#to be replaced by new characters

[utilitycaster]

I can't claim credit for the idea - Imogen and Laudna corruption arc has floated around for a while - but honestly I'm not sure why this is coming up as some kinda gotcha for me? I'd fucking love that honestly. It would completely validate my statement that they are insular and toxic and often acting against the interests of the rest of the party AND either it would end with interesting character growth or with them departing and being replaced by new characters. I'd be excited for either!

#i truly don't think the weirdo shippers get it. I'd be ECSTATIC if they said eh fuck the moon and left to live in a cottage #to be replaced by new characters #if they're onscreen with the current status quo their relationship is dull and saved only by the fact that it's minimal in time spent #but like i don't care how specifically it becomes interesting and betraying the party and going out like thelma and louise would FUCK HARD #cr tag #literally replacing Laudna or making her fully evil would fix most of my complaints. this is so funny #WOW WE'LL SHOW UTILITYCASTER BY GIVING HER LITERALLY WHAT SHE SAID

[thestarswhim]

So this tweet made a real good point and got me thinking about this scene:

As mentioned in their tweet, "you don't 'beg for mercy' for a job," and here he sounds so scared and desperate, like he's had to do this A LOT before with the directors and it's so... sad.

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Before he finds out the truth about Eden, he believed they saved him from his former life and gave him new opportunities to continue his dreams, but do you think having to needlessly beg to keep your position as literally being the face of Eden out of fear you'll be replaced and thrown right back out to your old life is a so called dream come true?

Eden even made a trailer for a movie about his life to fame, showing how everyone was rejecting him as a person, which they definitely made it more simplified like I KNOW he was getting way worse treatment than what was shown.

My main point is that despite believing in Eden's motives (before knowing the truth), he still wasn't truly happy deep down. He was STILL getting rejected and slandered by society, and he knew that deep down, so it's not surprising how the possibility of him losing his job made him have a whole breakdown and do the things he did to try and cope.

He quite literally has no one to lean to and hasn't had anyone since showing up to Eden besides the directors (because he probably believed they were treating him fairly and with respect), but... yeah.

He wanted to make a difference, to give hope to hybrids, and he thought he was doing just that. Despite the way the directors and everyone thought of him, despite how alone he felt, he still thought he was achieving his dreams and sharing that onto others

and yet... he was being used this entire time. None of it was true, all the hard work and the things he went through was for nothing.

Everything that Eden has done, and he was the face of it all... it's just devastating.

#another one from my twitter #I've only been a fan of rayman overall for two weeks and now I'm sobbing over him this is a new record #shout out to that one analysis from raygirlramblings #it was because of your post that cemented my love for this character and almost had me cry and get too emotional at a library /pos /lh #captain laserhawk #rayman #cl rayman #cl ramon #captain laserhawk rayman #captain laserhawk ramon #analysis #OH AND ALSO I was watching the show with my sibling who then mentioned to me how rayman had probably been replaced before and #he's just one of the copies and MAN #I NEED ANSWERS GRAHHHHH #anywho if you're still reading this... thank you 🥺💖 and I hope you have a great day!

[hoofpeet]

teehee 5am rough mspaint comic to get my brainworms out.... sort of post-credits Sugar/Spice interaction where Spice is continuously surprised that he wasn't just abandoned in the woods somewhere upon Ingo getting his brother back

#hoof draws #replacement ingo au #spice is so much to me now i don't even know how to articulate his deal ... #it's about characters never really given a chance to be good people. finally getting a chance to redeem themselves #<-as scary and new as it is after a lifetime of accepting that they're irredeemable and horrible #and ultimately taking the chance to be vulnerable by trusting someone #agh. him

[notedchampagne]

last thought before i sleep i Do fear that reading nothing but fanfiction for 4 years when i was 14-18 severely stunted my brain. this is not to say that fanfiction is bad: theres fanfics that are extremely well written, which are markers of any good authors out there- but since it relies so heavily on building off of a foundation and reforming the same work over and over they tend to follow a certain flow and pattern in plot, the way characters interact, the way dialogue and action intersect, etc etc. ive been trying to read more books now but i still find it easier to read through fanfic because instinctively, i know what to expect going forward because of my existing knowledge of the characters and the fanon. you have to wash out your brain and prepare to engage anew when youre reading a new book, which takes more effort the longer youre away from it. but thats just me and i can write a fucking paper on the ways fic marketing has its own popular checks and standards as well

#i was thinking about this again bc i remembered this one twitter post of a teen struggling to read a book for class #so they word replaced the names with fandom names and they read that shit easily #like oooh please. i know characters can bring you comfort when you need it but reading new things sometimes Does make you uncomfortable #and the purpose is to have you question why... not to easily glaze over it because you have put on the Ship Colored Lenses over it #but im being some odd flavor of hypocrite im sure. whatever. everyday i bemoan myself #chat

[eternal-moss]

When people continually whitewash my favourite characters.

[ID: A black and white, rough digital drawing of someone sitting at a desk and clutching their head in their hands. End ID.]

^thank you @describe-things

#This is mainly about Noé Archiviste. But also I will not forget what some people did to Simon Petrikov either when I was watching f&c #I’m so desperate for drawings of them. But for the love of God，is it that difficult? Somehow every other hexadecimal of their #Character design is exactly on model other than their skin. Just. . #OH YEAH I FORGOT KAEYA. FFS. Somehow it’s always the K**luc-ers that always do it. Which makes sense because they disregard his entire char #And with the new influx of atla fans people have been whitewashing Katara too! And I mean drawings of the original show too #probably delete later #And no one seems to have any problems with it? Especially if it’s sexualised art *talking more about Kaeya & Noé here. #People who whitewash the few (and when I say few I literally mean 5/82 playable characters) darker genshin characters. Actually fuck off #If I see ‘it’s just my art style’ or ‘it’s just the lighting’ *every other colour than the skin hasn’t been lightened in the slightest* #One more time-i’m going to explode #Oh and while I’m on this topic! Fuck Bochum for whitewashing literally the entire starlight express cast! Electra being the first ever #non binary character in musical theatre while also being played by black actors. And then Bochum happened. #When was the last time Pearl or Rusty had actors who weren’t white? Literally the last character who hasn’t been replaced is Momma/Poppa. #And being black is so integral to their character and music. You quite physically couldn’t #I really really hope the casting for the London performance this year is like the 1984 cast again. Please.

[1980ssunflower]

💫STARCHILD💫

Slight design update ive been putting off for Ozzy Kozmic so that he represents current me a bit better. Would love to hear what you guys think of this update and if you prefer this design or the original

#self ship community #self insert #self insert art #s/i:💛spaceship superstar⭐ #my art #i was debating on giving him my blonde hair highlights but that would have been overkill then my design wouldnt look possible for the show #at least on a main character design i just feel the design its at is like. as much detail as im allowed to give him tbh GHFDJS #hes always had space themeing but i hadnt stuck w him being represented by stars until later #then i thought of this little design to replace the saturn and i liked this a lot better 👍 #also in general longer hair because i like my longer hair #and when i first designed book 4 ozzy i was still just starting to grow out my hair #and the tattered shirt is also for my current metal style #anyways i might end up going back to the og book 4 ozzy if i feel this isnt working for me #i want to try to draw this new version w some expression examples to get a real feel for it along w interacting w m & r

[dizzybevvie]

"Kingdom Hearts is so complicated" "Nomura made it up as he went along" "KH makes no sense" Have you considered that Riku is 15 and autistic and gay bc if you do I think itll change things

#domt get me wrong a lot of kh is fucking ridiculous and some of it is way too complex but like #bare bones? Rikus motivations are so real to me like Riku is such a realised character #Giving him hugs #If sora at any point in the game was like “Riku youre my best friend and i value you” nothing wouldve ever happened /hj #Obviously overhearing the dock convo with Kairi definitely triggered a fight or flight response in him #and him being like “Winner gets to get with Kairi 😼” and then as soon as the race is over being like “lol it was just a joke bro haha” #And him trying so hard to be a cool guy (which works tbf bc sora idolises him but is still evident) #Him tossing Sora a paopu and sayin “c'mon. you know you want to try it.” eithout ever saying Kairi to test the waterz #his main priority after opening the door to darkness being making sure Sora comes with him and feeling betrayed when he doesnt #and then in traverse town running when Sora has the chance to abandon him for his new friends #and then maleficent is like Lol he replaced u <3 and riku is gay and autistic and 15 about it #I care so deeply about kh1 riku. Hes just a little guy and he just needed a hug #apollo says stuff #UGHHHH #Its feeling so so sad about Riku Kingdom hearts hours #riku kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts #kh riku #soriku #beverly says stuff

[diverbots]

Some screenshots I took for omnic references while looking around in some maps.

#text #There's more screenshots I took but I can't upload them for some reason? #Anyways it's very interesting to see a class disparity between omnics. Something I noticed with Midtown is that they changed a lot of the - #- poster assets in the subway during the beta with different ones (I'll try to find some images later) #And obviously things change and it's obviously the beta but a lot of the replaced ads were omnic oriented. #I'm really curious to about some of the omnic statues in the monastery - especially the one in the first pic. #Forever wondering if the dev team will ever address that room in the Paris map at some point (or if it relates to a certain character) #Also Thespion 4.0 seems to be constantly changing in terms of design in every poster he's in. #I can't type consistently I have a new thought every sentence I finish - my bad lol.

[spacedlexi]

so often i see people try to downplay violet and minervas relationship like it wasnt Real enough or was some Inferior Romance that her relationship with clementine could Never compare to, and i find it so annoying and boring

she LOVED minerva!! and its okay that she did!! she was her first love!! childhood best friends turned girlfriends!! seeing her being so heartbroken and miserable about what happened to minnie, how deeply and desperately she missed her, hugging that bed frame so pathetically. but clementine makes her CARE again. makes her LOVE again. slowly violet becomes comfortable with the idea of opening her heart up to people again, after trying so hard not to because the pain of losing people she cared about was too much to bear (especially when she blamed herself for them being gone)

then she learns minnie didnt die. shes falling in love with clem while grappling with the fact that minnie might still be out there??

then she meets minnie in the woods. but minnie has changed just like she has. theyre both different people now. and slowly violet is forced to come to terms with the fact that the person she loved so deeply isnt that person anymore??

violet at the beginning mourning minerva and blaming herself, to shooting her to save clems life. she LOVED minerva once, but she doesnt like the person she is now. and shes not gonna let her hurt anyone else she cares about. shes done mourning her by the time they get to the bridge, only crying out for tenn

like idk i just find their relationship evolution to be so interesting and sad as shit. the fact that they once loved each other so much and it has now come to this?? but violet makes her choice and she Chooses clementine, because she admires and loves clementine, probably similar to the way she used to admire and love minerva if the way she talked about her is any indication

i just think "i never thought i would ever feel this way again" is way more interesting than "wow minnie Never made me feel like This"

#violet makes minnie a stronger character literally Just by being there #the way vi and minnie and clem all bounce off each other is so fucking good #CLEM SLEEPING IN MINNIES BED IS NOT AN ACCIDENT #clem has essentially replaced her. and minnie is seething about it. because she wanted them all to follow her to the delta #but instead theyre following clementine. who she sees as a threat to their lives. when in reality the real threat is her and the delta #now its minnie who is sad and lost and doesnt know how to grapple with it #instead doing what she can to save herself. even if it means hurting the people she cares about #and violet HATES THAT!! and shes willing to fight to save the people she loves #even if it means hurting someone she used to care about more than anything #she places that shot so perfectly. she doesnt WANT to hurt minnie. but she wasnt gonna let her hurt clementine either #she may have loved minnie once. partially blames herself for what happened to her. but theyre both different now. and she loves clementine #LIKE IDK that evolution is just so good and makes the clemvi romance even more strong??? violet knows Exactly what and who she wants #so by downplaying the vinerva romance it inherently makes her choice to choose clem weaker?? #the more she loved minnie the harder that choice was. and she chose clementine #anyway this is why the clem vi minnie boat fight makes me bark like a wild beast #either i see people try to downplay her love for minerva OR they overhype it and act like she never got over her #when her getting over minnie is the whole point!! taken vi trusted her bc she LIED to her about sophie!! and clem broke her trust #god shes so heartbroken and confused in that cell get her out of there!!!!! vi i'll save you every time!!!!!! #thinking about clemviminnie instead of working what else is new #twdg #violentine #vinerva

[lavender-radio]

. . . going live in 🔴 🟡 🟢 . . .

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‣ Hello first-time listeners! I'm Zee, your host, broadcasting to you from Kanto Radio Tower in lil old Lavender Town. Tune in every night for scary theories, ghost sightings, and general Lav Town events.

Struggling with Rotoms possessing all your appliances? Need advice on caring for a ghost friend on your team? Having trouble sleeping due to mysterious and menacing spectres tormenting you in the night? Just visit our Rotomblr and leave us a message! 👻

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Team Info

‣ DJ Thunder Wave ▹Rotom. Powers the sound system. Also responds to "Volume Warning" ‣ Tripod ▹Jolteon. Likes to be chased. Named that as a joke but it stuck. ‣ Glowstick ▹Umbreon. Resident ghost (and Tripod) wrangler. ‣ Neon/Neo ▹Luxray. Old, gray, five time champion of the Lav Town fluffiest mane contest. ‣ Disco ✦ ▹Flaafy. Pink! Fluffy! Light of my life! Second place winner of the Lav Town fluffiest mane contest. *There were only two applicants ‣ Shortbread ▹Gengar. World's smallest ghoul (NOT clickbait)

OOC Info

This is an in character blog wherein i pretend to be a character in the pokemon universe, so blanket unreality warning

Both Zenon and myself are adults. The blog itself will be pg-13 (for occasional swearing or discussion of things that would not be discussed in the games or anime but are otherwise safe for work. browse at your own discretion im not your dad etc etc)

That said if you want me to tag anything specific just let me know!

uuuuuh come say hi or send me an ask i will love yu forever <3

Tags

#radio rambling - zenon just regular blog posting/chatting outside of the show #radio transcript - transcripts of the radio show, mostly meant to portray little snippets of what is meant to be a longer, nightly broadcast #radio replies - replies to asks/submissions

#pkmn irl #pokeblogging #pokemon irl #new character ref to replace my old pinned post hehehe #Anywayyy I'm gonna start being more active now :3 #I'm so normal abt this character #just want to draw them in outfits!!

[teaandinanity]

Question for people who are good at AO3:

Is there a way to force a search to ONLY look for your target pairing as the first listed relationship?

#babble tea (blacklist this for less chatter) #AO3 #I'm currently making a sour little face at my 'with acceptable exclusions' search #because fully a third of this is 'your OTP is four down as a beta pairing' #and I'm just like #'I am trying to replace the WIP I had to unsubscribe from because it sprung NOTP on me can I just have a new nice thing' #although if the answer is no it's not a hardship returning to rereading old favorites #and that's definitely safer #the problem with glomming on to characters and going 'just like me fr fr' #when you are arospec/acespec #is that when people make them uncomfortably allo you want to scrub off your skin for like 5 hours straight #last time I had a panic attack though so thank you to this author for leading with a note #so I didn't actually wind up doing the 'crying in the bathtub' thing A G A I N

[king-crawler]

If Ralph breaks the internet was awesome they would’ve had a part where Ralph and Vanellope load into a new game and they look over and see a crowd of people T-posing and they’re like. (whispering) what are those people doing……..

#I’m still mad. #they got rid of the fun video game humor #news flash: they’re STILL video game characters. #replaced it with unfunny internet humor or ‘Ralph doesn’t understand this thing’ jokes #he did have those in the original but he’s been super flanderized here #is Ralph as Bob Ross inherently funny. Sort Of. but does it work ??? no?? #SORRY SILLY JOKES WONT FIX YOUR TERRIBLE EVERYTHIBG ELSE #this includes spamley. you poor creature. you were actually likable but you had to be in this movie #it’s just the whole idea of this movie that makes me mad #and the direction they chose to go #rbti

[beananium]

WHAT. TETO SYNTH V ???

#Utau #Kasane Teto #Synth V #hopefully i'm not the first one breaking this news WHAT THE FUCK #what kind of strings were pulled for this to happen #good for her though. omg :0 #i'm kind of freaking out rn #if i'm unnormal about teto; a character i only just like; getting a synth v voicebank #imagine the hell that will happen if kiyoteru ever gets one... absolute mayhem caused by yours truly #i do like her new voicebank! just praying they don't replace her old utau ones since they have wildly different tones #Youtube

[h0use-fly]

i love neurotransmitters with positive associations

#HES SO FINE TO ME??? #oh he is so fucked up actually #very evil #the all seeings NEW royal guardian 👀 #brute getting replaced by the council since he left #this guy ^^^^ #he probably gets sent out to hunt brute down #he's supposed to bring him back alive #👁️👁️ #I have so many ideas for this guy #the first character that's not designed by me #to be put into his story #ain't that so cool #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #drawing #my oc

[tending-the-hearth]

jamie <3

#from the best jamie episode to ever episode #the amount of happy jamie moments in sunflower makes me cry #it's about finding happier memories with better people to replace the bad ones!!!! #i can't believe this episode was named after him #sunshine boy #i think jamie deserves to smile like this always #anyways guess who's hyper-fixating on a new character with daddy issues #ted lasso #jamie tartt

[cipher-fresh]

I have a gripe with people saying “What do you mean David overshadowed Ncuti, his performance was so good and he stole the show!”

I do agree with the people talking about how good Ncuti’s performance was, but I think they’re missing the point. It’s about the principle of Ncuti getting his introduction to himself. It’s not about Ncuti’s performance but the fact RTD chose to write Ncuti having to share his screentime with his predecessor during regeneration when no other Doctor has had to do that for their introduction.

#updates from cipher #before anyone argues with me in bad faith about how 12 got introduced during the ‘no sir all 13’ scene in the 50th: he still got his own #introduction with ‘I will always remember when the Doctor was me’ -> ‘I’ve got new kidneys!’ #‘David not dying made me feel better about Ncuti’s introduction’ excuse me we are watching the Main Character Gets Replaced Eventually show #the main character dying is something we knew was going to happen. ncuti was announced before david. #i do like the actual scenes and 14/15's interaction but i just wish it hadn't been written this way