#they embody the stereotypes!

[redysetdare]

Some of you people need to stop acting so shitty over aspec stereotypes because it's starting to get to a point that you are just shitting on the people who experiences match the stereotypes and it's hurting a lot more aspects than it's helping.

#text #aspec #ace #aro #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aplatonics #loveless #loveless aro #afamilial #adding you guys heree too because aplato afamil and loveless ppl get shit on constantly #for embodying the 'doesnt feel love towards anyone' stereotype which is often seen as something aspecs need to fight against #too many of you are more focused on seeming normal to the allos #that youre willing to throw some of us who dont fit the mold under the bus #because we 'make aspecs look bad' or 'prove allos negative stereotypes' #and idk maybe we shouldnt be theowing experiences under the bus because aphobes throw a fit over them #shouldnt we protect eachother from aphobia not try to surpress those who 'cause it' by existing??? #aphobia

[starry-bi-sky]

i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc prompt #man i just really need more dpdc stuff where danny and bruce have a good relationship. like man i NEED it. like i need to see these two #bonding together. and not in a cracky 'oh danny is a distant friend/cousin/etc' stuff but like. active participants in each other's lives #or as active as can be in this case. i neeeeed these two getting along and caring about one another #this idea came to me like last night and hasn't left since nd it was driving me up the wall to think about both positively and negatively b #i neeeded someone to hear about this or i was gonna implode #danny is the first son #tried to just get the general gist of the idea down but i definitely thought of the idea that bruce lowkey suspects vlad for having a hand #Vlad allows Danny to sneak off because he thinks Danny is alone. if he knew Bruce was there he'd be piiisssed and would put a stop to it #Sam and Tucker are alive they just got ghosted for a bit by danny bc he was in Major Grief and didn't wanna socialize. He couldn't go to #them because he didn't wanna put them in danger via Vlad. #oh that thing he handed Bruce? Yeah that's his ghost core. I have a headcanon (that isnt always applied) that ghosts can take their cores #out of their bodies at will and painlessly and without issue. and its common practice actually to do so bc they can be a not insignificant #distance away from said core before problems start to act up. and its common for ghosts to leave their physical cores at their lairs for #safekeeping because as long as the physical core is fine: so is the ghost. they can reform if their body gets destroyed. it also acts as a #fast travel sometimes. where they can reform at their core in an instant. its not inspired in the slightest by SU but i do see the overlap #most cores are pretty small for safety sake: its harder to hit if its small. and they're pr resilient too but its better to be safe than #sorry. so yeah. danny essentially gave bruce the physical embodiment of his soul and indirectly said #'if anything happens to me at least i'll be safe with you' #danny doesn't know he's batman btw #starry rambles. #was gonna go into danny becoming a vigilante beside bruce but im sleeeepy so i'll do that in a reblog. he's gonna go by nightingale if #anyone is interested. stereotypical but to be frank it is a *good* name imo. has a good amount of syllables and consonants to it #and the bird theme. and since its part of an ancestral name it has even more backing for it being bird-y without being meta

[westwindy1]

I resent the idea that Hiccup's booksmart.

I’m mostly speaking towards the way people treated Hiccup post the release of the first movie when I say this, however I don’t think Hiccup is anywheres near a conventional genius- or a traditional nerd as the way television portrays it- in the sense that he's great at listing off off stats and is a genius at math and gets 'A's all the time. Not for most of everything we see from him in the franchise.

I don't think he could list off and complete complex calculations in his head off the bat, either.

Things don't come to him immediately, he jots down a copy of toothless' tail fin but doesn't know straight off the bat how to make a verison of Toothless' tail that works, he has to work at his designs it and go through tons of prototypes. He's not a fantastic artist, his sketches are solid but they're messy, a bit 'off', stiff, not great, though everything is translated into cartoon terms if we look at what he draws versus the other things we see in the series his stuff is completely different to how we see other sketches made by other characters in the httyd franchise (like the book of dragons, fishlegs' dragon cards, comparatively he's alright). He's not practiced in things like drawing life and etc and I frankly can't imagine that he'd care too much about improving his skills beyond what he needs to document dragons and scribble down inventions. He can draw something decent if that's what's needed to get things done. I think he gets better as he gets older, though my point still stands.

He's not necessarily a mathematician, even though to make his inventions he has to do a lot of math- he's an inventor working with what he has. His focus is more on the product he's making- that's what all his labor and love goes into, and he's probably not that great at math at all given how many times things blow up in his face- he's average, I think, though his propensity to work at things relentlessly means that he's a lot better than everyone else at it.

He's a genius in the sense that he has some crazy useful ideas but not a genius in the sense that 'he totally has the pieces all down pat.' He has to learn, to figure things out- all of his skills are built. He's innovative, moreso than anyone else on Berk.

Hiccup is really good at taking the initiative, he's a hard worker and he's stubborn. That's why he's able to achieve more. Those are the qualities that allow him to shoot down and make friends with Toothless, that make him a decent mechanic and a phenomenal Viking as a physically average guy in a world full of crazy vikings.

His talent is putting things together. Half the joy of being able to watch him is being able to experience his process.

Hiccup in any ways being bookish and shy in the most traditional sense is a genuine disservice to that, especially when we already have Fishlegs.

#'they didn't have a lot of reading material on berk' Fishlegs had enough to literally embody the stereotypical nerd personality #also like #have you ever seen a guy like hiccup irl #some of these guys make the most crazy bs #httyd #how to train your dragon

[fayevalcntine]

Positioning Louis as the "Edwardian wife who becomes trapped by her husband" in a literal sense does no justice to analyzing his actual place and role as a Black man in his society and in his relationship with Lestat. Any interpretation or analysis you do of him when it comes to their relationship cannot be stripped of the racial aspect because it's constantly there. Texts analyzing Edwardian wives (and particularly ones this fandom loves to bring up) typically were white and the dissection of their place in societal rules are always viewed from the aspect of gender that is within these texts only allowed to white women, but never to Black men or even Black women. And gender and race become inseparable when you discuss the latter, no matter how people may view it.

This is why I can't take this approach to analyzing Louis' story seriously because if you don't consider the racial aspect in his relationship even to himself and his sexuality, what's the point? You're still centering the standards that were more placed upon white male/female couples than you're willing to look into the unique structure of Black families, religion, their view of homosexuality and how that sooner heavily influences Louis than the family's "need" for him to be sold off to an Edwardian husband. Even in Louis' own story, him and Claudia being Black is more centered on than any demeaning "housewife" comment he tries to go against from Claudia's perspective. She makes that comment once, whereas we have at least two episodes from Louis' perspective that have very blatant hints and showings of the racism he still suffers from under the Jim Crow era and how it affects his self-worth as well as his relationship with Lestat who doesn't seem to take into consideration how any of the blatant racial aggressions and objections still affect Louis and what he considers to be important to achieve in his own life.

Then there's also the pointed topic of Louis' position as a Black man who is a pimp to the Black women he has as sex workers, as well as how his position as a Black father affects Claudia, another Black girl. If you insist on Louis being centered as this "Edwardian white wife" who is confined by his implicit gender in his marriage, where does that leave Claudia and the blatant misogyny and disrespect she gets from both him and Lestat? Lestat who is her white father abuses her. Positioning Louis within the strict confines of "being her mother" doesn't do her any favors because he didn't hesitate to choke her when he was deeply emotionally distressed, nor does it make him look any better when he's fine with chopping up her diaries and then delivering them on a silver platter so that Daniel, another white man, can read and dissect. Even if he does this under the sole pretense of "doing right by her", how does it in any way help when he also can't face up to his failures towards her?

#interview with the vampire #claudia #louis de pointe du lac #i just feel like all these needless 'Lestat is the patriarchy' discussions; even when done in order to shield Louis #do him and Claudia no favors because y'all keep centering these weird strictly white standards in your interpretations #'Louis is an Edwardian wife' Louis is a Black man who was turned in 1910s Louisiana #the structural confines Edwardian wives were given really aren't the same when you take into consideration the racial segregation #of Louis' time; and I feel like the specific issues that Black men then faced when it came to 'proving' their worth when it comes to gender #are then just sidelined and forgotten as if those aren't the standards Louis grew up with #if you want to discuss Louis' placement in his relationship with Lestat it's kind of really heavy-handed even on the show #that he's a black man and that that heavily affects him foremostly in this relationship #also I'm so confused over this insane idea that Lestat is somehow the patriarchy while Louis is a woman and y'all say this unprompted #without considering how it looks when you call a gay black man a woman and a white bisexual man a guy #i feel like you can evade bad stereotypes of painting black men as overaggressive without veering off into the whole other side #while still sounding vaguely backhanded #and it doesn't make it any less weird when I see other non-black/white fans insist on this interpretation #it just comes off as y'all sooner being able to connect to Louis if you see him in a role typically embodied by white women #than to refer to the actual identity he has as a black gay man

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 3 #any old port in a storm #mista carsini with all due respect you are the worst liar i have eva met #he embodies the stereotypical bad autismo lying perfectly. comically bad

[goffilolo]

Liebe, you can't just ask someone why they're not a real bird, that's rude

#black clover #two and a half devils au #nero #liebe #astaroth #astaroth needs to embody all of the dad stereotypes #and that includes not wanting a pet and then spoiling it rotten as soon as its actually in the house #and then it turns out its not actually a pet #but some girl #its fine tho #its a free daughter

[florallylly]

something something there are two wolves inside of you except one wolf is rabid scratching at the walls insane over son of aphrodite camp halfblood steve harrington BUT the second wolf is like that specific steddie fic where eddie keeps calling steve his "apollo"

#steve harrington #steddie #eddie munson #OKAY listen #like yeah you who i venerate as the god apollo #not only as a divine figure but also the physical embodiment of the sun and light and daytime (all stereotypically moral and Good things) #you who has received my praise and words of worship and my presence kneeling at ur feet #and i desecrate you and make you less than #make you Mortal #a true fallen angel moment like #SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP #like oh to blaspheme that which is holy #but in a decidedly already impure way #like this isn't innocence #which is why it's an analogy to greek mythos rather than the actual bible which reeks more of repression #but also like steve harrington favored child of aphrodite boy with charmspeak YEAH.... #YEAH....

[thekingofchungus]

instead of an alcoholic cocktail tonight im having orange soda with a dash of vanilla extract! 😋💞 its foul

#chatbox #i really wouldve rathered the vanilla essence on its own #i hear it gets you drunk. so if i were to obtain a bottle on its own i could. well see theres also the poisoning #and one of my resolutions was to not put mself at risk of that anymore so uh. [ which has been successful thus far ] #i really did just ruin this orange soda for an alcohol boost huh. < embodiment of his national stereotype #alcohol cw

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

you know how burkley duffield is canadian, right? (flashbacks from every time eddie said ‘about’ or ‘sorry’ and there was a clear canadian accent) well imagine if the americans actually were all from canada

Patricia: Who’s the American?

Nina: I’m Canadian!

Patricia: Just what we need, another American who’s only reference to the UK is Harry Potter.

Eddie: Please, I’m a Canuck through and through you hoser.

Patricia: Another American in the house, oh not again.

KT: I’ve told you twice now, I’m from Toronto.

#she knows they’re canadian but cant help herself #also kt is the only one who embodies the canadian stereotype of being super nice #so trix forgets easily enough with the first two #nina’s nice but the girl has got some deep rage when it counts and is too busy atm with mysteries #house of anubis #eddie miller #nina martin #patricia williamson #kt rush #hoa

[hollow-keys]

Me about the Toymaker Spice Up Your Life scene

#really just picked random upbeat nostalgia pop song huh #the fact they were like “we're moving away from the toymaker embodying offensive stereotypes” #and then made him feminine and flamboyant like hello? #anyway #the toymaker #doctor who #nuwho #criticism #📨

[mantisgodsdomain]

We think Monsieur Scarlet is aspec. The seduction stuff is purely to lure people into range because it's what's expected of ant drones and thus the least likely to cause red flags when he's aiming to bring someone off by their own where they can be effectively picked off. In this aspect, he's a lot more akin to a Photuris firefly than an ant, but considering that he already heavily utilizes ambush tactics to stun prey for eating while still as alive as he can get them in a very distinctly mantis-y way, "hunting tactics not resembling his actual species" is pretty par for the course.

#we speak #bug fables #bugposting continues #points at scarlet. this is a heavily opportunistic ambush predator. #he is truly embodying the kitsune mythos of pretending to be A Hot And Sexy Person and then fucking eating people #local guy plays on stereotypes for his own benefit inadvertently feeding the same stereotypes that often make him Being Himself hazardous #sucks for him but at least hes getting fed

[isekyaaa]

Reading the spoilers of otome light novels always be like, "Wow, people really hate men."

#rambles #I KNOW I COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS A LOT OKAY LEAVE ME ALONE #I JUST........... #NUANCE #PEOPLE HATE NUANCE AND IT SUCKS #PEOPLE HATE COMPLEXITY #AND MOSTLY #people hate stereotypical tropey men that are specifically written that way for the trope #'i hate how possessive and dismissive he is of mc!!!' #it's the same level of idiocy as going to the circus and being mad at the clowns #if you want to read a story about the perfect politically correct male lead find some chronically online girl's book on tiktok #like look okay let me be honest here #when i go to isekai manhwa as my medium of entertainment choice i embody those middle aged women reading smutty novels abt guys named knut #i don't go in expecting quality okay i'm not an idiot #i go in expecting a specific fix to be filled #and if that specific fix is a possessive dismissive male lead then by the almighty god himself one must do as one must #now let me be clear like.... i am complaining about two things here #one: readers don't like nuanced complex men #two: readers do not like genre-specific stereotypical men #these two things are not the same okay #possessive stereotypical men are not nuanced or complex... BUT BY JOVE THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXIST #SHITTY STEREOTYPICAL MEN ARE JUST AS ENJOYABLE AS NUANCED AND COMPLEX MEN #it's so funny that people go into otome manhwa expecting q u a l i t y #this is the modern woman's equivalent of those trashy novels our grandmothers read #we are no better than them #i really just want to go into reading spoilers where everyone is on the same page of 'okay so we all just have terrible taste amiright' #tho tbh writing all of this i should be more forgiving of people that love crappy reader-inserts on this website #but lmao no i am not i have way better taste than they ever will whoops u//w//u

[thegoddesswater]

hey this is chance and here’s week 4’s prompt. how do strangers within the world view your protagonists? how would they describe them? and how does this contrast against how the protagonist views themself?

Hey Chance! I've had this ask sitting in my drafts for ages with a half-formed answer using Adair and Zaria, but I've had trouble articulating it, so for the sake of getting it off my to-do list, I've decided to use Jance instead. Even though I would not call him a protagonist in ML.

Jance is something of a public figure and local celebrity, due to him being the front man of up-and-coming punk rock band Gin Run.

Folks absolutely expect Jance to behave like some prototypical rockstar: foul-mouthed, sex-crazed, anti-authoritarian, arrogant with a massive ego, and hooked on drugs and/or alcohol. They'll point to the name of his band and the titles of Gin Run's discography (usually drinking references) as pearl-clutching proof that he's trying to corrupt The Youth of today.

There are people who don't know him at all who would love to see Jance taken down a peg on sheer principle.

Jance usually thinks his reputation is hilarious. Scatterbrained, asexual, and more likely to drop an 'aw drat' than an 'oh fuck', he can't help but marvel at the conclusions that people jump to purely because of his occupation. He considers himself a realist and thinks compassion is one of his strengths. He sees the problems in the world and is determined to point them out. Is he perfect? Certainly not, but he's not living the oddly specific high life that his detractors think he is either.

Word count challenge: 125 words for Run, Runaway Challenge words to date: 1,026

#Thanks! #writing #Miadhachain Legacy #Jance Rios #I blame wheelybard for my using Jance for this answer #Because HE thinks Jance is hilarious for embodying exactly no part of the rockstar stereotype #The name Gin Run is the product of a weird joke I have with my brother and every time he sees me spell it 'gin run' he gives me heck #Because for our joke it's properly 'Jinn Run' - but the alcohol spelling seemed like a better fit for Jance's band

[knaveofmogadore]

My job is shutting down ┻⁠┻⁠︵⁠¯⁠\⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠/⁠¯⁠︵⁠┻⁠┻

#messages from knave #I'M SO FUCKED #literally callingevery pizza place in town loke 'pretty please do you need a line cook' #'I can embody literally any stereotype pls hire me loke right now'

[stormyrainyday]

shenlumi au where lumine never explicitly asks shenhe to be her girlfriend. instead they gradually become more comfortable with each other, spend all their time together, tell each other how much they care for each other, break the physical touch barrier. one day while theyre out someone refers to them as girlfriends and lumine is instantly embarrassed, saying wait no it’s not what you think (because she hasn’t asked shenhe out, not technically)

shenhe is not angry at lumine’s reaction and is just baffled instead. “We’re not girlfriends? we kiss regularly”

#in my head this is a modern au #but tbh... #it could be anytime #lumi red faced and flustered burying her face in her hands #embodiment of the clueless lesbian stereotype #“guys this girl and i make out on the daily do yall think she likes me back???” #another day she overhears shenhe talking to someone else and use the words “my girlfriend” and it sends her soul straight to heaven #genshin impact #genshin #shenhe #lumine #shenlumi #sorry theyre in my head all the time #so many ideas but theyre like scraps not full fledged narratives #go forth and be free shenlumi brain rot #rain's aus

[holydramon]

honestly that “Phoenix Wright operates by looney toons physics” post i reblogged yesterday reminds me of why I personally keep Phoenix as a human in my mythical creature AU. like I get why people would want to make him a literal phoenix or dragon or something and I think that’s neat but. it is so much funnier if he’s a human and Just Like That.

#though honestly in my mythical creature au literally none of the first trilogy characters are mythical creatures #because I think it’s funnier if only the second trilogy ones are. like a true embodiment of the fact that the second trilogy went off the #rails. #if you’re curious what they are in my au: #trucy and apollo are werewolves (troupe gramarye was a werewolf pack) #athena is a robot (built by metis and aura) #klavier and kristoph are vampires (because why not) #I’m unsure what I want to make blackquill? like I want to make him something stereotypically scary… #to contrast to the fact that he is. not actually that bad despite first appearances. #i had thoughts on what to do with rayfa and nahyuta but I straight up don’t remember? i need to write shit down 😔 #oh also juniper is a druid ofc #oh also clay is just a human. rip. #dramon thoughts