#not that it’s bad to have a predictable plot

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

One way to have "diverse" characters in you story without sounding preachy or woke is to avoid making the antogonist a strawman of whatever political faction you consider """"evil""""""

For example, if my character is a trans man, there is no way, the antagonist would be Mr. or Mrs. Transphobe.

That´ll be boring and predictable.

The absolute best way to do diversity (if you must) is to write a character first, then just make them black, trans, gay, or whatever. And yes, to have the antagonist be a character also that isn't just a stand in for homophobia or racism or whatever. Boring and predictable, like you said.

I remember after The Butler became a hit, Lee Daniels said he wanted his next movie to be an action film with a gay male protagonist. The way he described it made it sound like a straight forward, typical action movie, just with the main character having a male love interest instead of a female one. It never got made, as far as I know, but I think back on it from time to time and wonder if that could have been a "diverse" movie done right. Where the focus is on the plot and the characters and the action and the diversity stuff is just one facet of the character, instead of literally the entire character and the main focus of the movie. Sadly, these days, it's almost impossible to trust that anything with "diverse" characters isn't going to be filled with woke writing and the same diversity committee approved plot points we see in basically everything these days. One of the reasons I'm still mad that Netflix canceled Archive 81 is because it was a series with a black lead who was a fully realized character, and his race never came into the story at all. Yes, the rich white man ended up being the bad guy, but there was nothing racial about it. It was just a casting decision. That character could have been any race or either gender and the character would have been exactly the same. Same with the protagonist. To me, that's what writing should be. Unless the story is specifically about a certain race or gender (ie, you probably shouldn't write a race-neutral MLK biopic) then the race or gender of the characters shouldn't come into play within the story at all.

[nonbinarycharmybee]

the amount of faith i have in the sonic movie creators is incredible but also SO deserved. like oh, sonic's a free spirit so the first movie's probably going to end with him and the humans parting ways and "being better for having known each other"? nah bitch, they're gonna adopt him. okay tails getting adopted in the sequel is a given but knuckles is kind of a lone wolf so- NO WE'RE ADOPTING HIM TOO. these people understand my heart's desire even when i don't. at this point i could go for shadow either getting adopted or not but i have complete faith in his grief and trauma being heartbreakingly addressed. what would it be like if every movie respected their audience like this.

#the REAL plot twist of the first movie is sonic's loneliness getting paid off in Having A Family #instead of fucking off to have adventures in space like his game counterpart #yes it's predictable within the scope of the story but predictability isn't always bad. actually it's pretty desirable. #mine #sonic cinematic universe #hall of fame

[lunar-years]

sorry but when you stop and think about it it's honestly pretty crazy that the writers sat down to plot out s3 and decided to go with "well first we'll have Jamie confess to Roy that his dad made him lose his virginity in the red light district when he was a 14, thereby adding a multitude of complicated childhood-sexual-abuse-by-proxy layers onto the already established canon that his father is a physically and emotionally abusive sack of shit. THEN later on we will have Jamie mentally doom spiral at the sheer prospect of being in the same stadium as him, only to, in the same episode, go ahead and decide to forgive him! strictly for purposes of his own healing and happiness, of course. And finally we will show Jamie reaching out to his dad to see how he's doing. it sure has been a while! :) oh and by the way, his dad just so happens to be in rehab already, currently working on himself and cheering Jamie on. Isn't that great? I'm sure the audience will love it, what could possibly not add up about this? :) :)"

and by crazy I do indeed mean bad.

#i mean yeah look I know this show is about radical forgiveness but like. holy fuck???? #never in a million years could i have predicted one single aspect of this plot #like it was already so bad re: Tartt Sr. and then they made it WORSE and THEN they said woohoo radical forgiveness!!! #didn't love it #jamie tartt #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #abuse tw #child abuse tw

[popstart]

not seperating raj and wayne until like The Last Possible Moment in s2 was a truly baffling decision. like i thought the season was leading into wayne getting eliminated and raj having to deal with both his boyfriend and his best friend (his biggest support system basically) being gone. I thought it was going to challenge raj by having him stick to his morals even as the bigger force of mk and julia tried to get him away from that. i really had hope

#i think s2 tried to do like a million plot twists so the plot wasnt “predictable” when in reality it kinda just threw away #obvious character arcs for the characters to have because they think obvious=bad. when in reality obvious character arcs are #the best path to take your characters because it means it makes sense for your characters. characters should almost always have clarity #ps talks

[dullorangepulp]

Sophia + Futaba in the park (WIP) finished version

(doodle reqs open!)

#my art #artists on tumblr #wip #traditional art #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 strikers #p5s #p5 fanart #persona 5 fanart #persona 5 scramble #persona 5 strikers fanart #p5 strikers #p5s fanart #futaba sakura #sakura futaba #sophia persona 5 #sophia p5 #p5 strikers fanart #soooo i finished strikers and honestly? I loved it! #i wasnt sure what to expect going into the game but overall i enjoyed it #i love all of the jail monarchs AND the arcs their corresponding phantom thieves went thru. also HARU SCREENTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i kinda predicted a few of the twists (wont spoil anything) but like. cmon. a certain lady w/ a bad haircut was FAR too sus for me to NOT #think she was gonna be involved in the plot. but i still enjoyed the twist knowing that i was right all along #oh ya & I LOVE SOPHIA & ZENKICHI. theyre easily two of my fave spinoff characters in the entire series (not like they have much competition #n e ways drew this basically right after finishing p5s and im gonna colour it soon. so follow me to see the end result!!!

[fortunatelyenchantingtaco]

I am buried by depression and i need to clean my kitchen laundry and study for exams i have barely a week left BUT here is some wip cause i have no time to sit and write down the Big Events of Satoru getting a body but i sure as hell can add snippets of before and after. As a little treat :)

#jjk #gojo satoru #jujutsu kaisen #sukugo #sukuna #my fic #wip #im always really afraid to post some shit not to spoil things #but also i want to share #its hard to have a brain #im always afraid to spoil some surprises or smh #as if the plot leading into things is a problem #idk #always nervous that when stuff is predictable it means bad and uninteresting #but also when i read stuff and its how i predicted im happy #so idk #writing makes you go too into your own head #thinking too hard is bad sometimes i guess

[margo-lith]

watching rebal moon..it's about as bad as you'd expect. robots cute tho

#its such a nothing movie #you can predict the entire plot in the first scene #also theres a line thats like if we give the bad guys everything they ask for then then they'll have to save us!

[libidinous-weeb]

oh waaaaah jjk sucks because my fave died!! okay then go back to children’s shows or something where no one ever dies at all.

since the beginning of the series it was established that being a sorcerer was incredibly dangerous and ended with most sorcerers having short lives. it’s one of the first things discussed by the characters.

it’s a dark series and that means people will die. “people dying = bad and predictable writing!!!” it’s a fantasy series and you aren’t the one fucking writing it. it’s not even complete and you don’t actually even know who’s dead or not or who will actually stay dead. they haven’t even fully revealed what yuuji’s team’s plan is yet.

like…if you don’t like that then take your ass back to bnha or grow tf up.

#jjk spoilers #jjk #gojo satoru #literally mean it mostly about him #i like him but he’s the strongest. there’s not much to build on for his character at all #either he actually wasn’t but needed to believe that he was #or he’s not actually dead yet #‘oh it got so shitty and bad after the shibuya arc’ #then stop reading it. #they established from the BEGINNING that people are going to die #if their deaths seem sudden and surprising then that’s GOOD WRITING #plots shouldn’t be predictable all the time #it’s like just because you don’t like something means it’s inherently bad #you guys have got to respect that media is meant to be diverse and that is does not have to be happy or make you happy in order to be good #please stop hating fr you guys already fucking ruined bnha bc of it #bnha spoilers #kind of #that’s a series i put down and walked away from because it’s pretty obvious the author wanted to kill off bakugou #but him being a ‘fan favorite’ prevented that choice #as a result the story is a mess and the plot had potential but now it’s just gonna fall flat

[hipwell]

i think it’s CX-2’s big night

#i have no predictions for the actual plot but i know there will be loss #i have a feeling it’s going to be devastating #going to bed soon so hopefully i can wake up to watch #the bad batch #tbb #cx 2 #tbb tech #tbb predictions

[peachypizzicato]

listen, side order is. a fantastic dlc! a fantastic gameplay experience! its great! i love getting more little pieces of world building and character building n shit!!

but i gotta be honest. the writing (both in the dlc itself and in media that has come after) has really started to ruin pearl and marina as characters for me and that makes me awfully sad

#not ship related #we all know i was already a pearlina disliker so i know i was kinda set up to fail #but like. jesus #i couldn't have predicted that it would be this bad #even if you see it through a completely platonic lens like i do!! #marina is so fucking annoying!!! all of her dialogue is about how great pearl is!!!! #she talks about almost nothing else except for when she reminisces with acht or talks to the final boss #it could've been interesting if her treating pearl as a deity was a plot point that culminated in them finally truly seeing each other- #-as equals. but no. her whole personality is pearl now #god forbid an escaped child soldier-turned-megastar be allowed to be interesting in her own right #octo expansion made her so complex and interesting just for side order to reduce her to her primary close relationship #but like whatever i guess #splatoon 3 side order #moneposting #splatposting

[immortalsins]

big fan of the major antagonists in crash course in romance being the scary mums whilst a b-plot position is given to the actual murderer

#crash course in romance #ramblings #haven't finished the show yet so if he's suddenly a major issue in later episodes i take this back #tbh he is a major issue now #but he gets like 15 minutes tops whilst the leads have an hour of bad and awkward decisions to make #the true villain is social ineptitude #maybe i'm saying this because i wish jang seo-jin had a larger role #she's such an interesting character #the way she did not learn from her mistakes. tragic #predictions ... i bet she dies #sun-jae's brother kills her i will bet money on it #can't remember his name #lee hui-jae there we go #although have i ever successfully predicted a major plot point in this show. i have not #who possibly could

[shopcat]

i do honestly think that like. the reason steve's torture scene is so undercut is because it is a torture scene. like they didn't WANT it to be hit heavily they didn't want to have to cut between relatively normal for the show scenarios back to steve and robin locked in an unreachable facility getting beaten and drugged and about to get their fingernails ripped off with the knowledge that in the end unless they're saved they're going to die. Because that is deeply tragic. so they have to make the jokes and make it lighter than it seems not only because the plot needs it but like the AUDIENCE needs it and the CHARACTERS need it... like yes the show does not take so many character's real life suffering seriously because for some reason lasting effects and trauma only exist to be taken advantage of by the plot or if you're the billed star or something but steve also in canon is the one who didn't let himself BE A Guy Who Was Just Tortured. he was a guy who was just beat up a little. and like they're scared but they're not too scared because they have to have hope because they are two people who have never had to rely on hope before in order to survive...

but also!! tbh i can't. help but think how much of a critical hit gut wrench it would've been if they had decided to commit to the darker theme of it and how it juxtaposes against the whole Bright Neon Light Palm Fronds And 80s Pop and how 30 minutes later they're standing among a group of children and no one even realises anything is out of the ordinary i think it would've accessed an actual emotional impact and depth the duffers seem to stumble upon by accident and never of their own volition </3 to cut from the concurrently running scenes to an 18 year old boy we know is completely innocent and completely telling the truth that he was just in the wrong place and didn't realise how serious it all was who was getting tortured and it be something serious. and his 17 year old coworker who just had to listen to it all to the point where she thought they dragged his dead body in to lay next to her. and in a way it's somehow MORE tragic which was not their intention at all that it was so lightly handled even though we the audience know it's somethings deeply upsetting it all just gets washed away in the face of Life goes on even on tv... sigh.

#🍦 #anyway #also unrelated i saw a post abt like someone commenting on the entire insane patriotism and the red scare stuff and maybeppl just commented #at the time THEY DID trust me.... it is one of the biggest criticisms of the show itself and a lot of people actually hated s3 bc of it 😭 #well like. me too. not that i'd seen it at the time i just remember eveurhing being like . said #anyway the way this show handles trauma actually gives me a headache lol #bc it's purely on case by case and yeah i know they can't just handle everyone's particular traumas but ugh. well you know what im saying #i think if they acknowledged the things that happened to steve they would also have to acknowledge it was never intended to have gravity #it can't be abandonment if there was never intention it can't be something they missed bc they don't see the something #he will get beaten every single season (barring the first) with no repercussion bc his like #humanity is not a right he is just some guy. it would also lose all the comedy to it that was established for 4 seasons #like oh it's not funny anymore and he's not the fun guy anymore because it's sad and that's not FAIR i don't think #bc trauma doesn't change everything about you and shouldn't change people's perception of you that's . fucked #and i think it's wild a show that attempts multiple times to go OVER these traumas will only ever land it sloppily bc i don't believe #they're doing it well intentionedly LOL it's for plot which is well fine it's a narrative but it means when it #lacks it's upsetting instead of the writing just being bad too #anyway... tangent . that also applies to like nancy and jonathan and stuff too . lucas and erica in s5 i imagine as well #though i shouldn't predict failure bc that's not very nice. to the characters .I just hate those men so much tbh tbh #sts

[mildmayfoxe]

i finished that monsterfucker book btw. i was so disappointed because 600 pages for what. for a pathetic ruler and a human being who was written as if wearing crop tops and saying "rad" was a personality? granted the human was from 80s america so that has more to do with the author's limited scope of what people in the 80s were like i'm sure but even given that nothing fucking HAPPENed !

#every other book in the series has the characters traveling around dystopia earth but this one took place in the monster world and they #almost NEVER left the castle. they almost never left the bedroom!! #so inherently the other ones were more interesting because at least they were going places and doing things. there was no movement in this #at all. literally and figuratively. #& it's not a bad thing to have a story that follows laid out plot points to an understandable end but the whole thing was so predictable #i definitely liked this one the least of the whole series which is a shame. oh well #chatpost #both of the characters had such little personality. i really didn't care about either of them. TOO BAD #the whole thing was basically an over-long setup for the next novel which has been teased since like book three. anyway

[nerdie-faerie]

'When Bonnie Bennett has a hunch, you don't ignore it' FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO HAS LEARNT FROM THE PAST FOUR YEARS OF SUPERNATURAL DRAMA!!

#TVD #tvdu lb #series 6 #I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime #Bonnie Bennett #Matt Donovan #i know a lot of people dislike matt and im personally conflicted but he was a good friend to bonnie when they were actually allowed to be #friends to each other instead of being ignored by the writers and absent from the plot #i personally hate when a character constantly predicts bad things they get dismissed then the bad things happen anyway and nobody learns! #at least matt has been paying attention even if hes bitter and paranoid about it he is actually taking precautions when their lives have a #tendency to go off the deep end so i cant entirely begrudge him even if i dont entirely agree or enjoy his anti supernatural mindset

[crehador]

parting thoughts on boukensha ni naritai to miyako ni deteitta musume ga s-rank ni natteta

i liked this! some aspects more than others. the premise was adorable, and the father-daughter relationship between bel and ange was cute as hell, but i wish we got to see more of it or at least more plot revolving around it

because the more, i guess... adventure/magic/politics parts of the plot just didn't land as much for me. i get that that's the genre so of course there has to be a Plot, and not just cute/funny moments of ange trying to get home and things getting in her way, but i think it would've been more compelling to me if the Plot circled the family element too

there was so much potential! like if bel had decided to return to adventuring earlier in the series, i feel like we could've had some great adventures of him traveling with ange and her party. and that not only keeps the family dynamic at the forefront, it would've presented the opportunity to delve more into how bel's disability might affect his return to adventuring

it does seem like bel traveling with ange is where the series will go next, but this doesn't really feel like a show that would get a second season. so if i want to find out i guess it's off to the light novels for me

but overall! kind of meh as a fantasy/adventure, but with some really cute and meaningful moments throughout. final ep especially was quite good!

#crab watches #boukensha ni naritai to miyako ni deteitta musume ga s-rank ni natteta #s-rank musume #parting thoughts #tl;dr not bad but the actual Plot bits were unspectacular to me #IT IS SOMETIMES. SO FUNNY LMAO LIKE #ange and bel both just ADOPTING MORE CHILDREN INTO THE FAMILY. SEPARATELY. WITHOUT CONSULTING EACH OTHER #WHAT IS THAT CONVERSATION GOING TO BE LIKE #bel like hey ange sooo uhhh you have a little brother now surprise! #and ange like oh shit no way i got two new siblings over here too lmao #the end of the kasim fight was hilarious too like #predictable but REALLY FUNNY #they became friends SO FAST as soon as she said bel lmao #ok. ok. anyway #unfortunately. ultimately i don't really feel like this one's worth watching BUT suwabe so

[jaegerbroshoe]

What is with this trend of writers going around sabotaging their own stories once they gain success just to betray/hurt the fans, who are the reason their work was so successful in the first place…?

#I’ve noticed it in snk and tlou #but I’m sure there’s more examples out there like got #like you don’t need to shock the audience so much to prove you got them with a plot twist lmao #actually now that I think about it pll too #and lost #yup there’s a bunch of examples out there #honestly the only story I can think of that didn’t do this was hunger games #oh and dark #writers should really stop trying to surprise/punish the fans #by pulling random contrived things out of their ass #you can have a fantastic story that people are able to predict with the clues you leave #it’s not bad writing for the audience to be able to piece things together lol #but it is bad writing to contradict your own story and characters to be unpredictable #anyways just not impressed with this quality of writing #makes you not want to invest in anything because you know as soon as they hit success they’ll fuck you over for your trouble #random thoughts #snk thoughts #the last of us #my opinion