Something that is an example of good character writing in Princess Tutu is how Fakir and Duck have little incompatibilities in their personalities (you know. Beyond the obvious). It makes it a little harder for them to get along and understand one another but you get the sense that they’re both putting the effort in. It’s sweet and it makes the relationship feel all the more real.
Fakir is serious, blunt, and he doesn’t sugarcoat things. His words often come across as harsh, even when there’s real care behind them. As a result, Duck—who reads his tone but not always the intentions behind it—doesn’t always pick up on when he’s doing something nice for her. For example, when Duck starts to tell Mytho she’s Princess Tutu, Fakir startles her to interrupt her, causing her to turn back into a duck. She takes offense and only later realizes he did it so she wouldn’t reveal her identity to mytho before she was ready (and even then I don’t think she picks up on the full extent of it). There’s another scene where he tells her point blank if she doesn’t want to fight the raven she needs to stop being princess tutu. It comes across as quite harsh and seems to visibly sadden Duck, though he cares about her deeply and is only trying to keep her safe.
The other “incompatibility” that comes to mind is how Fakir is sensitive and easily offended while Duck tends to blurt out whatever’s on her mind. While there are many scenes where he does get upset (take the scene in the Wandering Knight where he takes her request to stop getting in fights as an attack on his character), there are just as many where he doesn’t take the bait. Watch the show a few times and you’ll notice Fakir has a habit of going silent when Duck says something insensitive. He waits for her to finish speaking and he either ignores her or moves on. In those moments, you can feel the conscious effort he’s making to not lash out. Duck’s earnest naïveté is part of why draws him to her but at the same time it causes friction between then when she’s overly hopeful about something delicate to him, like his writing.
Anyways tldr; Fakir tends to hide what he’s feeling and thinking behind a deadpan demeanor, which sometimes obscures his true intentions from Duck. Meanwhile Duck tends to trample over the things Fakir is sensitive about in conversation, and he often has to stop himself from getting upset. In these moments you see how these characters may not completely understand each other but they care about each other a lot and actively work to smooth out their differences. Also it’s very cute when Duck realizes after the fact Fakir did something nice for her and her face lights up.
These little quirks make room for natural misunderstandings between the characters. Honestly, I like how Princess Tutu doesn’t smooth out compatibility issues or completely rewrite Fakir’s character when he and Duck become friends. The same flaws and tendencies are present, we just see the characters taking more active, conscious steps towards getting along.
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Mina, via Victorian group text: fangface on his way GET HIS ASS xoxo
Jonathan: Thank God! Can't wait to show him my Final Invoice (kissing his Kukri knife).
Dr. VH: Uh, maybe cool it with taking the Lord's name in vain right before we throw hands with a vampire, bud.
Jonathan: I would walk backwards into hell and flip off God if it meant I could kill this guy twice.
Dr. VH: Jonathan, my brother in Christ! You don't mean that!
Jonathan "Holiest Love" Harker, who would become a vampire just so that Mina shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone:
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You know those posts about Danny owning John Constantine’s soul for one reason or another, why just Constantine, why not have several people in the Justice League somehow in debt because of something or someone in their past; like someone’s mom selling their first born; or a stupid dare they did in their childhood; maybe someone asking for protection for their children in their last breath; maybe they got caught up in a ritual; maybe an old generational curse; or an old enemy
somehow this happens to the vast majority of heroes, villains, vigilantes, anti-heroes and supernatural. The only person confirmed to not be indebted to the Ghost King by the Ghost King himself is Batman
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Okay I don’t usually do this but I saw someone recommend a fanfic of a very condescending and just over all mean writer who bashes other people’s writing saying they’re so fanfic-like and I just 😤
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Because of today's appendices I want to know what IP law looks like in the Trust. It's gotta be convoluted as fuck. There is no way Maximilian Loxlee built a monopolistic empire on lightbulbs without the most legalese bullshit of a patent law protecting him. This society runs on intricate bureaucracy and deified individualism. I wanna know if Loxlee's strong-arming of IP protections makes Disney look like ye olde upstart press baron.
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I already told this particular opinion before but gonna post it here too.
Terrible chemzee opinion 2636
If we look at it from Cassandra's perspective, I believe she was mostly absolutely justified in Y1. Because if some random girl tried to make me dissapear/seriously hurt/kill me (the way it looked like from her perspective) but failed I'd also do a background check on her too 🤨 like girl what if she already hurt someone before? Plus, Cass wanting Ivy to get expelled? DUH she though Ivy almost killed her! Plus she learned she allegedly wasn't the first one so she's even more justified.
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them having you chill on the side is how they lure you in with a false sense of hope of "it's really not that bad!~" DON'T FALL FOR IT--
but deadass i remember it was like that the first day i was a carhop at sonic, thought it wasn't too bad. literally the next day i had over a 100 separate orders i took out. i worked there for 2 weeks then gave a 2 weeks cause i was too scared to just quite outright LMAO (was my first job at 17)
best of luck to you, and am sending all the good vibes that you get a better opportunity elsewhere!!! 💛🏵
EXACTLY and I fuckin KNOW they’re making it look easier. I’m not quick enough yet to handle a line of people and that’s fine but they haven’t trained me for it yet
The funniest thing is is that so many people quit ALL at he time there and people would keep saying those people who quit were just too lazy and the workload was too hard and blah blah blah
It’s NOT. The “workload” is running around in the same open room or to the kitchen unless you spend your time in the cooler. The main managers just an ass and I have the strongest feeling she’s run out people by being an asshole to them because the second I saw the way she handled me accidentally letting a dude walk out without paying, I knew there and then that I wasn’t gonna be working there long be it that she fired me for the stupidest gd reason or I quit
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I need to know what do you think about certain blogs that did horrible things to their friends and said awful things about chris doing a complete 180? Now they’re the biggest fans? And he thanked them? Does he know what they’ve done? This is all so bizarre
I THINK THEY SHOULD ALL BE PROSECUTED BY THE LAW BECAUSE THEY ACCUSED ME OF A FUCKING CRIME
THATS WHAT LAW MOTHER THINKS
TRIAL OR NOTHING
EVIDENCE OR NOTHING
PROOF OR NOTHING
I THINK THEY CAN GO FUCKING CHOKE AFTER WHAT THEY DID TO ME
AND THEN I WOULD TELL THEM TO EXPECT A LETTER FROM MY LAWYER
OH WAIT
THATS ME
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i have a confession to make
for the past several months i have been working in a lab to try and manufacture a tumblr post to ruin Tumblr culture and my notes page.
There have been a couple minor successes, posts breaching 100 or 500 notes, and i only had to tell my friends to spam reblog them a little bit.
What I've come to understand is this, I am a girlfailure tumblypoo blogger
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