly sporty guys in general are also just hella chill to be around and at least where i am wont be a dick especially if ur new #and im cis passing i think but even when i wasnt not a single guy out of the group singled me out or was weird to me #i just got to play with the group that had a small height advantage bc i was younger and therefore shorter than most of them #idk broh im not very athletic but sports are kind of the shit

[crest-of-gautier]

briefly picked up pq again after not having played it in a month, i got through the cutscenes that happen when you start the second labryinth, but didn't progress past that! thoughts™ below

i basically spent my time in Many Cutscenes (all strolls available to me, the abilities 1/2/3, what do we call each other, navigational differences, and why a group date cafe) + also did the fuse xiezhai request as well as help with the trading showdown.

i think the only downside from this play session is seeing how... how badly they exacerbate teddie's "comedic" relief traits. this isn't a problem exclusive to pq (i've watched arena all the way through and am maybe halfway through ultimax, and teddie also suffers there). but MAN. it's so hard to remember that teddie has a good arc in golden sometimes 😭

bitching about teddie aside, i do appreciate him being there because teddie's origin story of being from the TV world and then leaving it to be with the investigation team acts as such a nice metric of comparison for whatever zen and rei is supposed to be. i've been over this a billion times but the way the game explicitly has made note of this in cutscenes is just so!! juicy to me!!! it does feel like a low hanging fruit for me to latch onto in terms of "clues regarding zen and rei's identity," but it's definitely the easiest to understand.

naoto prompting an attempt to investigate of the clock tower and the lore surrounding it's real-world counterpart was very interesting! i have faith in the writers for this cutscene to make sense later down the line with more context, but it does feel like a clue. i just. need some more time with the game (and possibly more details) to put things together.

i can't help but feel that rei expressing the want/hope to "go back" (in lieu of what teddie did with going to inaba) isn't going to end well... i mean, maybe it will! but to be able to "go back" (whatever that contains) is hardly guaranteed in the first place and i feel like hoping for something like this is bound for heartbreak (i would be interested in that given that rei's entire personality is based around food and zen LOL)

the velvet room scene too!! super juicy, i really enjoy all of the angles that theo, liz, and margaret all presented in regards to the distortion of the p3 + p4 casts from different times being gathered into this one place. given how the wild card power has been neutralized and changed it really makes me wonder about the power of the end-game entity... perhaps so powerful that zen and rei could be considered "shards" of that entity who forgot about that? very interesting for margaret to refer to the world as "finite," me thinks.

the game did give a brief glimpse to a silhouette sitting on a crystal(?) and was obscured by broken glass/spider web of sorts... i wonder whatever it could need from bringing TWO wildcards, i mean, yeah that's powerful but. i wanna know the motive!!! not that. divine entities and the like always have motivations in this series but. y'know. LOL.

anyway that's all for now! short progress today bc wahoo cutscenes and i got things to do but. really intriguing, i'm super interested in seeing how this gets followed up on. also i love yosuke whenever i see yosuke's animations in this game it makes me so happy!! he's so expressive and fun i love him a lot. and it'd be very interesting to play this game again on the p4 side to see minato speak but also see what has changed between versions, as well as catching any details i've missed.

#pq #lizz.txt #lizz.jpg #i guess . theres like. one picture LOL #this game gets me really really thinking #either that or it's just my desire to be attentive to the stories that i play and trying to piece it together #granted a lot of this is spurred on by the mystery of zen and rei and i cant help but feel theres a connection to ryoji/marie/teddie as the #are all similar genre of character in respects to their supposed origin #but anyways! im going to sleepies #was nice to pick this game up again hopefully i will remember to play it more often LOL

[jackgoodfellow]

I made a new suitor for my horror-comedy dating manga concept I Escaped My Genre!

At this community cooking college, majoring in dinner theatre of course means that you must master the art of theatre AS WELL AS the art of cabaret-appropriate foods that align with the themes of whatever show you are doing!

But the college also has a vibrant student theatre scene: Phoenix is actually directing the Drama Club's production of Romeo & Juliet this spring as their end-of-year final! I wonder if Samo will try out! (And I wonder if Phoenix will end up looking romantically into Samo's eyes and finding that in that moment, all zyr carefully-curated bravado drops away, and suddenly, ze is no longer acting; ze is simply feeling, and it changes everything.)

Also, since I put so much work into this character design, Phoenix will absolutely be making an appearance in my graphic novel! (You can find my published scripts and concept art here, if you wanna make my day!)

#when i say cabaret-appropriate foods i mean foods that can easily and cleanly be eaten while ur eyes and body are turned towards the stage #[flashback to eating the world's messiest sandwich at my 1st cabaret show & THOROUGHLY embarrassing myself. the actors saw. it was awful.] #i escaped my genre #my art #phoenix k. phillips #hikari and simon and phoenix all have better and more carefully considered character design bc i drew the cover as a quick joke and i #drew those 3 after becoming invested so they turned out more detailed and interesting looking. if i did make this a real series i would #revamp some of the designs. i know that a lot of animes have similar-looking characters so that'd match the genre but #i care more about my characters having diverse faces and body types than i care about matching the exact style #but it is fine for now. it isn't like they are BAD character designs it's just that i could do better #junji ito #ito junji #horror #horror comedy #alt-text #image description #image descriptions #I've never known of a dinner theatre w thematically appropriate foods but it would be so fun! #i don't think samo is cast as a lead but maybe they're a small part and or an understudy. either way the audition affects phoenix very much #samo is very rarely shown speaking so. but sometimes you need to stand in for an actor who isn't at rehearsal #*very rarely shown speaking so i don't think juliet quite works but idk yet #anyway phoenix is gonna be a delight in The Blacksmith #original characters

[faeiapalette]

Laito LE is so damn relatable 💀

#Like #The facade he created is a conditional reflex that; over time; has become an instinct #So whenever the factor that triggers his trauma hits his eye; he reacted almost instantly (unconsciously) #It’s kinda similar to gag reflex i think?… When there’s smth entering one’s throat they be gagging and trying to push it out (by vomitting) #He do be realizing what’s going on tho 🤔 Just that his mind and his body were not in sync. It’s smth he can’t control over. Which he #usually be controlling that. This gave birth to his downfall (DL is great with internal conflicts ngl) #Storyline… no. #Its genre; visual novel; created a huge advantage for all the psychology and stuff. However… #Would it be right to say the fact that LE’s plot is colossal & they’ll have to balance details about mainstream dilemma #And love life and whatever personal problem the character has (trust issues for example) #Making everything so rushed… at the end? #Andddddd not impactful at all. #Like… such simple solutions. That’s it? #Good plot is instead of making milestones and let the character reaches those marks; you put them in a situation where their choices will #affect their whole future path. #Which is why most Sakamakiya’s ending sucks. If not sucks then boring. #I would say LE has the most logical plot. THE ENDINGS HOWEVER (you finish the sentence) #Revising literature so i be analyzing Lewdto too #At least LE is informative (not good but not bad either) #CL is horrible. I deem Karl even less after that. #OH YEAH. KARL. #This dude is so… listless as an “antagonist” #Or a boss? #Like how he elaborated everything in his plan is so damn cool. Vampire dominos. #But his goals? #They feel… lacking. HE is lacking. #Ngl this dude made Ayato LE - a route that has been rlly fine & on the right track - feels insufficient at the end. #Like Ayato with the explosive energy of a shounen protagonist versus a “villain” who fucks the world up just to serve his science project #Sigh…. Which is exactly why mostly the one who r able to like Karl r ppl who thinks he’s hot. #Even Cordelia is more intriguing as a chara than this man. The most unsuitable person for the antagonist seat: her beloved husband 💖🎊🥇

[the-faultofdaedalus]

i hate this. but i am thinking too many thoughts about hilbert and victor parallels

#the are similar Genres of character #I CANNOT SAY MUCH BECAUSE SPOILERS FOR DEO #but like. hm. hm. hmmmmm. #also i enjoyed Very much the differences in tone between Hilbert Talking To The Crew #and Hilbert Alone (or Doing His Job) #he talks differently! you can tell! #his voice is Different #it is much more... upbeat throughout the first season. until the reveal. #he has a much more even and serious tone in am i alone now as well #which like. i wonder if that whole ''cheery escentric but harmless'' mad scientest tone is intentional #i bet it is #also in danger bug #his tone when telling eiffel what they have to do to get the spider off #and then like in later seasons it's always that more serious tone #part of it is i wonder if valenti just got better at doing hilbert's voice #but w/ the differences still aparent in between am i alone now and the /next episode/ #i dont think that's entirely it #i think. the show's from eiffel's perspective. and his perspective on hilbert changes. #hilbert becomes a mores serious character. all of them do. even though eiffel tries his best to not let it happen to him

[tvxcue]

like theres inevitably going to be comparisons between tgcf and mdzs bc they were written by the same author and mdzs feeds into tgcf and they do have a lot of points of similarity but they’re also so different. and it makes for interesting stories in conversation with each other bc they’re basically inverted.

like they both have the same focus on the main relationship that makes the story revolve around them but the thing abt mdzs is that even though it’s abt wangxian, it’s also not abt them. tgcf is explicitly abt xie lian, the whole story and plot revolves around him not just bc he’s the main character but bc he’s the focal point of the antagonist which is what makes him the main character in the first place. like xie lian isn’t a passive character but he’s not very active in moving the story along, he’s kind of just floating through it while other characters bring him into it. and it culminates with bwx and that entire confrontation but even from xie lian’s first ascension it was all something that was orchestrated for him to respond to.

but with mdzs, yes wangxian are incredibly active characters making all these choices that move them forward in the story but they’re just a footnotes in the novels action. wei wuxian and lan wangji’s story is abt them and their relationship and the bigger plot serves as a backdrop for that. in the drama it is a little different bc the bigger story kind of “clears” wwx’s name and kind of changes things for him in that regard but in the novel, it doesn’t even really do that, it offers questions about morality and righteousness that do change how certain characters feel abt wei wuxian and challenge the structure of the world they live in. in the end, the big confrontation is abt other characters finally revealing themselves while wangxian basically make out in the corner like they don’t give a fuck who killed whose brother! yeah wwx still saves the day but it’s not abt him even though it is quite literally abt him as the main character.

#like they're both abt love and devotion and righteousness and hierarchies and status so they have similar themes but the structures of them #are almost entirely opposite. which is really interesting especially within their genre bc it is all abt the main couple and what that #might obscure does play out in interesting ways a lot of the time. like i do think it can be a flaw sometimes bc things just shift so fast #so you have someone being murdered in the most horrifying way you could imagine one scene and the next is the main couple making out. #a transition that happened in both of the books. but also with mdzs i think it's more effective bc wx aren't the main characters the Plot #even while they're the main characters of the story. so you get all these things going on around them that they're also picking up on and #reacting to and trying to figure out right until the very end. and then they don't really care all that much bc they're being the most #annoying couple you know while they and everyone they know is being held hostage. and in tgcf the bigness of the story is kind of.....too #much sometimes and i do get it's part of the story too bc xie lian is however many years old and hes lived such a long and complicated life #that of course there's going to be so many characters that form a part of it but also. let's calm down a little. but also that just really #works for him as a character! bc it is abt stuff just happening to him and him just kind of. dealing. like the thing with the revenant is #such a good encapsulation of that bc it follows him for like a year i think and he just. doesn't care. he just floats around until it leaves #bc xie lian has just become someone who deals with shit when it comes his way! #speaking #i feel like ive said this before but it's just interesting to me!

[vynegar]

help i have such Opinions on translation now

#ok gonna preface this with saying that someone is translating for free and i KNOW that takes so much time and effort and love. and also ther #there are a lot of cultural and contextual footnotes that i really love and wouldn't have been able to figure out myself! #also it seems like the translator's native language is neither chinese NOR english so like. honestly that's really amazing. #so i still really respect what they're doing and am not gonna say anything identifying about this work (it's completely unrelated to tot) #but i've been reading a webnovel fan translation alongside its original chinese version and i guess i'm farther in the 'localization' camp #than i thought. bc this translation leans way too hard into the 'direct translation' of words and phrases and slang #and then with an added footnote explaining what it means. sometimes it's honestly kinda useful from the perspective of wanting to learn the #the language but i don't think it's the right translation choice because there can be several of these per chapter #and the vast majority are not at crucial significant moments when the loss in meaning outweighs the cost of breaking the story flow #and in one instance i saw (the final straw for me) it doesn't even make sense to translate the meaning of the chinese word directly #bc it's not the meaning that matters. the phrase originally came about as a loanword from japanese and a character with a similar pronunciat #pronunciation was used to represent the japanese syllable. #sure this is just one example of an internet slang word that many people might not even know the etymology of and maybe they DO think of the #the meaning of the word now! but still. #i have so many Thoughts now. on how translation is a constant game of balance and sacrifice where the set of 'rules' and expectations change #depending on genre and audience and intention and just individual person! #and -- most relevant to me i guess -- whether it is expected and/or preferrable for fan translations to veer on the side of direct

[llycaons]

also unlike the other names, 'Mirnatius' doesn't sound even vaguely eastern european to me. like, what is that, greek? it would make sense since his mother maybe isn't from the same area as the other characters, but it's not a name that's remarked upon as unusual, which strikes ME as odd

#I feel like I've given it a good try and maybe I just don't like other genres besides fantasy and the ocassional nonfiction #why force myself to read mystery or drama or whatever if it bores me. I haven't been this excited over a book in months #she went into a forest with a magic jewelry set!!!! thats so cool!!!! #now I just have to find one that doesn't enrage my commie side #doesn't bore or depress me. doesn't make me feel judgemental over its poor quality. etc. #this is a pretty good one but it remains to be seen how it goes #even tho this is technically ya it doesn't come off as immature which I think is more important to be than not being ya #I don't mind ya. I don't always want the MOST messy or complicated story. it just has to sound/be relatively mature #like moderation you know #this is why I love dunmeshi and cql a lot. adult historical fantasy with great characters and cool worldbuilding #cql having heartbreaking emotional journeys and this romance I'm obsessed with really adds to it #but at the core a lot of the stuff I love is really similar. except hxh I guess for the modern stuff but nen is literally used more than #cell phones in most of the arcs #cor reads

[selamat-linting]

tag team wrestling is like, gay yuri to me.

#at its core its about pushing and testing the boundary of same-sex affectations in spite of the watchful eye of heteropatriarchy #like. teenage girls are expected to form close friendships. it was seen as normal. something they do as practice. theyll grow out of it #and marry a man one day. its lesbophobic yes. but yuri as a genre subverts that #under the facade of 'portraying girlhood' yuri transforms this into an affirmation and exploration of same sex love #the girls might not canonically kiss but we know they are in love #so i think. tag team wrestling has some similarities #theyre using the excuse of brotherhood male bonding and the threat of violence to depict what a #long term faithful relationship between men would look like. with its ups and downs and breakups #like. they might not kiss but we know theyre in love with each other #also. yuri as a genre has evolved. gwitch has the main characters married #like yeah the company did eventually say its 'up to interpretation' but we all know better #tag team storylines in wrestling have a long way to go but like. golden lovers exist and theyre thriving. there's hope for something better #textposts