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The reason why 'Good Parent Bruce Wayne' is so popular amongst fans, is because he has potential to be a good father. Making him a bad parent is contradictory and an injustice towards his character as both Bruce Wayne and Batman. In this essay, I will

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Quick Tips for Writing Interesting Villains

Give them relationships with other characters. Being a villain doesn’t mean they’re isolated

Give them their own set of morals

Give them something to care about

Consider the reasons why they want to hurt the protagonist

Remember that they are human

Don’t make them evil for the sake of being evil

Keep in mind that a villain doesn’t have to do every horrible thing imaginable

Not every villain was abused. Someone who was spoiled is just as, if not more, likely to lack empathy than someone who was abused

Consider how they rationalize their behavior (blame their victims, make excuses, believe that what they’re doing is right)

Give them a life outside of being a villain. Maybe your protagonist is going shopping and they run into their villain and the villain isn’t interested or up for a fight that day. This really depends on the story, though

Give them a past, present, or future relationship with the protagonist. Again, this depends on the story

Consider making your villain likable

Give the reader a reason to sympathize with them

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One of the most challenging things I’ve had to learn is that healing must be intentional. There is no one golden day that comes and saves you from all your misery. Healing is a practice. You have to decide that it’s what you want to do and actively do it. You have to make a habit out of it. Once I learned that, I only looked back to see how far I came.

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Website: Enter new password.

Gandalf, typing: Hobbits

Website: Too short.

Gandalf, shrugging: Yeah, yeah. I guess that’s true.

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"Are you a boy or a girl?"

i'm a plague doctor

"No but what's in your pants?"

Rats

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I don’t have plots, I have several hundred cool, but vague characters and unconsecutive scenes that may or may not belong in the same universe

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Purring

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direct action 😂😂😂

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me while writing: ah yes, this character should do this, it feels so natural with what they’re saying

me while editing: why the FUCK does she lean on a doorway SEVENTEEN TIMES IN THIS CHAPTER

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Okay, we need more gay/bi/pan/ace characters in the media we’ve all established that. It’s incredibly important. But I personally think we need a little more diversity in straight couples and mlw couples in general as well as queer couples and poly groups so can I please get:

A tomboy whose “makeover” consists of getting a tux and gel in her hair and goes to prom with her boyfriend in matching tuxes.

Interracial couples that don’t have a white person involved

The girl being taller than the guy and it not being played for comedy.

A double wedding with a straight couple and a gay couple

A best friend hanging out with a straight couple without being considered a “third wheel” or being part of a love triangle

A guy teaching his girlfriend how to use eyeliner. And let him like makeup without any jokes being made about his sexuality or masculinity

A couple where one of them is transgender and it’s just a fact that nobody makes a big deal out of

Both the bride and groom wearing dresses at the wedding.

An established straight couple that’s been together for some time just being a couple. No cheating. No drama. They communicate well and the story doesn’t take a detour for the relationship.

A person whose last relationship was with someone of the same sex and they’re the crazy ex and spying on the new partner that’s of the opposite sex or even have it be the other way around and nothing is brought up about the genders. It’s just normal jealousy tropes.

A non binary person that identifies as straight because that’s what they feel fits them best.

A straight couple where at least one of them is asexual.

A boy getting a makeover montage before he goes out on a fancy date.

Guys squealing and getting excited rather than acting all tough and manly when their buddy gets asked out by the prettiest girl in school.

A straight or bi person deciding that yeah they feel attraction, but relationships? Romance? Sex? Not for them.

And there’s a lot more I could think of. We don’t just need normal straight couples of the same ethnicity where the woman is one head shorter than the man and stupid cheating tropes and tomboys being turned into girly girls. There’s a world of possibilities out there and ways to show straight people how they can casually be friends with and in relationships with queer people too. I dunno. I just never see this particular thing being addressed.

EDIT: So you found the original post. A post I made before I was aware that there are certain terms I used here that people don’t like. Specifically about bi and ace ppl being in m/f relationships. I didn’t know at the time a lot of folks don’t like those relationships being called “straight” and I’m an ace person that used to identify as bi. Also, a non binary person can identify as straight if it fits them. Same way there can be non binary lesbians. I made no changes to this post other than this part in bold. I’m just sick and tired of seeing the same comments thrown at me over and over again and wanted to clear up some stuff. I didn’t make the mistakes I did on purpose. Thank you. Have a nice day.

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Morally grey: A character who does too much bad to be a good person, but does too much good to be a bad person.

Sympathetic villain: A character who is a bad person, but whose backstory/character arc makes you feel sorry for or sympathetic towards them.

Anti-hero: A character who does bad things to achieve a good goal.

Anti-villain: A character who does bad things to achieve a goal that they believe to be good, but is actually messed up.

Just plain annoying: A character who does bad things to achieve a bad goal but has one throwaway line about a hard childhood that is expected to put them into one of the aforementioned categories when in reality it just makes them annoying

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these streets look a little different at night (twitter)

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all sorts of echoes in these caverns

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if you make fun of someone for being a virgin / not being interested in sex I will warp to your home and eat all of your artisan cheeses

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my favourite ever literary trope is “you want me to be a villain? i’ll show you a villain” that shit gives me goosebumps and given the right context also turns me on

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I have a wip reserves for sick, tired writing. I never look back. I’m pantsing it. And it’s reserved for sh*t. And I’m actually enjoying it very much.

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me, grade 5, explaining to my friends that my bratz doll left her husband because her husband joined a gang against women with short hair so she broke up with him, got a haircut, and found another bratz doll with short hair and they own every single my littlest pet shop animal i have and she is much happier now. but then her ex came back with another woman and tried to make her jealous but the other women looked exactly like her and it turns out they were long lost twins separated at birth so her newfound sister breaks up with him too because they have twin powers but then the ex kills her in a rage but wait she didnt actually die but she has a scar on her face and she’s out for revenge and now she has a knife and i called the story ‘the knife the angry wife and the ex in strife’

all my friends at the sleepover: