#THE WOOBIEST!!!!!!!

[miamierre]

quick look at my puppy dog baby

#THE WOOBIEST!!!!!!! #im putting him in my pocket right now immediately #also ive gotten bolder in djposting bc s has now adopted him too LDJSJDNDKMDDK so sorry my beloved ur part of the club now

[simonsaysletsgo]

I really want Patty to make it canon that Leah had an adversion to music and to walkers because of her history (lack of memories she might have) but I don't really believe she'd focus enough on Leah again to confirm or deny BUT ALSO I sort of think she made Leahs backstory feature them specifically for that to explain some of her more... out there behavior from when she was written as yet another one of the Patricia Briggs Woman Who Hates Mercy 2D Cutout.

#IT WOULD MAKE SENSE #Like it feels kinda like Patty gave Leah a backstory specifically so that Mercy and the Cornicks would be just constantly triggering her #and maybe that wasnt on purpose but also I dont think she planned until this book #where she clearly laid out leahs redemption arc and leah/bran reconcillation #SO #I HAVE HOPE #(Also #patty really did give leah the woobiest backstory of all time) #in a world full of characters with traumatic backstories #she really outdid herself

[fukiana]

okay i can be a normal person again now 🥹

#born too late for affordable housing too early for space exploration but born just in time to play larian rpgs #my only coherent thought is you guys gotta give a good durge playthrough a try it is staggering lmao #it is so funny. so narratively satisfying. they are the woobiest protagonist this side of cp2k77 #you really are playing an evil murder remix of the hangover (2009) #bg3 liveblog #(10/10 goty gotd bg3 sweeps etc)

[feybeasts]

F-3 is technically my woobiest OC, has been through literal horror shit, and is technically both an ex-slave and a former weapon of war…. But completely disarms all of that by being an absolute cinnamon bun

[beevean]

When i remember Ian's statements on female characters and see how archie/idw handles it's girl cast, it's like they're constantly reminding you "girl characters are lame and annoying unless they're constantly written to be like men and even then they'll still fall short because they're held back by their pathetic and brittle emotions :)" they try so hard to make their girl characters "awesome" it somehow loops back into being oddly sexist

You know, if any other person dismissed and belittled beloved Sonic characters like Ian did, they'd be mauled by the fandom. He lowkey slut shamed Rouge! You'd think that more fans would be outraged that he reduced her to a pair of boobs!

But no. His words were completely forgotten, and the few times they get brought back, they're dismissed because "you're taking him out of context". I don't even know, man.

And sure, he said those words in 2018, he could regret what he said. But 1) fans have a long memory when they want to (*coughcoughbaldymcnosehaircough*), and 2) I don't remember if he ever apologized for those words (I think he said he expressed himself poorly? Don't remember when though), but his writing shows that he still does have a very clear favorite type of girl, and it's the Tangle type of a female character who kicks butt without restraint. It's very funny that even Belle, who under Stanley is the meekest woobiest babygirl ever, suddenly gained a spine when Flynn wrote her (the scene where Starline kidnapped and analyzed her). It's just, it's so blatant, when his female characters are all "stronk girlbosses" in some way, and when he really can't girlbossify them, he either ignores them (Jewel, who I swear is completely superfluous), or... well, just look at Cream :)

Funnily enough, he admitted that he created Tangle because Blaze was too bothersome with her being confined to the Sol Dimension. Now Blaze can hop between dimensions as if she was visiting the neighborhood. That technically makes Tangle useless... unless her new purpose is to be shipped with Whisper :P #feminism

(then again, that's not the only lie in that section. "Dr. Eggman is the main villain. We don't need to introduce some other major villain"? the absolute LMAO)

#fans don't look #i'm glad i have saved that interview in the faq #always useful to have at hand

[anonygowose]

SAM BIRTHDAY??? IM SURE MAX CELEBRATES HIS DURING SAM'S AS WELL. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SOME OF THE GOOBIEST WOOBIEST DOOFUSES AROUND????? <3

ᶠᵗ~ "ᴹᵃˣ ˢᵃʸˢ 'ᵍᵃʸ' ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉⁿ ˢʰᵒᵒᵗˢ ˢᵃᵐ"

#sam and max #sam #max #sam & max #YIPPEE #BIRTHDAY #character birthday

[suenitos]

this is still the woobiest dream has ever looked

#the mask the beanie the eyepatch .... this look will always be famous

[ierofrnkk]

the woobiest most pathetic fucker in the world oh my god.

#jay baruchel #i’m reed fish #I want him to explode #and I’m not kidding anymore #I want him EUTHANIZED

[suuushirolled]

Alex is probably one of the woobiest characters i have ever /hj

#ocs #my art #sushirolled art #original character #final girl #doodle

[anneapocalypse]

rvb fandom for the choose violence ask game! 1, 12, 17, and 24.

🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

Obligatory disclaimer that I'm a few years out of the loop on RvB fandom at this point, so take anything I say about "the fandom" with that in mind, and a huge grain of salt.

1. the character everyone gets wrong

I freely admit that I've always been brutally picky about depictions of Carolina, and I think I've griped about most facets of that in one meta post or another over the years! There was the Freelancer-era hate for her of course, writing her off as caring about winning above all else and ignoring her demonstrated concern for her team members (something even later seasons seemed to forget happened), the awful bitch who broke precious perfect York's heart, etc etc but there was also a sort of overcompensation that happened later, where people liked Carolina and wanted to portray her sympathetically but seemed to struggle to reconcile that with the fact that she is, in fact, prickly and difficult a lot of the time! So you'd get these sort of smoothed-over versions of Freelancer and present-day season 10 Carolina that were certainly well-intentioned, but still, for me, kind of off-base in terms of who the character actually is.

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Since I just talked about Carolina, and since I think she is in fact fairly well-liked these days as female RvB characters go, I will say instead that Kimball is a wonderful, complex character who deserves so much love always and forever. I don't think Kimball is unpopular in the sense of being hated, but more in the sense of having fallen out of relevance in recent canon and becoming, along with the entirety of the Chorus arc, tragically overlooked.

My hottest take about Kimball, I guess, is that for a lot of season 13's conflicts, she is objectively right and Doyle is wrong. The arc she has to go on in season 13 isn't realizing that Doyle is right about combat strategy (if you listen to what he's actually suggesting, his ideas are almost universally terrible) but recognizing that he, as an individual person, is not responsible for what happened to Chorus or to her people, that most of the surviving Feds are inheritors of the conflict rather than instigators of it, that the people they were originally rebelling against are all dead, and that working together to fight back against Charon is Chorus's only hope for survival. Flattening that into "both sides are wrong" is kind of insulting to Kimball and I think misrepresents the nature of the conflict. Also, I think her season 12 characterization is so important and everything she does in 13 needs to be read in light of that. Her greatest strength is the faith she has in people.

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

More love for Chorus in general!

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

Mental illness headcanons as a cover for "my fave is the best/woobiest/poorest little meow meow and your fave sucks and is an abuser/war criminal" slapfights. (Please note I am not saying mental illness headcanons are bad in and of themselves, just that I've seen them tangled up in so much terrible discourse over the years.) If there's one thing I can confidently say about RvB, it's that everyone's a war criminal and they all have PTSD and are wet and sad. Let's move on with our lives.

#rvb problems #ask anne #ask meme #choose violence ask game #arcsblades

[timemachineyeah]

My hc for the relationships between the senshi and shitennou change constantly but right now here's where I'm at:

Jadeite/Mars: were never a thing, until they were a one-sided thing

Jadeite is a bisexual who has a MASSIVE crush on Kunzite. Mars is a lesbian (possibly ace lesbian) who has a MASSIVE crush on Venus. They were like "oh are you in love with your taken straight friend too?" (neither Kunzite or Venus are straight and both would probably be open to poly, but Jadeite and Mars are oblivious dorks who never even consider that), and became close friends and confidants.

Until, over time, Jadeite find himself getting feelings for Mars. He starts to feel hopeful she might feel the same, but she rejects him. Heartbroken, he becomes more susceptible to the idea there must be something wrong and evil with Moon Kingdom, because it's hard to accept that she's just not that into you.

Zoisite/Mercury: I'll be honest, this is the one I struggle the most with. I think the musical made them really cute, so if they're together I think maybe a dynamic like that? But I would also accept them just not being together. Being just really close bestfriends who nerd out together and make each other laugh. Being soft and kind most the time except for the occasions where they are absurdly competitive with each other (strategy games, trivia/academic discourse). Zoisite is much more amiable and friendly at gatherings, while Mercury is usually either bored or socially anxious. Zoisite becomes Mercury's lifeboat any time they're both at a social function.

Nephrite/Jupiter - I feel like I talk about this all the time, but they are both so disgustingly in love. Both are sappy romantics underneath it all, so like they are being Austen levels obnoxious about it. Like full blown Regency "just get a room dammit!" except it's not really because some weird strict courtship rules no they are just Like. That. Oblivious as fuck. Polite as hell. They are getting nowhere with it.

If they ever did get together (they never manage it, but they deserve to) they'd give off a weird Addams Family level of frightening wholesomeness. Jupiter this big, athletic, imposing figure. Gives off vibes that she enjoys snapping her enemies in half. Nephrite this. fucking Byron-ass goth. Never uses one syllable when five will do. Gives off vibes he could curse you with evil ghosts. Except they are both the cuddliest woobiest dorkiest most sentimental earnest goodbabies. Their deepest soul is an uwu cat. listen to me. listen. they are bisexual together. you've never seen a more bisexual couple.

Kunzite/Venus:

#sailor moon #sen/shi #senshi x shitennou #shitennou #somehow this also turned into a ranking of how much i ship it

[miamierre]

please. look at my baby girl.

#im still thinking about him!!!!! my most perfectest baby!!!!!! #daniel jones #maybe i should start tagging him fr :( not just in meme posts :( #the woobiest baby. #phoebe watches football

[deafmangoes]

An Album of Christmas Carols - 2

This older, black-and-white adaptation of A Christmas Carol has a very, very dear place in my heart. Let's get into it.

(The film, not my heart).

"Scrooge" (1951, Alistair Sim)

He has this expression for most of the film. In this 1951 adaptation, we get some real mileage out of exploring the dynamic between Scrooge and Marley, including the touching scene of Scrooge waiting until after business hours to visit his dying "friend", then complaining he can't hear him through the death-rattle. Also the undertaker is my spirit animal. I love him.

Ghosts? Ghosts!

This version of the story spends a little time with some original scenes establishing Scrooge as a miser. He eats thin soup in a dimly lit tavern and reconsiders ordering more bread when the innkeep informs him it's tuppence.

We get the usual appearances from Marley, via door knocker and servants' bells, before the man himself appears before Scrooge in the woobiest fashion I've ever seen. Some Marleys seem actively delighted to torment their former partner, this one really drums home the despair of eternal damnation, and oh boy can he scream. We also get a harrowing scene of shades throwing ghostly money at a starving, freezing mother and child, lamenting that they can no longer help - and should have done before.

Scrooge runs under the covers and - I guess - somehow still manages to fall asleep.

Christmas Past appears like a wise, ancient figure who has possibly escaped from a care home in their pyjamas. The filmmakers do a good job of making him look 'eerie' and do manage to keep a bit of that androgyny, Scrooge is shown his school, his sister, his apprenticeship, his failed engagement, and then - my favourite part of the film - the extended original scenes of Scrooge and Marley's partnership. We see them grow up as businessmen, then ruthless capitalists, and finally Marley dying and Scrooge barely giving a fuck.

Scrooge turns up to the home to visit the ailing Marley and meets an undertaker waiting.

Scrooge: "Who's that, the doctor?"

Housekeeper: "No sir, the undertaker..."

Scrooge: "Don't believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?"

Undertaker: "Ours is a highly competitive profession, sir."

He's great, I love him.

Christmas Present goes right for the jugular and even gets some good ol' Christian message in about Scrooge not having properly sought the Jesus. We see the Cratchits' dinner, the nephew's party, a few blistering remarks from Christmas Present and the object lesson of Ignorance and Want (which incidentally always comes off very strange emerging from a grown man's fur-lined dressing gown). He disappears off-screen to an echoing "are there no prisons!?" and blam:

Christmas Yet To Come blasts into existence with a pale hand and a big black robe and Scrooge reluctantly follows to see the Cratchits mourning Tiny Tim, and the vultures selling Scrooge's belongings at Old Joe's - with bonus extra appearance from the undertaker!

Scrooge is shown his own tombstone, which elicits as 12-second long wail as he collapses on his face (great lung capacity for an old geezer) and he awakes in his bedroom. Giddy for joy, he scares the living daylights out of his housekeeper by flashing her.

(Okay, he actually does a handstand on a chair but his nightgown kinda slips and the housekeeper screams after throwing her apron into her face for modesty).

Highlights & Humbugs

I didn't say much about Bob and Nephew Fred because they're both a bit wet blankets in this film - the best bits are all the original additions, from the undertaker, to the extended role given to Marley's (later Scrooge's) housekeeper Mrs Dilber, as well as Alistair Sim's constantly shocked/confused/digusted/bug-eyed expression throughout most of the proceedings.

For an older film I still feel it's held up pretty well. Pacing is a lot slower than you'd find these days but it lets the humour (and drama) hit hard. A strong 9/10 Humbugs. One deducted for not enough undertaker.

"I always know."

#deafmangoes #scrooge #a christmas carol #christmas carol #scrooge (1951) #alistair sim #dickens december #ebenezer scrooge #jacob marley

[dark-immortal-kiss]

Watching Lambs of God and Father Ignatius is the woobiest man alive. Why is Sam Reid like this? Why can he make the most detestable little snots so meow meow? Also can this just be what happens to Lestat in iwtv S2?

#lambs of god #father ignatius #sam reid #seriously this is his power #this dude shouldn’t be so pitiable #but he’s so pathetic

[personinthepalace]

OUAT #3, 5, 7, 9

3. A character I want to carry around in a little jar and study like a bug

This crazy imp :)

How in the world did Rumple go from the woobiest spinner to a cackling, sassy imp?? Also I love the image of a mini rumple trying to magic his way out of a jar haha

5. The character who gives me the greatest gender envy

Still not sure what gender envy means haha but Belle - I love her outfits so much!!

7. A character who feels like home

Neal - such a comforting character who didn’t deserve to die!!

9. The character I'd most enjoy feeding to a pride of ravenous lions

Oh that's easy - Zelena haha. She abused and tortured Rumple and killed Neal!

Thanks for the ask!

Send me an ask if you’d like :)

#anon ask #thanks for the ask! #my answers have a gold family agenda haha #rumbelle #gold family #floof family #rumplestiltskin #belle french #neal cassidy #once upon a time #fandom asks #ask game #answers in the palace #I forgot what tag I use haha

[tortoise-bearing-cups]

I think it’s very funny that Kakashi is a straight-up assassin. It seems like assassination isn’t the only shinobi career path (Team Asuma is a capture team, Team Kurenai is a tracking team, and Team Minato seems to be a sabotage team) but the Woobiest Man to Live is just a straight up murder boy and has been since he was a child. “I will invent a jutsu to put my hand through someone’s chest” ok kid you do that. 

He is also the guy who won’t leave his teammates behind and who was like, “I don’t approve of how you’re treating this small plant murder boy so he’s mine now” but the fact that they were like “It’s time for you to leave the Super Faceless Murder Corps and raise children” and he was like, “No. Why???” is also just hilarious.

Later, several children asked him for help with murder revenge and he was like, “Only if you murder responsibly” and one of them was like, “I will not” and so we got Shippuden. Kakashi’s seriously out here like, “I tried to keep him from destroying himself and he didn’t like that so he joined someone who would help him destroy himself ... I failed him ...” like if Anko were his jounin-sensei, that boy would have exploded Itachi and himself in the first season. But is it really a failure that he didn’t, Kakashi? I hate to tell you this but in the Leaf Village “Murder responsibly” counts as fucking self care.

#naruto #6am rambles #am i accurate to canon? #maybe