#making them completely boring

[littlerosette]

i cannot believe that katniss everdeen became the “anti-bella” figure when the hunger games first came out. i cannot believe that she was widely known as someone who was “strong” and “independent” and “didn’t care about boys or romance” and was distinctly anything that’s considered “not feminine” (because that’s bad!) when in the books, she’s the most Teenage Girl teenage girl that i’ve ever run into in any medium. she’s kind, and compassionate, and nurturing, and moody, and angry, and occasionally verbally nasty, and she loves music, and art, and having picnics with the boy she likes. there’s nothing about her that’s stoic and unfeeling. for as subversive as the hunger games was in regards to gender roles, she never feels like someone who resents her own womanhood. she never sees being a woman as a weakness. as a defective state of being. suzanne collins never uses her to knock down traits that we commonly see as “feminine” the way so many other authors do with their “strong” female protagonists. she’s a complex, fully fleshed out teenage girl who thinks and acts like a teenage girl, and you cannot get away from that. and there is some part of me that is resentful that the movie franchise came off on the heels of twilight because i think katniss’s characterization would be so different if the movies came out today. i don’t think the directors would’ve gone so far out of their way to make her a stereotypical stoic badass instead of what she actually is: a kind, moody teenage girl.

#if you can’t tell i Love this girl i love her #and people who write katniss as someone who’s stoic and unfeeling STOP DOING THAT!!!!! #you fell for the propaganda!!!! #i can go off on how peeta was bastardized too but i really think tv and film haven’t figured out how to portray sweet cheeky boys without #making them completely boring #the hunger games #katniss #katniss everdeen

[milkbreadtoast]

o yeah btw i liked these guys from the latest crk update..... detective gays.... macaroni and cheese....🤭

#i finished the story it was fun #whyd i have to get invested in the cookie npc yaoi... need them to kiss #i thought cheddars design was kinda boring (esp after the golden cheese update where every design slapped... hes also cheese...) #and he looked rly similar to almond so i think they couldve made him look more diff #but i still liked them LOL... esp macaroni cookie he's sooo cute #tsk macaroni cookie does everything... hes even an attack dog... what do u do cheddar cookie? #ur lucky to have such a cute smart and useful hoobae...😙 #i saw some cute fanart of them on twit so i'm happy :) #joking i dont think cheddar is completely useless but it makes me laugh bc he has the #'my job here is done ;)' 'but u didnt do anything' *dramatic exit* vibe #at the v least he's good bc he has faith in his partner...😙 #if they arent already dating theyre def gonna start dating... doesnt take a detective to figure that out... #like stop playfully bantering in front of me🙄 #oh btw i liked their kr voices so much #cheddar's voice was... insanely good how could they just use this voice on an npc #like his voice makes up for any complaints i had on his design #and macaroni sounds cute... i looked it up and apparently its jeong ui-taek?? who also voiced archbishop cream and 1 of captain caviars crew #voicing a bunch of cute npcs but no playable cookie yet... #im curious how they sound in other lang tbh...

[wingsofwater]

peach pit

[id : a chubby skywing dragon named pyrite, who has yellowish-orange scales with a lighter yellow underbelly and dark freckles across her scales, resembling the inside of a peach. she has a crest of dark spines along the back of her neck and on the tip of her tail, antler-like horns, her body is dappled with scars, and she wears a cord around her neck like a choker. she is sitting down, facing towards the left, with her wings held open and an uncertain expression on her face. the background is a teal rectangle with inverted peach blossoms overlayed on top of it. end id]

#thinking a lawttt about how pyrite was described to be the same color as a peach a lot #the freckles as described in the id are supposed to make her look like the inside of a peach #she has scars all over her body bc she was enchanted to be really clumsy so i would imagine she would be constantly getting hurt by acciden #her feet [and other skywing feet] have a fifth toe on the back kinda like raptor claws that they use for balance and grabbing things #in winter turning the original pyrite[?] was described to have black eyes so i gave her really big pupils - #- that would probably make her eyes look black head-on #she has lil bear ears btw !! i think skywings and icewings have bear ears bc theyre smaller and wont get cold as easily . also theyre cute #i just thought the crest of spines would look cute but then i realized the resemblance to icewing spikes so i added them to the tail too #the antler horns looking like icewing reindeer horns also wasnt intentional i just wanted them to look unique - #- instead of the generic straight horns or curved i usually give skywings #i think ​she has quite a bit of icewing remnants left over despite the spell actually #like i would imagine her fire is weaker than the other skywings and would be a lot less hotter #she also instinctively isnt used to skywing proportions hence why shes sitting the way she is with her legs all weird and wings not closed #other than that shes rather boring and isnt very flamboyant bc i think scarlet would think she doesnt deserve it #i dont really have any other design notes everything was added last second or by complete accident gafksndkxk #I JUST REALIZED THE THUMB ON HER WING IS BACKWARDS . I WAS WONDEIRN WHY IT LOOKED WEIRD CKJFMCJXNX #whatever im not fixing it. suffer with me #🖌 #wings of fire skywing #wings of fire #wings of fire pyrite #og my GODDD tumblr eated the wuality on this one real bad wtfff

[tlgtw]

I don't have any evidence but I feel there a palpable sense of 'desperation' among waifu-brained FromSoft fans who are trying to deal with a game that is not very interested in catering to them.

Certainly there are no female characters who are sexualized themselves, with Malenia, Ranni, and Fia being the most obvious examples of this, their being almost completely unsexualized.

Malenia is a broad-shouldered woman who literally does not have sexual organs, and Ranni who we outright see naked at the end of her questline has a featureless body of cracked ceramics and rope.

It's atypical: Compared to Dark Souls 1 especially the difference is really apparent. (Quelaag, her sister, and Gwynevere off the top of my head)

And you've noticed it, too, right?

That 'desperation' in the shit fanart and posts I'm talking about?

A lot of people appear unwilling to accept those facts for Elden Ring's prominent female characters. (Like outside of wishing to fuck them they're just unfamiliar with drawing or talking about those characters.)

It's arguable even that Elden Ring has no waif-like characters whatsoever. (Although the likes of Roderika and Hyetta dispute this, their lack of popularity notwithstanding.)

A first since even Sekiro had Emma, with Emma's character being a woman who was evidently far too normal to have ever been considered a waifu, despite her having more lines and screentime than the Doll, the Firekeeper, and more, combined!

If this pattern continues with the female characters introduced in the DLC, I wonder what we'll see, then xd.

#tlgtw ooc #elden ring #malenia blade of miquella #ranni the witch #fromsoft trading in the waifu-bait for actual good writing you wouldn't believe it but it definitely appears to have happened #Elden Ring's female character are either literally unfuckable--making sexualizing them that obviously contrived. (i.e misogynistic) #Or just basically normal (Melina. Roderika. Millicent. Fia. etc)--making them too boring for fans of superficiality. #it goes without saying ofc that this is completely ignoring Elden Ring's incredible INCREDIBLE catering for yuri and yaoi #holy shit #white mask varre #ough #morgott #OUGH #and ofc #Mogh

[starrysharks]

every art critic, teacher or tutorial maker who tells you that your character designs must be conventionally attractive or appealing is a big fat liar

[st-louis]

really don't understand why everyone always has to be so fucking weird about hockey players and reading

#i go in the tags and it's like LMAOOOO HE CAN READ? LMAOOOOO HE'S READING A BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES??? #newsflash some of them are not very smart some of them are quite intelligent just like the real fucking world. newsflash people have a wide #range of abilities and experiences and interests. #idk why people just love to infantalize them. it's weird. it's weird #and i'm going to say it. #literally like listen to some of them talk? you can tell? johnathan kovacevic has a civil engineering degree he completed WHILE playing #'it's a joke' it's not a funny joke it's boring and tired and you suck if you make it #and we're not even going to get into different forms of intelligence and the amount of work and study that goes into playing at the top lev

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizontober 2023 | 22: weave

#horizontober2023 #horizon zero dawn #hzd #aloy #thunderjaw #hzd cauldron zeta #hzd pc #v close to not managing this one lol #'machines woven out of light' was what i thought about when i saw this prompt #but since i love doing cauldrons i didn't have a save file i could use bc i'd completed them in all my saves :( #then i remembered the fact that you get approx 3 million save slots on pc (compared to playstation) #and dug through my files to find one where i hadn't done zeta yet - luckily i had success #i'm not sure i'm really happy with the shot? it's... ok... #just sorta boring #i think i could have made it more interesting if i had a save in hfw - for the future perhaps #oh i did discover something in photomode on pc - if you turn the camera away from the thunderjaw #the light effect/lens flare on the cauldron arm disappears #i was trying to get the arm lit up and was using the weapon wheel to time it correctly #and then i would set up the shot (making aloy look at camera) and turn back to the thunderjaw and the light was gone #kinda weird and idk if it's the same on console?

[sparky-is-spiders]

I can accept basically any trans/nb reading of Jon however my personal favorites are transmasc Jon who transitioned physically and socially as early as possible and just never mentioned it to anyone cause it wasn't any of their business OR Jon being the most repressed transfem/nb in existence. They'll be talking about gender or whatever and Jon will be like "it's normal to feel totally disconnected from your gender all the time and also vaguely want boobs. That's just a guy thing I think." only for whoever they're all talking to to go "wtf no?? It's not????"

#please don't make this about j//mart or martin #only jon reading I can't accept is cis #sorry I just don't see it #idk might just be projection #but I think jon has really complicated feelings about gender that they don't know how to articulate #and they're also super private so they just. never mention it. #actually love literally any depiction of jon where they had a super wild personal life (band/mechs!jon punk!jon w/e) that they don't think #is important to mention ever. but occasionally they'll drop some random detail completely casually and then not understand why everyone els #is confused #like. I think jon's childhood probably wasn't super wild beyond the mr spider stuff #and once they started working at the institute I think they tried to lean really really hard into the boring respectable academic aesthetic #but I think uni jon was either the most dull shut-in workaholic OR doing really weird shit between classes with no inbetween #look I have a lot of jonthoughts ok? #anyway I think it's plausible that uni!jon was briefly non-repressed #actually adding to that: jon likes to break in to places to Investigate Them is practically canon to me. #ok anyway sorting tags. yeah I'm maintagging my jon mental illness #jon sims #jonathan sims #tma #the magnus archives #trans jon sims #trans jonathan sims #edit to add my new jon gender tag #jonder

[craycraybluejay]

The urge to say one of the select few words or phrases that will have absolutely anyone ready and willing to beat the crap out of me

#compulsive #impulsive #stuff like slurs offensive phrases super edgy jokes about mass death and sex crimes #i dont believe any of that is right or a good idea mind you #i just wanna see what happens #because i want Something to happen #i want the anger i want the bloodshed i want to feel thrilled and scared and excited #i want to run my mouth till i cant even walk #saying anything and everything just to do damage #sighhhh #i'm so bored #i just want to get beat up for a situation i chose to create instead of completely inane shit #its no fun when people are just needlessly cruel to me #might as well #give them a real reason to hate me. to hurt me. #i hope the thought of killing me with their own hands makes them disgusted with how excited it makes them #i hope they are shaking with rage and hatred. seething. twitching. #call me a monster and i'll make one out of you yet #tell me you hate me and i will give you a reason to #no point in tryna change the minds of those kinds of people. take it in stride and throw the first real punch :3

[bisamwilson]

why do none of the rebels characters or ahsoka have actual personalities anymore,,,,,

#ahsoka is witty!!! she’s a spit fire!!!! not just in clone wars but in rebels too!!!! #in this show she’s a stoic master jedi who makes like no jokes ever!!! who is that!!! #hera’s also a spitfire!!!! and so is sabine!!!! #also there’s no fuckin world where sabine doesn’t have the desert house she lives alone in booby trapped with explosives she controls #much less completely abandoning her armor #she’s a mandalorian!!!!!!!!!! there’s a whole bit in rebels about why her armor is so important to her!!!!! #none of them even really get mad at each other!!! just lightly snippy!!! even with all the supposed history they have!!!! #literally none of them feel like real people with real and big emotions even though we’ve seen them all have them and frequently #especially with something this important #they all feel sanitized and i hate it #stop making characters that were never Perfect Jedi (ahsoka and luke cough) into Perfect Stoic Jedi challenge #disney will always fail this apparently #anyways when will andor return from the war where we get characters who feel like they have real motivations that aren’t just the plot says #that i gotta care about this and do this right now this way #even the new nightsister is boring!!! where’s her flair!!!! why isn’t she terrifying!!!! #star wars #star wars critical #ahsoka critical

[hopelessbromantic3652]

A story in two parts.

Day 4 & 5: He’s mine / Please kiss me all night

#snsmonth22 #sasunarumonth22 #sns #otp #sasunaru #sasunarusasu #boys in love #high school au #so like #I have a whole ass head canon / fic written in my head abt them . #sasuke is the uchiha protoje at school #solid marks #but completely bored #Naruto is opposite. Skater kid struggling in school #no care for a future career #they have been in love for a long time. since childhood. #but in these times #homosexuality isn’t heard of or made public. #so they sneak about when they can and make up for lost time. #sasuke tutors Naruto *wink wink* #sasuke hates the girls and their unwarranted touches #but they act as like his beard to keep the spotlight and questions away from Naruto. #Naruto knows this. and yet #he’s still super jealous. #so here they are #sneaking in a quickie #hoping that one day #they won’t have to hide who they are #who they love

[navree]

me @ you calling Lucerys boring! 😆 come on, he's just a kid! cutting out aemond's eye was bad, i agree, but i don't think he was as bland as everyone says. his imposter syndrome in 8 and 10 was interesting to watch at least. he was a brave little boy.

I mean I don't really see anything brave about bringing a knife to a fight he not only had fuck all to do with but where he was clearly at fault (Aemond did nothing wrong, he tamed a free dragon, Baela and Rhaena get a pass because they're grieving but Jace and Luke had no business being involved and certainly no business escalating into 4 v 1 violence against the clear cut victim), trying to literally murder someone because I don't know what the fuck you're trying to do when you stab a knife at someone's face but it's certainly not a warning shot, showing zero remorse for it at all, and at worse acting like a little snot when in the same room with your victim. The fact that Luke got away with this scot free (didn't he literally say "I didn't do anything" you boring little asshole you stabbed out someone's eye that is the opposite of not doing anything!) is an absolute travesty of justice that stains everyone involved (mostly Viserys and Luke but I'm not letting Rhaenyra "pls torture the ten year old stabbing victim until he tells me how he figured out that these white dark haired children aren't the sons of my black platinum blond husband" Targaryen off the hook either). Aemond could have died, not only from the initial wound, but from the myriad of infections or other issues that could have plagued him during the healing process. For God's sake, Viserys nicks himself on the Iron Throne and they have to lop off his arm, his infected injuries and their treatment have already made him pretty firmly decrepit by Driftmark, the fact that Aemond healed without any serious and lifelong and further damaging complication is a goddamn miracle. And even kids know that murder is bad, I'm pretty sure that if I were Lucerys's age and I tried to commit homicide I'd have to deal with some consequences.

And I'm sorry, but I call him boring because he is! They wrote a boring character! That's not on me for picking up on it, that's on the writers and the myriad choices they made that led to them severely underdeveloping several characters, most prominently Lucerys (Jace and Baela and Rhaena at least get another season of life to develop further, Luke gets four episodes and they knew that going in). This is a song I've been singing literally since the show was airing and it's not gonna change, cuz he's dead and therefore stuck with his boring character and complete lack of characterization.

Him being a kid is not a character trait, and it certainly doesn't make him more interesting anymore than, say, his eye color would. The impostor syndrome thing they kinda tried didn't really work because 1) it's not impostor syndrome if it's true, he's not a Velaryon and Vaemond was 99% in the right in that entire thing (I don't like him throwing out misogynistic slurs, you can point out that these aren't Velaryons but Strong bastards without stooping to calling Rhaenyra a whore, I hate men sometimes) 2) in episode 8 it exists for one single line and is not a driving force for him at all for the remainder of the episode to the point that it could be cut out and mean nothing, especially since that scene was only there to introduce adult Aemond and 3) it doesn't even make sense because the person who was set up as having issues with his lack of Velaryon heritage and Harwin being his father was Jace. Jace is the one who hears the rumors and clocks it early on in childhood, Jace is the one who is deeply affected by it to the point of bitterness towards his own mother, Jace is the one who grieves Harwin but also feels angry that he can't express it. All of that was set up as part of Jace's arc, not at all Luke's, who is literally set dressing up until he decides to commit criminal offenses in the middle of the night. And then time skip, and suddenly Jace is A-OK and Luke, who has shown no issue before now (or any personality at all) is slightly concerned about it for one line in episode 8 before going back to being a piece of cardboard until episode 10.

And I'll be honest, the second that scene came out in episode 10, I immediately saw it for what it was, which was a very obvious patch job. The writers were clearly aware that they had not given the viewers any reason at all to care about Luke one way or another, so we weren't going to feel a lot when Vhagar (deservedly, imo) munches on him. So they hastily added in this really heavy-handed scene of poor uwu soft boy Lukey who is so concerned with doing right and needs to blink up tearfully at Mommy and be her sweet boy and get little kisses to assuage his worries, so that we'd feel some emotion and then be said when he becomes the Jonah to Vhagar's whale. It just doesn't work because there was nothing for him before then and therefore I don't care, I just feel bad Rhaenyra.

Luke is a bland and boring character. That's not an attack, that's just what the writers did. They tried to cram too much into a ten episode season, literally twenty years of history, and it caused a lot of characterization problems for a lot of characters, particularly for the Team Black ones. And a consequence of that is that the character with the least amount of time for development got not development and no personality. He's a plank of wood, he's a platonic version of the sexy lamp trope; there's nothing there and he exists only for us to feel bad when the lamp is smashed. Seriously, name me five individual character traits that Lucerys has. He's a momma's boy, even though I'm not really sure that's a character trait but I'll give it to him, and I guess he's devoid of empathy, considering that he doesn't appear to feel literally any remorse for mutilating Aemond (seriously, is it like the Dothraki and "thank you"? does the word "sorry" not exist in Valyrian languages? you can't even send an apology gift basket or a note?). But he's not brave, as there is no scene that shows any bravery or courage, and he's not noble or kind or thoughtful because there's nothing that shows any of that, or anything that shows him being the opposite, cruel or cowardly or weak, because he's a basically a character who could be played by sticking a wig on a mop and waving it around. And any characterization of insecurity exists as something hamfistedly crowbarred in at the last minute in his final episode to try to manipulate the audience's emotions with less sensitivity than D&D trying to tug at our heartstrings by having Drogon try to nudge Dany awake after she's killed.

But there is a character that I do consider to be a brave little boy, though I regret to inform y'all that it is Not a fourteen year old with no depth or personality or written characterization whose main claim to fame is maiming a person without apology and then dying. Nah, the brave little boy title goes to post-Driftmark Aemond. Aemond, at ten, is delivered a life altering injury whose recovery was likely very slow and very painful, involved a lot of worry about whether he'd have to deal with infection or further risk of death, and had to relearn how to do literally everything now that he was half blind, and he did all of it. He survived, and he thrived. He relearned how to walk, how to balance, his spatial awareness. He learned how to fought and even became incredibly good at it, and maintained his bond with Vhagar, as well as trying to keep himself mentally sharp as well. He did all of that, despite the huge setback he was dealt with at age ten. That's brave, go Aemond.

#personal #answered #anonymous #anti lucerys velaryon #the only thing about luke that even gets me remotely passionate is what he did to aemond #but that's because i like aemond and i feel things about aemond #who is a fully realized character #lucery is Not that #and yeah it's a writing issue and a massive writing issue #do baela and rhaena even have ANY character traits at all? #do their adult versions even have more then a dozen lines? #like at least they live through the dance so we can see more characterization develop in upcoming seasons #but honestly the only character more atrociously handled in terms of being made boring than luke are baela and rhaena #who could honestly be completely cut from the story of season 1 entirely and not have it make a lick of difference #like me calling luke boring isn't an attack on the character of luke (because it basically doesn't exist) #it's me taking the WRITERS to task #since it's impossible to set luke's lack of characterization apart from the out of universe creative decisions that led to it #and i've always thought he's boring and that's really not gonna change #there's four episodes of the boy and i've seen all four of them and they're the only four we're ever gonna get #they knew that they knew luke was gonna be set in unchanging stone once he died and they elected to do nothing with him anyway #so he's boring and bland #sucks but it's true

[kuzuhina1brainrot]

lallalaallala my favorite boys

I feel like Hajime would be able to acknowledge his feelings at some point while fuyuhiko wouldn’t really try to come to terms with it until someone else says something about it

man, I love this ship so much actually. I can’t tell if I could call it a rare pair or a decently popular yet heavily overshadowed ship??? it has a decent amount of supports hiding in the corners of tumblr, ao3, and a very deep corner of tiktok but not many people know that it even exists, and to me this type of ship doesn’t sound that rare or anything.

#hajime hinata #kuzuhina #fuyuhiko kuzuryu #goodbye despair #art #hajime x fuyuhiko #it’s just a random ass doodle #I was gonna draw their arms linking closely in some sort of way #yet.. #I’d have to make Fuyuhiko get on a stool for half of the positions in my mind for them #it’s sad how they both need so much fucking therapy and help #it sucks when someone says their least fav is Hajime cause ‘he’s boring’ and hate on him with no real reason #like….ohh the way I’d rant #also the way my blood boils when someone makes content of a ship and a person goes ‘so *insert character* doesn’t exist????’ #like if you don’t ship that thing it’s completely okay!! but don’t bring another character into that lmao?? #an art #kouzay’s art

[derpinette]

i miss going to school because i always knew everybody's business but nobody knew mine due to being a huge loser. & it ruled

#now i am still a loser ( well actually this cool bubbly normie girl likes to pull me along with her but it makes me feel bad ) #( also i hate going outside & barely do now because i am having an androphobia flare RN which is to say agoraphobia like i vomit... gay AF #but anyway i also went to small private schools with declining enrollment numbers all my life Well only two one for 13 years #& then i switched to a cheaper one on my senior year. i would lurk & people would be like No worries you can say it it's only nyumie here #or they would tell me directly when nobody would want to talk to them due to drama & then leave & forget me as soon as they could #nobody would ever ask about my business it was so effingg awesome. altho there were rumors i was gay ( completely true ) #the fact that both schools were small made it so that it was easier to know what was happening in most grades #but now IDK ANYTHING EVER even if i were to eavesdrop my faculty is just way too big & i barely even attend anyway +i hate that dump ETC ET #this is so detrimental to my QOL & need to Observe &Lurk my life is so EMPTY & boring i want to know somebody's petty drama #& i KNOW it happens you just have to be in a circle & attend everyday which I CBAAAA. when people pull me aside to hang out i know then #but i want NO INVOLVEMENT !!!! i just want to be in the background leave me alone i already have a girl i can relate & be loyal to #& she dropped out i never thought i actually would but here we are. i just want to acquire information from a distance on a regular basis-_ #the reason why i never hated going to school despite bullying up until like my last year is because well i grew up in my original school #so i was familiar with everyone & everyday there would be something new & funny to discuss with my bestie who lives far away now -_- #i meanwe only really saw eachother at school anyway Man i wish i could GO BACK but not really vut yes but no...

[bitchfitch]

Tbh I keep forgetting Serapis and Aetius are, legally speaking, Arlo's great(x5) grandparents until they both manage to be on my mind at once.

#Serapis names Stella his heir #She rules and has a family of her own #a few boring generations where not much happen #Rhiannon is born and a few years later a war gets going and she makes the unicorns out of desperation and then calls them her sons #and the circle is complete ( the circle is horned monsters ending up in positions of political power)

[brw]

Nothing gives me peace of mind quite like blocking incorrect quotes blogs.

#brieuc.txt #with very few exceptions they're just unfunny. i have learnt this after many years. #it is low effort and uninspired to take jokes that work in context of crafted comedy shows and apply them to a completely different genre #and character dynamics #if you're making your own jokes? making a canon interaction more comedic with the format? fine! #but applying 30 rock quotes to everything is lazy and uninspired. #it's mass produced and boring. okay done bitching.