#creature being normal about characters

[mildlyinterestedcreature]

Jake and Rosa friendship moments because i love them so much so so much someone please help me (in no particular order)

THE HUG IN SHOW ME GOING>>>>> the way over the course of the series Rosa hugs multiple people is actually. amazing. and just how gentle Jake is when he moves in for the hug and i just. i want to see them hug more.

THE HUG AFTER THEY GOT IN WITH HAWKINS!!! they're both so excited and they just jump into eachother's arms and spin around and they're screaming and !!!!!!!!!!!!!! they're so happy. it doesn't last, but STILL

a thousand pushups. 'nough said.

THE GOOD ONES ENDING. Just them staring at eachother, confident that they're jake and rosa again. my heart.

the case they worked for months. "jake and rosa's first impressions". the way they work together. the way they both promised the vic's mom. <3333333

jake being their for her when she came out to her parents. "still sucks", the improvised song, how supportive he was and everything omg. the fact that she wanted him to be there with her.

donut holes. so cool. so fun. they vibe so hard. also i love the shirt rosa is wearing

when jake runs over to rosa both times he pranked hitchcock in those cold opens

the way she laughed at his first title of your sex tape jokes

cold brew cold open

i am just listing every moment they spent together now and i mean it.

all of it. yeah. all.

#b99 #creature being normal about characters #jake peralta #rosa diaz #jake & rosa #brooklyn nine nine

[bitchthefuck1]

Hate how stories about a human character getting romantically involved with magical demon-fairy-vampire-elf-etc always frame the nonhuman partner as, like, universally desirable and an obviously appealing choice instead of actually engaging with the fact that the normal-average main character is a bit of a freak for being so down to clown with what is essentially a completely different species

#like from a character standpoint it immediately makes them way more compelling if you actually engage with the fact that it actually says #something about the human character that they'd be into this instead of taking it as a forgone conclusion that they'd want to fuck this #other being #because if you really look at the situation honestly its not a given. like yeah this person is hot but you'd have to adjust to a LOT of #very unfamiliar stuff very quickly in ways that most people frankly are not prepared for #also setting aside the reality of the situation. 'normal everyman who when you actually look at their actions honestly is highkey insane' i #just such a fun character type #the one human in a group of nonhuman creatures is realistically the weirdest one of bunch #bc like for everyone else this is a random tuesday #this isn't like A Take its just a thing i think about. like it immediately makes everyone involved way more interesting and compelling

[simcardiac-arrested]

guy who’s having a normal one about his bestie’s oc

#hi. can everyone just look away or something #i need to compose myself seriously i need to become a normal human being somehow #thought about piv for a little too long and now they’ve overtaken my brain idk. hashtag piv sweep (of my brain) #my autism creature. tbh iterator. first it was craycr now it’s piv i think i just like it when characters are autistic and have O_O face #<- abnormal #hi pine. i am petting piv on the head like that one petting gif ok. #myart

[gutter--trash]

the seal woman 🦭

life update: still stuck in my selkie phase

#selkie #selkie girl #scottish folklore #the seal wife #mythological creatures #fantasy art #historical inspired #I am very normal about her #I am so so normal about her #I’m busy being very normal #character design #artists on tumblr #my art #digital illustration #digital art

[lecliss]

I kinda feel like Seph's FMV model from the original game was more intimidating than his 7R model is. Like in the original he had these huge inhuman bright eyes that stared directed into your soul but the remake model is just like. Some guy that actually walks around dressed Like That. I can't take him seriously. He's just A Guy. That's A Person.

#hes the only one like that i think #probably cuz people could actually look like every other character. but no real human can actually look like seph #unless its a cosplay and even then it wont be perfect/will LOOK like a cosplay #his model is like. so realistic to wrapping back around to it being glaringly obvious a real person cant look like that #but its not uncanny valley cuz he does look real. but just like. in a way that he looks goofy i guess #hed look better without the stupid shoulder pads. they alter his figure so horribly #he looks ridiculously bulky ya know. plus the giant lift on his bangs. hes just a guy. and not even a normal one. hes a clown. #personal #i dont think this is spoiler related cuz im just talking about the model thats already in part 1 anyway #OMG EDIT. he doesnt look like la creatura anymore with the autism creature stare djdnxk thats why he doesnt feel intimidating anymore #its about the 👁👁 stare

[running-in-the-dark]

it's super fun when the only thing you're interested in painting is people, especially their faces, while also being weirdly afraid of people staring at you/faces that are obscured somehow or.. something like that

at first it's all good, then the face becomes recognisable but still Wrong so it starts to get unsettling, and it just gets worse from there. it's already bad before doing the eyes but with them it gets even worse

I'm really tired and I'm surrounded by a bunch of unfinished portraits that I'm working on (I'm still very new to painting, I'm trying to learn) and they're all just Looking At Me and it's a very bad feeling

#yes it was a really bad idea to listen to a horror audiobook while doing this and also being really tired!! #I thought it was a thriller and suddenly there's like a fucking creature that possesses people 🤦 #anyway I think I need to go to bed. too many eyes are staring at me. #I don't know if I always paint the eyes last because I find it easier or because I can't stand having them stare at me #I hope this is a normal thing to feel otherwise I'll add it to the list of ways in which my brain is weird and fucked up #great now it feels like something bad is about to happen. #is that normal by the way? when you have a thought like that and it feels like you jinxed it because it'll happen now because you thought #it? that's something a character in this book experiences actually. but it's portrayed like it's because of her unspecified mental #illness sooo that wouldn't be great for me then #anyway damn what's wrong with me this is so weird lol #personal #also I suspect the fact that I am still very bad at painting faces is adding to how creepy they feel #though I also don't like when there's like photos of people's faces hanging on the wall or something #it really unsettles me #which apparently is weird I guess

[scribe-of-monsters]

Bro the Victor hate is already obnoxious as it is I actually don't know if I'll survive Frankenstein frequently

#scribble scribbles #no one is going to be normal about him #there's gonna be so much hate for him 'being mean the creature' or whatever the fuck #bro idk what to tell you if someone murdered my entire family i would not be nice to them #whether they were my child or not #i would be fucking pissed #that's like. a good reason to hate someone #but this fandom whines and cries because the creature is apparently a soft helpless uwu bean who did nothing wrong ever #look i think the creature is a good character but. y'all act like he did nothing wrong #it's annoying

[charlotterenaissance]

that's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, trying to write a post about last kind words

#it was both incredibly pretentious and boring #while also being confusing and nonsensical and a bit mean-spirited #yeah it had a higher production value than the normal five dollar bin affair that i thought it was #and alexia fast gives a good performance as the mysterious woods girl who is later revealed to a supernatural creature of some kind #and of course brad dourif throwing his entire back out giving a great performance and being the best part #but for like. forty minutes it moves at a snail's pace before just throwing everything at you #i'll tell you what though there's this one character who shows up out of nowhere #who's like a friend of the main character from 'the city' and she has three scenes and none of them have to do with the plot #she shows up. asks if the main character wants to run away with her. he says no. she leaves. #then towards the end it shows her packing and running away #and i gotta say she was my favorite character hope she's having a good life in a better movie #but yeah the movie itself gets really mean at the end #tw: suicide #i don't want to mention it here but it gets SO WEIRD in the last ten minutes it blows me away #idk i might figure out a post about it later or i'll just leave it here #don't know whether or not to recommend it as a film or to dourif fans #because he's a central character and he really does do waaaay more than needed #but it has a pretty awful ending and... i don't know dm me for details? #brad dourif #last kind words #alexia fast

[goatsandgangsters]

I genuinely cannot believe that siege and storm is like “we captured the seawhip and escaped the darkling” by the end of chapter 4

and then it takes them until chapter 12 to travel back to os alta to resume the plot 

there are only 23 chapters

#grishaverse #siege and storm #it is my least favorite of all 7 books #and the wonky pacing is a significant reason why #also the endless slog of mal being a douche and alina moping about it did not help #thank god nikolai was there to be interesting #I really don't know why an editor would allow this #the plot parts are rushed through and then there's all this filler that just draaaaaaags #and I'm normally a 'it's the journey not the destination' person and I'll happily read Character Stuff with a thin veneer of plot #but man. it's just not a well structured book. #I would have happily read an entire book of them being stuck on the boat and making slow progress tracking rusalye! #I would have eaten that up! #instead a rare and mythical creature was like a throwaway moment and then we got endless chapters just traveling to the next location

[musical-chick-13]

One of the guys in the D&D campaign is also a Studio Trigger enthusiast, but I need to know if he's a Studio Trigger enthusiast for the reason that I'M a Studio Trigger enthusiast.

#the reason being 'I think they make really interesting and well-rounded female characters' #which like. is not me trying to say that their average output is like. a feminist masterpiece. but I AM saying that they do seem to care #about actually representing the female characters they write as people with interior worlds and complex emotions worth talking about #there's just...idk. for all the Normal Anime Bullshit that makes it hard to recommend some stuff. there IS something so refreshing about #how they just. write fleshed-out characters who happen to be girls/women. as opposed to going 'ah yes. the inscrutable mysterious creature: #lady characters in fiction. how do you write one we have no clue. girls and their strange crazy ways amirite' #speaking of which I tried to recommend a-diaries and there was like. some interest. but it was...less enthusiastically-received #than I would have liked. #and I think it might have been because I pitched it from the standpoint of 'look at all the cool subtle commentary it has about how #women deal with the expectations placed on them' #okay I'm not here I'm (ostensibly) writing

[mildlyinterestedcreature]

uh contrary to what you may think i am actually not in love with her. at least not romantically.

#creature being normal about characters #polls #rosa diaz #b99 #brooklyn 99 #brooklyn nine nine

[katamarigender]

this is so embarrassing i can't keep drawing this guy.

#my stuff #*makes a character design that I like* oh no how could this be happening. #his werewolf form isn't WOLF-y enough but also i like it being a weird spiky leather creature. idkkkkk #and it's head is really throwing me for a loop i don't know what i want to do with it #um anyways know that this weird thing has been on my mind pretty much 24/7 lately. #also can't decide if i want him to be a normal guy who is also a weird werewolf OR if i want him to be MORE weird and have like. powers? #like i think if i gave him powers or something i would completely cut him being a human. like make him some kind of Music Being. #which is fun! but that would make him my THIRD powerful silly pink magic character in a row. so i don't really want to do that #ok i lied about not deciding i think hes just a dude who is also a weird werewolf. i do need to give him a normal human name though #WhereWolf can be his funny self-fulfilling prophecy stage name. ok thank you all for coming to my ted talk

[maniculum]

A post of mine from several months ago about the Perlesvaus self-rearranging forest just wandered across my dash again and made me think about it some more, so I wanted to talk about it a bit.

Perlesvaus, for those who don’t know, is a 13th-century French Arthurian romance. It’s intended to be a continuation of Chretien de Troyes’s Perceval, but it’s mostly known for being completely batshit when it’s known at all. (There’s an old book on Arthurian texts that dedicates a chapter to Perlesvaus and repeatedly speculates that the anonymous author had Something Wrong With Him. This is the longest scholarly treatment of Perlesvaus I’ve been able to find & read.)

Anyway, there’s an odd worldbuilding detail in the text. See, it’s a Thing in chivalric romances that the questing knights happen upon castles & lords & damsels & such that are unfamiliar to them and have to be explained. You know, “this is the Castle of Such-and-Such, where the local custom is as follows. It’s ruled by Lady So-and-So, whose character I shall now describe to you.”

This is a genre convention that largely goes unquestioned, but it’s a bit odd if you think about it. All these knights are at least minor nobility. They don’t know the other nobles in their region? They don’t know what castles are where? Don’t they have, like, diplomatic relations with these people or at least attend the same tournaments? Even if they’re all fully committed to the knight-errant lifestyle and don’t really engage in courtly diplomacy, you’d think they would share information with each other and get the lay of the land. But instead, to use TTRPG terminology, it’s like they’re all on a hexcrawl that was randomly generated just for them to have these adventures.

The author of Perlesvaus decides to address this. In what’s kind of a throwaway paragraph late in the text, he explains that God moves things around so knights always have new quests to do (and, presumably, is also making sure they always arrive at the right narratively-significant moment). So the reason they’re always encountering people & places they have no knowledge of is because those people & places really weren’t there yesterday. They didn’t know about the Castle of Such-and-Such because it’s normally a thousand miles away and the forest path they followed to get there used to lead somewhere else.

And I think that would be a really interesting thing to stick into a novel or a TTRPG or something. When a knight rides into the forest with the intent of Going On A Quest, at some point they go around a bend in the path, cross an invisible barrier, and wind up in the Forest of Narrative. This is a vast forest with no set geography, filled with winding paths and populated almost entirely with questing knights, damsels in search of questing knights, friendly hermits, strange creatures, and allegorical set-pieces. Then, at the narratively-appropriate time, they cross back over the invisible barrier back into the regular world, and find themselves wherever the Narrative has decided they need to be. This could be a different country, a different continent, or a different world entirely.

Whether anyone involved is actually aware that this is how it works is… optional, really. Though if it’s not a Known Phenomenon, the people whose jobs it is to handle trade & diplomacy & god forbid, maps, are going to end up tearing their hair out in frustration.

[bogleech]

Seriously though everyone who jokes about skibidi toilet being impenetrably bizarre or alarmingly stupid likely didn't even look into it. It's just a little series about a war between object headed people and the toilet bodied creatures. Each episode has one side escalating the battle with some new technology and there's a little ongoing character story played out without dialog.

It is extremely normal and comprehensible, it just has characters that look weird as a joke, which is also extremely normal in all forms of media. Every time I see adults talking like kids are currently into anything weirder or more baffling than they ever were before I have to assume they discovered computers and media like a year ago

[overthinkinglotr]

One thing I feel people miss about lord of the rings is that it’s sort of..........post-apocalyptic?

Like-- the world already ended, a long time ago, and the characters are surrounded by the ruins of dead countries. They spend most of their time journeying through places that are either abandoned (Moria) soon to be abandoned (Rivendell/Lorien) or half-destroyed and falling into decay (Rohan/Gondor.) The villains are creatures that Used to be Human; I feel like Lotr’s orcs/ringwraiths have more in common with zombies than they do with DnD-style orcs, because they’re a state that “normal” people enter when they’re corrupted by a supernatural force.

Even the Shire is surrounded by ruins-- the ruins of watchtowers, the ruins of the old Northern Kingdom, the ruined city near the Grey Havens. The people around there have an idiom “when the king comes back” that means the same thing as an idiom like “when pigs fly”--  “when a completely ridiculous improbable thing happens.” They’re so used to the disintegrated state of the world that the idea of a central government is fairy-tale-like and bizarre. They have their little mayors and thains; they don’t need anything else.

So yeah! I see people try to “modern-real-world- au” versions of Hobbiton by making it “a peaceful suburb” but to me, a modern au version of Hobbiton would be more like.......

You are a hobbit.

You don’t know much history, but you understand that there were Wars a long time ago that destroyed a great amount of life on earth.

You live in a little hole in the ground. You don’t know that long ago these holes used to be called “bunkers;” you decorate them with flowers.

When you want to say that something won’t happen, you’ll sarcastically say things “lol yeah SURE that will happen! And tomorrow pigs will fly, Parliament will come back into session, there will be a president in the White House, there will be a prime minister making speeches, and diplomats will intercede between all of them! ha! XD”

If you journey even a little outside of your home, you’ll find the ruins of old cities and skyscrapers. There are messages in the ruins that are written in languages you don’t speak. Human beings used to live here; they don’t anymore.

And you’re not supposed to leave the Shire because sometimes you’ll meet the things that used to be human, but aren’t anymore.

#lotr #overthinkinglotr #lord of the rings #anyway the setting is such an important part of the story ;-;

[introboy]

So so excited to share my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @follow-the-compass-home! My concept was to combine a bunch of prompts together into one AU.

The premise is a modern-fantasy roommate situation where Tango, Bdubs, and Etho live together in an apartment. The only issue is that none of them are human, but they're all trying desperately to blend in, even though they don't really understand humanity as a concept.

More information can be found below the cut, and an introductory fic snippet can be found here (x)!

Downstairs Neighbors AU

Prompts used as inspiration:

Focus on Tango, Etho, and Bdubs

Include Boatem

Story told from Grian's perspective

Hybrid/inhuman AU

Angst with a happy ending

Emphasis on character dynamics

Here's a summary!!!

Tango, Etho, and Bdubs found each other by looking for roommates on Craigslist. They live in a 4-bedroom apartment together.

Tango is a spirit who wanted to interact with the world in a physical sense, so he built himself a body. He's basically just a ghost possessing an android (but unlike ghosts, he was never alive; he came into being as a fully-formed spirit). He doesn't adhere to normal bodily necessities like food, water, or sleep, which is convenient but also heavily concerning from an outsider's perspective.

Etho is a specific kind of shapeshifter called a mimic. He doesn't have a true form, but can copy the shape and mannerisms of most living creatures. The only constant across all of his appearances is a scarred left eye and white hair. Unfortunately, it takes practice to nail specific species characteristics, so he often forgets what he's supposed to look like and falls into uncanny valley. He wears a mask to cover his more noticable facial slipups.

Bdubs is some sort of plant creature (he doesn't really understand it himself). He has a perfect internal clock and sleeps, without fail, for 12 hours every night. He spends a lot of time in the unoccupied bedroom-- he uses it as a makeshift greenhouse, and it's filled with grow lights and humidifiers. He loves taking care of houseplants, but it's also a cover for him to spend time under the grow lights. Without enough light & water he gets lethargic.

Bdubs, Etho, and Tango, henceforth referred to as BET, all assume that the others are human. But since none of them know how to act human, they continuously pick up stranger and stranger habits from each other.

BET are close friends with Impulse & Skizzleman, who live together across the hall. Their upstairs neighbors are Grian, Pearl, Mumbo, and Scar, who are also besties with Imp & Skizz. BET and Boatem don't know each other well, but Grian especially thinks his neighbors are really odd.

Like BET, Grian is not human, and neither are the rest of his roommates. But they all know about each other, and Grian especially is really good at knowing how to act natural in public places. He's an avian shapeshifter, who can take the form of either a scarlet macaw or a human. Unlike Etho, both forms come equally naturally to Grian, and the shapeshifting process is a lot easier for him.

(Imp & Skizz are not human either-- they are a demon and an angel respectively. But, like Grian, they're really good at blending in when in public.)

One day, Grian gets injured on a flight and accidentally ends up on BET's balcony instead of his own. He's too disoriented to shift back into his human form or fly away, so Bdubs and Etho find him outside their door. Tango calls Impulse over in the hopes that he knows how to fix the random-injured-parrot crisis, but the only result is that Grian and Impulse start to truly take note of how strange their neighbors' living situation is. Incidents like the one pictured above arise (i.e. everyone finding out that there is not a singular scrap of food to be found in the entire apartment).

Ok that's all the rambling I'll do in this post, but I hope you enjoyed! Happy holidays!!

#downstairs neighbors AU #mcytblrholidayexchange2023 #ethoslab #etho #tangotek #tango tek #bdoubleo100 #bdoubleo #bdubs #grian #impulsesv #impulse #mcytblr #trafficblr #hermitblr #<< this au takes elements from both the life series and hermitcraft #/mine #/myart #thank you for your patience! I know it's the end of posting week #it took me a little while to put together all the pieces #Hope you enjoyed!!! #hall of fame