#KINDNESS AS A CHARACTER FATALITY

[itsbinghebitch]

the fact that moonlight chicken makes me feel so at home in a place i've never visited should be fucking illegal

#IT'S ALL ABOUT FINDING HOME !!!!!!!!!!!! #WITH ALL ITS GOOD AND BAD !!!!!!!!! #THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE THAT CAUSE YOU GRIEF BUT COULDN'T BEGIN TO IMAGINE BEING WITHOUT #JIM DESPERATELY CHASING AWAY HIS HOME WHILE CONSTANTLY SEEKING TO PROVIDE ONE FOR OTHERS #JIM'S KINDNESS BEING BAKED INTO HIS LITERAL BUSINESS MODEL GIVING CHICKEN FOR FREE AFTER MIDNIGHT INSTEAD OF IT GOING TO WASTE #DESPITE NO ECONOMIC GAINS FROM IT STFUUUUUU #FUCK THIS OLD MAN FOR MAKING ME FEEL THIS WAY #(WEN PROBABLY) #KINDNESS AS A CHARACTER FATALITY #MAGNANIMITY AS ANTICAPITALIST PRACTICE #I AM CHEWING GLASS BITING AT MY LAPTOP CLIMBING UP THE WALLS #moonlight chicken #bl.txt

[thwackk]

For some reason, there’s nothing on earth more infuriating than mischaracterization of your favorite robin

#specifically the robins is a special kind of anger #because. mischaracterization happens to characters all the time and it’s always frustrating but for ROBINS specifically it is more than that #because when YOUR robin is being fatally misunderstood and given his or her brother’s personality it is truly white knuckle blinding rage #robin #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #stephanie brown #damian wayne #this is about all of them

[onebizarrekai]

if I had a nickel for everytime I made randy 10 years older, I'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

fatal flaws creepypasta family! in theory. they're not creepy or pasta anymore. they're just chillin

if you remember back when I first made them, bobby's tag was dust bunny for a while. I had nonchalantly come up with it and quickly replaced it. but it actually vibes, so I snatched it up.

#fatal flaws #dreamswap #original characters #art closet #ds hacker #ds randy #ds bobby #will fix that later. maybe #creepy squad #I also. fixed bobby/bunny's age #the character being 18… was kind of pointless. and only existed to avoid potential ship conflict?? #but I don't care about that anymore. so I made her a teenager since it's far more accurate to her archetype #also hacker is older too

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

its always so funny to me in movies/shows when people get shot in the chest or whatever and die instantly. like. no lmao

#that wont happen???? #the only insta-kill there is is headshots and even those arent always instantly fatal #people can and have survived a bullet to the head #people can and have and do survive gunshot wounds to the chest/heart #me watching an action movie: not dead yet. not dead yet. dead. not dead yet. would survive that. dead. not dead yet #my favorite part of watching those kinds of movies is imagining how most people on the ground are in the Process of dying #and by favorite i mean the Most Distressing Part #absolutely unprompted #like jurassic world? when the lady gets taken by a pterosaur an then the both of them swallowed by the mosasaur #like... she did not die as soon as the jaws closed #that lady just got swallowed alive. shes not dead yet #and then i sit there mildly distressed as i think about how horrible of a demise that is #an extra gets shot? #oh great they're slowly dying of blood loss / shock out of frame #its a mindset i cant turn off! #but it is also genuinely funny when movie characters/extras die instantly from injuries that are Not immediately fatal #or at least not as immediate as portrayed #and it always delights and disturbs me when the movie characters/extras #Do Indeed die realistically!!! #a morbid sort of delight... the Ohhh! Accuracy! #followed by oh... accuracy....

[p---l---c]

The Algorithm of Daedalus

#mineblr #hermitblr #hermitcraft fanart #hermitcraft season 9 #decked out 2 #tangotek #ive always pictured tango as some kind of wild spirit. beastmaster thing #the SECOND i saw level 4 i connected some dots and went ''OH hes a MINOTAUR'' #angry. wild. monster in labyrinth. clumsy. beastie. #my fatal flaw is taking any excuse to give a character hooves

[mizmatched]

The way the pjo fandom treats nico diangelo makes me want to slam my face into a wall

#nico di angelo #percy jackson #pjo #pjo series #miz speaks #like ooh look its a sad baby :(( #he has internalized homophobia and depression and listens to mcr and is secretly lovable and gossips with the girls hee hee #ill kill you #hes a very intricate and complex character with FLAWS #he created a large majority of his problems through his fatal flaw #GRUDGES #and STOP GIVING HIM GAY BSF STEROTYPES OM SCRRAMING #like he is not ur pookie he is kind of mean and not a good person #BUT YOU KNOW WHAT. THATS OK #hes learning and growing and still a kid and devsloped trauma that caused his issues through no fault of his own #BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO ERASE THAT JFC #ok rant over

[triangle-strategy-notes]

Anna’s reference materials!

A transcript of the longer passages + translation notes under the cut:

Anna was the best from the very beginning ^_^. The clasp was originally intended to be Wolffort's hawk motif, but for narrative reasons, I decided to change it to "a memento from my parents." The silver hair was used to depict the parent-child relationship between her and Benedict. (To eliminate exposition as much as possible . . . ) (Yasuaki Arai)

I initially received the prompt from Mr. Arai, referring to the set of Anna and Milo (from page 50), "Let's have an intense female spy showdown!" So I thought, "In that case, I'll make them opposites, each with their own type of charm to show off!" I aimed for "super stoic vs. super glamorous" and got the OK on my first try. During the design phase, I thought, "I haven't had a chance to draw her, so I'd like to do the drawing when we get to that point!" But my coworker Urushihara liked Anna's design so much that I asked him to finish it. He really put a lot of care into getting the atmosphere of the art just right; when I saw it, I thought, "I'm so glad I asked!" Stoic women who fight are so cool! (Naoki Ikushima)

I finished this based on Mr. Ikushima's rough sketch. At first glance the gender of the character seems ambiguous, but I felt that this gave depth to Anna, who lives in a harsh world where gender isn't a priority. (Tatsuaki Urushihara) 

Translation notes:

“Agent” is a word that’s literally translated as something like “subordinate hand”. In most dictionaries the direct word association is “minion,” “henchman,” or “underling,” but the connotations seemed a little too cartoonishly evil for the general tone that’s usually used in these titles, so “agent” felt like a better fit. It was probably meant to sound more sinister than just “agent,” though, so it was a tradeoff.

The word for “intense” in “Let’s have an intense female showdown” was this one, which can also be translated as “hot,” “ardent,” or “passionate.” The sentence as a whole likely meant to read more like “It would be hot to have a female spy showdown!” but since I wasn’t certain which they meant, I erred on the side of the more mild term.

#triangle strategy #anna pascal #benedict pascal #ts artbook character ref sheets #triangle strategy artbook #jackes clan #milo yuelle #it's sort of a tricky thing with the translation of words like 'hot' where I don't necessarily want to overly sanitize what they said #but since I'm not a speaker I don't want to read into things and potentially misattribute something potentially-unprofessional when #that might not have been the intent #so I kind of run it through a 'would I send this in a business email' filter in my head as I'm translating #but anyways #in all likelihood Mr. Arai was in fact referring to the inherent eroticism of femme fatale showdowns and he's so right for it #can't believe they're narrative foils.........

[brittlebutch]

Desperately trying to make sense of Alex's motivations in Season Two and you know, I do eventually have to wonder if maybe Alex wasn't actually lying in the majority of those tapes.

Like, we tend to assume that Alex's motivations have been a consistent throughline since the college years, but do we actually know that that's the case? Do we know for sure that Alex was acting in deliberate, calculated ways in 2006; or could it be that he's telling the Truth on those olds tapes when he says he's blacking out and can't remember what's happening to anyone? After all, if we're assuming that Season 2 Alex's motivations are the exact same as his motives in Season 3, then it doesn't make any sense at all that he spend months working with Jay to try to find Amy; Season 3 Alex would have attempted to kill Jay like, on sight just to get things over with as quickly as possible and contain the spread of contamination as best as he could.

But, maybe, if Alex really had been separated from Amy after the events of the 04-04-10 tape, and if he really doesn't know where she is, then maybe that could make things start to make more sense. Maybe he really had been watching Jay's channel, and seeing Jay start going through the same things he went through in college without things devolving into violence and disappearances, and wondered if things maybe could play out differently this time. Maybe he really did send that tape to Jay to ask him for help, maybe he really was just trying to find Amy.

But then, instead of actually being helpful, Jay makes it extremely clear that he's a lot more interested in stalking Alex than he is in finding Amy. Alex asked for help, and instead there's a bunch of masked dudes on Jay's heels that keep attacking him, Jay is breaking into his house, stealing his things, leading the Operator right to him all over again, keeps trying to get other people (namely: Jessica -- if Alex is being honest when he says that his call reassuring her that Amy had been found was an effort to make Sure she stayed away from everything that was happening) involved; and instead of anything getting better, instead of anyone finding Amy, things are just getting worse all over again.

It's not until after the incident at the tunnel that things seem to start rapidly devolving. Rather than a calculated attempt to finally follow through with his need to curb the spread of contamination, this is very clearly an outburst of rage and terror. Alex's "I told you not to follow me" line in conjunction with Jay speculating that Alex didn't know who that guy was, to me, pretty firmly seems to speak to Alex having mistaken that stranger for Jay. From his point of view, Alex knows that Jay and totheark know where he live, have broken in before, he suspects that Jay stole a key to make it easier to get into his house, and he's been followed on the daily for months -- Alex is sitting at the tunnel because he doesn't know where else he can go without being constantly surveilled, hunted, and assaulted. And instead of getting a moment by himself to breathe, Jay followed him out there all over again (it feels like Alex looks directly at the camera in Jay's footage of him from this day; he knew for a fact that Jay was there), and then to make matters worse now 'Jay' won't even keep his distance anymore.

So Alex lashes out. And it's not until afterwards that he looks down and finally recognizes that this wasn't Jay -- it was someone completely innocent. Things have finally reached the low point he was at in college all over again; maybe even worse this time. If Alex doesn't remember attacking anyone in college, but he was at least partially conscious of it this time, then things have reached an entirely new rock bottom, they've reached an absolute point of no return.

He has no idea what happened to Amy, and he's spent months trying to find her with no hint of where she could be; he doesn't know where Jay actually is or what additional trouble he could be causing at this point; he does know that now innocent people are getting caught in the crossfire (in regards to the stranger in the tunnel, and also Jessica now that Jay has her phone number, and the untold number of people Jay got involved when he started posting videos to the Marble Hornets channel); things are spiraling out of control and there's no one left to ask for help. The situation isn't getting better, it's getting worse; things aren't getting easier to handle, they're just getting more out of hand; the negative impact is spreading and who knows how much further it can still go?

So, Alex decides to go scorched earth. He disfigures the body with the rock either to hide evidence or to make sure the guy would actually stay dead and not just get back up to start his own cycle of contamination in a few years. He tries to give Jay one last chance to back off, and Jay instead admits he's been talking to Jessica, acts obstinate and lies about not having Alex's spare key, and then breaks into Alex's house a second time (minimum). If Alex doesn't stop him now, who will? Alex met with Jay planning to kill the others, and then himself, so he could put a stop to this once and for all and keep things from getting any worse than they already were.

Maybe it makes a lot more sense if, rather than being a strangely incomprehensible detour on what should have been a straight path, the events of Season Two were the breaking point that put Alex on that path to begin with.

#N posts stuff #idk!!! I've been thinking a lot lately about the tendency to take Characters at Face Value; when they tell us things we tend to #automatically believe them despite what evidence we might have to the contrary. & like when it comes to deciphering what #went down during the college film project it's mostly totheark that posits that Alex was Definitely Lying and Definitely Acting on Purpose #(even Jay is largely ambivalent - wondering which way it leans and basically saying it could go either way) #but. do we KNOW that they know that? Do we Know that they're Right when they claim that? Or are they just Assuming based off #of their own rage and animosity towards Alex due to what happened? Do we Know for Sure that Alex Was Lying in s1? #i don't know if we do!! And so without Knowing that for sure; how can we speak to Alex's motivations in season one OR season two? #now TO BE CLEAR: I am not saying this in an attempt to claim that Alex is somehow completely innocent of all guilt and that like. #Jay is the 'Real Antagonist' of the series - not at all my intention. this is just More of my usual 'look. Everyone in this series is #all kinds of Morally Grey; no recurring character in this series is free of guilt they ALL have unique fatal flaws & trends towards #antagonism that makes things worse and dooms them all' shtick - a la 'everyone Thinks they're doing the Right Thing but No One Is' #BUT i Am wondering if this Does help to like. clear up some of the ambiguity/uncertainty of Season Two - and even Season One - and #lets the series as a whole read a little bit clearer? idk i know that Jay does Claim to think that Alex was bullshitting him #the whole time & was Actually planning on tying up loose ends the whole time but AGAIN it doesn't make Sense he'd wait so long #idk - Am i making sense? does any of this track? i'm trying to figure it out; i am open to comments on the subject to help #i haven't rewatched season 3 yet today and so maybe there's stuff in there that contradicts this whole theory lmao but i'm taking a break #and just posting this anyway; we'll see what happens lol #marble hornets #mh lb

[sysig]

My kingdom for a "So you say” (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Dexter Favin #Hhhh they ;; Their ''first'' interaction! #Officially up to three cryings - not that I'm surprised I love Dex <3 #My head was fully abuzz during this scene there are so so so many interesting details! #So interesting to see which ''held true'' and which were left behind - which ones became Helix while others didn't! #At this point I almost see Helix as an alternate timeline - kind of like how Defeated is a branching arm off the main body #Not terribly dissimilar but the details that are different are too interesting to let go of so just make it all canon in its own way! Hehe #Especially since Helix is largely from Max's 3rd person perspective so the way he tells it is different than Dexter haha #Very interesting what he leaves out in his retelling hehehehe ♪♫ #Anyhow enough of Max he's not even here rn sheesh ♪ ZEX! And Dexter ;; #Hghhghh it's all set up so deviously <3 That fact that up to this point ZEX has been relying on Zelnick especially to give him credence #And then as soon as someone he ''knows he trusts'' comes to throw a wrench into things - Dexter has as much weight or more! #He's specifically engineered to sow doubt and confusion! Gosh what a place to grow his character from <3 <3 #ZEX's pride undoes him completely it's So well written ♥ Truly a fatal flaw for VUX and the way he's picked apart aghh <3 #And?? The fact that I can hear ''Max's'' voice in ZEX's syntax as soon as he doesn't have a good argument??? Hello???? #I know they come from the same base but like!! How!!! Masterful 💖 #As I drew it it's a bit out of order - Dexter says he can't protect Max (😭) before ZEX starts crying it all got a bit mixed in my head #I was very emotional at the time you understand haha #It's all so sad! They're so close in some ways to being or having what the other wants but both fall just short #No wonder they took what little comfort in each other they could <3 ZEX comforted by his voice and Dex comforted by caring for his body #They have so little to offer each other trapped as they are ;; #It's all so interesting and distressing!! There's so much to think about as everything falls into place!

[marbleboa]

Struck by a wave of scorn for netflix live action koyama again

#absolutely incredible how they put my fave character in a leather jacket yet somehow i feel nothing for him #i know i know i know they had to flatten the scars to fit the 1-season narrative or whatever but HGGGHHH there's just NOTHING to any of them #tsuchiya you did not deserve to end up squished into some kind of diet femme fatale role either. hough #casper chatter

[autisticdoomslayer]

Some of Ya'll have no idea how to write impulsive characters and it shows

Say it with me kids:

Impulsive does not mean stupid.

Impulsive does not mean no common sense

I see too many people write impulsive characters as fucking idiots. As a fairly impulsive person myself, it makes me angry.

Every human being occasionally gets the the urge to do or say something that wouldn't be socially acceptable or would only make things worse, especially when they're emotional. Often (but not always, everyone does impulsive actions occasionally) people will think "no, I shouldn't do/say that" and then they don't do or say it. An impulsive person doesn't think twice about it. They do or say something potentially harmful, irresponsible, not socially acceptable, etc. and only AFTERWORDS do they realize oh fuck I shouldn't have done/said that fuck fuck fuck fuck.

An impulsive character will still make a plan of action. They might have a hard time sticking to that plan. An impulsive person will be easier to provoke into anger or another emotional outburst, but impulsivity is different from a "heat of the moment" outburst. Impulsive actions are quick.

Calling your girlfriend a bitch in the middle of an argument is pretty impulsive (and also not okay, lemme be clear about that). Making an entire "the reason you suck" speech towards your girlfriend is not impulsive (although a quick "the reason you suck" summary or bullet point list can be an impulsive action).

Punching someone in the face because they insulted you is impulsive. Doing an entire beatdown because someone insulted you is not impulsive, but can have roots in impulsivity - impulsive characters can sometimes get to the "heat of the moment BSoD" stage faster.

might add more points later, idk. Hope this makes sense.

#Yes this is about Jason Todd #everyone either writes him as a reckless dangerous idiot or they just completely erase his impulsivity #Even though that's one of his main character flaws #Him trying to save his mom was in fact an impulsive decision #or at least the way he did it kind of was (Hear me out here) #He cared about her and wanted to save her #and he focused so much on saving her that he had a hard time sticking to the plan he made #He impulsively trusted her #This is NOT me trying to say “yeah Jason's death was his own fault he got himself killed” #I've seen ppl say that shit that is NOT what I'm saying #It's important to note that flaw ≠ Bad Thing #a FLAW is simply something that makes a character more complex #Being too blunt is a flaw. Being too proud is a flaw. Being too confident is a flaw. Not being confident ENOUGh is a flaw. #Fatal Flaws exist #and Jason's is impulsivity #that does NOT make him stupid or anything like that #I"m very passionate about this #you can be a competent adult and still have impulsivity as a main flaw

[crowties]

they called him welt cause mihoyo won't let a story without him happen. even if bronya has the powers, and the powers are being deleted. welt still has them. star rail is different world? him too

the w in welt stands for worldwide

#i mean?? welt is a wonderfully written character #if he was just some random dude with no depth i mightve had an issue with his appearance #age old statement that welt regaining his powers and bronya losing hers is not a sign of bad writing but is actually kind of the opposite #the decision took into consideration: #a) bronyas philosophy of change and adaptation (especially as a hor) #b) welts humanity and roundness of character: his inability to lay down his cross his past his burdens #dilf with a past? yes. but also very human. also fatally flawed #theres rigidity in his determination and kindness which ultimately hurts him which i find to be profound!! #and i think that ​him being in star rail reflects the contiuation of that martyrs cycle #anyway hes a very nuanced character imo and his place in the honkai games and storylines are well deserved #hi3 #welt yang #asks #mine #also i read the tone of the ask as a little bitter? if this was meant to be just for laughs i digress but the point still stands

[ananas-pineapple-thing]

climbs back onto the stage to continue a two day old post. also people hating rachel bc she’s rich suck bro she’s 15 what do u want her to do 😭 rr likes writing rich people with helicopters it’s not her fault

#haha i tricked u by making a small little post. now i will continue the two day old post's tags >:] #rachel was: well within her rights to like percy. also to kiss him. he reciprocated and she backed off easily when he didnt #percy was: well with his rights to like both rachel and annabeth. also to kiss rachel. annabeth has zero ownership over him #even if she’s his best friend who likes him. percy’s communication skills or whatever idk #i haven’t read the books in 30 years are not awful. you could argue he’s leading them on but i disagree bc He doesn’t even know what he want #also rachel is in a unique position of being a mortal that understands him and can keep him company during the school year and #it’s not hard to see why percy would be drawn to that. sometimes love triangles go beyond the people it’s about the kind of life he wants. #also he's 15 lol 😭 #annabeth was: well within her rights to like percy and to be jealous that her crush is hanging out with a girl that likes him. #she was Not: within her rights to treat rachel badly. at all. she was very needlessly rude. #she also has deep set problems with abandonment that gives her behavior context but does not make it right. part of reading a series abt #teenagers is seeing them mess up and act immaturely. annabeth would not be a compelling character if she was born always right and flawless. #been growing up and becoming their best selves Together for years. a flawless annabeth with a flawed percy would suck for both #of them. her fatal flaw is literally hubris omg it’s not hashtag girlboss to make the female lead perfect 😭 #LISTEN. love triangles are so interesting when done right. what does it say about the character that they’re drawn to #these different people. what does it say about the life they want or the mindsets they value. what does it say about them when #they choose someone. beyond choosing a partner what kind of life are they choosing. what exactly are they committing to. #what made them realize this. and what does it say that they ever seriously considered the one who was rejected. romance is often written #as a tool for character development and there are specific themes surrounding the process and the conclusion. #best example for this is the hunger games (which obviously is not similar to pjo at all lol.) #percabeth is more compelling when u accept that percy Actually liked rachel and was considering a relationship with her and #by extension a life more tied to the mortal world. #also if you read all this [sicko meme voice] HAHA YES now u have to join my discussion circle. please answer my questions: #1. Do you think it’s more acceptable to be “the other girl” in media nowadays? #2. List an example of a love triangle you believe was handled well. What did it bring to the story #and what does it say about the themes and characters involved? #3. Is there a piece of media you wish had a different romantic pairing for a character that would’ve have deepened the themes #of the story more than the actual pairing? Does the canon pairing take away from the themes or do you just think it’s less effective? #4. if you have a sad cat picture please send it to me im running out

[wutheringmights]

My favorite bit of foreshadowing is this bit from that chapter where Mask and Spirit became friends:

Granted it’s less foreshadowing and more like Warriors being, like three steps away from realizing that he could use Spirit’s protectiveness to his advantage as long as HE was the problem lol

#warriors : spirit is going to cause me so many problems because he cares too much #warriors half a year later: hey bestie remember how your caring and kind nature is a fatal character flaw? #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu ctb #me rambling #lu warriors #lu spirit

[tortoisesshells]

Going to pull the same thing I asked Merc and do the last song on my Spotify for the fake fic ask- "Beginnings" ? (Please and thank you)

Friend, this caused me a minor crisis in which I realized I almost always avoid writing about the start of things.

I think this is a prequel to 1899, about the process of getting the Kerberos ready for sea, and how much work goes into the start (or beginning, as you say) to a transatlantic voyage: how many tons of coal, how long to get the boilers up and generating steam, how to get the new technological "improvements" from the Company to work and how should they comport themselves now that they know they do not, how many tons ice, and food, and frills - things that the crew and officers of the Kerberos are pretty well acquainted with, doing it multiple times a month for years. Eyk Larsen, of course, cannot remember the beginning of this trip exactly - probably the drinking (it's not the drinking. he wishes it were the drinking and not the nature of reality in the time loop/simulation) - but he is sure that it is just like any other of the dozens of trips to New York he has made before.

He is telling himself he is sure, anyway.

send me an ask with a fake title, and I'll tell you what I would write to go with it!

#thank you kind friend!! #ask meme #my fic #... sorta #i am always lying if i do not include the kerberos on my list of favorite characters in 1899. love me a creepy behemoth of a ship; #which is hubris itself and a prison and hope for a better future and the pinnacle of technology and fatally flawed as is all human endeavor #and and and and!!!

[unidentifiedfroggy]

having really strong thoughts about fatal flaws in percy jackson

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #kind of fascinated with the idea of them not being real #and instead being a vector through which the gods express control #obviously big character flaws are still a thing #but like? assigning your child soldiers their one fatal weakness they must resist and overcome #kind of fucked up #thinking about how #with percys flaw #part of it is that he wluld be willing to betray the gods for his friends #hmm. #idk #just ramblings #pjo has so many interesting concepts and things to go off about #shame they arent executed well half the time #i need to write my big jason grace post some time #fucked up im in two fandoms with major characters named jason fr