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#said with love#hes the perfect asshole archetype#pro-sex work is swagful#posts that [REDACTED]#personal logs
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i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again, dc really needs to get better writers because how do they expect people to like batman if he’s constantly being portrayed as an abuser
#dc comics#dc universe#dcu#batman#bruce wayne#bruce thomas wayne#yeah he’s not perfect but it’s completely out of character to write him that way#and a large part has to do with the numerous writers across series#like babes why are you traumatizing your kids in so many ways and still expect them to want to be associated with you?#anyways his children (especially his two eldest sons because he really puts them both in the ringer the most) deserve better#free bruce wayne from the shackles of the ‘edgy loner asshole’ archetype
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does anyone think it's kind of fucked up that seimei is absolutely doing to nisei what he did (and is still doing) to soubi and we're all just like yeah that's fine fuck that guy
#IT IS NOT FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#you don't have to like him but it most certainly is not fine!!!!!!!!!!!!#idk i think we've sort of turned soubi into a bit of a perfect victim archetype. i mean not all the way but i feel like he does something-#fucked up and we sigh and roll our eyes and are like hopefully he becomes normal soon cuz i want to root for him#and understand the tragedy of him doing those things#but nisei is a lot more resistant to this interpretation partly i think because the manga is more up front about presenting him as--#an asshole and partly because nisei believes himself to be an asshole#nisei is an abuser and a monster he is not a perfect victim#i think we see soubi's past and can kind of understand where he's coming from and why he thinks the way he does#we've seen a lot less of nisei's past but from what i gather he's been very isolated all his life#like as soubi's foil it's like#soubi was ''loved'' too much and nisei it seems was never loved at all#more beloved theme naming irony but anyway.#nisei is a victim too.#i'm less interested in who is a bigger victim and how much of an allowance of forgiveness that entails than i am with like#the systems that have allowed nisei to become this isolated in the first place. all he wants is to be. well. beloved#but that's the thing that's going to destroy him.#because every safety net and avenue out has been systematically cut off by seimei.#like what sort of support system is there for people who have done the things he's done to well. stop doing those things.#if nisei escapes seimei he will no longer be. beloved*. he will have no one. he will have to face the fate of being. erm. loveless.#if you will.#and i think that's a fate that a lot of the named paired will have to grapple with in some way or another.#finding identity outside of a self destructive power structure.#anyway nisei is soooooooo much more interesting once you acknowledge him as soubi's foil. to me they are basically the same guy. tbqh.#just. going in different directions.............#you know. how foils work. you understand.#*wrt both the identity sense the way all the pairs are wrapped up in their unhealthy soulmate spiral#but also in the sense that he will have to reckon with the fact that he was once again never truly loved because seimei does! not! love him
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I really like the way Andor is taking certain character archetypes and tropes and turning them on their heads a bit.
Luthen is a rebel leader, but he's cold and ruthless and in some ways he's almost uncaring. He's inclined to cause MORE suffering in the short term in the hopes of ultimately ending the suffering. He's on the right side of history, but he's not necessarily a good or kind person.
Skeen is introduced as a rebel, as basically the asshole with the heart of gold right up until we find out he's just a selfish greedy asshole who MAYBE gave a shit about Nemik but not enough to not steal from him.
Kino is introduced as a hard-ass authority figure who's in it for himself above everything, right up until we find out that he knows he can't escape on his own and does care about the other prisoners and will give up his life to make sure everyone else gets their chance at escaping.
Mon Mothma has, for a while, been this perfect unblemished Rebel leader who gracefully walks into a briefing in a beautiful gown with tragic news and inspire everyone to make that tragedy not be in vain. She loses a little bit of shine in Rebels, but not the way we're shown in Andor, with the way her privilege is really put up against the other characters like Cassian and Bix and the prisoners and the Aldhani, the way she isn't quite yet ready to get her hands dirty for her own cause. She wants to rebel, but she's not that pristine being who walked into the base in Return of the Jedi anymore.
The audience is primed to think certain ways about some of these characters due to character archetypes that tend to show up in not just media but Star Wars specifically a LOT. And Andor plays RIGHT into that and says "look harder, look closer, you may have missed something important." Andor says "look again now that you've got some more information, look and see if you see things differently this time."
#andor#andor show#andor series#sw andor#star wars andor#kino loy#mon mothma#luthen rael#andor spoilers
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It's honestly really depressing as someone who likes Qui-Gon as a character to see fanon constantly reduce him to "enlightened maverick" or "arrogant asshole" and absolutely nothing in-between or combined. Qui-Gon can be SUCH an interesting character if people would just LET HIM be an interesting character.
Qui-Gon is also, in many ways, there to move the story forward and send us a few necessary messages and that's it. He's not the main character of anything, the story isn't ABOUT him at all. Qui-Gon is there to find Anakin and bring him together with Padme and Obi-Wan. Qui-Gon is there to foreshadow the destruction of the Jedi Order through his death at Maul's hands. Qui-Gon is there to parallel Obi-Wan's own death decades later, to pass the baton of the story on to the next generation. He shows us that the Jedi are not superhuman, they're not invincible, he's there to tell us about Anakin's prophecy and introduce the theme of choices.
If you're not looking at Qui-Gon as a character there to get across certain messages and as a catalyst for the rest of the story, you're probably missing the point of Qui-Gon and looking for things that quite simply aren't there to see. It's not that Lucas was such a terrible writer that Qui-Gon can only be distilled down to "enlightened maverick" or "arrogant asshole," it's that you're probably just missing what Qui-Gon's character is actually there to DO. Lucas allows Qui-Gon to be more stable as a character because he has to keep moving the story forward around all of the other characters who are growing and changing. Qui-Gon represents the Jedi as a whole throughout The Phantom Menace, he is our first true introduction to what the Jedi are like during this golden era when the Jedi are still doing fairly well. We know Obi-Wan and Yoda when they've both been in exile for ages and they're very old, and Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace is still a student. So Qui-Gon is the first true Jedi Knight of the Republic in his prime that we ever get to see and know. He shows us their strength, their wisdom, their abilities, their compassion. And then he dies. Not because Qui-Gon did anything particularly wrong, but just because the Sith he was fighting managed to outmaneuver him.
So by looking at Qui-Gon as nothing more than an arrogant (sometimes abusive) monster or an enlightened maverick, you're sort-of just glancing over the whole point of Qui-Gon and reducing him to something less than what he's actually intended to be which is representative of the Jedi as a WHOLE. Lucas is all about poetry and rhyming, he likes creating parallels and patterns between his films. Qui-Gon dies as an homage and reference to Obi-Wan's own death because that's how the wise master archetype works in fantasy. Qui-Gon dies as a foreshadowing of the destruction of the Jedi that will occur in two more movies, a destruction we all know is coming because this is a prequel story. We're supposed to see what Obi-Wan will become in Qui-Gon and even what he will SURPASS in Qui-Gon, we're supposed to see the beginning of the end in his story. Qui-Gon, much like Palpatine in some ways, is a symbol more than he is a character.
What's funny is that NO ONE says the same about Obi-Wan in A New Hope, no one claims that Obi-Wan is so badly written because he fits into a very specific archetype that he is contradictory as a character. We all just recognize that Obi-Wan falls into that character trope and accept that for what it is. But people want to make Qui-Gon into something both more and less than the archetype he exists within, and it sort-of ruins him either way.
Qui-Gon isn't perfect, but he's also definitely right about a lot of things, he's wise and intuitive and compassionate, much like the Jedi are in general. Just because there are some things he does you could question a little, at least in his method if not his motivation, doesn't mean he's any less wise or compassionate as a person. And just because he IS right about a lot of things doesn't mean that he's meant to be right in CONTRADICTION to the rest of the Order or even just the Council itself.
People need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture with regards to Qui-Gon, look at the narrative role he actually plays and the parallels he presents with the rest of the films (the ones made by Lucas).
#star wars#qui-gon jinn#jedi#jedi council#jedi order#pro jedi#jedi council respected#jedi council appreciation#jedi order respected#jedi order appreciation
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When Eric Coleman, someone who worked closely on ATLA since its inception, understands that the biggest and most satisfying "hero's journey" of the show isn't even the hero's, I feel like that's kind of a clear indication not only of success with Zuko's character, but of failure with Aang's
I feel like as much as I came to hate Aang, I more than anyone would have been delighted to see him emerge triumphant after facing his issues, addressing them, and using what he learns to move on- but the one who ends up perfectly embodying that spirit of learning and growing from your mistakes is instead Zuko, while Aang sits on his ass, does jack-all, and gets all the credit! Aang NEVER grows as a person, both throughout the course of the show and through everything we know of him after it, and in perfect ironic contrast Zuko is ALWAYS growing, always working hard, always striving to do the right thing...
Like! I LOVE ATLA, I do! But it was NEVER because of Aang, and always because of the people around him. Even in the very beginning, I feel like I'm infinitely more interested in watching Sokka and Katara interact with each other and their tribe than I am with anything to do with him, and that's a problem!
When your main character only ever strives to be comic relief when the narrative needs him to be the hero, and he refuses to answer the call at every turn and has to be strong armed into doing his job both by other characters in universe and by the writers every time they need him to do his job... It's not good!!! He never gets past that!! He always has to have someone shove him towards being the hero, and his "reluctant hero" thing never stops! They previously talked about how sometimes the world needs the "reluctant hero", but that's like? A character archetype they should grow out of, that's the whole thing! They gain experience and confidence in themselves and their abilities, they become invested in the main conflicted and want to help resolve it, but??? Aang literally never does! He gets set up to start changing with Guru Pathik, his flightiness is addressed as an AWFUL thing by the other characters, but all of that flies out the window over and over and over again! He gets handed so many great scenarios where he SHOULD have chosen to step up, SHOULD have chosen to do the right thing, and he always chooses NOT to- because it's easier, because he knows others have grown used to picking up his slack... Because he ultimately doesn't care about anyone other than himself and his own self interests and his public image- those are canonical (even if not outright spoken like his flightiness) character flaws of his, and they're a great starting point for a hero to grow from.... But he never does, even when gives SO many perfect chances to, so he kinda just remains forever stuck as an asshole, entitled, brat.
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I love current Sanji, but I kinda miss the energy he had right when he was introduced.
Look at this fucking asshole. He’s got the cigarette, the suit, the goddamn bowl of soup balanced on his head so he can keep his hand in his pocket. Then there’s that smile too, he delivers the “dead wrong sir” so readily that you know he gave Fullbody the wrong bottle on purpose.
Again, I love current Sanji, but there’s something so perfect, so authentically Baratie about this “suave asshole with a heart of gold” archetype that’s just lost nowadays. It’s times like these that I wish Oda would go about 6 notches lower on the horny, there’s so much more to Sanji than chivalry and fire kicks.
#vinsmoke sanji#being a sanji fan is so hard#op sanji#black leg sanji#Sanji#one piece#straw hat pirates#baratie#east blue
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PROPAGANDA
Edelgard von Hresvelg
Shes the modern version of a fire emblem archetype of evil well-armored character (normally male). except with edelgaurd you bond with her and learn her harsh backstory. she is still one who starts war and is overall bad but youre meant to also pity her as a misled child, not only see her for her epilogue conquering self that erases history. Yet the fandom cant pick anything but extremes
oh god. ok ok ok im sick to DEATH of hearing about 3h solely because of the discourse surrounding her. should she maybe not have started a war? probably! cpuld she have talked it out? definitely the fuck not! were her motives sound? sorta, yeah! i mean she was tortured in a goddamned basement, i can see why she would want to get rid of the systems that led to that occurence!
She was raised her entire life as a weapon, for those who hated being subject to an (equally morally grey) Church and Goddess. However, she recognised those who tried to forge her into their own tool as evil (they tortured her and killed her siblings to try to make her as strong as possible), telling them “there will be no salvation for you and your kind”. However, she still kept them on her side as allies once she claimed power as emperor, to help her fight against the Church. She plunged the entire continent into bloody war in order to overturn a heavily restrictive, exclusivist class system. Did the end of peace and greater freedom justify the seas of blood it took to get there? Honestly I don’t know.
Shen Jiu
Born a slave and bought by a toxic household, got out of the situation through a rags-to-riches plotline, started abusing+neglecting his own student in a cycle-of-abuse type of story and ended up a target of said student's revenge plot. Fanfic writers often write him as either a perfect/sad/lawful angel or a ruthless asshole - for most of the story he got replaced by an isekai'd bodysnatcher, so readers don't really have a lot on his characterization beyond what was shown in sidestories/extras.
He’s in the middle of the cycle of abuse and he gave all his loyalty in his lifetime to one man who he couldn’t talk to for more than 5 sentences but who then died trying to save him and then he ate the shards of his sword as a method of suicide.
Shen Jiu was an abused slave with a horrifically tragic backstory who went on to abuse and attempt to kill the protagonist of the original story before the MC (Shen Yuan / Shen Qingqiu) transmigrated into him. He's the embodiment of the cycle of abuse & is misunderstood and villainized by pretty much every character. When he was replaced by Shen Yuan, everyone pretty much went, "yeah, something's up, but I like him better now." He is simultaneously woombified and vilified at all times by the fandom. The discourse is horrid
#misrepresented morally grey#round 2#bracket c#both bracket#fire emblem#fire emblem three houses#edelgard von hresvelg#the scum villain's self saving system#shen jiu#like i said earlier; if I see any discourse or 'edelgard did nothing/everything wrong' I AM turning this poll around!#why am I saying this for her specifically? you know why
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There's really Something interesting about how the Inika/Mahri largely subvert the elemental stereotypes of the prior teams
-Tahu was hotheaded, reckless, and angery; and while Vakama was a lot more quiet and depressive, arguably his biggest fuckups happened when he was trying to overcomphensate for that with false bravado. (and still very real anger.) Meanwhile Jaller is a lot more calm, rational, and cautious a lot of the time. Not perfect, mind, but still.
-Gali was the embodiment of calm and grace, but hamstrung by constantly feeling the need to try to herd the others and remind them of the first Virtue; and Nokama, while somewhat more strict and didactic due to her past as a teacher, still very much fit the "emotional support Girl™" role. Meanwhile, Hahli the Barbarian went off on her own for a while and let the others figure stuff out without her.
-Lewa was quick and clever and also cursed with the most miserable luck; Matau was loud and egotistical and also a walking slapstick gag at times. Meanwhile, Kongu largely eschewed the comic relief role to be a lot more serious and professional, or more biting when he did snark. (Still had absolutely rotten luck with his mask powers though, lol)
-Kopaka was a tsundere lone wolf type; and Nuju of course so violently antisocial that he learned a whole different language over it. Meanwhile Matoro, while isolated out of necessity by his burden of secrets, was incredibly warm and kind, always putting the others first.
-Onua was very much defined by his reliability and quiet wisdom, always helping the others out in their worst moments; and Whenua was also very much a foundational presence with his archivist's knowledge coming in handy quite often. Meanwhile Nuparu, while no less smart or competent, was a fair bit more of a wild card, with his two most significant inventions being the Boxors... and the Vahki.
-Really, Hewkii is the only one who doesn't really do this, largely following in Pohatu's footsteps as the friendly athlete of the group. However, this is at least partially because Onewa already subverted the Stone archetype by being a total asshole lol.
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Not to defend that reboot but I feel that the problem with Querl and how the other characters where written isn't just because they where all "too nice". They were written one dimensionally with no clear defined archetypes to latch onto, aside being very meme obsessed quippy young people.
The most memorable characters for me where:
Ayla where she made a clear stance to opposed the UPs imperialist nature, yeah she joined the legion but I honestly think that was just to watch out for her brother like all the other Aylas always do. She wasn't that bad, but I was disappointed she didn't have any arc to bring her back into the team naturally and on her own terms.
Imra was problematic, I guess the worst telepathic character or person possible. But I think under a pen that doesn't seem like it has a weird bias against the users of that power. It can be done very well. Legion lost Imra is a perfect example, where she justified mentally conditioning everyone to keep them from losing hope and disaffecting from their extremely terrifying situation. Exerting so many mental illusions hurt her tremendously to the point it nearly kills her, and as mad as the characters are for being lied to, they all understand that she was doing it all for their sakes, as twisted as it was.
Bendisboot Imra forces her way in others minds almost by impulse. She comes from a planet where people communicate to each others minds all the time like it's breathing. Now she's in a setting where that form of muti channel communication is cut off from her TREMENDOUSLY. So I would drive in a point that she can't really manage her telepathic reach like most would want her to. When the readers and the other characters understand this, they can reach a baseline with her to better develop a connection and humanize her character. Without context like this, she looks like a manipulative asshole.
Querl just exists to be exposition and techno babble. He has no identity aside from being a poor man's Data. We did have a nice Querl before and that was the 2006 cartoon. That robo Querl was friendly and outgoing, especially to Sups lol. But he was also very sensitive to being picked on (disliked any form of sarcasm) and just hated being emotionally unguarded. There were clear deep troubles with him that you wanted to know more about and understand. The meaner Querls follow the same formula for the best goal; you want to know what his baggage is.
Any way these were kinda my thoughts on three of the characters that I thought about the most from bendisboot. As negative as I was, they did left an impact I guess.
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Roast Your OCs Tag!
I was tagged by @willtheweaver (here) and @tabswrites (here)! Thank you both so much for the tag, this is gonna be a fun one!
I'll do my OCs from both Supernova Initiative and Of Starlight and Beasts for this one! Let's go:
Rules: Reduce my OCs to the most basic, mundane, stereotypical/archetypical tendentious of themselves and make it Fit into a Title!
(Supernova Initiative) - my sci-fi heist story!
Jack Tithus - An older brother who absolutely did not sign up for the utter mess that his life has become and is about to lose what patience he still has left. Also is an intergalactic thief.
Cassiopeia Tithus - Someone shouldn't have left this absolute menace of a teen unsupervised, and now she (and her robots) will make it everyone else's problem.
Vesper Foxx - Unstoppable and slightly unhinged Cyborg, with a truckload's worth of The Trauma Lore, on the Path to Revenge, will stab people unprovoked if she gets pissed off.
Aleks Keldora - Top 1 worst pilot anyone could ever meet, thinks he's great. Commits identity theft as a weekly pastime as a bonus, and is also the most clueless smuggler/mercenary alive.
Artemis Zreeth - Edgy Emo Boy 2.0 with the power of Anger and Teen Angst, who takes everything way too seriously, almost always makes things weird, and thinks sarcasm is a personality. It isn't but he has yet to realize it.
Noctus - Tired and slightly depressed secret agent gets assigned to supervise this bunch during a mission and Regrets His Life Choices while also having an Existential Crisis Moment.
Pax Stellaryn - Adopted Kid with Daddy Issues thinks he can fix his life with the Power of Friendship and Rulebreaking. Fails successfully (his life is in shambles but he did make new friends.)
Ethean Mirannir - Has spent his entire life being A Perfect Soldier and has a lot of reservations about breaking laws, but not about bending the rules. Doesn't know if he should be scared or impressed with the speed his adoptive brother messed up their lives.
Meridian Shardd - Basically a Newborn Robot in a Grownup's artificial body. Has literally no idea what is going on but is down for the ride. Is having the time of his life.
(Of Starlight and Beasts) - my high fantasy adventure story!
Corah Stormryder - Knight protagonist trying to fix everyone's problems but her own inadvertently gets into even more trouble when her Mommy Issues come back to haunt her along with a little something otherwise known as The Consequences of her choices.
Arammys Lochllain - Amnesiac star boy trying to figure out what The Fuck Is going on unlocks new traumas every week. Also, cue the occasional Jekyll and Hyde personality split/existential crisis.
Eidan Delythen - Depressed Lone Wolf attempts to run from his past by doing the exact opposite of what he'd planned to do while also being Ruthlessly Sassy about it.
Nimwen Raynsel - Traumatized embodiment of a dear in headlights tries to get the world to fuck off from her doorstep while struggling with making things worse.
Tomasa Emberi - Dragon Girl has the time of her life pranking her friends through shapeshifting while facing past issues she really didn't want to face.
Masen Mavven - This absolute idiot who thinks stealing/lying amounts to any kind of therapy or emotional fulfillment. Drowns his angst with wine and Bardic Angst.
Kyran Mavven - Another absolute idiot, who thinks lying to everyone about his true identity and past is a sustainable approach to academic life.
Maryon Haell - Incredibly bored spy girl in training absolutely lunges at the prospect of adventure but finds out halfway through that maybe she should've read the fine print.
Florynce Everfall - Unhinged undead teenager who is simultaneously incredibly eerie and adorable at the same time, puts an unhealthy amount of trust in talking trees.
Rin - An absolute asshole/bastard of a man who begrudgingly and incredibly slowly learns to "be nice" and not use manipulation and stabbing as a coping strategy for childhood traumas, while also being an absolute gremlin teen who should not be unsupervised for more than 5 minutes.
Leora Tallin - Child Soldier grows into a military commander who has no sense of humor and is trying to save her people from the mistakes of a bunch of rich idiots from another realm.
Scarlet - Young man forced to grow up too fast tries to change his identity while absolutely not addressing any of his own past traumas. Also has a neat pet hawk.
Elias Mavven - Pirate King on a Revenge Quest against the people who ordered his execution, tries to not have a breakdown at the family gathering. Is 100% over the twins' bullshit.
Lord Bastien Ilythos - Perfect prince of darkness trying to uphold legacy learns that, huh, 🌟his entire life might be a lie🌟and Is Not Having It.
Tagging (gently)! @kaylinalexanderbooks @littleladymab @cabbojage @lassiesandiego @little-peril-stories @oh-no-another-idea @thepeculiarbird @rickie-the-storyteller @crowandmoonwriting @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @gummybugg @forthesanityofstorytellers @doublegoblin @aalinaaaaaa @starlit-hopes-and-dreams @elshells @illarian-rambling @clairelsonao3 @conkers-thecosy @anyablackwood @diabolical-blue @cowboybrunch and OPEN TAG
#roast your ocs tag#wip of starlight and beasts#wip supernova initiative#writeblr#writing#writers#writers on tumblr#writerblr#my wips#my characters#character writing#my writing
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it just bewilders me that anyone could write a character as perfect as julian and then so obviously begin to hate him. it's so weird how much open unabashed contempt these writers have for the character their game is basically about.
i've said this before but i think that the prologue was written for a different version of the game, before the team decided to make julian the heel to asra's face and the butt of every joke. "a gift from a witch who fears commitment" was so obviously meant to be foreshadowing for a major plot point, but they just hand-wave it away in the story with like two lines of dialogue and a prayer.
"no, no, that was a red herring!!" no it wasn't. julian himself is already the red herring, making his implied backstory another red herring is the definition of a hat on a hat. asra and julian were clearly written for asra to be the bad guy in the asrian divorce, but then someone (everyone? i don't know) vetoed it because god fucking forbid we make asra look like an asshole even once.
asra is the writers' favorite and it's extremely obvious. he basically has no flaws, to the point of legit cliche. oh mc my only flaw is loving you TOO much. so even though julian is already written with a very clear archetype of "guy who hates magic because he got his heart broken by a witch" that comes through in basically everything about him, they have to paper over it in the story because we can't make asra look mean!
so they just make up for their shitty coverup writing by being like haha isn't julian silly? he was wrong about everything and he doesn't like magic hehe haha. leeches! meanwhile the bones of the characters they actually wrote are in asra too, because it's clear he's meant to have his "villain moments," he's meant to have sharper edges and even be scary, but someone decided that he has to be an uwu softboy and ruined him in the process.
as always i am not looking for a debate, i will block you.
#the arcana#the arcana wank#wank //#not to conspiracize but because i know these people's politics it's difficult not to imagine this has to do with gender#something something only men can be truly evil#so julian and lucio are bad because they're cis men#but asra is 'safe' because he's nonbinary and muriel is 'safe' because he resents the type of masculinity he was forced into#and nadia isn't evil despite all the shit she does because she's a woman#also how volta is the most sympathetic courtier (woman)#and valdemar is clearly feminine but they're nonbinary because they're Bad and a woman would never do something Bad#and the same thing with nazali where he's clearly a guy but he's Good so he's nonbinary because a man could never be Good#etc etc#also i love asra too. by the way. that's why i think he deserves to be written better
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for the ask meme:
-metatron (orv flavor)
-shin yoosung
-ketsuno ana
-kintoki
-one of your cnovel boys
OOH GOOD CHOICES
deciding i would kiss meta for the bingo. proxy blorbo intrinsically linked to fuckable design bc of how rory draws him ^_^ :
i hate shin yoosung's canon designs and fandom doesnt do enough w her for me to fill out more lol. SAD. i do love her i just dont care about her:
fandom is so mean to ignore my best friend gintoki's blorbo!!!!!! her designs kinda boring and as-is in canon she is also a boring generic woman personality but i see. underneath. her true insanity. and i could be obsessed w her:
MY GUYYYYYYYYYYYY. i love his misogyny. the perfect character to throw into a story. my silly rabbit:
YAY CNOVEL BOY INDULGENCE. idk why i picked yan suizhi from my beloved First-Class Lawyer immediately he has just been my ALL time favorite one to read about. fucking bastard. absolute pinnacle of my beloved like kjsdfg smug aloof asshole who gets away w it bc hes good at what he does archetype. idk what im answering for the visual options they just feel true to me. FIRST TRUE BINGO!!!:
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1 and boyd :]
Thank you for the ask! I hope you don't regret it, because I'm about to say something sooooo controversial.
1. What's the lie your character says most often?
Instead, I'm going to answer his biggest lie that echoes out through all of his smaller ones: "I am the outlaw."
Hear me out.
Boyd tells this lie to himself and everyone who will listen.
Boyd is an asshole, a violent, hungry asshole. And this is me, a Boyd girlie, saying this.
Raylan had the right of it when he reduces him to shitkicker in "shitkicker on shitkicker violence."
I love Boyd because he all this hunger and desperation and unwillingness to apologize for that. But he's this man who thinks he became a criminal to live his own life and make his own choices, when all the more it becomes apparent he has so little choice and so little freedom, even in this life that is meant to give it. He's still at the whims of other criminal organisations and betrayals and Raylan himself. Yes, he chooses all these hurts and crimes, but he also is backed into corners at every turn.
As much as Justified is a neo-Western, part of the beauty of such a thing is how imperfect and out of place it is. Raylan is not the perfect lawman or Sheriff, they both fall short of these archetypes and I love it so much.
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Having honestly the wildest experience flipping back and forth between binging Empresses in the Palace and That Omegaverse Thai BL. Yes, here to report that I have watched 4 episodes of Pit Babe on iQIYI, despite the name itself subjecting me to second-hand embarrassment, and it has officially vaulted over the hurdle of, "Is it good? Is it bad? Does that matter?" in the vein of Love in the Air.
It's.... exactly what it intends to be: that omegaverse AU boyband fic you read on AO3 at 2am when you couldn't sleep. I have never watched a more fanfic-y fanfic projected on screen. An incredible achievement.
Part of me feels strangely exposed and I have to push past my discomfort of thinking about a wider audience getting access to material that I generally consider to be our private fandom matters. But if I repress the knowledge that non-fandom people can see this, it's a dumb tropey good time. I hear there's canon mpreg, which makes sense cause I am pretty sure not a single woman has been on screen in four episodes. Do they canonically exist? Everyone is Gay™ and every named character is dude. I'm honestly racking my brains to recall if anyone mentioned a mom or if a female employee was in the background at some point and I missed it due to covering my eyes from mortification lmaooooooo.
The Babe character is that cliche hot/skilled/rich asshole fictional archetype who condescends to the people he sleeps with, treats them as disposible objects who can be traded to other assholes. (Until this alpha runs into his perfect match, per omegaverse rules!) But innocent flower love interest is apparently Not What He Seems and has his own agenda, as per fanfic 101. We all know how this goes. Supporting characters frequently marvel at how how Love Interest is so special™. Oh what a shock, this scum man alpha never allowed a fuck buddy to do X, Y, Z before. 😮
Naturally, our toxic boyfriend material has a Tragic Backstory that makes him Secretly Vulnerable and everyone wants something from his hot, skilled, rich self. 😢
no but truly, the desperate clinging of love interest Charlie who is thankful for the bare minimum scraps from Babe would be intolerable if we didn't know he has A SECRET SPY MISSION. or something. idk what his deal is yet. Anyway, it's not gross to see Charlie acting out pathetic thankfulness to be included in outings & allowed suck to his dick when Ulterior Motives Are Afoot.
The Sign is out there trying to be good but Pit Babe is so galaxy brain beyond such matters. I was charmed by how much Love in the Air reminded me of Cinemax After Dark and the Red Shoe Diaries of my 90s youth, soft core romance novel stylings surrounded by melodramatic plot (mysteries & fast cars & locker rooms & bar scenes) and Pit Babe charms me in the same late-night tv nostalgic way. The music that kicks up whenever there is a romance moment totally has that early 2000's softcore background track sound. My brain whispers, 'lol that's porn music'.
Characters yelp out Pit Babe at the rate of Sifeng!!!!!!! so I have built an immunity that will serve me well if I venture forward. 💪
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Okay so am I the only one who would REALLY like to read an honest to goodness cultivation novel/fic revolving around Xingqiu???
He's basically already the perfect protagonist for one; young master of a trading guild who moonlights as a hidden master of a dying clan. Great setup for political machinations subplots, training the disciples subplot, a few auction-house subplots. He summons floating swords! Okay I suppose him not being an asshole reincarnator makes him atypical for the archetype but meh, I never did like those kinds of protagonists anyway.
Oh! And he has Chongyun as the will-they-won't-they gay bait which OF COURSE you gotta have in this type of story.
#den thoughts#genshin impact#xingqiu#anyone know a fic that fits the bill?#would totally love to read some of those#cuz all I see are shipping fics#and like#I love reading those but oh boy is it an oversaturated genre
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