#Vi too tbh

[pacificwaternymph]

The way I would absolutely despise some of my favorite characters if I knew them in real life.

#the things i let them get away with because they're fictional #this is about caitlyn from arcane but feel free to add your own #Vi too tbh #and catra lets be honest #she speaks!!

[chiricat]

assorted wips again

1. anchan space buns!!

2. emo arisato twins + ryomina and akiham

3. mzen x p3

4. suzalulu sketch dump

5. suzalulu + souyo (eng voice actor joke)

#cat’s art #prsk #an shiraishi #vbs #project sekai #persona 3 #ryomina #akiham #kotone shiomi #makoto yuki #akihiko sanada #ryoji mochizuki #code geass #lelouch lamperouge #lelouch vi britannia #suzaku kururugi #suzalulu #souyo #persona 4 #hmm i might delete some tags later. too many #apologies i have been on a big code geass kick. i love lelouch #but since there’s like 3 people left that like code geass i feel kinda shy #i kinda wanna just dump any of my future code geass stuff in a separate sideblog tbh #but then idk if it matters that much? is this my everything art blog or most things art blog #anyways. it’s not art block these days just mental ones :/ trying to get over the less-than-kind things i’ve been telling myself #whatever. please enjoy the sketches until i have better to offer

[s0rinsleeps]

Every day I wake up and toss vi in my microwave brain and just watch her rotate

#yeehaw #too many wips… #only unfinished stuff for now #text #my art #vi #arcane #vi lol #vi arcane #so many aus #too many tbh

[balis77]

I love how when the Sinners are asking Nelly why she betrayed them/Heathcliff and Cathy, she responds with "Imagine finding out your entire life is cosmically destined to be spent being the third party to those two's relationship drama" and literally everyone, including Heathcliff, just go "ok yeah, that's fair."

#limbus company #Canto VI spoilers #Nelly LCB #granted it was really more because they can tell she got manipulated by hermann on some level too #but I think even the most amoral of the group wouldn't want to have to go through dealing with Hearthcliff and Cathy's relationship #I'd probably betray them too tbh

[fatedroses]

I don’t have the original file for this anymore but I do have screenshots of these old sketches I was doing for an ff14 beach visual novel concept.

I might pick it up again at some point but for now take these pieces that made me chuckle when I saw them again

#ffxiv #fan art #concept #sketch #meteor survivor #ardbert hylfyst #zenos yae galvus #tempted to pick it back up again for the hell of it #it was fun designing/drawing beachwear for each character #iirc I think there was one of Aymeric in this set too but it’s been lost to the void v-v #meteor and ardbert were hangout options #not the pcs #also the Zenos one was going to be him hip checking the player out of his doorway for being nosy #and almost ruining a surprise he had for them #tbh the vis novel was inspired by the old summer drawings of the alliance leaders LOL

[alexpdcl]

bro gets a pre-acid hallucination of ghost john going kek at him

#piranhashipping #william easton #john kramer #saw #saw fanart #saw vi #y'all cannot convince me john didn't hold personal grudges against william ... i would too tbh if my insurance agent just ditches me

[annabannnananana]

#arcane #arcane season 2 #arcane netflix #arcane league of legends #vi arcane #jinx arcane #mel arcane #jayce arcane #viktor arcane #ekko arcane #caitlyn arcane #heimerdinger #arcane sevika #mrs kiramman #mr kiramman #councilors arcane #I don’t think any of the champs are gonna die but I rlly hope Mel doesn’t die too i love her #tbh I think Mrs k has to go she’s not rlly doing anything for the plot unless she dies #plus then we get to see what cait enraged over her mom’s death looks like :o

[violethyacinth]

guess who started watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine 🤪

#it’s me #I think I used to watch some of it with my grandma when I was growing up #but baby this shit premiered when I was one year old #so I have almost no recollection of any of the stories or characters fr #but I wanna give it a try #tbh there’s so much Star Trek that I’m a little intimidated to start #figure DS9 is early enough to be a good start #if I fuck w it well enough I’ll go back and watch some of the older ones and work my way into the newer series too #tbh I’ve been on my jeffrey combs bullshit #and the weyoun fics have made me curious #I like mass effect and doctor who so surely I’ll like this #I’m on season one episode 2 rn #and I fuck with it already #vi speaks #Star Trek #st ds9 #star trek ds9

[miraculousagentsofkrypton]

Just a small frustrated stream of consciousness, don’t mind it’s rushed nature:

You know, there's a very specific kind of behavior and type of trauma response that people like in characters. Fandoms go out of their way to justify their lashing out, to make it cute. Many times, there are understandable reasons for how they turned out the way they did. To each their own, if someone wants to latch on to different characters, that's their prerogative and there is nothing wrong with that.

However, there are two aspects of the way some fans approach things that I am so frustrated by. I run into them time and time again. Obviously, part of it is just how it attacks my own favorite characters constantly, but it can also be a sign of unhealthy patterns in how people think about real people with trauma or in certain circumstances.

First part: Lack of recognition that there is more than one way that trauma presents itself. I find it is often the case that people give characters like Jinx, Catra, Lena Luthor, Adrien Agreste, Leo Fitz, and Steve Harrington a pass. And I get it, they are likable characters! They have complex reasons, and tragic pasts, and weren't ever actively trying to be bad people. Many of them are genuinely good people. Their mistakes are treated with compassion and understanding by their fandoms.

Their friends or significant-others’ traumas, however, are frequently not. Vi, Adora, Kara Danvers, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Daisy Johnson, and Nancy Wheeler are examples of group ones' counterparts. These are characters that respond to trauma in a different way from the first group. Theirs is less immediately obvious, as they don't lash out the same way.

They tend to repress and avoid. They react to hurt by trying to help. These are masks that many people overlook. The second group are the kind that like to take responsibility onto themselves unnecessarily. They all deal with survivors' guilt, or something of the sort. They are hard on themselves, rather than others. This does not mean that they are correct in that blame. They don't look as obviously in pain or in need of help, and so people take them at face value. This creates a different perspective when they do lash out, or when they do make mistakes. Suddenly, there isn't any of the compassionate understanding given to others. They should have been on top of things, should have understood what others were feeling, and how it hurt them. Because they had been shown to make an effort to understand before.

And THAT'S DUMB.

Believe me when I say that that is an extraordinarily harmful way to approach people like that! Just because they hold themselves up to an extremely high standard, doesn’t mean others should too! The second group needs just as much help as the first, and be given equal levels of leniency and compassion. Because of their outward appearances though, people don’t realize that. Fandom’s don’t find that as appealing, because they still take these characters at face value, even though they are shown more of what’s going on under the surface than anyone in the character’s world. 

And that leads to the second point, that people like to shift blame and responsibility off of the first group and onto the second. People project onto characters, it’s just a part of fandom. What ends up happening though, is that creates a desire to remove the responsibility/blame from their chosen character, and place it onto someone else. 

There’s a difference between understanding and feeling empathy for someone, and removing responsibility. Removing responsibility means the responsibility must be put on someone else, because it can’t be removed entirely from the equation. Someone needs to come down, to prop the first one up, in situations where character one either hurts the other, or shares the blame with them. Doing this does two things, which are harmful to both characters. It infantilizes character one, as suddenly they aren’t capable of truly making their own choices. Two, it warps the view of character two. It villianizes them for things outside of their control. It becomes more than just preferring one character over another. I don’t know how else to say it other than, That’s Bad. 

It also ruins fandom content for people who like character two. They don’t have to be the center of everything, but no one likes reading a fic only to realize that character two is being treated with hate by the author. 

It doesn’t have to be either or! People can have compassion and empathy for multiple characters in a conflict! Heck, there are plenty of examples where people on both sides are both right and wrong. I don’t know where I’m going with this, and I’m not hating on people who love those characters, but gosh darn it, is there anyone else who understands?? I am so sick and tired of having to avoid large swaths of fan content because they are so populated with dislike for the types of characters I relate to or love.

#I know I could have explained this better #but im too tired rn #i just hope it makes sense #kara danvers #marinette dupain cheng #nancy wheeler #vi arcane #adora #supergirl #arcane #miraculous ladybug #stranger things #just ran into another fic with thinly veiled Nancy hate #and I can't read supercorp fics anymore because of this #ml aren't as bad at this but its still present #theres some of this behaviour around the aos fandom too tbh #daisy johnson #spop #btvs #basically the entire show is the characters doing this to Buffy

[a-wondering-thought]

William Moriarty is the definition of be gay do crime

#tbh louis and albert are too #but william the most #william james moriarty #louis james moriarty #albert moriarty #moriarty the patriot #vi screams into the void

[wonder-worker]

Thomas Penn writes about 500 year old dead historical figures like they're celebrities in a gossip column

#it's funny to an extent but after a point it gets very grating #he has a wealth of information but he's far too sensationalistic and florid #and tends to choose the most unsympathetic and/or colorful interpretation of every situation and historical figure #he also has a habit of ... narrativizing history which doesn't really work for me #also his fatphobia re Edward IV was absolutely revolting #I was planning on ordering the Winter King but after looking at the synopsis and first 2 chapters that were available online - no thanks #I'm definitely not interested in reading about Henry VII supposedly being 'sinister' and 'Machiavellian' because he...ruled successfully? #because he did what kings (unfortunately) did all the time? How was he any different from the others? #also imagine calling *Henry VII* ruthless & unscrupulous when his predecessor murdered his own kid-nephews and his successor was Henry VIII #like please be serious #I had the same issue with the way he described Edward IV's reign. His descriptions were so theatrical and emphatic but #at the end of the day the things he was describing were very normal lol #or they would be normal if Penn didn't choose the most critical (and mocking tbh) perspective for every single thing #the way he described Henry VI's reign was also annoying but it thankfully had far less pagetime and was not the focus of his work #so it was comparatively more tolerable #i'm glad that he acknowledged the propaganda against Margaret tho. I didn't like how he described her but at the very least he acknowledged #that she was being slandered #also calling Warwick 'the regime's biggest headache' lmfao #and ig some of his analyses on Richard III were interesting. It helps that R3 had a very short and very dramatic reign from start to finish #so Penn's flourishing tone doesn't really feel out of place for it

[midnightrings]

On another note, I spent the entire day to finally start working on the Edwina/Siena fanfic I've been wanting to write for an eternity now - I've already written almost 10k words and I'm having so much fun with this.

This was such a random idea I had a couple months ago and I've never thought of them as a ship before that, but they honestly fit so well together.

I've been a bit indecisive about whether Edwina will be a lesbian in this fic or not. I want the story to be "canon-compliant" with the first 2 seasons and it definitely seemed like she was attracted to Anthony...

I never hc Edwina as gay before, but I really adore lesbian!edwina tbh - and I think it's only been that scene at the lake where Edwina showed actual attraction towards Anthony? I feel like that could easily also be mere curiousity ...

Anyways, it's not like I would let 3 seconds of canon to stop me from making Edwina a lesbian lmao

#bridgerton for ts #edwina sharma #siena rosso #edwina x siena #i just prefer for my fics to still be close to canon tbh #but besides that scene i don't think there was anything else? #pls feel free to correct me tho #like obviously she liked anthony but that doesn't mean she was attracted to him #i gave her a husband in this fic too who she definitely felt love for at one point just not romantic love #anyways i hope i finish that fic soon and can start posting it cuz i'm in love with that story #vi's fic notes #<- starting a new tag because i want to share more about my fanfics on here

[babacontainsmultitudes]

[just venting a bit into the void you understand you understand 😌] Lately I've been feeling very caught between "I have a lot of thoughts on Sparrow and Normal and all that with the ending and teen talk and feel like I need to get them out and voice them for my own piece of mind and resolution" and "I am lacking the strength and energy to actually sit down and write it all out and kind of really just want to fully move on to other things (AUs, fics, anything else)" but my brain can't seem to commit to either and that's quite frustrating cause it's just left me very restless. *Sigh*. Idk! Just needed to complain about that a bit ig, it's silly but this is what has been ailing me as of late.

#Then there's also a part of me that's like “does anyone even care at this point? haven't I already talked about them too much?” #but I have seen many a take that irk me... #and perhaps at the center of it all nagging at me is that persistent conflation of love and pride #Less about that in Normal's mind so much as in Will's and the fandom's 🤔 #Also that reoccurring issue of the fandom going ''Normal thinks this therefore it is The Truth'' though I believe I've discussed this befor #And... Hooks Will could have grabbed onto but didn't... Quite a few of those... #And the double standard/negativity bias in fandom of ignoring that Sparrow says both that he loves and likes Normal while doodlerized #But not treating those with the same legitimacy we do the pride thing. And ignoring Sparrow's demonstrations of love and change... #And what the love wolf scene actually implies about Sparrow (as I see it) with his own explanation of the pride thing in mind #But also!!! Also on Norm's epilogue and how despite everything taken at face value (i.e. no teen talk influence) I don't actually hate it #and I think it's plenty salvageable #And gah also that like *regardless* of how things turn out with Normal and his dad- #Well I haven't listened to much of the teen talk just the directly Sparrow-relevant clips #so I don't know quite how cynical Will is or isn't about Normal's future #But like. UGH. What I'm trying to say is even if things didn't find resolution vis-a-vis his dad #(which tbh I could go either way on- it's the meta misinterpretations of Sparrow that Bother me not so much Normal's) #(Well that's complicated. Again it comes back to the love vs. pride thing gosh this is so vague of me lol) #With all the positive influences in his life (and just the fact that life is long? and therapy is a thing?) I just don't see Normal- #being Miserable for the rest of his life. Like. I mean I won't elaborate here really but damn it no he can absolutely turn out alright stil #blugh #BUT YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF AND THAT'S ONLY VAGUE RAMBLINGS ABOUT *SOME* OF IT #Like I'm proud of a lot of my essay posts (which I'm hoping to eventually compile in a masterpost eventually actually) but they take a whil #And if my heart wants to do other things... Ah idk... #ANYWAYS a vent to vent a vent to vent

[violetnerves]

I wonder what the hell the Non-Clique students thought of the riot that went on during Final Mayhem.

Like, I don't even think Gary tried to even bother with them for his "plan" to take over the school so in the POV of the Non-Cliques, it just looks like all the cliques (Aside from the Preps who just stayed at Harrington House to watch shit go down.) that have been bugging the shit out of you for the entire school year just decided to beat each other up and wreck the school to shit.

Then there's the bullies (Without Russell) who get beat up by Edgar in the main school building like... why did they even get involved? They have 100% respect for Jimmy? Were they just hiding in the school? How come Russell wasn't mad about it? Did Gary manipulate them too? What did he even have on them lmao.

Not even mentioning the ending that's so weird that it resulted in the community coming up with a theory where Endless Summer is actually just Jimmy in Purgatory because he and Gary fucking died after falling off the school's roof.

#I think about this games story to much #I think Bully starts off strong but the last act is a clusterfuck tbh. #Let's be honest we don't play Bully for the story we play it to dunk Sheldon into a trash can. #And then kiss Gord right after. #Pinky too they're my favs. #bully #bully canis canem edit #bully cce #vi rambles #Actually now that I think about it the chapter transition to Endless summer is kinda unintentionally ominous. #Like at the beginning of every chapter Jimmy gives a short monologue but at endless summer it's just quiet. #you know cause he's actually dead. /J #bully scholarship edition #bully se #bully game

[skitskatdacat63]

I translated seb's car names to Latin right? The next step of mental illness is to assign all the different Holy Roman Emperors' Latin mottos to drivers LMFAO

#for some reason i thought only the baroque guys had them #but nope! goes back pretty far. not sure how far yet but back until the 1500s at least #and idk?? its sick to me ig??? #its very funny to imagine them scribbling out different latin phrases and trying to choose which suits them #^ im not sure how they chose them id have research but thats my headcanon LOL #especially charles vi bcs he had diaries so all i can imagine is him filling up pages w different options #OH MY GLD ALSO #so charles v right. pretty prolific emperor i think #guess what his motto was??? 'plus ultra' 😭😭😭 oh my god #also some guy's was abt Caesar and i didnt look too closely but i like to think he was a history nerd sjkflg #but anwyays already have nando and seb's 🥰🥰 #god theyre like way too fitting it scares me #seb's 'through persistence and courage' especially #^ im gonna make a post abt that soon bcs in the last ep of the Brawn doc + #+ christian kept talking abt how seb never gave up hope for winning that wdc and its SOOOOOOOOO fitting its crazy #also nando's 'by love and fear' is just. yeah. (cant be assed to remember the Latin itself sorry) #but yeah idk lookign at them. i think irs be funny to assign them 😭 #not even 'which emperor is this f1 driver like' but 'which motto fits them' :D #the peak level of brainrot tbh #catie.rambling.txt

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

New hobby: scrolling through Pinterest and going “Mmmm… Caitlyn coded”

#Caitlyn coded but like in my dreams #slay on the run #Caitlyn #Caitlyn arcane #Caitlyn kiramman #arcane #she’s so beautiful and iconic #she’d kill people in these fits tbh #step on people with those heels #once my feed turns more masc/ butch I’ll be doing this with Vi #Vi could wear the suit too but like feel like she’d wear a more traditional one #ready for everyone to get new fits next season 🤧