#which I know is the point of the trope!

[stiltonbasket]

For the fanfic tropes... Cop falls in love with criminal or the hanahaki disease

D. Not my favorite. I avoid it if I can, but it won’t necessarily put me off reading something.

#asks #cop falls in love with criminal is cool when it's not modern au #modern au is not really my thing #as i've already said #and hanahaki disease also casts unrequited love in a much more...tragic light than normal #which I know is the point of the trope! #but tbf most people have been in unrequited love and came through it just fine #also the plot tends to revolve around finding the true love before time runs out #often by the love interest #which is again the point of the trope but it's not for me ll #also I dislike it especially for mdzs when it's portrayed as oblivious wwx unnecessarily causing lwj to suffer #i did read one fic where wwx was the one with hanahaki as a result of a curse from a girl he flirted lightly with #and that was fun bc the point was to hide it from lwj lol #no crises rly #trope rating meme

[soupdreamer]

hey brennan what the fuck

#the emotional whiplash of this episode was genuinely insane i think i was about to burst into tears at some point and then they cut to the #fucking commercial. vic michaelis and brennan lee mulligan i ADORE you brennan you did not have to go as hard as you did on this one #this felt like a literal fever dream #like i don't even know if i fully understand it rn the last bit w vic and the radio was a bit open to interpretation #ALL of it felt open to interpretation but like. in an insane way #someone suggested host vic has dreams of/hallucinates these guests to escape from the mundanity of her real job and they try to teach smth #i dont like the dream trope but that would be v interesting #someone also said they were in a time loop which would be. intriguing #anyways i will miss this show so much someone said it was greenlit for s2 too so i'm crossing my fingers thats legit #vip spoilers #very important people spoilers #very important people #dropout #vic michaelis #brennan lee mulligan #vip

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Instruction on Courtship

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #wei wuxian #a-qing #(In case ppl are wondering: LJY and LSZ changed their hairstyles to get into character). #I love this scene very much its so silly and sweet #a-qing is WAITING though guys. Come ON #Lan Jingyi definitely is the type to read romance novels and be a deep romantic at heart. And of course vehemently deny it. #But the truth of the matter is that wwx and lwj don't follow those typical romance tropes (at least not at the moment) #wwx and lwj split up because they *know* the other one is perfectly capable on their own! It's about acknowledgement and respect. #The original line was “Why. I trust him and his skills” which is more accurate to the Audio Drama. Because that's the core of what makes #Wangxian so good! Trust!! Despite years of miscommunication- there is deep trust between these two! #They can and will delegate tasks because they are an effective team! #If you cannot trust the person you say you love and care about - you have killed that relationship. (Genuine relationship advice). #Add one more to the 'retelling of wwx's story from other's perspective' counter. #I know that wangxian get more lovey later on but I really feel like mxtx was trying to make a point here. The more interesting dynamics #are not one's that rehash lines and tropes from dime a dozen romance books (sorry boys)

[mikkeneko]

watching Jiang antis go, as a Scum Villain reader, never ceases to be kind of wild

#I'm always like #why don't jiang antis just get into Scum Villain?? #the story you seem to want Wei Wuxian to be in #where he is a poor little cinderella so bullied and abused by the jiang sect #who resent his brilliance and work to undermine and suppress him #and whip him for no reason and force him to sleep under the docks #we already have this story! this is luo binghe's story!! #luo binghe is the poor little meow meow you want!! #the elaborate revenge fantasies I sometimes see jiang anti fics devolve into #are right there on the page in SV #well... I suppose that's not true. it's not in Scum Villain. #it's there in PIDW #which the entire point of Scum Villain as a story #is devoted to exploring why those fantasies are shallow and hollow #why even the abusive characters are never really that simple #and why the trope of the poor little cinderella rising into an unstoppable crushing power fantasy machine #is an empty story in the end #okay maybe I know why jiang antis do not get into scum villain #mxtx extended universe

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Spider And Her Demons

YA Australian urban fantasy/horror

about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school

when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world

aroacespec/sapphic ish

#The Spider And Her Demons #Sydney Khoo #loveozya #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #you give me a teenage girl with giant hair spider legs who scuttles across her bedroom wall on page 3 #and then eats a man and i am already sold. #also aus books are always so familiar compared to US books :) #and yes sexuality stuff is ambiguous but basically: a bunch of discussion on relationship hierachies (ie friendship equally/more important) #themes of feeling unlovable bc you're different and different forms of love #multiple times the MC says she has no interest in dating or relationships and also is touch (and maybe sex) repulsed #- but of course that Also has to do with the whole Being A Monster thing #and it definitely shows some kind of attraction to dior - ie looking at her lips/bare skin; blushing; etc #and ends on sort of hand kiss / 'is this something??' vibes #I asked the author and they said they see them as QPR / platonic soulmates but are not at the point where they would know what to call it #which makes total sense to me! #the part of me who wants more obvious aroace YA wishes it was a little more specific #but also I DO love ambiguity and I think it wouldn't be true to the characters #who are clearly not even ready to start figuring that stuff out. #and also. aroacespec sapphics is like. also something i want #also like. I think it's reductive to assume just because 'looks at lips' is a common allo attraction trope....doesn't necessarily mean #it has to be that. yknow. #anyway. i loved it a lot. #gross spidergirl (affectionate)...... #also dior is such an interesting and complex character. like another book could have made her nicer or less fucked up

[saionjeans]

to be the honest there was actually a very simple way they could’ve gotten me to like ruka, and it’s by occasionally having had him discreetly cough into a white handkerchief before quickly hiding the bloodsoaked evidence of his failing constitution in shame. and on his deathbed he should’ve been like, “oh no, i am not terribly frightened. for soon i shall see mama, and my childhood dog bendicò. it is simply my time to return to the arms of the lord our savior in the clouds, and i welcome my own fate with alacrity just as i have faith in all of god’s endeavors.” and then he could’ve say whatever bullshit he wanted about how he truly loved juri or whatever. idc

#u #ruka #it’s my favorite character trope of all time tbh #which is so funny bc normally i can’t stand that kind of overwrought christian sentimentality #but there’s just smth abt sickly children who embrace their fates that always gets me #i call it ‘the angel in the hospital’ #and i KNOW that if they had actually played up the implications of his illness i would’ve empathized with him a lot … #bro did NOT seem like he was on his deathbed lmfao 😭😭😭 get up girl ur fine!!!!! #(also 10+ points to anyone who gets that one reference) #(iykyk)

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

#as someone who was in an extremely toxic and chaotic fandom and lowkey still traumatized #to the point where I'm afraid to mention which fandom it was/what my ship was #i have to say #i genuinely love it here #i was nervous at first sharing my ships and headcanons but everyone is so chill i was worried for nothing #thank you to everyone I've interacted with who has made this fandom a healing experience for me #i shudder to think about what some of the people i interacted with in a previous fandom would do with ff6 #probably would take edgar's flirting at face value and call him problematic for objectifying women #instead of considering the narrative and what we know about him and the way he actually treats women #my man drinks loving and respecting women juice he's not a creep #or that weird moment with relm that admittedly made me double take before i realized what he meant #theyd have a whole campaign against him lmfao #bc those people boil characters alive until they're just a formless pile of tropes and stereotypes #and seem to disregard all positive aspects of a character they don't like which is fine #but then they go and try to force other people to think like they do and ugh #theres a lot of silly moments in the game and aspects of these characters that make them well rounded and realistically flawed at times #and i fear that would get lost in the chaos if the floodgates opened after a remake #maybe im just jaded lmao #im jaded and i have anxiety so im always thinking about The Worst Case Scenario #the collective positive spirit of the dwellers in this fandom might actually foster a positive space if more people were to come in #ff6 #my post #i was gonna say maybe this is bc we're mostly adults #but that falls flat when i remember how some of the most toxic and immature people in some fandoms are grown ass adults #who bully each other and younger fans #and some of the most mature and cool people were actually younger #maybe ff6 fans are just built different lmao #also idk how old anyone else actually is there might be teenagers here i just don't think about it a lot

[thenixkat]

Still fascinating to me that there's people who truly think their experiences are universal, that because something is popular in the circles they run in means that everyone should know it and will insult and treat people like stupid uncultured swine for even perceived differences in experiences. or if folks disagree with them when they make overly broad generalizations on what 'everyone' knows or thinks.

(b/c it's not like poor people, people from different cultures/subcultures, and people with fundamentally different interests exist.)

Like? That's complete asshat behavior.

#nix meows #fandom fuckery #like i know for a fact that there's people out there who dont know pokemon at all and would not be interested in it if it was shown to/ #explained to them #and not even just old people #also yes this is about blackfilmmakers/afrophunk and their buddy stephanos-spaceopera #and the convo that lead to blackfilmmakers harassing me for daring to make a vent post about being gaslit by fuckers for not agreeing #with them about having to know tolkien b/c according to them all dnd and generic western fantasy settings are tolkien #and the *only* way to avoid antisemitism in fantasy writing is to know tolkien's trope #which is understandably an absurd assertion and the overly broad generalizations they made about other things to try and drive that point #home (regardless of my repeated statements of disinterest) that there was no way that i'd agree with #swinging a bat at a hornet's nest? maybe but the thought has been on my mind #especially given stephanos tried to 'own me' after i pointed out that i have no intrest in trying to convince them to read dungeon meshi #especially since they and blackfilmmakers have a very obvious and really funny bias against it and go out of their way to read every thing #as negatively as possible #by again infering that I'm stupid b/c they decided to interpret 'that term is used differently in this setting' as not knowing #what a dark elf is

[bigfatbreak]

"bfb why is your comic so emo and cringe" watched utena too many times as a preteen and now I'm different

#ooc #saw some ppl complaining abt my writing #which is like. fine btw. i know my writing isnt top teir #and if u stan some characters youll hate me lol #but i saw a few ppl getting mad at the emo ass genre #yea sorry i like the DONT YOU JUST WANT TO GO APE SHIT trope and finding reasons to push characters to that point LMAO

[grimcatician]

Yoooo Happy Birthday to Kingdom Hearts and to the sweetest silliest goodest boy 🥺💖

Still a WIP but I really wanted to get something out for him! He deserves the world!!!

I only recently began playing KH. It was always on the list of “Things I Know I’ll LOVE to Bits Because It’s Got Everything I Love But I Am Putting Off Until I’m Ready To Commit™️” but thanks to needing to clean my room and some certain YouTube videos a couple weeks ago I finally started playing and I have noooooot stoped thinking about it!

#kingdom hearts #kh sora #sora #I’m still on kh1 right at the last save point bc I want to beat the scary ghost and I’ve titan but I am #Bad at Video Games so it’s taking a bit! #also work!! is keeping me from the fun things in life #I put on that 3hr long recap video of all the games while cleaning my room and I was only half paying attention #but right after it was the 6hr Riku is Gay and idc about spoiler tbh and I know it was a pretty fruity franchise like I had hs friends into #it back in the day so ya know #but HOO boy let me tell you it really was the final nail on the coffin for me and I finally but the bullet and bought it #I knew I’d love the damn Mickey Mouse ff game bc it always seemed so silly but so EARNEST and heartfelt which is my absolute SHIT #the lil “my friends r my power shit? #my absolute favorite trope ohh I knew the moment I saw the scene in hs but no means to play etc so #ANYWAYS! #I will eventually finish this but coloring hard 😣 #grim art

[doomed-era]

ok so I found this after doing some research last night

URBOSA???

URBOSA GIRL THATS

(im aware that the yiga survive aoc just fyi)

#yiga clan #age of calamity #i made this joke on discord last night I just think its funny #also disturbing as heck but #look I know this is a common fantasy trope like ooh yeah go kill the evil cult oooOoOOo #its still. #look i am all for war crimes urbosa #but man neither the devs or the fandom think abt the implications of this </3 #like the truth is they are a unique ethnic group at this point. they have been split off from the sheikah tribe for thousands of years #we know they were in hiding for a long period of time. ppl dont usually join them. #do you know what this means???? #well it could mean a bunch of things but the only other alternative I can think of besides that the yiga #would either Definitely have children + elders who would be killed by an attack on the hideout #is the yiga are just capturing and brainwashing ppl to join them. im not sure which is worse #but either way we'd be killing innocent people! #unless theyre all immortal? but What. #loz

[vaxxman]

please tell me how can I be as funny as you

Lmao ok I will answer this one.

Step1.: Practise free talking in front of the mirror until you are comfortable with how you move your hands, your body, and your facial expressions.

Step2.: Become a Clown.

Bonus Step.: Listen to these artists = {"Bill Wurtz", "Tom Cardy", "Brian David Gilbert"}

If any of the videos from these artists make you laugh even once, you have good humour :)

#60 seconds till mission begins rambles #My comics are actually very predictable; they follow a mix of Aristotelian unities and Japanese 4Koma manga #as in there is always a ramp up; a high tension point; and a punchline #I subvert tropes a lot; as in I want to build stories where people think they know where things are going; and then I don't go there #Which is I think what jokes are? from a pragmatics point of view; that's what jokes are; when you willfully flout all conversation maxims

[bancaishi]

didn't want to put this rant in the tags of that last post but honestly i feel like a lot of people hate toshiro disproportionately compared to what he actually did in-story. and if we're being real it's most likely because of racism

#xyx.txt #because so much of his misunderstanding of laios comes from a cultural angle #and because his mannerisms are strongly coded as japanese especially relative to the other characters in the story #i think a lot of people's implicit biases have them reading this as an inherent and unchangeable aspect of his being #rather than being just one aspect of him that originates from a particular context and is fully changeable #like any other trait on anyone else. #part of this is just because of the fact that the story is told from laios and his party's perspective #but i think a lot of people's perspectives on him are probably informed by racism #not all east asians are quiet and polite. i know this myself as a kind of loud and awkward and easily excited east asian person myself #but generally cultural mannerisms from east asia tend to be more subdued overall than western ones #so it's. not uncommon. for western people to read east asians as being rude or cold or aloof just for behaving like this #the 'oriental inscrutability' moment... #like he doesn't need to 'get rid of the stick up his ass'. he just needs to not put such heavy expectations on other people #but yeah i think a lot of people are way more unsympathetic to him than they would have been if he were not so distinctly asian-coded #which is ironic! a lot of people being really mad at him for ableism specifically in the social expectations he holds of others #while applying the same kind of judgment to him but through the perspective of race instead of neurodivergence. suspicious. #blah blah blah it's because he's 'neurotypical' or whatever #predicting how some of you people would behave toward neurodivergent asian people and the outlook isn't good #also if we're on the subject of microaggressions. #laios repeatedly and insistently calling him 'shuro' to the point that everyone else calls him that too #that's not 'funny autism bad with names' moment that's a racist microaggression #someone misnaming me because of my distinctly ethnic/foreign-sounding name doesn't automatically become funny and relatable #just because you're neurodivergent lol #can we maybe have more empathy toward characters and people of color in fandom #instead of always using them as punching bag side character trope #thanks.

[adanseydivorce]

The way I love a spin-off paranormal/urban fantasy series of a more popular paranormal/urban fantasy series that’s set after the events of the first series with different characters and the female protagonist only featured in the last book or last couple of books of the original series but developed a friendship with the female lead of the og series in them, and the spin off is set in California where there’s a murder mystery going on and the main couple is a blonde girl with brown eyes and a brunette boy with green eyes who paints, and their love is forbidden because of the fantastical government which the storyline/themes are extremely critical of and also there’s familial/psuedo-familial drama and exploration of parts of the magical lore of the world the og series didn’t get into as much (witchcraft/alchemy for bl faeries for tda). 

#(I saw a Sydrian x Blackstairs edit on insta and couldn’t resist lol) #bloodlines #the dark artifices #va #tsc #sydrian #blackstairs #s speaks #yes i know these are fairly standard urban fantasy tropes but it’s weird that it happened twice and both were my favs #(I also think of TID as in sync with BL in terms of Sydney/Tessa’s personalities and being a witch/warlock in this world rather than a #dhampir vampire or shadowhunter) #and personality wise instead of aesthetic tbh Emma is more like Rose than Sydney. and Julian is more like Lissa than Adrian. #but that still proves my point romance is alive #also speaking of which similar situation where all three spin offs have main couples I absolutely love while the main canon ship in the og #series is … decidedly not to my taste as a romance overall

[endreal]

brb, hooking an ai system trained to write scripts to an ai system trained to produce video from textual input and an ai system that generates descriptions of video content as a research exercise in identifying the most prevalent tropes and plot beats in modern cinema by (manually) cross-comparing discrete productions once content has stabilized at statistically significant similarity.

#I don't think it'd be easy but I do think it'd work. #Since modern 'ai' is basically programmatic pattern automation and amplification #It stands to reason that over sufficient repetitions videos made by this 'closed' system would standardize into a multimodal output model #Based around repeated trends extracted form initial input data #My hypothesis is that thru repetition trends would become refined + amplified to the point of being recognizably discrete and identifiable #My secondary hypothesis as that the system would generate video output unrecognizable as films by human standards #But *still based on ai interpretation of these trends/tropes* #Which is be fascinated to see the presentation of bc I want to know how one would have to engage with this wholly automated output #To re-interpret it into a human accessible media/analysis framework

[boltgunkiller-archive]

it’s so irritating that everyone likes santana for the wrong reasons 🫤 i mean she is funny and i like the mean girl trope but the whole idea of “haha she’s so mean she’s saying the stuff everyone wants to say” ?? amazing job you fell for exactly what she wants to convince you of

#juno speaks #do i agree with her? i mean i guess most of the time #she does call out rachel a lot #but that’s not really the point nor the appeal of her character #you can like her for whatever reason but thinking that’s the purpose/point of her character #ENTIRELY #is missing the point #yes she’s a mean girl cheerleader trope. i love that trope for many reasons #but it’s not just because they’re mean although that is fun #it’s because they’re mean due to inner turmoil or other circumstances. that’s why i like aubrey so much #(from omori not glee lol) #it’s interesting to see and analyze which is a major reason why s2 is my favorite because a lot of that inner struggle #was actually shown on television. like we can see why she’s acting out so much #that’s the interesting part to me. and santana isn’t only mean she just struggles to express herself #she cares deeply about things and FOR a lot of people. she just doesn’t know how to express it #but deep down she’s a good friend and she loves people #she’s shy and insecure and doesn’t like being vulnerable so she never shows it but it’s true #and there are several moments where she sets all of that aside to be there for people because they NEED it #and she does care #like rachel having her breakdown before going on funny girl #santana stepped up and helped and knocked some sense into her #because it was important and rachel needed it #like yes i also do think santana’s funny and i like the mean girl trope i love when girls are mean #that’s no secret #but that’s not all there is to her… ignoring the rest of her character is just irritating like #it’s ignorant 🤦‍♀️ and it irritates me that that’s all people see when they say they’re a fan of her character #like stop there’s so much more.. so many meaningful things about her #Again i do also think she’s funny. but THATS NOT ALL THERE IS ☹️☹️☹️ #anyway. like characters how u want but this is how i feel #gleeposting