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undermine-the-instinct · 5 months

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I have...a very fucked up idea for a Mahito/Reader insert/Yuji fic....Very fucked up considering the past few episodes....

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turtleblogatlast · 1 month

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I love Raph and haven’t said that enough so to be more specific I love that Raph is a soft boy who loves bear plushies, a gross boy who eats an assortment of things that are definitely better left alone, a smart boy who is more than capable of taking down villains through planning and fortitude alike, a strong boy who is dedicated to training his muscles and fighting prowess, a teenage boy who loves his brothers but is more than happy to tease and roughhouse with them, an angry boy who sometimes lets his anger take a hold of him to cover the fear, a gentle boy who is generous with hugs and affirmations to those he loves, a capable boy who takes on more than should ever be expected of a teenager, a good boy who just wants to be a hero and slowly comes to realize the cost of that duty, a good boy who has no reservations about putting himself in the way of harm coming to his family, a good boy who’s a great brother and son and person and deserves only the best the world has to offer.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rise raph #he’s so wonderful frfr #my poor boy is traumatized but still so proud of what they accomplished because they’re HEROES #what started as something fun - Saturday morning cartoon-like heroes vs villains esque - soon becomes his calling #and he loses himself a little along the way #because the world is TERRIFYING now #if they don’t do something about the bad things in the world then worse things will come #and Raph CARES too much to let it happen #even at the expense of his own happiness and youth #and he luckily reigns back that fear - knowing his family is there to keep an eye out with him #and he finally lets himself be a kid again #he’s very well rounded and his flaws are so good because (like the others) they are ALSO his strengths #I like how it’s softly implied that bears are his fav animal too bc that’s cute af #headcanon that he likes them so much because a stuffed bear was the first toy splinter managed to get Raph #but yeah one of my favorite things about tmnt is that the characters are well rounded and rottmnt exemplifies that immensely #with raph being no exception!!#amazing big brother and character #there’s a REASON in my tmnt main character tierlist he’s S tier!!!!#hot take but in terms of who should be leader I think it should be less who’s the better leader-#-and more who’s the better leader FOR THIS SPECIFIC MISSION #bc all four can be great leaders fight me on that #APRIL can as well 100%#doesn’t need a designated leader for them to succeed #they just need ~communication~#one of my favorite things tying Raph and Leo together is that they both *hide*#I’ve talked about Leo’s many masks a lot but Raph has one too #and it’s the mask of a hero - the mask of the protector

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wisebeth · 28 days

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why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

#all the gods and goddesses in the greek mythology are flawed in their own way #it doesn't make sense why the books were so unnecessarily biased towards certain gods?#it bothers me specifically that hera and athena are SO unnecessarily painted as villains #while posiedon is ‘cool’ dad ‘great’ lover ‘decent’ god ‘reasonable’ than other olympians #i get it he's the main character's father of a children's fantasy novel so rick painted him in a good light #but my man? then why are you painting other gods who are arguably just as bad as him as WORSE #shut up i feel strongly about it #i love the percy jackson series #but i hate how the gods are portrayed #is trials of apollo a good series? yes #does it make sense why he's shown as a human-like god with redemption arc #while hera is reduced to ‘evil stepmom’ and ‘bitch to annabeth’ even if apollo is JUST as bad as her?#no #and aphrodite is not some ‘silly fangirl’ whose personality revolves around shipping percabeth #she is powerful terrifying and cunning who can bestow some of worst revenge on those who offend her #demeter is not a silly crop goddess #her love for her daughter was so strong it almost ended the world and destroyed mankind #shes in charge of harvest and agriculture without her humanity will starve to death #shes just as powerful as the big-3 or at least she should be #posiedon is not this cool perfect rational god #medusa would disagree demeter would disagree pasiphae would disagree odysseus would disagree #apollo cursed women posiedon raped yet ares killed a rapist BUT nooo let's make ares the bad one #percy jackson #rr crit #greek mythology #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo

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enlichened · 18 days

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The thing thats consistently bothered me the most in the fallout show is the racism. I would hesitate to recommend it because of that alone. And there was obvious love that the set and prop designers, actors, costume department, and even maybe the writers put into the show! There are themes and characters in fallout that i'm certain would resonate with fans of color!

It KILLS me that so many of the fallout entries are damn well unplayable/watchable in this regard because the writers simply Don't Care how the people in their work are presented. That this like hugely popular world with a lot of worldbuilding and thought behind it does such wrong to so many people, fans and otherwise, that you cannot find any game in the series that does it right or well. It alienates a lot of people who might've been fans just because the majority white creators and fanbase don't give a shit, and I'm sick of it.

it's not enough to say "in the fallout in my head that racism doesn't happen," you actually have to put some things into PRACTICE. Allow space in your head, your games/show, your fan spaces for people of color! notice and say something when you see racism coming from media, yourself, and others!

#like its not AS bad as other fallout media but isnt that the fucking kicker. that its not AS bad #and in fact the games im thinking of that are most egregious in their racism ARE interplay/obsidians games.#bethesda is NOT free from criticism or racism. just look at the elder scrolls.#all of the fallout games have been terrible to different extents to their black characters #the games are TERRIBLY sinophobic. the great war being pinned on china allows for SO much racism in the writing and in fan spaces #but fallout 2 and new vegas specifically have awful and degrading representations of indigenous people. to the point where i wont play 2.#and now this show treating maximus nearly one to one with how star wars writers AND fans treated finn? its not okay #personal /#fallout show #fallout blogging #racism #antiblackness #colonialism #fallout #if not for this i would have thought that the show was GOOD. surprisingly compelling. anti capitalist messaging. but its just. all the time #and this is coming from a white person! i can only listen and imagine how painful it is to play these games or watch the show #and be the butt of the joke every time!!! or the villain or the fool or the one who dies or the nameless entry.#maximus gets to have Some time in the light as a protagonist but for the beginning half of it he's treated SO awfully by the writers #and the latter half does not do enough to make up for it #EDIT: I JUST FINISHED THE SHOW AND THEY FUCKING MADE IT WORSE....#taking max out and having lucy leave him. for what exactly. why did they have to undermine him and make him look stupid at every opportunit #AND. two of the more major black women being evil capitalists juxtaposed by some white guy who opposes? .........................#like im glad moldaver was there. i guess. but even she is posed as the villain for the good majority of it and kills innocent people #for no reason and. UGH

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monsamborabutterfly · 8 months

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The morality police has started to police so maybe I just have to start a daily "I love Boston" post thingy just because. He's not a good person. He's still one of my favorite characters in existence. Just cause he's exciting and he scratches my brain in all the right ways.

I promise y'all characters don't have to be good for you to like them😌

#only friends series #only friends the series #ofts boston #neo trai #villains are hot #I said what I said #he's just fun to watch #a great character truly #and the acting is so good

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futuristichedge · 19 hours

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Sonic and the Black Knight save me. Save me SATBK

#i need to tear something apart with my teeth and bare hands. to shreds #why is satbk so GOOD!!!!#im just a sucker for knights and worldbuilding. and being so utterly devoted to a cause it starts to tear you apart #the contrast of the high tech time period of modern/classic sonic to no technology/medieval time period of SATBK #also Sonic's characterization in that game is so good. he clearly has heart but hes also kind of an asshole and its GREAT.#he does what he feels is right. even if that may make him the villain/bad guy #all of the cast who are knights are characters bound by duty. Blaze as a princess to an empire. Knuckles the guardian of the master emerald #and shadow with his promise to maria (although I do believe he eventually does it for himself rather than obligation)#but how all these characters are knights is ah! so good #im just. thinking about SATBK #also new chapter dropped of What Isn't Yours and I need to walk in circles until I drill a hole im the ground with my feet #clenching my fists. i need to Draw Something SATBK related

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barbwalken · 1 month

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I dont know why, but I have an aversion for volo, I just can't stand him for some reason.

Why do I have to watch him daily? 😮‍💨 I cant wait for the new icon.

Confession time

He turning out to be the main villain of the game wasnt even a surprise for me at all, from the moment I saw him I was like "he is evil". Because im smart? Not at all. I just didn't like him, I was being judgemental before even knowing his roll in the story

#and he is not even a bad character #its great gf decided to go on that route for him #i just fucking dislike him for no particular reason #its like that dialogue in smash bros of snake saying he simply dislikes sonic #he is a good villain tho #and his fucking battle was awesome #mostly because of giratina ☝️u.u #he beat my ass on every stage XD

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mariocki · 7 months

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A young Roger Delgado works to expose an otherworldly conspiracy, as newspaper columnist Hugh Conrad in Quatermass II: The Coming (1.4, BBC, 1955)

#fave spotting #roger delgado #the master #quatermass #doctor who #classic doctor who #delgado!master #quatermass ii #quatermass 2 #images are rough i know‚ but that reflects the quality of the material to a degree #that we have complete copies of Quatermass II is a small miracle and to be celebrated #but as a bbc series from 1955 it is understandably in rather poor form as regards picture and sound quality #at least compared to contemporaneous shows from itc or america (largely shot on film)#anyway. what a delight to see young Rog! he's only in this one episode (although he can be seen briefly in the recap at the start of ep 5 #and thus sometimes is credited with both) but he's playing a great character‚ a fleet street wonder that Quatermass brings in to try #and spread word about the conspiracy at the heart of the series. it allows Rog to play quite a different figure to the villains and foreign #dignitaries that became his stock in trade later on; he's a wily‚ astute but sceptical figure‚ who wants proof of Quatermass' claims and as #such is exposed to the alien horrors at work (allowing SPOILER for some very good 'battling possession' acting that leads into a truly #great cliffhanger). the serial almost feels like it has a guest of the week‚ with a significant character turning up for one ep only in #most installments‚ including Rupert Davies in the previous episode‚ but i think it's just the way the serial was formatted (and it's not #like Delgado or even Davies were particularly well known actors at this point in their careers)#still it's been fun to revisit. highly recommended for fans of dark and doomy sci fi horror

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shima-draws · 1 year

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YESSSS I’M AT THE DAGUR REDEMPTION ARC

#Okay okay okay so the first time I watched the TV series. I did NOT like Dagur at all #On my rewatch tho?? I fell in LOVE with him #He’s just. He’s such a great character #I love his personality and how absolutely chaotic he is at all times lmao #And as a villain I liked him a lot too. I’m VERY glad to see that he’s becoming a better person tho #But yeah I always really enjoyed his dynamic with Hiccup. Also sidenote I’m 100% sure Dagur has a onesided crush on Hiccup #HE’S ALWAYS LIKE. FLIRTING. WEIRDLY FLIRTING #And he’s SO possessive over Hiccup too?? He gets angry whenever somebody else tries to hurt Hiccup #Dagur literally said ‘NOBODY hurts Hiccup. Except ME’#Also even when they’re enemies Dagur’s always praising him too 🤔 There’s definitely smth going on there #Anyway. Anyway #He’s a very complex person. He’s litchrally insane. He’s murdered people and probably dragons #But he’s so stupid (affectionate) and he loves his sister. And he loves Hiccup too #I’ve always thought since the beginning that Dagur would be a REALLY good protagonist. An ally to the dragon riders #AND I’M FINALLY THERE. AHA #Shima speaks #HTTYD #How To Train Your Dragon #HTTYD RTTE #HTTYD Race to the Edge #Dagur the Deranged #Also I wasn’t super fond of his more adult appearance but. It’s grown on me quite a bit 🤔

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wackus-bonkus-maximus · 2 years

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Who IS your favorite ML character I'm curious.

this lil bitch

#listen listen #i know he's a shitty person #and a shitty cousin/brother #a good son though #but his motivations in the show are the most ambiguous #and he changes the game every time hes onscreen #to me that makes him the most interesting and the most fun #hes on his own side #meaning he wants something neither heroes or villains want #and that makes for a great character #you can tell who my favorites are by the amount i make them suffer in my fics #and last time we saw felix he was having the Worst Day of His Life #odnlb #one does not love breathing #miraculous ladybug #felix graham de vanily #felix fathom #peacock felix #argos

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umbralundertaker · 1 year

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What made you like Jack Noir in the first place? It's great to see others who are also passionate about him!! Personally I found his rage quite impressive lol (Sorry if you've talked about this before)

Im always ready to talk about him!!

Definitely what keeps me coming back to him is his singularly unshakable confidence and determination. Absolutely positively nothing can get in his way. If he wants something, he's going to get it. If something upsets him, he's going to get rid of it. He takes no shit from anybody, he has no cowardice that keeps him from doing anything. If he wants to say something, he squints his eyes and says "that's bullshit". If he's tired of something, he says "I'm not dealing with this" and leaves. It's not that he disregards consequences- it's that he always thinks he is fully prepared to deal with them, and he always is.

Not even logic gets in the way of his determination. If he wants to be able to see out of his cool cyborg eye that badly, then bam it's true. If he has the resolve to build a city in the desert out of literally nothing, then he does.

This is what really makes me love his character so much, he literally just is not bound by the rules of the story or convention. When everything seems uncertain, I can go back to him and everything is rock solid again. When things seem dark and I'm in a bad place mentally, I think about how carelessly silly he is and the inherent comedy and lack of seriousness of his character. When everything seems too overwhelming, I can go back to the flatness and simplicity of his personality and it soothes me. His aspects of perseverance and audacity makes it feel like he's worked for and earned the ability to make shit up. He's just perfect, I couldn't ask for more.

Now Spades Slick is actually a bit of a complex character underneath his outward personality- he does in fact care and worry about what people think of him, but that just makes me relate to him more. I aspire to have his strength, presence, and drive; he is genuinely a huge role model of mine in that regard.

Those are my more personal reasons for liking him, but he's also just a very well-made villain on his own. I talk about that in a few of the other posts I've made though, so. To to sum it up:

#I must highlight how much I like that he's silly. yes he's edgy but he has very few genuine angst moments #It's just very silly of him to be like that compared to his character design and a good reset from what I usually consume #He's also just a plain *GREAT* villain for his type. Bill Cypher has absolutely nothing on this man.#Spades slick #Jack noir #Fave

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sun-is-a-square · 2 years

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Hot take, the reason so many people think c!Dream is 100% pure evil is that term “morally gray” has been reduced by media to “commits atrocities but they were sad so its not their fault” or “perfect good hero but they make mistakes sometimes”

Like, as much as I love c!Dream and joke about him being a poor pathetic meowmeow who did nothing wrong, I know he has done some HORRIBLE things. But he has complicated motives, he does morally right things that don’t aid his motives, he has fears and trauma and acts according to his own moral code. He may be on the darker end of the morally gray spectrum, but the fact that people insist every emotion and action he takes is some directionless chaotic evil outburst just goes to show how much media literacy is failing people.

Fandom is so much more fun when you just relax and let yourself enjoy exploring the spectrum of fictional morality

#not to vent but #i am SO TIRED of people calling a character morally gray #when theyre either just ‘sad villain’ or ‘reluctant/imperfect hero’#especially in the dsmp fandom bcz some of the most INTERESTING characters are morally gray #obviously dream quackity sam and wilbur #but tommy steals and hurts people! he said to tubbos face that he cared about the discs more!#tubbo tried to have a retired technoblade executed and exiled his own best friend!#punz!! just everything abt punz!!#bbh is morally gray but hes also just straight up a wildcard which is great #honestly the only characters i would define as morally binary are #1 XD but that could change when we seem more of him #2 charlie slimecicle bcz he was far too gunky and goopy to do anything wrong #everyone else is complicated and thats good!!!#have sympathy for the devil and dont put your heroes on a pedestal!! theyre all human (figuratively anyway)#and that makes the story SO much more interesting #im very passionate about critical thinking and fiction theory if u couldn’t tell lol #dreblr

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scalproie · 8 months

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I have a whole essay about vegeta in me but my phone is at 9% so youre all spared right now

#I mean is it really a surprise I like the guy? look at him and look at what you know about me💙#and to make a botched summary: hes like one of those hypothetical “what if the villain joined the good guys” scenario except its real #the fact that hes also morally abhorrant for 80% of his screentime is both great and the reason why he can never get a single W #bc him winning against either a major antagonist OR protagonist wouldve validated the wrong morals he introduced in the saiyan saga #that goku fought hard to invalidate #anyway long story short: geets is a character meant to be broken. both physically and out of his own mind #and it was really cathartic to see him make an active choice (and not reactionnary like for future trunks) to protect those he came to love #AND recognize and accept goku's superiority at the sunset of the series in the last major battle #AND HIM LOSING BITS AND BITS OF HIS ARMOR THRU THE COURSE OF THE SERIES UNTIL HE STRAIGHT UP ENDS UP IN HUMAN CLOTHES IN THE EPILOGUE #IT WAS A GREAT DETAIL I LOVED (and I Fucking Hate when post buu they still put him in that fucking cell saga armor I hate it)#anyway love this character. the vegetable.#unless you also love him in which case I Hate Him. and if you talk to me about super Im Going To Kill You #tagging later

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cruelcruelsummr · 1 month

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dirk and jake are like a cartoon villain and hero but with completely swapped motivations

#like #sure dirk builds dangerous machines and talks high and mighty and has a generally cold disposition #but he’s also very caring and concerned about his own moral standing and is constantly convinced he’s not doing good enough #and jake has the fun quips and thirst for adventure and adorable himbo aura about him #but really he’s a lot more self centred and obvious to outside problems and doesn’t actually enjoy all of the fighting and adventures #like with their personalities they’d make a perfect villain hero duo but Jake is heralded as a great hero while dirk is demonised #lke cmon guys they’re complex characters #the whole character arcs of the alphas is accepting the people they are rather than the front they project #to varying degrees of course #alpha kids #jake english #dirk strider #homestuck

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westwiiind · 1 month

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its so fucking stupid when ppl are like “i hate how grimmel is presented as a serious villain when he doesn’t even really hurt anyone!!!” bro it’s a kids movie he’s not gonna be tearing bitches limb from limb onscreen????? this isn’t game of thrones??? get a grip😭😭

#and then ppl are like ‘drago was a way better villain:(’#like ok so ur dumb AND racist! great!#grimmel is such a good villain u guys are just lame and dumb #he nuked an entire dragon species bro what are u talking about #iduna.txt #httyd #httyd thw #the hidden world #he’s such a better villain than drago too.#drago was all racist character design and world domination #grimmel had an awesome character design and had the much more realistic motivation of being a trophy hunter

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birchbow · 9 months

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Thank you for PoF it literally rewired my brain a normal amount eons ago when I first read it. Every time I make a new character for anything and I start to worry maybe they're just a little too unhinged, I remember PoF, and know that I'm valid and so are my insane little horny characters 😌❤️

I am so excited that you say this because it's important to my heart! Insane little characters with strong wild opinions or reckless horniness or huge blind spots or weird personality quirks or frequent fuckups they often learn very little from are the heart of stories that keep my interest and provoke reaction from me as a reader!!!!

Let every character be a character!! I have never been more bored as a fanfiction reader than the other day, when I read a fic where only the villains were allowed to be rude or irrational or petty or angry without immediately apologizing in uniformly articulate and modern "I've learned what people are supposed to say in apologies" speak. Because they're a Main Character! They're a Good Guy! But sometimes good guys and main characters are going to fuck up!! Sometimes they're going to be bizarre! Sometimes they're going to be at odds with other characters who are Good Guy Main Characters, over things that may or may not be a big deal for their characters!

Listen!! Sometimes I write a character talking shit and I'm wincing the whole time, not just because they're being an asshole, but because I know they're going to double down on it later! Because they just,,, don't think or feel the same things as the person they're being an asshole to! Do I the author agree with one more? Probably! Do I necessarily have to resolve "and this one was right, so the other one apologized"? No! Characters conflict with the other characters! It's uncomfortable to write sometimes! But my level of comfort or discomfort with the uncomfortable is part of writing stories where THINGS HAPPEN and goddammit I am out here for things happening otherwise what is even the point. >8U

#ask time!#I'M SORRY I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THIS!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!#you can have cool AU concepts all you'd like but if the characters therein are always in the right and do the right thing #versus the bad-guy no-good-traits never-a-person villains who have zero character or personality other than ''Mean Asshole Bad Guy''#then it still feels like eating an enormous bottomless bowl of over-boiled plain oatmeal #LISTEN strip it down and I'm writing a fic about two trolls who are in a very healthy loving relationship. they communicate. they're in lov #but also: kurloz is smugly complacent in his blood-right to rule! gamzee is insecure and codependent and has a nasty buried temper!#He wants people to like him because he makes more effort than a lot of highbloods to be Nice and has friends across the hemospectrum #but he gets pissed off when lowbloods point out that being near him or the community he loves is very dangerous to them!#(why would you say that? HE'S been nice! he has lowblood friends! he's not even threatening you about being rude to him right now!)#and that's not a great way to be but it IS a way to be and I think it's a more honest and interesting one to turn around in my hands/brain #WRITE WEIRD LITTLE PEOPLE I'M CLIMBING DOWN OFF MY SOAPBOX NOW THANK YOU

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