#I needed to rant about these fictional characters

[tgirlboyswag420]

Tma Gerry was a goth (awful at it)

Tmagp Gerry is still a goth (a whole lot better at it)

#i need to draw her NOW #amd listen i love tma gerry #shes so cute #and i love hrr #but oh my god she was not a goth #i have a whole rant about this #but again hes a fictional character so theres no point in debating his fashion choices #omg but also i really like thr idea that tmagp gerry is new wave #nvm shes just vince noir to me now #subculture switcher #hes jusy like me fr #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #gerry keay #gerry robinson #??? idk if thats a thing yet #it should be

[nirrvana]

why do all of my favorite characters keep getting impaled both literally and metaphorically by a thousand sword blows representing the eternal weight of hatred and pain they must carry all by themselves why does this keep happening (this is about anthy himemiya and xie lian)

#im gonna go crazy one of these days #btw i know anthys character is far from ANYTHING else in fiction #suffering from all of patriarchy's hatred literally and so on and so forth THE blorbo of all time for me but like look at the parallels #can't phrase this any further bc my brain will explode but i could write a thesis about these two martyrs + #+ who fall down in the mud and make bad decisions bc victims are allowed to be flawed and theyre so so scared and so young #and just need to be truly loved and understood to be freed i rlly can't #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #tgcf #mxtx tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #anthy himemiya #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #rant #mine

[destiel-wings]

i saw the umpteenth post on twitter about how fanfiction isn't literature and i am SO MAD, like, it's not hard to judge a story by its quality

but no, god forbid, it's only literature if you sell it for money.

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanfics #ao3 #writing #literature #just read a story and form an individual opinion #or do you need a price tag to tell you you're about to experience the mental journey of a lifetime? #we could write original fiction and gain from it but we choose to use our art for this because we love these characters #but fiction is fiction #all fiction is fiction #so many published books are actually terrible #and so many fics are masterpieces #look at that #it takes critical thinking through and i guess they don't really sell that one anywhere #🤷🏻‍♀️ #rant post

[five-of-cr]

here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.

yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.

and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.

tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.

i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.

a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.

#i know i'm usually a 'haha silly little textpost' blog (and don't get me wrong i still am) but this has been on my mind for a while #to be clear i don't think you have to hate him as a character to be a morally upstanding person #and there's nothing inherently wrong about relating to him either #but i do think we as a fandom (a very white one at that) need to acknowledge this #especially because it carries over beyond fiction #stories are powerful and the messages we take from them stick with us even after we close the book #plus even by the end he still is very bigoted #and i realize that he would have had more time to work on himself if he hadn't... y'know #but that's why i like fanon matthias a lot better #he's usually further along in his unlearning process or he actually has to experience that process in a realistically painful way #in fact i really *like* matthias fanon where he actually grapples with his hatred and comes out a better person for it when it's done well #i.e. when he isn't simply forgiven by everyone (especially nina) because he says sowwy #i am thankful to leigh bardugo for creating this universe AND i think she fumbled the matthias redemption arc #nuance!! it exists!!! #ok rant over #also absolutely NO calahan hate on this post #in this house we do not equate characters with their actors #soc #soc spinoff #matthias helvar #helnik #nina zenik #sab #six of crows #save six of crows #save shadow and bone #shadow and bone #crooked kingdom #grishaverse

[aemiron-main]

these are literally some of the dumbest tags ive ever seen. like. there’s SO much here that’s untrue, including the empathy part. “love couldnt have fixed him as a child” have you considered he didnt need to be fixed??? Did you even watch the show???? Love would have ABSOLUTELY helped him, and he didn’t need to be fixed.

like i shouldnt be surprised that people on here are Siding On The Side Of Child Abuse but… and just like god there’s so many Factual Errors here, shitty and cruel attitude aside. “torturing animals for fun” and the kid in question looks distressed the whole time & a bunch of parallels indicate that he was trying to free the rabbit, but god forbid we look beneath our first surface impressions, right?

and also, the whole “before the lab” thing makes me insane because it acts like everything in his life was fine prior to the lab. meanwhile, he talks about how he was treated as being broken PRIOR to the lab and how his mother despised him PRIOR to the lab and how she wanted to send him away to an abusive predator scientist PRIOR to the lab and that’s just the surface level shit let alone all of the subtext about what his life was like pre-lab.

and not only is it impossible for him to have been trancing victor and killing slice at the same time & theres so much weirdness there, even if he straight up murdered virginia and alice got killed as part of it, it’s not like it happened because He’s Inherently Bad And Evil. I think he was in the right to kill virginia!!!!! Like sorry but wanting to send him away to Brenner????? She had it coming. Alice didn’t, but again, there’s so much weirdness around that AND even if he did kill her, the whole thing could have been prevented if people (Virginia) weren’t trying to send him off to the lab/fix him.

Like it’s insane to me that people will watch Dart’s arc about how creatures from the UD aren’t inherently evil and how Dustin’s love made a huge impact on Dart and yet will also go “oh yep mhm the duffers wrote this Literal Human Child to be Evil and Bad and Broken and he Needs To Be Fixed but hes so broken that not even love can fix him”.

Like. Op is the one with the real lack of empathy here & I sure hope they don’t extend this viewpoint to the abused and autistic kids/people in their life. I don’t feel bad calling the tags dumb because they ARE dumb and literally factually inaccurate and they’re cruel and contributing to the stigma around people who are low empathy (and henry isn’t even low empathy).

#likeeeeeee #i have a whole rant drafted abt this exact sentiment from forever ago #and its really bothering me today bc its like #is henry a fictional character? yes. but it really does make me wonder abt #this persons attitude towards irl abused and autistic kids/people #like its possible to acknowledge the awful shit that henward did/seemingly did (setting theory stuff aside and looking at the Surface Level) #without spreading stuff thats canonically untrue (the empathy part) and without demonizing people who dont experience empathy (even tho #again henry DOES) and without fucking siding with BRENNER AND VIRGINIA about him needing to be *fixed* and how hes so broken that not even #love could fix him. #and also actually it doesnt make me wonder abt this person’s attitude towards people irl because ive already SEEN their attitude & #interacted with them and it is very much that sort of vibe. like #they very much come across as the sort of fake nice mean girl who would have bullied the fuck out of me in highschool while being friendly #on the surface. just like. the whole vibe was very plint and laugh/patronizing/thats where the Real lack of empathy is #like ……… soooooo tempted to name name bc the person did post this dogshit take publicly but #tumblr user stranges**ft sure has some Opinions 😬😬😬

[lemonzestedtea]

looking for someone to talk about andreil to, or like the foxes in general, because man i have so many thoughts

#smn pls dm me #i am lonely and in need of a buddy to rant to about fictional characters #signed an aftg thinker #andreil #neil josten #andrew minyard #aftg #all for the game #psu foxes #tfc #trk #tkm

[coffeebuoy]

i have this real wild and wacky idea: stop hating sakura so much

#he speaks! #why don’t we consider what she would be like when given proper character development #outside of pursuing a boy who clearly doesn’t love her #she was kinda cucked yknow #she deserved better in canon #like #she worked hard under tsunade’s teachings to become stronger #so she could pull her own weight in the team #and she DOES #she took down a fucking akatsuki member #she had help from chiyo baa-sama but she still did it #she didn’t need help from a MAN yknow #she also came up with the cure to save kankurou’s life like hello #also what would they have done in the war without her helping to heal ppl #she also admires and becomes friends with naruto. she doesn’t continue bullying and hating him #that’s just a part 1 thing #and her hitting him and stuff? that’s a fucking anime trope #that shit happens in so many anime and manga series you idiots #it’s fiction #i say as i rant about a fictional character. sigh #thanks for tuning into my ted talk

[citnamora]

Some of y'all are literally incapable of acknowledging a dynamic's complexity outside of romance and I think that is an actual, legitimate issue. If you can only view the depth of a relationship through projecting romance you have deeply succumbed to amatonormativity whether you realize it or not!

#hot aro shit #amatonormativity #if you believe the only way two or more people can be close is if they are crushing or romantically in love with one another #if you cannot see devotion outside the lense of romantic interest. if you associate affection only within the bounds of romance #you're in too deep. you've gone under #this isn't about fictional media only. I rant about characters a lot. but I've been on the receiving end of real life shipping with friends #and it really tells you all you need to know about the folks doing it. about a greater issue our society has as a whole #or maybe just american society since that's the society I'm most familiar with? but my point still stands #amatnormativity bad! relationship hierarchy bad! now can we stop equating intense emotions with romance because I will literally scream

[vithcy]

When everyone has something going on for them and ur just kinda existing and not even enjoying it,,, yeah

#stfu vithcy #rant in coming but all my friends are either working or dating or both or traveling and im 🧍🏽‍♂️ #just rotting in my bed thinking about fictional characters only i care about this seriously like. i need to be put down #sighhh another job interview on monday #hopefully ill get it so I'll have a full time job a game and therefore a good reason to complain about life

[subarashiihibi]

Please let 2024 be the year the durarara fandom stops making “jokes” about Izaya being in a wheelchair 😍😍😍

#literally the same jokes as 2016/2017 durarara fandom #like yes. he did this to himself and yes. he purposely makes it worse by refusing treatment #he’s still disabled ? i just don’t get it… #idk it just rubs me the wrong way cause why are you so quick to be like ’lol guys he’s in a wheelchair’ #like why is that funny. please answer quickly #‘but light he’s a fictional character’ I don’t give a fuck girl what about the disabled fans who see that 🤣🤣🤣 #u wanna make fun of the circumstances that led to him in a wheelchair cause he’s a coward? sure! #u wanna make fun of him specifically cause hes IN said wheelchair? hm. no! #watever maybe IM the snowflake 🙄🙄🙄 #it just feels like Izaya being disabled is a trivial thing #AND ANOTHER THING #can u ppl stop fucking saying shit like ‘omg I hope izaya gets out of his wheelchair :((((‘ girl fuck you #cause if you were saying it in good faith as in u want him to stop being so stubborn and self harming that’s one thing #but I know damn well it’s not and you just can’t stand that he’s disabled #ok Rant over I need to go study for biology lab test 🤓 #I think I said that last part already but I just felt like saying it again idk 🤷‍♂️

[fr4ncium]

Me to those annoying ass Tiktok ppl getting upset over a villain being a LITERAL villain

#this is about sparkle #literally Dottore has done worse than sparkle #he has experimented on children and yet they defend him #but when a WOMAN stereotypes a guy its bad?? #i love dottore and sparkle #because theyre immoral shitsters #shes a fictional character being racist to a fictional race #its a game #not reality #stop being so sensitive #they need a wake up call #AND DR RATIO WAS RACIST TO AVENTURINE TOO BUT THATS BOT IMPORTANT APPARENTLY?? #dr ratio and aventurine shippers ignoring that lol #at this point i think theyre just targetting the women in this game. #and the thing is #women mainly make this stupid stuff into issues #so like?? #anyways #enough ranting #go outside and have a reality check l #cheers mate #sparkle #aventurine #hsr aventurine #hsr sparkle #honkai star rail

[scattered-winter]

I've stayed silent on this issue for far too long but I have to say it. the way 911 lone star treats tk in relation to owen is fucking horrendous and we gotta get that boy out of that family STAT

#AND BECAUSE ITS OWEN. ITS ONLY EVER FRAMED AS A GOOD THING. OR HUMOR. #DURING THE CANCER ARC (MY BELOATHED) WHEN OWEN CARED MORE ABOUT HIS HAIR AND HIS DICK #THAN HE CARED ABOUT HIS OWN SON ?? WHO'S HAVING TO WATCH HIS DAD DIE ??? #AND JUST. ALL THE TIMES OWEN IS NEVER THERE FOR TK WHEN HE NEEDS HIM. AND ITS WRITTEN OFF AS HUMOR. #AND HOW TK GREW UP IN A SHATTERED HOUSEHOLD AND IT WAS OWEN'S FAULT* #*we dont actually know who was more at fault w the divorce and tbh it doesnt really matter but the sentiment is the same #AND JUST. AGH. #I SAW A POST ONCE THAT SAID OWEN IMPLODED HIS FAMILY AND THE SHRAPNEL IS KILLING TK AND TBH!!! #THATS IT EXACTLY!!!!!!! #HE LITERALLY TREATS TK LIKE SHIT!!!!! AND ITS NEVER ADDRESSED!!! OR EVEN PORTRAYED AS BAD!!!!!!! #BECAUSE OWEN IS THE MAIN FUCKING CHARACTER AND CAN DO NO WRONG!!!!!!!! #IM LITERALLY BITING. IM GONNA KILL A FICTIONAL FIREFIGHTER W MY BARE FUCKING HANDS #fuck maybe i need to type up that rant after all #winter speaks #911 lone star #anti owen strand

[act-more-like-a-dog-sirius]

It’s really cathartic to just block people with exceptionally wrong fandom opinions

#At least #its the mature adult approach #Of which every day I must remind myself I am #I am an adult i do not need to start fights with incorrect people on the internet over them being wrong about fictional works #I am a mature adult #The mantra I must repeat many times #And then hitting the block button is so sweet and so soothing #And I can move on and let that person be wrong but I won’t have to see it anymore #Lmao #yes im talking about Harry potter #Some dude really out there saying something about there being a pyromaniac character in HP who is Irish and that’s racist #And im like ???? #I can see why that WOULD be if not racist than at least potentially be playing into possible negative stereotypes and views #If there actually was a pyromaniac character #Of which there absolutely is not #Like what ??? #So anyways I hit block #And then ranted about it in the tags #Because tags are a place to neurodivergently overshare

[musical-chick-13]

I'm the LAST person to suggest that you have to preface every single comment you make about a character/fictional relationship/etc. you like with a reminder that you Know™ it's pRoBLeMaTiC, but I DO question what the point of acting genuinely for real like there were no problems is.

#I don't even mean in a 'what would it look like if this relationship were healthy' or 'what if this character were a good person' #because I think that's interesting to explore and I have several things I'm working on with elements of that #but I genuinely will hear people go 'there ARE no flaws in this thing' with their whole chest in a completely serious manner #when they could just. talk about how they like the thing without that qualification? and I feel like... #...idk. just because *I* am someone who enjoys horrible characters and deranged unhealthy fictional relationships #I feel like it's a disservice to act like there were never any faults or problems or [insert applicable noun here] at all? it gets rid of #the narrative complexity that's present #I was talking to long-distance best friend last night and I went on a rant about how I wouldn't like jaime as much if he actually WAS as #Super For Real Actually A Completely Good Person Who Was Never Flawed In Any Way as some people act like he is. #it's BECAUSE he does shitty things and isn't A Super Good Person™ that makes him particularly interesting #if you want to imagine a version of this story where he doesn't act horribly and is a 100% Stand Up Guy then go for it you don't need to #justify that by saying that that is completely for real without exception who he actually is in canon? #(this wasn't even the example that brought this on. he's one of many MANY examples.) #and you know I could write a story (I won't) where like. idk altena for example. handles her issues and doesn't become The Antagonist™ #where she gets therapy and ends up with a fulfilling life where she participates in society as a more well-adjusted person. #but again it would be an INCREDIBLE disservice to the way this character (a complicated fascinating character) is written to act like #she was Always Like That or that this turn of events was intended by the story or that She Genuinely Never Did Anything Wrong Actually #it's less 'oh people are having sympathy for [xyz] in a story context that I think isn't merited' & it's more 'acting like this is the way #the story was all along and the way it was meant to be interpreted all along is a misreading of the text and I don't think that's fair' #mel's media criticism

[doodlboy]

Om tag ramble

#my hate 4 solomon is festering bc of that post bc its infuriating that #every1 was so scandalized that he was doing shady shit 2 lucifer from before but bc its asmo suddenly its okay #like- he's fine as a character ig but im tired of the hypocrisy in this fandom. if you're gonna b pissed off at him dr*gging lucifer #then be angry at him taking advantage of asmo while he was drunk too. its bullshit #ik hes a fictional character and its not a real issue but come the fuck on #its also bs that suddenly theyre all scary demonic demons who are evil and need to be contained and controlled #bc one second ppl are treating them like just some guy but when they need to make excuses for why bad things happen #to the characters its all 'well they're bad people sometimes and they're strong demons so its okay to treat them like shit' #its not. absolutely fucking not okay. #suddenly they deserve to have their basic rights taken away from them bc they do bad shit sometimes. #idc if theyre not your favorite character or what species they are or if they aren't a good person 24/7 NOONE should get taken advantage of #like- im more angry about the hypocrisy than i am the actual game content now. solomon does shady shit all the time #but when its done 2 golden boy lucifer its a fucking outrage for everyone #but when its asmo hes suddenly this violent hostile murderous creature that should be chained down or tamed #its just fucking UGHHHH #im not putting this in the main tag bc im not gonna have 10 different ppl tell me im fucking stupid for being upset abt this again. #elliot rambles #rant in the tags