#the fictional facade

[thefictionalfacade]

The main Characters ✨

Just realised I’ve never introduced the main characters wow

Henry Jekyll, Edward Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein

These are the characters that’ll appear explicitly named, but there will be other literature characters hiding out in backgrounds as cameos :))

#the fictional facade #FF offtopic #character design #Non comic #Might be very rare to see them in colour so there’s their canon colour pallets

[mx-hyperfixation]

@thefictionalfacade

I’ve finally got the book so expect some content finally at some point! ✨

keep an eye out for it

(I’ll probably reblog them here too at first ❤️)

#the fictional facade #wip #finally #Don’t have colours yet but I might pencil them

[rissaito]

if you keep an eye out, you may be able to catch a glimpse of the cavalry captain’s true smile…

#my art #genshin impact #kaeya #kaeya alberich #my heart is so full of love for this fictional man #the things i’d do to make him drop that facade sometimes and genuinely smile #2022 art #rissaito

[inkykeiji]

"character: alastor"

Me: creaming my panties

MUAHAHAHAHA ( ๑ ˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡

#same tho #he's so sexy and for what fOR WHAT #i rly think a decent amount of alastor's attractiveness (for me at least) comes from his personality #i kind of love fictional characters who can change facades on a dime #also characters who are so in control of themselves and so power hungry #that when they don't get what they want or they're reminded of their own vulnerabilities (because no one is invincible) #have a fucking BREAKDOWN #ahaha <3 #anyway! hope ur weekend is going well anon!! #stay safe n drink water! #inky.bb #clari gets mail

[whatlovelybones-if]

If it's not a spoiler (who am i kidding i want to know so bad) will the game punish the mc for being like to evil or manipulate or can the mc get away with it if they have the right stats?

Also will the game have like a cheat mode for those who don't want to calculate all their moves based on stats?

honestly speaking, the stats would barely do anything in this game. the only time they would actually matter is during relationships and how certain characters react to things around you. depending on how the MC treats the ROs (and a few side characters), your ending will be designed through that.

now, i don't want to unnecessarily punish y'all for being ‘too’ evil or manipulative cause that's kind of the point of this story, but you won't be able to get away by being a complete ass to everyone. so basically, the better you treat everyone (and yes, this is whilst being manipulative and scheming), the better will be your ending.

#asks #just don't let them see underneath the mask #you can propose a peaceful and helpful facade while also being wicked and manipulative #tread a carefully balance between these to reach the nicer endings #what lovely bones #bonnie nonnie #interactive fiction

[always-a-joyful-note]

i think what's the most heartbreaking about all these relationships is that they can't be normal siblings or friends or even romantic partners (though that hasn't really been brought up as a legitimate issue). Something about the dual nature of public opinion, how it can make you rise to heights but also stunt your growth both in your public and private lives. Something about how personas can hurt the person behind them. Something about how these guys also see themselves as a product rather than a person, and how fans unfortunately end up doing the same to celebrities even if they don't want to because....it's not the fan's fault for deciding to stop following a celebrity they like and helping contribute to their fall when they were also the reason for their rise. Something about how this push for romantic stereotypes will always hurt celebrities who just want to be friends with each other, whether they be a woman-man, man-man, or woman-woman duo

#idolish7 #fandom spamdom #note's notes #help me you guys im falling into overanalysing media again and drawing lines between audience and story and author #except what happens when they are ALL real people? #what happens when you force fictional roles upon people of real life? #this kind of reminds me of the ancient greek (?) thing about how actors are liars because they put on masks and a facade #but in reverse because its the masks and facade being put on the actors

[sluttyten]

dude I totally relate to your comment about weird male regulars.

used to work in a high end restaurant and this one dude would try to hit on me and give crazy tips thinking I’d go home with him. I thought it was a joke at first but it kept happening and it was so uncomfortable. ended up asking one of my male coworkers to wait his table.

then there was another dude who would show us his vacation pictures all the time but it would just be him with topless women. had slimey smile and everything, he knew what he was doing.

Men are just gross 🤢

We had this one regular, a really old guy who would slip us a little cash tip when we brought his food out to him, but then he started getting creepy imo because he would like hold onto my hand a little too long when he slipped me the money, so I stopped taking it out to him and had someone else do it, and then I found out that he was hugging some of the girls (because we’re pretty much only a female staff here) and would kiss some of them on the cheek, and one of my coworkers even said if she sat down at his table just to chat with him he would like put his hand on her thigh (and she let him, like she thought it was perfectly fine and funny, like wtf no it’s not okay)

Just in general we have some gross and entitled male customers here that I just can’t stand. And the regulars just get a little too comfortable after a while I think, but I did decide yesterday that I just need to not let them bother me. Like if they want to ask for my number or whatever I can tell them no lol

I’m just glad I’ve never had anyone show me pictures like you were talking about. That’s just too weird.

#asks #I literally the other night when I made that post was just sitting there thinking ugh men ruin everything #pretty much the only men that don’t annoy me are either fictional or gay 😂 #or are idols/celebrities which pretty much count as fictional since they’re so far distanced from me and my feelings about them are just #based on the facades they put up for us to perceive them….. so.. not real

[wolves-in-the-world]

#im also begging for any thoughts on hair braiding nights [via @be-gay-do-heists, here]

I think parker gets like… the cheeriest most glittery plastic beads. chubby unicorns. iridescent stars. pastel rainbow beads. it takes quite a while before quinn trusts parker enough not to shift away when she starts shifting closer, but eventually she just perches on the back of the sofa behind him and he just sits quite still and lets her at it, flashing cheeky grins at eliot that make him roll his eyes.

he won't leave private spaces like that though, with tidy hair braids and colourful beads dotted through them. not unless there's (for instance) a gunman in the brewpub and then you bet he'll be dealing with that and then demanding alec scrub the footage, with his most serious hitter face on.

eliot, though, does leave the apartment with whatever she's wrangled into his hair on movie nights or over breakfast. he never protests the braids. he keeps suitably dignified hair beads around for when her fingers get itchy and she wants to put them in for him.

and one time he spends an entire day taking down goons with a shiny teddy bear tucked behind his ear and occasionally flying free and whapping him in the cheek, and parker leans over to kiss it hello at the end of the day, and he grumbles and flushes bright red while hardison grins warm and wide in the driver's seat.

later, walking through one of eliot's safehouses and looking more than touching, she finds the bear tucked into a spare wallet in the back of a drawer.

#one take on it because the thoughts made me happy #quinn leverage #eliot spencer #I think for quinn it's like... he has a reputation to maintain. no denim no casualwear no dropping his superior facade. #accepting glitter and pastels and chubby unicorn hair beads in private doesn't compromise that to him but it might compromise it on the job #and when he's outside of safe spaces he's always potentially on the job. mr quinn is his Job Name he's a job guy etc. #with eliot it's a little more classic anxious masculinity feels I think‚ but we can hope it's a work in progress. #also only just realising I overshot hair braids straight to hair beads whoops #I have a sht- I have several shticks and I'm not ashamed #parker knows about his funky head scars before the others (except eliot) I think. no surprise when it's crisis buzzcut time etc. #orig #I have a normal amount of thoughts about fictional characters' hair

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

Hot take, but I don't think making criticisms of a character strictly "as they appears in canon" and saying they's shallow or bland or in any way lacking in qualities or traits (as opposed to making judgments about qualities or traits a character DOES have or debating which specific traits or qualities a character has) - makes any sense in the context of consuming media.

Because by the sheer fact of excluding anything not said or implied in canon, you are thoroughly breaking suspension of disbelief. By suspension of disbelief, the audience sees a character and assumes that traits are there, even if there are very few onscreen. This not headcanon because the audience is not coming up with what those traits are. The audience is only assuming that traits of some kind must exist that make this character a Real Person, because in suspension of disbelief we are behaving as if this is Real Life. And if you knew a person who was bland or shallow you wouldn't say they were bland or shallow; you would say you didn't know them that well.

So. Character A is not bland or shallow, they simply haven't been shown on-screen enough. Perhaps the creators haven't come up with any such traits yet, perhaps because they're not good at their job or perhaps because this character isn't built to do anything besides exist as a plot device. But the traits still exist, because suspension of disbelief is a superpower that makes everyone a Real Person with hidden struggles and secrets and flaws that they don't let anybody see or that the audience has just so happened to never see or that the screenwriters and producers carefully edited out to be just offscreen bc they don't know what those traits are either!

Now suspension of disbelief does take effort and not everyone is willing to put out that effort to reach a place where they enjoy the character. Maybe the character has very few redeeming qualities regardless.

Saying a character is two-dimensional, bland, boring, etc. is not a valid criticism of the author. It is only a valid criticism of your ability or willingness to suspend disbelief. If you want to enjoy the content, why aren't you enjoying it? And if you enjoy it for other reasons 'but this one character - ' why are you shattering other people's suspension of disbelief for them?

(Rabbit-holey and incomplete rambling about the mechanics of suspension of disbelief and how much people are willing to suspend disbelief and how much work the authors have to put in versus how much the audience puts in, below the cut.)

Some characters do require more suspension of disbelief than others. Major characters with too few traits are a turn-off to some ppl bc they don't want to have to put in the work of assuming traits where there are none (because there aren't; the person isn't real). If someone dislikes a character already that puts them further at risk for losing their suspension of disbelief. If a character isn't compelling or doesn't evoke an emotional response? By all means. Characters who don't naturally evoke responses need more work put into them by the authors.

Author and audience meet halfway. Sometimes a character evokes a response by being compelling or emotional, and then the author can get away with less filling-in of the blanks bc the audience is invested enough already. But if the audience isn't invested, the author needs to provide more content about the character so that the facade - that this ink on paper is in any way equivalent to a real person - can be maintained.

Now the more important a character is in the story, the more work the author needs to put in. If a character has two lines in the story, the author only needs to write the two lines, and the audience assumes this is a full-fledged person with a full array of traits, without question, because those traits never become relevant or impact the story in a meaningful or compelling way that would require explanation.

But if the character is a major love interest, the audience needs more substantiation of the claim that they is a real person with traits, because this character is impacting the plot and other characters. A love interest needs more than two lines to be accepted as a valid love interest. A main character can only swoon for an unexplored love interest with two lines so many times before the audience asks, why does she like him anyway? We don't know anything about him! At least tell us what he looks like or if he's shaved today or if he's done anything swoon-worthy for her!

A character may also have traits without them being related to the impact they has on the plot; e.g. the love interest used to have a stamp collection when they was five (and this never becomes relevant and the main character who is falling for him does not herself have an interest in stamp collections). That's a trait, but it is not a helpful one insofar as understanding the impact a character has on the plot.

And in addition to giving substance to the claim that a character exists, traits enable the audience to relate to and care about a character, which is the real bread and butter of enjoying a story and being impacted by it. I won't go into that tonight bc that's a whole new topic.

My point is that of course characters need SOME traits, and relevant ones, and preferably in proportion to their role and impact on the plot. (Just as a major love interest with two lines is unsatisfying, a two-line character with pages of backstory is similarly boring.) The line can be hard to strike for an author, but we can help them out by developing a robust ability to suspend disbelief.

So an amendment to my hot take: sometimes characters CAN be criticized for their trait-to-relevance ratio. And then the question is yours: do you put out the effort to suspend disbelief or not?

If we're not willing to put that level of work in for the level of enjoyment that would generate, well, maybe find a different story or at least stop criticizing other people's fav characters for being boring. (It's a lot harder to suspend disbelief when people are actively breaking it. But! That's what unfollowing and/or blocking is for!)

Remember everyone: the secret to enjoying media is suspension of disbelief. If someone shatters that, remember you can get it back if you're willing to try again.

#I find fandom in general to br destructive of my suspension of disbelief #Bc the fandom image of a character can be so off-base to my image #Or it just clouds the air with many different interpretations #There is no longer an amorphous blob of 'Here Be Traits' that you unconsciously assume #It is filled with defined traits #It's hard to step back and see the original appeal of a character with more unknowns about them #Hard to see their original facade #Hard to assume this is a Real Person when all the unfilled hints in canon are filled by fanon #All that remains is Character. No more unknowns or questions to explore #No more suspension of disbelief #No wondering #The driving force of fiction is Big Moral Question and How Does Character Answer? #What Does Character Do In X Scenario? #Does Character's Values Extend THIS Far? #How Much Will Character Sacrifice For This Value? #WHAT Will Character Sacrifice For What Things? #Does Character See It As A Sacrifice? #What Choices Will Character Make in X Circumstances? #Without the questions there's no story #No compelling #Is bland #So fandom fills the gaps of those questions and I need to get away sometimes and ask the questions again and answer differently #But THAT just goes to show that characters can't have All The Traits #They would no longer have any capacity to be compelling in the future #Anyway I digress #Writing #Suspension of disbelief #Narrative theory #Story theory #Wow this all turned into big rambling lol

[crabcrabcrabmeat]

rewatching zeta will fix me

#shrimpteresting to me how g witch's horrific politics and dissapointing yuri industrial complex stem from the same root #a shiny facade but ultimately never challenging the status quo #ig thats why prospera's character doesnt work as is #suletta's personal arc (and ericht's if she had one) is supposed to be reclaiming personal agency n standing up against child abuse #but the message of the series is ultimately 'you're not evil if you're trying to improve' so any realistic moral complexity cant be present #and a char without antiheroism is an angel without wings! #gwitch also made the mistake of having commonalities w CCA without any political legs to stand on (heh) #specifically the idea of 'turning children into weapons' wrt to quess (metaphorically) and ericht (literally) #because CCA is using intercharacter drama as the medium for political statement its free to do intense earnest shit #like criticising militaries and their recruitment by comparing it to CSA--a real thing that exists beyond fictional cockpits #its intense but not unwarranted as its relevant to military and political power irl--it'd be inaccurate to NOT address it #whereas prospera's warcrimes are cartoonish death star shit with no direct real world equivalents (unless we invent idk evil bluetooth) #since actual abuse (or ericht having traits lol) undermines bandai namcos ability to merchandise their (doubly!) objectified characters #anyways i think its acceptable for gay women to not kiss ONLY if they fight to the death in space. its equality. its emma and reccoa. #abs blabs

[thefictionalfacade]

Ch1 Pg1

Slight TW for existential stuff but not much :)

I do actually have second and third pages ready so expect them soon ish :))

#Idk why the light grey turned yellow here 😔 #the fictional facade #page 1 #art

[mx-hyperfixation]

thumbnailing time

#The Fictional Facade #Wip

[abyssalpriest]

honestly im gonna stop apologising and start saying if you want to understand the kings and the Void on a visceral level, play bloodborne. ideally invite lev to play with you he loves bloodborne its his baby

and when i say that i mean either ask him to fucking help you get through it because hes very fuckin good at the game, or ask him to talk to you through it like just go on a fucking journey and listen to him and you will find out shit you never dreamed of

#ramblings // #just do not get sucked in or do i mean im not here to stop you but like. the kings have really addicting spiralling insanity inducing #energies - thats me telling you not that their energies are that but that somewhere. locked in their personal bedrooms. in their closets. #privately. they have energies tucked away that you fucking /see/ in bb #heres the thing. you play the game? you dont get it. you FEEL the game and cant understand it from reality? you get it #and its hard af to get Out of getting it but like #if you want to understand the library you have to understand it through the gods and not through the false fictional idols #that are using it as a facade #also! be careful because my ex is also one of the spirits channelled into it and who listens to calls from people's energies when #they reach out to the game lmfao they have ties and triggers and spell-esque spiritual stuff like an Attempt at a spiders web #to reach out to people who get into it. if you know the kings and know youre talking to them. then. thats the only time like #be extremely fucking careful and journey WITH them - im gonna personally say only do this w lev but thats bc i dont #get along w indra and lu for Reasons lmfao but maybe you do get along w them - its. it is an opportunity. when you fall into it #you will know but for gods sake only fall in with one of the kings you already trust extremely holy shit

[naggingatlas]

i looove putting spark over songs about like heroes and saving the world (tom cardy's 'level clear', uncle outrage's 'saved the world' <- nice voice hc for him!. and 'my superhero movie'.) when he like. Did. Not : ) funney.

#sprksplrs #gaia talked about spark wanting to be desired yesterday and while i think he's too much of a Lone Wolf... for those kinds of wants to #even surface. at least in my interpretation of him. its hilarious to think abt him getting. just a tad insecure abt fark's status as #a real like. superhero basically. just for a second in the far back of his head. oh i want to be as cool as him. im not good enough #tho again in my characterization he only wants to do that to be able to love himself. i first got this thought when ruminating on #oh god. what kinda games he n fark like to play respectively? and said 'if he ever does pick up hardmode or a challenge level #he will only do that to one up himself and himself only.' he only proves stuff to himself. he only cares about himself. #and the things that do the most mental damage to him are all scenarios in which his self is attacked. #in which his agency is taken his independence. losing a job to someone something that copies him and does it better than him #something that even copies a really dear object to him thats been with him throughout the years - his jester hat #an attack on individuality. and then being merged into the sim. idk. the yaoi moments when he does work together w fark become even more #potent. this way? and. it contrasts really well with how selfless (at some point in his life very literally) fark is. and how confident in #his self. he turns out to be in the end. as micah said 'how he moves with so much more fluidity in his organic body #the body he created himself because he's no longer afraid of it being fake'. citing that as the bible but yea kinda. #i think spark grew up quite ostracized maybe even self-ostracized and really needs a distinction between himself and everyone else #to be better than everyone else. there is some personality disorder shit happening under that piss yellow scalp. #and he fucking loses it when the events around him hammer in that the facade he builds for mostly again himself is. yknow. untrue. fake. #idk thoughts. i love exploring the antisocial aspect in fictional personas with how shipshipship focused fandoms and 'analysis' #in them is it's not something i see all that much. seems like only people whove experienced it ever bring up that topic. #is it so uncomfortable for others? who knows. ramble over

[mmart23d]

Parametric futuristic building - generative ai

#parametric #futuristic #building #architecture #architectural #design #technology #sci fi #scifi #sf #science fiction #facade #scenery #wavy #waves #shape #art #artwork #object #generative #ai #generative ai

[masked-feature]

🥀...DISCOGRAPHY: FACADE

masterlist

✦ ࿐ .. FACADE is the debut EP of MΔSK, the co-ed group under STREAMLINE ENTERTAINMENT. released on January 24th, 2022, the extended play consists of 5 tracks, including the title track, GUNSHOT.

MΔSK promoted the title track for three weeks, as well as b-side DEJA VU. With the major surprise of SIX wins for GUNSHOT and TWO for DEJA VU, the group it off to a good start.

꧁•⊹٭𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝٭⊹•꧂

# 001 ─── DEJA VU

# 002 ─── GUNSHOT

# 003 ─── RED LIGHTS [LEO & SALEM]

# 004 ─── HELL IN HEAVEN [MYRA & HAE-WON]

# 005 ─── SHADOW

꧁•⊹٭𝚂𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐٭⊹•꧂

꧁•⊹٭𝙰𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚖 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜٭⊹•꧂

photobook (50 pages) ⊹ 3 random photocards (out of 32) ⊹ lyric book ⊹ 2 pages of stickers ⊹ one mini poster (out of 8) ⊹ one letter (out of 4)

꧁•⊹٭𝙷𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜٭⊹•꧂

꧁ ─── The debut of the group went really well considering how small their company was, gaining the attention of many as they did their promotions, getting shout outs from many.

꧁ ─── The amount of content FEATURES got out of the debut was insane. Many variety shows and sudden appearances from all four members, shocking fans pleasantly.

꧁ ─── With two of the songs focusing on just two of the members, fans were happy with how the group showed their variety with concepts, however, the fans are clamoring for mvs, as both did not receive one.

꧁ ─── MΔSK interacted with everybody during their debut, from Stray Kids to Tomorrow x Together, MΔSK was seen everywhere. Fans have been dying to see collaborations with Hae-won hinting at the possibilities.

꧁ ─── Many have been obsessed with the two mvs that have come out for GUNSHOT and Deja Vu, with many commending the set designers for the aesthetically pleasing videos.

꧁ ─── Myra talking in Latin was not on anyone's 2022 bingo card, but it wasn't unwelcome. On the last day of promotions, Myra let out "Veni, vidi, vici", right before the last chorus, roughly translating to "I came, I saw, I conquered"

a/n: playlist ;)

#MΔSK #FACADE Era #Leo🦁 #Myra🦋 #Hae-won🐼 #Salem🐶 #fictional idol oc #fictional kpop group #kpop group oc #kpop idol #kpop oc #hae-won🐼 #leo🦁 #salem🐶 #kpop co ed #myra🦋 #MASK