#Media tropes

[arlovegood]

Are the Bridgerton showrunners going to push the every Bridgerton male is a playboy every season (and the love triangle thing too, don't think I didn't notice that miss Rhimes)? I don't know if the rumors of Colin coming back a rake in S3 are true, but if they are I don't understand the point of having made him a virgin in S1, he was not in the books and if that change wasn't to make both him and Pen virgins then what was the point? To make him seen less responsible in the eyes of Anthony? (and let's not even talk about the fact that to think that not going to brothels or having a mistress is being less responsible is garbage). I know that canonically some of the male leads are rakes, but if they changed the show to make Colin not one then why change that in his season but NOT with Penelope? I mean, they literally alluded in the series that Edmund was a rake when is CANON in the books that he had never done anything before Violet? If it goes like this they'll make Phillip (a man that canonically hasn't slept with anyone in 10 years since that one awful time with his wife) a playboy.

I feel like I went on a rant but I guess it comes from my recent found frustration and growing dislike of the "all male leads have to be playboys" trope in books and series, plus the fact that is not even them just being playboys, is the fact that we're constantly reminded of that. Like, I don't wanna be constantly blasted in the face with the fact that he has slept with half the world population when I'm supposed to be following his love story with this one person. It's not that the leads have to be virgins (although I'll be honest, would love more of this trope), is that I don't see the necessity of reminding the audience all the time of what is the ginormous body count of this supposed sex god, like....okay, what does it matter to his romance with the one he's gonna end up with? Do you need to focus on his past and how he sleep with this one and that one so much while you're trying to sell a romance with another person to me?

anyway, sorry for the rant but I spiraled this evening and this is the best place to let go of my thoughts.

always reminding that these are my opinions, I'm not imposing them on anyone and therefor do not wish (or deserve) to be attacked for it if you don't agree.

#bridgerton #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #media tropes #polin #MY OPINION #if anything #understand THAT

[soullessjack]

6am exhaustion posting but it’s very funny to me that jack is compared to so many serpents, the biblical serpent in the garden. the ouroboros. the black snake. and then he loves fantasy movies with heroes that crush villains. he reads fairy tales like sleeping beauty, fairy tales that predominantly have knights in shining armor slaying the dragon or the serpent. obviously with him wanting to be a hero he’d follow the KISH archetype, but also look. serpents are medievally satanic symbols. fairy tales are majority stemmed in European Christianity. He’s literally a dragon that wants to be a knight . A satanic if not Thee Satanic Serpent wanting to be a hero and a Knight In Shining Armor and actively partaking in slaying other beasts for acceptance. this vision came to me with caffeine and zero sleep but do you see it .do you see how this is insane and also funny. Do you understand it …..

#cal.txt #okay goodnight this took like an hour to write bc I couldn’t do words #I am not in a healthy state of mind or body 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 #I have a caffeine addiction and nonexistent sleep schedule and also I am . burnt out every other day !!!! #anyways . #spn #jack kline #spn ramble #spn meta #media tropes #knight in shining armor #dragons #ouroboros #the chicken and the snake #spn 14x14 #supernatural meta #animal motif #Plsase guys does somebody understand this #clutching my head and screaming HE JUST WANTS TO BE GOOD DESPITE WHAT HE IS !!!?!?!!?! #a monster that wants to be a hero . Do You Even Care . #suugghhjfjkgdg #maybe my gummies did kick in #it’s about fucking time it’s been almost thre hours #goondigjttt

[empyrangel]

It really frustrates me how the found family trope has affected fiction and fandom.

Because of experiences I’ve had, I’m no longer capable of feeling familial love. I have an uneasy relationship with familial affection and family as a concept. These experiences give me a different perspective on familial love then most people. I don’t understand why people insist on forcing it into character dynamics or in place of platonic feelings.

Platonic love and feelings often get erased by fandom’s obsession with romance, but something I’ve never seen anyone else talk about is how it doesn’t stop there. Every group of fictional friends is called a found family. If two people who are close interact with one another and aren’t shipped together then apparently they’re siblings now. If an adult cares for a child/ younger character or gives them advice or is close with them at all then they’re automatically “parental figures.” It’s always “you’re not my best friend, you’re family now.” I’m sick of it. Family isn’t all its cracked up to be. This insistence in both fanon and canon fiction that family is always good and should be held above all and and everyone needs a family whether biological or honorary is almost as annoying as the insistence that everyone needs romance.

Why can’t people be friends? I’d kill for a group of people to just be friends with and feel platonic love for because to me that’s better than any family I could have or find. It’s like people think there’s a hierarchy, that platonic feelings are meant to be temporary. That if people form a close enough bond they become “more” than friends and are either romantically involved or become family.

Platonic relationships and feelings are not lesser than romantic or familial ones. They are not less important, less genuine, less impactful, less personal, or anything else inferior to romance and family.

I’m tired of them being erased. I understand that the desire to push the narrative of characters being family often comes from the de-stigmatization of adoption and fostering, of doing away with the nuclear and “traditional” family structures. It comes from people embracing that family is not something you’re stuck with by chance, but can be something you choose. It comes from queer people pushed from their biological families and finding solace in a community or group of people who finally accept them and become a real family to them. And I’m not demeaning or trivializing any of that, I just think that they can and should co exist with with platonic relationships and the idea that family isn’t the end all be all of relationships.

I’m also aware that the association of close non-romantic relationships with family predates the found family trope and fandom, but I’ve noticed that it’s become more of a problem as the trope grew in popularity.

I used to be a big fan of the found family trope because I thought I could make up for my past experiences and feelings about family by seeing people having positive relationships with family and choosing the people they consider family to them. Turns out what I was looking for had nothing to do with family at all.

#constellation of words ✨ #fandom criticism #found family #fandom tropes #book tropes #media tropes #family trauma #amatonormativity #platonic attraction #aro spec #aromantic spectrum #aromantic #aromantism

[satiwi1]

The psychological damage in media when the main character finds out someone close to them is dying and asks why they weren't told sooner only to realise it was because of their own negligence oh my god

#tick tick boom #spaceman #spaceman 2024 #why didnt you tell me sooner? *realisation ...you tried #'why didnt you say anything?' 'you never asked about me' #tick tick... boom! #this was even WORSE (emotionally. thematically it was kind of brilliant) in spaceman #because it really hammered home how self centered the mc had been both to him and us #GrshRGAHDGAHSB #media tropes #what is this called #its like a more extreme version of 'person is hurt and they hide it until theyre fainting/on deaths door' #bc the mc usually has had plenty of opportunity to learn about it but through their own folly failed to notice something so great #jonathan larson #hanus #main characters who push away/fail to care for the people around them and are PUNISHED for it in an irreversible way #failing to be there for someone because you were too caught up in yourself #and like yeah the other person couldve told them sooner but dhdhdb

[ohfugecannada]

Peak media trope is where the heroes have the same type of queer coding the villains do.

#tropes #media tropes #villain tropes #hero tropes #queer coding #lgbt #queer #oh your villian is an androgynous posing pretty boy #well so are the guys about to kick thier ass

[torchdreemurr]

shoutout to pieces of media that start with a protagonist looking into a villain group that's emerging until they eventually suffer a huge loss and then we have a timeskip to after the villain group took over, and we focus on the story's true protagonist who takes up where the old person left off gotta be one of my favorite genders

#20th century boys #mother 3 #billy bat #media tropes

[alicecheninspace]

the love triangles with brother trope is one of the weirdest things the media has created because like can u imagine the family reunions like can u imagine finding out that ur own dad took HIS brothers girlfriend who happens to be ur mom?

#love triangles #tropes #writing tropes #media tropes #the summer i turned pretty #tsitp #my life with the walter boys #every show legit had this trope and i hate it #cress. txt

[creation-help]

One of my fav things in media is when the villain has someone they really care for.

Like, a spouse, or a child, their second in command, just anyone who they like really obviously care about and don't hide it at all. The way all their henchmen will know they're fucked if they go against or hurt that someone. And how the protagonists will try to use this someone to their advantage, either by trying to bond with them and get them to talk to the main villain, or just stooping to low things like kidnapping or torture or whatever else to lure in or blackmail the villain. It's so juicy. It grants them a weak spot, sure, but it also just makes for really delicious villain dynamics. You could even add in someone who's really fond of the villain but hates the person the villain really cares for. Or make relationships between Villain's sweetie and someone from the protagonist team, and thus cause gridlock between the characters during conflict. The drama, the bonds, the aesthetics. Yes

#My thoughts #Media tropes #Character tropes #Villains #villain character #Ship dynamics #(kinda)

[lonleybrainrot]

okay not to be a basic bitch but “ An innocent looking person who is genuinely kind hearted and has not hurt a fly in their entire life; turning into -at some point in the story- a literal vicious beast who lost control of themselves because they had been pushed to the limit and reached the point of no return” trope is kinda giving 💅🏽💅🏽✨

#flightschool #iolani_tori #jing 井 #book tropes #media tropes #fanfiction tropes #character tropes #angst #character concept #book concept

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

Too many evil characters are smart we need more evil characters that are straight up dumb give me a pathetic little schemer with one brain cell enough of these super intelligent hyper capable evil scientist types I need some idiots in these stories

#character tropes #media tropes #like kronk #but not nice #evil kronk #emperor's new clothes #emperor's new groove #this also about Vegas #like i wish he werent so smart #i think it would have increased his blorboness if he was juuuust a bit more dumb #vegas theerapanyakul #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series

[elf-kid2]

I haven't watched all of Hazbin Hotel yet, because the groupchat hasn't found a password I can borrow to watch it yet, but.

I love that somebody FINALLY went ahead and was like.

"Okay, Team Evil! As you know, the Forces of Good have been consistently beating us for a while now. After some research, we've decided to focus in on... The Power of Love!"

"Mandatory Team-Bonding excercises start at 2. We'll be doing ice-breaker games, trust-exercises, and getting to know each other. With work, openness, and honesty we'll be harnessing the Power of Love and Friendship in no-time!"

"We shall smite our enemies with the Power of Love!"

#hazbin hotel #good vs evil #media tropes

[nerd-at-sea5]

making a list of the best tropes / ship dynamics in media (imo) and i cannot think of more so tell me things?? so far i have;

-mc dies

-villain doesn’t realize their the villain

-childhood best friends to lovers

-pastors queer kid

-rivals to lovers

-found family

-lesbian and their himbo

-black cat X golden retriever

-acts like an old married couple

-everyone thinks their dating (their not…yet)

-‘this is a horrible idea’ X ‘this is the best idea ever’

#ship dynamics #fanfic tropes #media tropes #tropes #tagging my fav ships bc fuck it #ronance #kajemac #mashlyn #madlyn #seblos #lumity #marcanne #elmax #theyna #pipabeth #percabeth #taradarcy #sameena #sannah

[greenapplebling]

Interesting how most of the media I've been consuming in the past 4-5 years has "human experimentation on orphaned children" as a main plot point

Has this- has this become a popular trope?

#yami talks #writing #writing trope #media #media tropes #human experimentation #dc #marvel #poppy playtime #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #ppt #ons #sote #owari no seraph #seraph of the end #dgm #d.gray man #danganronpa 2 #my hero academia #about eri btw #spy x family #the case study of vanitas #garten of banban #adventure time #the owl house #yeah i'm counting vee and the other basilisks #mmm i think that's all i can think of

[4dmc]

Icy Blue Eyes from tv tropes

#fugg it here's my contribution to the dmc devil may cry fandom #pictures pictures #dmc devil may cry dante #dmc devil may cry #dmc: devil may cry #dmc reboot #devil may cry #reboot dmc #reboot dante #dmc #reboot devil may cry #dante #dante dmc #vergil dmc devil may cry #dante dmc: devil may cry #icy blue eyes trope #media tropes

[sccoobydoobers]

I hate hate hate the trope where a new cast comes in and completely makes fun of the old one. Like with Percy Jackson. When the HoO cast comes in they completely destroy any lore that was established in the first series. Yes, new established lore is GOOD, but not when it contradicts the old ones. Like - Piper, Leo, Frank, etc being these all-new magical Olympian kids with World-Domination powers, it was ESTABLISHED in the first series that only Children of the Big Three have that type of power, hence the ban on their existence in the first place.

#why not ban all of the kronos-kids from having kids then? if their children are really that powerful? #piper coming in and saying percy is 'just some dude' was funny but?? #jason and percy beefing over being the leader when a big part of percys character is that he DOESNT want to be in charge and was forced to #theres more but im tired #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #hoo #percy jackson #jason grace #piper mcclean #leo valdez #hazel levesque #frank zhang #annabeth chase #media tropes #my post #rant

[nanaonmars]

one of my favorite tropes ever is knowing something or someone so deeply it goes deeper than what your brain knows. it’s so imprinted on your heart that even though you may not remember, your heart knows. that that familiarity is not something you’re making up. my heart calls your name. romantic, platonic, familial, it doesn’t matter. the yearning that comes with it.

#basically memory loss and i remember nothing except you #i was listening to once upon a december from anastasia #and it got me thinking #anastasia #once upon a december #specifically the line #things my heart used to know #things it yearns to remember #big fan of love heals all in media #another example is percy only remembering annabeth #tropes #media tropes #memory loss #percabeth #percy jackson #annabeth chase #i just think it’s neat