#god she is such a disaster. I love her

[citrina-posts]

there will never be a messier main character than anne shirley. like she literally a) got diana drunk on wine she thought was raspberry cordial, b) baked a cake with liniment instead of vanilla, c) dyed her hair green accidentally, and d) almost drowned in a river and got saved by her mortal enemy/love interest just to name a few (in the first book only)

#and these are only the ones in the FIRST BOOK #not even just anne with an e #or the entire series #god she is such a disaster. I love her #anne shirley #anne shirley cuthbert #anne of green gables #anne with an e #awae

[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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#cw: blood + eye scarring #oh the inherent intimacy of seeing and being seen #just a comic about how the desire to be seen and shown love and compassion unites us all #also big scary monster lady pretty #girl power! the personification of disaster and strife uses she/her pronouns! #i also feel somewhat obligated to mention here that i dont have anything against christianity as a whole #i just think the concept of God is interesting #i went to a christian school for 12 years im allowed to make this comic #comic art #sapphic #yes. interpret the subtext #stillindigo art #heartearters #thats the name of the anthology this will belong to. whenever i finish it #stillindigo comics

[redrobin-detective]

I have been awake all night and I think, since we got to follow Zuko from S1 even though he didn’t join the Gaang until the bitter end, we should’ve gotten the same for Toph. In between season 1 and early season 2 plots, we’d occasionally cut to this earth kingdom noble family for seemingly no reason.

Ok they are rich and they have the daughter. Alright she’s blind that’s interesting. The Beifongs will comment about canon events and their daughter is quiet and perfect in the background. Then one episode we see her earthbend something small, intriguing. Also intriguing she only looks helpless and lost when other people are around. We get more solo perspectives of her, she’s a bit more coarse away from her parents. Her earthbending continues to be used secretly, impressive but not monumental. We suspect she’ll be similar to Katara, an eager, untrained bender who learns as she teaches Aang. We wait with anticipation for this vulnerable girl to see the world and own her power.

And then they drop The Blind Bandit episode and every episode that follows are unchanged and oh. Oh. Now we are really meeting Toph.

#I would have loved lil segments of Toph being entirely bored and mundane #fans speculate the bits are “average persons view of the war #then it homes in more on Toph #maybe the gang will stay with the beifongs while aang searches for a teacher #maybe she’ll be in a love triangle with aang and katara #oh look she’s a bender! #we’re gonna watch this spoiled vulnerable girl overcome her obstacles and become a hero #and then it’s like nah she’s already at level 100 you just never saw #the idea of twisting audience expectations intrigues me #zuko needed 3 seasons of disaster and character development #Toph was already there by the time ep one begins #I find this funny #god i’m tired

[1pcii]

my fave alabasta shipping dynamics is pre-established zolu playing matchmaker (how successful they are? eehhhh) for pining namivivi

#this is 100% a flip on that one fanfic script of 'pre-established background lesbian pairing playing matchmaker to the main #'disaster gays' mlm pairing'. that so commonly clogs up the wlw pairings ship tags (<- has experienced the horrors of homestuck ao3) #but also I do think it fits the respective ship dynamics better because zolu is SUCH a comfortable QPR/bfs pairing while namivivi are a #dramatic. angst filled star crossed lovers/'in love and war'. bittersweet pairing #also the potential zoro and nami dynamic aaaa #I love those two so much. he would be SOO annoying about her predicament and she would rack up his dept SOOO much XP #psii.txt #text #god I wish I could write fanfic sometimes #not that I'm expecting anyone to. but if you want 👁️👁️. if you WANT 👀 #this is open for anyone to pick up and do what you wish just PLEASEEEE tag me. please 🙏 #namivivi #zolu #<- also in character for me to crosstag the side pairing to clog up the tag btw. its for the bit ok m sorry XP

[zfedraws]

Drawing my tav in anything but her wizard robes

#my art #art #doodle #original #ocs #my tav #bg3 tav #I keep drawing her like she’s an extrovert hot mama when in reality she is a fumbling disaster #she’s modest and shy but she was taken by the mind flayer ship in her nightgown she can’t help it #she was blind before tadpole and now she not #she is a wizard but a mystra hater #god hater in general but she will fight mystra #I will rearrange the main story and lore to fit her in and fall in love with Gale anything for u babygirl (referring to gale) #unhealthy about this man but it keeps me goin on the hard days u know wot I mean bruv

[moeblob]

There was a post I saw about someone who mutually ghosted a guy after a date and kept matching with him and they're not interested but it's the longest "relationship" the person had been in at that point and I'm like. Karen would mutually ghost someone.

She doesn't really tell Brent/Right/Evelyn/Chris his name (he has a double first name, Patrick is not his last name) and just refers to him as "My Guy". Like "Ah damn, My Guy matched again. End my suffering." And when she tries to explain it to Right who does NOT understand how it's different, her logical answer is "it's my God given right to ghost a polite man!"

Also I just imagine her confiding in Paul about Rick and he's like "is his name Patrick" and she's like "kinda". And after that, Paul calls him "Pattycakes" cause he's never even seen the guy so why not give him a funny little nickname. He's allowed to do so at this point probably.

#my characters #also i just think it would be so funny to have him walk into the bar when karen and the boys are all there #and she sees him and is like OH MY GOD ITS MY GUY AND HE HAS A WOMAN WITH HIM I have to go congratulate him #and she jumps out of the booth to go say hi to him and the rest of her group is staring with wide eyes because whomst #and then her shoulders drop and the guy looks nervous and then karen is just gesturing to her group #and she walks him over and is like hey this is my guy and his cousin i hate my life #and then introduces rick to her friends/coworkers in the worst way ever like.... so lackluster #thats right and hes gay and pining and possibly dating #thats brent and hes pining and possibly dating #thats chris and he might have a divorce on his track record (HEY!) but we still love him #and thats paul the disaster bisexual currently pining #she sighs then points to the bar and goes AND I GUESS ILL INCLUDE the pining hot bartender in the introductions #everyone meet rick and his cousin and rick is like oh ! paul! hes your best friend! #cause he KNOWS that name from their ONE DATE that they both pretend didn't happen #and paul is just sunshine and flowers and beaming like oh ?? OH ??? KAREN? BESTIE? MY BEST FRIEND? #and she blushes and glares at rick because DOES THAT LOOK LIKE A FACE THAT CAN HANDLE COMPLIMENTS YOU JERK look what you did to him #and rick is v sorry and feels bad about it cause hes really just some random polite guy and thats why it would never work #hes too nice for karen and she CRAVES the teasing THE BANTER THE LANGUAGE and no hes just nice bye #so he leaves with his cousin to get some drinks and walks back over after hes done #and stares at paul as he says wow the bartender really is pining like you said in response to karen and paul wants to melt into his seat #therefore karen will forgive her guy for telling paul he was her best friend (its true tho) bc he made paul embarrassed #and he smiles at her and says bye and she just nods and is like yup talk to you next time we match #and its never romantic its always platonic #they are always going to match but its NEVER going to go beyond friends #though they do become friends and hang out eventually! #yes you can tell i thought about this A LOT on the drive #oops i fell in love

[kuroshirosb]

Didn't you know? Our champion is favored by Arceus.

#pokemashe #cynthia rutherford #champion Cynthia #Dawn Marley Mira Volkner Flint and Riley are also there #but I won’t tag them properly #anyways Miss Cynthia I love you #girls who are blessed by Arceus but not blessed at all #instead are it’s plaything because it like observing the human spirit #so she throws herself out there to save people because she knows it won’t be done with her yet #it gives her visions of the end of the world solely because it wants to see the human spirit overcome #but secretly. it knows. the big disaster can’t be avoided and she can’t change fate #it just wants to see her (and eventually the Sinnoh trio) react. #like she’s god’s favorite but in the way fandom likes to put their favs through the ringer #anyways I hope I made the silouhette look vaguely Angel like #that was the main goal #she’s also associated with the zodiac/constellation Taurus #(because everyone in the league is associated with a zodiac/constellation) #but I didn’t make it a priority with her as much as the angel silhouette was #ashe’s art

[mariathechosen1]

Was Anyone But You a good Much Ado About Nothing adaptation? No, not at all, but fuck it was fun!

#y’all know I have many thoughts about this play and these characters #but even though the movie didn’t completely live up to my expectations as an adaptation #I still really enjoyed it! #and I really despise all those people making posts about how sydney sweeney can’t act #idk it seems a little rude #my main problem is how they messed up the benedick and beatrice characterization and dynamic #I love that they played up the ex lovers thing (which is left up to interpretation in the play) #and i love love queer Hero and Claudio!!! #but their hatred of each other didn’t really pack the same punch as in the original #I suppose I wish they weren’t afraid to make the characters bigger assholes? #ya know- give them more flaws? #because right now the enemies part doesn’t really feel believable for big parts of the movie #They really could have leaned more into making Bea a bit of a cold and snappy mess (as she is in the original) #and Ben more of…ya know…actual human disaster who can’t commit #both of their characters in the play are driven by their desire never to marry and their distrust for the opposite sex #They included this a bit with Bea (her not believing in true love and all that) #but her break up with Jonathan (because he was too nice???) didn’t really convince me of it #They also keep insisting that Ben is a fuckboy but we never really see it demonstrated? #I personally don’t mind the fact that they changed up the whole ‘convincing them that the other secretly loves them’ bit #especially considering this is only loosely based on much ado #but I do think they made it a bit messy considering they included the gulling scenes but only as a joke #I wish they’d either leaned fully into the much ado plot or ditched it #I think what a lot of adaptations get wrong is that they’re either too afraid of leaning into their og media #or too afraid of seperating themselves from the og media #oh god I’ve reached the tag limit help #anyways- rant over #anyone but you #maria talks about things #much ado about nothing #beatrice x benedick

[recitedemise]

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱. This, beyond being a testament to his softer heart, his rather sizable well of care, is a consequence of his time shared with Mystra. Being a worshipper, a follower and lover both to the mother of magic, Gale is far more familiar with giving than receiving. A tremendous deal more. Beyond those illusions of love, Mystra granted him nothing, and whenever she was troubled, even sour or short, it was Gale, doting Gale, who would smooth it out. In truth, short of the stars, he had offered her everything. His whole life to boot. Still, living for some years prioritizing Mystra, Gale's grown notably reluctant to ask for help. It's why, when strapped with the netherese orb, newly blighted and rotting to death, he'd sooner clamored in his tower than look to friends. He's loathed to show his folly, of course, and is far from a fan of stirring worry, but with Mystra, any ask he'd made was resolutely shunned, and from his lover, his deity, that left its mark. Gale--a giver, a man that wants to hope but doesn't dare to--is not a man to ask for anything. If ever he does, the ask is comically small, and even then, he expects to be denied almost immediately. Consequently, an eager kindness leaves him floored. Gale can read displeasure. (See: Mystra.) Gale's trained to soothe it, too. Yet, when confronted with the novelty of that same generosity, your resident Gale of Waterdeep is like a fish out of water.

#HEADCANON. #This hit home because I know too intimately what Gale went through. #God. It sucks. Gale is so attuned to Mystra and her periods of distance and #her cold demeanor. #He just learned to go right into tell me what I can do to make it better mode. #I think Gale isn't really the best at reading or catching social cues #but he's very aware when someone is upset. #He had to learn because god forbid he failed to recognize something and receive less warmth from Mystra #(she isn't exactly warm to begin with.) #she was just largely neglectful of Gale and Gale was convinced it was love #he showed so much of it and so much warmth and...kinda felt being chosen by her #was enough of an expression of love on Mystra's part (it isn't!). #Gale also only asking for help from YOU because he knows you deserve to know #because hiding it would be a danger to others around him. #Like Gale truly asked for no ones hand before the nautiloid incident. he had to be quite literally #torn from his life and freefall into another disaster before even asking for help #a small ask too. This man is like hey can I have your UTTERLY useless necklace so I don't die? i'm so sorry i'm such an inconvenience #fuck. Gale. Gale...baby.... #Literally you go 'children shouldn't die' (arabella) and he's all you're such a decent person...i trust you #???? honestly. need i say more. #anyway idk if ill write much today beyond this. im DROWNING in work and i have to prep for an event tomorrow #so you can just frown with me about gale #Me writing about Mystra: wow theyre a lot like my abuser. 🥲🥲🥲🥲hauew..a..

[checkeredshorts]

God, I fucking hate the otome isekai subreddit. (I know, I know, I'm just asking for pain by looking at it in the first place.) Feeling sympathy for the villainess and seeing her as a flawed human being instead of an irredeemable monster is literally the entire reason the genre exists in the first place

I feel like shoving a copy of Bakarina in everyone's faces because clearly it's not sinking in. It is actually shocking how little sympathy people on this subreddit have for any female character who isn't the female protagonist. Webtoon/Tapas commenters are somehow even worse and fly into a rage the moment a new female character appears, especially if she dares to exist in the same panel as the male lead.

I know that a lot of new otome isekai stories are often guilty of this too by just making the original female protagonist into the irredeemable monster instead. A non-zero number of otome isekai stories are intent on making sure there's a female strawman for you to hate and it's just the worst. Still, this comment sucks and I hate it.

We need more Marias, Helenas, and Alicias. We need fewer Charlottes and Debonaires.

#mine #writing stuff #otome isekai #I'm talking about maria from bakarina of course #helena from kill the villainess did not deserve the vitriolic hatred she got in fandom #alicia is from young lady albert is courting disaster #charlotte is from formerly the fallen daughter of the duke which might be one of the worst otome isekai I've ever read #or at least it's the one I hate the most #it's so bad that I actually started rooting for charlotte #WAIT I LIED the 100th time's the charm: she was executed 99 times so how did she unlock super love mode is the worst thing I've ever read #debonaire is from that mess of a title and she is barely a character but by god does the story try very very very hard to make you hate her

[veromdraws]

"let's... not talk about it..."

#HI HELLO LONG TIME NO ART ANYWAAAAAYS #god we lost the andrias dad potential i have this overgrown salamander they could have had the BEST parental relationship #shout out to matt for writing such GOOD abuse storylines #god the fact he didnt wanted to kill her and how she reminded him of leif and THE LITTLE ROBOT #AND GOD MARCY REALLY LOVED HIM HUH . FATHER AND DAUGHTER WAS SOOO CLOSE #the way he wanted to save her even after all this SICK #also really like how while explicitly indicating that yes andrias loved marcy yes she didnt wanted to hurt her #he still manipulated and hurted her both physically and emotionally #also andrias is just like passed out in the castle right. he will definitely see and maybe talk with marcy ... right #oh boy this will be a disaster i hope we gain a last interaction from them where marcy is HURT AND PISSED #my art #amphibia #marcy wu #amphibia marcy #marcy amphibia #andrias leviathan #king andrias #all in #OK ENOUGH MENTAL ILLNESS!! #THEY MAKE ME SICK

[cyanidas]

Hii I'm still alive! I went out to Iowa for bio family reasons and have been... recovering... 🥲

#all is well tho #or at least as well as it can ever be with my biofam #the highlight is i got to see my sister for the first time in.. god like a decade?? #and i spent so much time playing with and help caring for my baby niece who is an absolute joy #she's an angel #she has her moments but overall she's such a good kid #i love her and i love my sister and even though it was hard i wouldn't go back in time to say no #I'm glad i went and so was everyone else lol #my presence was a net positive for everyone involved #so in a way i feel like i mitigated disaster o.o #anyway #I've been getting better at cleaning my home and actually starting project ideas! #if anyone reads this and knows things about epoxy and can recommend me products i would be v grateful #intercom

[bumblingbabooshka]

'Parturition' is so brave for being the yaoi ship trope episode of Voyager. "Neelix and Tom Paris had a physical.....fight." Also continuing Tom's beautiful habit of loving both infidelity and child abandonment with all his heart. Also, wonderful out of context quote: "I had no right to push that pasta in your lap."

#Also I forgot about the Tom/Kes stuff in early seasons #You know what? I think Kes can flirt. Disaster as a real couple/ship but I do believe they'd do some going-nowhere flirting #post Neelix breakup. Also once again Kes SHOULD have been able to ADVENTURE more!!! #Tom's true wife is a beautiful woman named infidelity and he loves her more than anything except Harry Kim #Tom: (bothered & horny) Play the clarinet Harry. #Harry has a really cozy couch setup btw #OH ??? I sthis a thing??? #In two different episodes now Harry's said 'there's an old chinese expression...' <- was that something they were trying out?? #Thank God it didn't stick. #Harry: You keep setting yourself up for rejection. You must like playing the part. / Tom: Don't knock it 'till you've tried it. #<- Sound of a nail being hit squarely on the head...Harry's so handsome #YEEEAAAAH THE GIRLS ARE FIIIIIGHTIIIIIINGGGGG!!!! #Neelix being so possessive of Kes is obviously bad but him just out of nowhere insulting and tossing pasta on Tom IS very fun and good #removed from context. Tom: -eating. doing nothing- / Neelix: You fucking lowlife asshole. =_= #SNRKAHAHHAAH 'I'LL KILL YOU!!!!' CARTOON ROLLING AROUND ON THE TABLES~!!?!?? #I like how this is a fight but NOT serious at all....they are looney tunesing it #Even the background crew are like...smiling & laughing. This is so funny <3 #The doctor would love if two men fought over him. He'd be concerned and tell them to stop but he'd secretly love it I know him I know this. #'How delightful!' indeed. Kes' green & black outfit in this episode is really pretty! Also she & the doctor's banter is nice~! #'That's not funny!' / 'It's not meant to be. You LOVE autopsies?' and her laughing at him saying 'then your world must have very dry lit.' #Also love the doc's ultimate advice of 'It's not your problem' bc it's not~!! Yaoi sin planet with cure what ails em #NEELIX SAID TECHNOBABBLE!!!! HE SAID THE LINE!!!! #Tom: I'm picking up caves west of here. / Neelix: Yaaay. <3 <- negative. sarcastic. hateful. #YEEEEAAAAAAHHHH DINO PUPPET BABYYYY!!!!! #Janeway: Tuvok can you do X? / Tuvok: (preening) I have anticipated your request Captain. / Chakotay: =_= #Tom: The baby's shivering...that's normal right?? <- Yeah Tom <3 It's so normal <3 You're gonna be a great dad <3 #Also Neelix just smiling earnestly at being called Godmother...-raises brow- #Neelix & Tom: Kes - Captain - we've worked out our differences! We had a baby <3

[hydrachea]

After getting to meet four of them I have to say I love the archons. We have:

- God who ditched his job at the first opportunity and only pops by every now and then to check on things and get drunk (Venti).

- God who grew so tired of being a god he straight up retired in order to become a normal person, while not having the slightest idea of what being a normal person entails (Zhongli).

- God who delegated most of her job in what admittedly was an attempt to make things work as best as they could but ended up being a perfect example of "the risk I took was calculated but man am I bad at math" (Ei).

- God who's trying to do her job but who rolled a critical failure in circumstances so all she has is doing her best and the biggest inferiority complex known to Teyvat (Nahida)*.

*As of the very start of chapter III act III, I'm still working on Sumeru.

#ei: i have created a puppet focused solely on pursuing eternity so that she can rule without fear of falling to erosion #the traveler: you've created the perfect asset for the fatui to manipulate. look at her. she's a tyrant #ALL OF THESE GODS ARE DISASTERS #and i love it #i love imperfect gods full of flaws #it makes them human #not in a literal way of course in fact they make terrible humans #but you know what i mean #it's like the greek gods #they're flawed #they make bad decisions sometimes #and they have to be helped #and that's nice #makes me excited for the remaining three archons #genshin

[daisychainsandbowties]

I'm curious to know if you've ever watched Orphan Black because beth childs manages to be an extremely shannon masters coded character by dying in the first five minutes of episode one and then having the entire basis for the show centre around her absence anyway

okay i HAVE watched orphan black but not all of it. i think?? to the end of season 2 but ho boy yeah Beth was very much that kind of character & like ghdklsdk the sheer nonsense that Sarah managed to get away with as her tells you that this woman was very clone-brand with the whole 'there's something wrong with you that is also wrong with me' disaster-DNA club.

i think shannon is a more compelling character mostly because i was 'then perish' about beth's boyfriend guy (tho never forget sarah in the guns & roses tank top. monuments should be raised in its honour etc etc) and also her house was too minimalist for me. too clean. why is your house so clean beth.

but that said she does do a very similar thing to the narrative - especially when you add the layer of impersonation going on. like yes she's dead but there are copies of her out in the world, & they're simulacrum. poorly-stitched echoes. but they're carrying around her biological fault-lines and they're living wildly different lives but they're also the same, kind of hideous suggestions of what could have been, and never was, and never will be.

i do love characters who start things by Ending. obi-wan kenobi and what he says to Vader as he dies "if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine". !!! and there is something to be said for that - how shannon and beth do things with their death that they couldn't have done with their lives, how sacrifice and tragedy can be weapons, too. & how cruel a narrative is when it tells a character that the best thing they can do for the story is die.

#pretty sure i watched until maybe the end of s2 and then was sick so no brain #but i actually loved pretty much all of the clones in that #i mean helena for obvious reasons (blood) but i LOVED sarah and no not just because she is objectively #and don't ask me how but OBJECTIVELY the most attractive clone #like sorry she's H O T #& alison BABY what a disaster i love my deranged housewife. god she's so terrible #and cosima but like... girl for someone so smart you are stupid #i approve of how hard it was to get all the blood out of the car. and helena in general just bleeding everywhere all the time #lilith energy fr #but yeah. agree about her being a Character Who Dies to make the narrative possible

[hamethyst]

Most likely won’t be playing BG3 til the latter half of October, but I wanted to spare myself a good ten hours in the CC by coming up with a character now lol, so I went to picrew. Currently nameless (though I’m thinking something like Tula? Tava? Tavali?), most likely a tiefling. After devouring some YouTube videos discussing classes, I think she’s gonna be a College of Swords bard (with a touch of sorcery), who overcame her less-than-ideal lot in life by flame sword-dancing entertaining the masses with her magical, martial, and musical prowess as a member of what is more or less a traveling troupe/circus. Absolutely playing off the ‘devilish angel’ shtick, she’s a warm ray of sunshine with a hidden hell (and perhaps history) inside. I might even make her a Zariel Tiefling specifically to further play off the whole angel/devil dichotomy, given that character’s history.

#i actually really like the default name ‘tav’ the game gives us #so i’m thinking just a slight tweak to it will make it perfect for her lol #anyway she’s a doll i love her already #also she’s fucking halsin the bear i want the live squirrel reaction #and he seems sweet #tho i’m also looking at karlach and wyll #and a couple others #god she’s gonna be a disaster bi ​i can already tell