#problematic characters

[belle-keys]

so, i saw this post on instagram and my response is just the hardest disagree ever... you want characters who are morally black, or unhinged, or problematic, but you don’t want them to do, say, or think truly problematic, prejudiced things? listen, you cannot call for unlikeable characters in media who only do tasteful evils like murder but not uncomfortable evils like racism or hate speech. you cannot call for novels with characters who are acknowledged to be problematic and at the same time demand only a socially acceptable and clean form of problematic behavior. the reality of messy, problematic characters isn’t to have the reader root for or against these characters or even internalize their ideas. the point of these problematic characters is to reveal the harshness and complexity of the world, not to reinforce moral or political ideals. you cannot explore the truth of society and people in books if you will only accept characters who are sanitized of reality.

#media literacy #ottessa moshfegh #unpopular opinion #my year of rest and relaxation #female rage #books and literature #literary fiction #media analysis #big swiss #books #media and culture #book opinions #unhinged women #unhinged character #problematic fave #fiction #literature #problematic characters #identity politics #hate speech #women in fiction #women in media

[thedeathwitchescats]

There are some characters that I am willing to take criticism on and then theres the aftg cast, nesta archeron, aelin and crew, fiona Gallagher, micky milkivich, sandy milkivich, Mandy milkivich, Damon Salvatore, violet sorrengail, xaden riorson and the rest of my problematic favs. They are the mfs that I just will not hear criticism on. You can point out their flaws till the cows are home, your blue in the face and Sunday had passed, i will not give two shits. They can do no wrong in my eyes.

#aftg #throne of glass #fourth wing #iron flame #all for the game #tog #tvd #the vampire diaries #shameless #problematic characters #toxic characters #🪓

[moonandris]

It’s not my fault I like to write and read dark and spicy fiction... 🥺

Me reviewing the list of trigger warnings for my scifantasy/dark romance WIP: Bahahaha, I am literally ✨ n e v e r ✨ getting this published. This is the kind of story where you finish writing it and yeet it out in the ether of the Original Work tag on AO3 before lighting up a cigarette and contemplating your life choices. 🤣😭

#faye speaks #writing humor #at least you know it's from the heart #my goal isn't to get it published anyways tbh #writing for me is a passion not a job #dark romance #dark romance wip #science fantasy #science fantasy wip #crime orginizations #magic and misfits #super fucked up society and hierarchies #smut and EXTRA spicy content galore #one of the lead characters is a bit of a yandere #and has an obsession with his first love who he thought had died #queer yandere romance anyone? #bisexual characters #problematic characters #trauma for me #trauma for my characters #trauma for my readers #free trauma for everyone

[cherylsanguis]

#coquette #marina and the diamonds #pink aesthetic #girlhood #problematic characters #female manipulator

[all-or-nothing-baby]

guess what? you can like/enjoy problematic characters; it doesn't make you a bad person!

#problematic characters #my beloved <3 #fandom #fandom stuff

[himi-wiz]

If I have a nickel for how many pathetically toxic, practically irredeemable unless it's an au adult men I ended up enjoying, I'll have 3 nickels.

It's not a lot but it sure as hell weird. Also all three are involved in the stem field in some way who are determined to stick to their committed evil paths even if it sucks for them and two of them are retired military personnel that are pretty shitty dads or dad-figures in their 40s.

Guessing game:

First is a sorry excuse of a doctor running a Mafia whose greatest joy seems to be shipping his apprentices, acting delusional enough so people would underestimate him but also he likes being delusional anyways, game theory and bugging his ex-husband. Way too obsessed with finding optimal solution, please stop logick for once and have a heart, you managed that in a canonical au before why are you doing this.

Second is a conman who helped the current government overthrow the system by creating the setting's famed mind control musical device, may have helped created a bunch of pink clone children and is happily avoiding child support (for both his bio and clone ones) and spends his life on various schemes cheating people out of money. At least he's got drip and a very good voice. 100/10 will get cheated and wouldn't even realise it.

Third one is a sad mop of a failing med student pressured by his parents who gets obsessed with hunting down his current target because of jealousy when this walking inferiority complex can't cope with his daddy/mommy issues. Talking about why he is heinous is a serious spoiler but when your best friend is a little girl who understands you because you both have antisocial tendencies is not a good sign.

#himi actually says something wow #random #spoilers for fandoms below #bsd #hypmic #tasokare hotel #like.... look i recognise that these things can be harmful but i deserve some fun too #don't worry i'm fine #i think #problematic characters

[passionphantom]

Darren Jae Hallow ( an original character from my old dead dove comic called Dark Clouds )

I added his character and parts of his story into the story I have called Tears Of Iscariot ( a wip that will post in October 2023) and changed his design a little bit.

#artists on tumblr #dark content #dead dove fic #problematic characters #oc sketch #sketch #toi #darren jae hallow #digital art #sensitive themes #sketch dump #before and after #original character #original characters #my ocs lol #my ocs drawing #painting #sketching

[caeruleophile]

✨NORMALIZE LIKING PROBLEMATIC FICTIONAL CHARACTERS✨

#problematic characters #problematic fictional characters #normalize it please #im tired of being the worst person alive just bc i love some bad character in media even if i would never support their actions irl #it happens in every fandom im in #like there's no black and white and everyone makes mistakes or does good things #why can't i just like the character and watch him develop

[manufacturedrainbows]

It's so hard naming Bad Guy Tm characters because then I feel terrible for every real life person that also has that name

#the temptation to name them “Josh” or “Ryan” is so strong because they're so common that people with more unique names won't feel targeted #rambles #writing #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #problematic characters #naming characters #creative writing #writer humor #writer problems #writer memes #comic #script writing

[silversrantsandrambles]

Hear me out

liking characters who are absolute scum and garbage, is fine. If you like a character who's a war criminal does it mean you support those actions irl? No. Not it does not. If you do anyways, you're fucked up.

If you like characters who are bad people, it does not make you a bad person, other factors decide that.

BUT, When you glorify real life people who are TERRIBLE PEOPLE, You're a bad person. Don't glorify real life abusers, war criminals, serial killers. Because mmmmmm hot.

you're disgusting.

There's a very clear line of fiction and reality, fiction it's fine to like characters who are genuinely awful, real life people. NO.

I don't care that Hitler, Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy, literally any fucking Nazi or war criminal. Is such a uwu soft bear, and that you really wish you could fuck them.

The truth is, their awful people and if you can't see that or refuse to acknowledge it. You're just a bad person, I would say sorry, but y'know what? I'm not sorry. I mean it. You're a god awful person, honestly I'm struggling to even not tell these types of people threats, because they never stop to consider. WHO. THESE. PEOPLE. HURT.

these people have victims, their families are out there, THE FAMILIES OF FUCKING ANY SERIAL KILLER CAN YOU SEE FUCKING THIRSTING OVER SOMEONE THEY DON'T EVEN WANNA ASSOCIATE WITH ANYMORE.

How would you feel if your best friend, a close family member was murdered? you'd feel like shit, and don't even try to respond with this with "uhmmm actually 🤓".

You go onto social media after the killer is caught, what do you see? Oh just the usual people saying how hot he is! How'd they'd love to fuck him.

I hate serial killer, war criminal stans, abuser stans. If there real people, if I see someone stanning Kimblee (fma) will I decide their a horrible person based off that?

No, I wont. Because they aren't an actual problem, people who Stan serial killers are.

#stella helluva boss #solf j. kimblee #Ted Bundy #Jeffrey Dahmer #Hitler #Nazis #war criminal #Trying so hard not to viciously attack these people out of personal morals #If it was legal I'd bite them #problematic characters #Fma #Helluva boss #Hazbin hotel #I'm not bothering to hide being mad because I am #Some people are so insensitive

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Hi hello today is a wonderful day to psychoanalyse hot but problematic female characters in fiction

#thinking specifically about the queen from L'Aigle à deux têtes #but also of the other two characters i analysed for my dissertation #and many others can be thought about too hehehe #anyway yeah #✨💞💕💖🥰women🥰💖💕💞✨ #wlw dark academia #dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #romantic academia #wlw #sapphic #fiction #literature #the siren speaks #female characters #problematic characters #blorbo #psychoanalysis #roacc

[vivi-ships]

Me: *happily reading a fic about someone who has done horrible things*

Fic: *mentions the horrible things for ✨Plot✨*

Me:

#fanfic #problematic characters #judge turpin #pro ship blog #proship selfship #vi's thoughts

[theconsofrom-coms]

Falling in Love While in a Relationship? Nope!

Just Justified Cheating!

We can't lie and say that there are many romantic comedies out there in which this becomes one of the main premises. Tell me...does this sound familiar? "Guy in a relationship meets girl who changes the way in which he sees many aspects of his life, she is so different from his own girlfriend/fiancée/wife and such a breath of fresh air, and she seems to treat him so much better!" and vice versa. Yeah, this is something that has become so popular in rom-coms that it should be a sub-genre of its own, I call it Justified Cheating!

We will be focusing on three movies in whose main couple is implicit of Justified Cheating. "Something Borrowed", "The Wedding Planner", and "Sex and the City 2" But make no mistake, there are dozens of rom-coms out there with a cheating premise.

Something Borrowed, or should I say, I will cheat on my fiancée with her best friend!

NOBODY IS INNOCENT IN THIS MOVIE! Rachel, the main character of this movie is in love with her best friend Darcy's fiancée, Dex, and after a night of drinks, end up sleeping together. This act becomes the catalyst for an affair that lasts basically up until the week before the wedding. And before anyone says "poor Darcy," well things are more complicated than that, as we find out that Darcy has also been having an affair with a man named Marcus, moreover, she's pregnant with his baby! WITH HIS BABY! But the cheating is soon found out, and Darcy, while hypocritical, is upset at finding out that her best friend has been sleeping with Dex, a man she was already engaged to.

This movie romanticizes cheating, as though it is okay as long as you have feelings for one another, as Rachel and Dex did since they had known each other since law school. That if you aren't totally fulfilled in your relationship, it is totally fine to find someone else out there to revitalize you, as long as you are still with your partner and make them believe in the so called relationship you have with each other.

The Wedding Planner, a guy just being a guy!

Mary is a woman who after a fatal break-up with her fiancée who she had found cheating with her maid of honor and best friend (Funny, how this seems to be a pattern, huh) has focused on her career as one of the best wedding planners in the industry. It all changes when she is rescued by a man, called Eddie. They go on a date and seem to have a genuine connection, even almost kissing at one point, but it all comes tumbling down, when she finds out that Eddie is the groom of the latest wedding Mary is planning.

It's funny to see how when confronted by the issue, all Eddie has to say is "Maybe I was just being a guy..." as if that is any excuse to cheat on your fiancée. Just guys being guys, right? Mary is no less innocent, as she continues to flirt with and make suggestive remarks towards Eddie when it comes to her growing feelings, although I will praise her for removing herself from the situation once she realized she was playing with fire. In the end though, Eddie and his ex have an amicable break-up the day of their wedding and Eddie finds Mary. While, there was never any instance where Eddie and Mary slept with, kissed, or showed any sort of physical affection, the intent behind their interactions was there. It was obvious that they were both falling for each other and instead of staying apart to avoid any heartbreak, they continued to be constantly in each other's faces. So yeah, apparently if you start falling out of love with a woman you've been with for a multiple amount of years, it is okay to cheat? Really?

And finally, Sex and The City 2, looking for unnecessary drama.

Well...what could we really expect from a movie whose main character is Carrie Bradshaw? Throughout the entirety of the franchise, both movie and show it was shown that Carrie thrived on the idea of having a relationship filled with glamour and drama, which is why it is so hard for her to live a regular married life. Finally, after so many years of wanting the aforementioned "Mr. Big" to be the one man in her life, she starts to feel stale in her marriage after 5 years. She is concerned that the sparkle of their relationship will fade, especially because they have decided not to have children. It would just be the two of them, for the rest of their lives.

This need for drama is only intensified when, in a trip to Abu Dhabi with her best friends, she runs into Aiden, a man who she had considered to be her other great love. A man, mind you, who she had previously cheated on with Big. They greet each other as old friends do, and considering the perplexing circumstances of their reunion, Carrie starts to believe it meant something. Although her friends advise against her going to dinner with Aiden, saying she's "playing with fire" she turns a blind eye to their warnings. And drumroll please...kisses Aiden on that date. And while many may say that it was just a kiss, it was not because it involves a man who once upon a time, was just as important for Carrie as Big is. While her and Big are able to reconcile after this incident, Carrie is never fully punished for her actions, although let's be honest, when has Carrie ever suffered the consequences of her actions in a permanent way.

And so, that is all I have to say in respect to romantic comedies' hidden subgenre, Justified Cheating!

I'll be back soon with our next topic, what will it be?

I wonder...

#romantic comedy #romcom #sex and the city 2 #the wedding planner #something borrowed #movie analysis #problematic characters #controvercial

[descaladumidera]

No, [This Character] doesn't need a redemption arc. Because [This Character] is perfect as they are in all their problematic glory. Let [This Character] be scum, they deserve to be a little unhinged. Yes, [This Character] has done despicable things and I love them for it.

#problematic characters #irredeemable characters

[vekshaarts]

Next one from deadly sins aka Tokrev characters: Mikey and GLUTTONY

Drawing started with messy sketch:

After that i’ve found some references of character in Pinterest. I like Mikey more with short dark hair, ‘cause he is more mysterious and serious in the same time - good contrast to his love for food ))

Then, I chose some pose refs and refs for clothing. Gluttony is not only about tasty food. It’s also about comfort interior and luxurious and nice outfit.

The pallet of this artwork is based on split-complementary color scheme. It means, that I took red-orange and yellow-orange and added blue-green turquoise color. Yellow is used as accent color. This color scheme is vibrant and juicy, but not so friendly, we are drawing sins, yeah.

I’m always so inspired while drawing, so I forget to save work in progresssss (god damn fffffffuck (stupid-stupid-stupid artist)))

I’ve made some shots in process, but further… all covered with fog 😂

I hope U liked this post, I will be gratetful if you like it and share with someone interested in Tokyo Revengers bad-ass guys )))

See ya :)

#tokyo revengers #mikey tokyo revengers #manjiro sano #tokrev fandom #tok rev fan art #anime fan art #anime #problematic characters #antagonist #bad guy #fashion #japan #gluttony #deadly sin #manga fan art

[problematicbracket]

Hey. I wanted to do a bracket, but it took me a while to pick a topic. I finally got one. Welcome to the Problematic Bracket.

I'll be briefly taking character suggestions as well as including some characters that I would like to see thrown in. The only requirement for a character to be entered is that they're "problematic" in some way or another. That can be as small or as big as you like. It can be a character you love or a character you hate, as long as they qualify.

For the time being, feel free to send asks with the bastards you'd like to see in the running. If I need to, I'll make some kind of form. I'm not going to be taking this too seriously, and any hate received will be ignored. This bracket is for fun and doesn't condone the actions of anyone who is added or shown on this blog. All I ask is that if you explain why they're an asshole that you please do it in the least spoilery way possible. Thanks.

Also, for personal reasons, this blog will be kept somewhat anonymous. You can refer to me as Mod Haiji or Mod Towa if needed.

#problematic characters #problematic poll #problematic bracket #villains #evil characters #foils #bracket #taking submissions #taking suggestions #modtalk