"...trolls emerged in the story as an alien parody of real-life internet trolls, those who aggrieve and harass others online in many ways, in the form of many profiles, such as raging capslock shouters, argumentative jackasses, or disingenuous "pranksters" who casually toss around death threats. When expanding on the roster in Hivebent, the creative challenge became crafting a diverse range of such profiles. And a corollary to this challenge was imagining what profile would maximize the qualities that make someone a troll in this sense. In other words, who is the most trollish troll in this group, what are the traits that someone fitting that description has, and what form will they take in terms of personality and role in the story? Vriska is the result of this effort, and one way of looking at her arc in the story is as a simple exploration of what it means to draft a character designed to have the ultimate troll profile. Being the ultimate troll doesn't necessarily mean being the biggest asshole (though there are times when she gets that award too). It means being the most controversial. One designed to incite, to maximize drama and division, inside the story and out.
She's constantly used that way, as the number-one wedge character, dropped into situations to stir up controversy, get people arguing, and fuel noisy divisions in fandom leading to heated arguments about morality, the motivations behind her conduct, and the dispensation of justice. Since serving as the ultimate troll, fandom wedge, and escalator of drama is an inseparable part of her profile, by extension the narrative has a way of constantly dragging her back into the spotlight to keep stirring the pot, ratchet up controversy, and continue forcing the plot forward by dint of her overbearing personality and need to be important. Whether she's the one forcing her way back into the spotlight all the time due to ego, or it's actually the narrative always pulling her back in as a preferred tool of effective melodrama, thus giving her a reputation as someone favored by the author as a vehicle for mayhem and controversy, is left for readers to decide. It's also left for them to decide if there's even a difference between those things." - Andrew Hussie
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Who beat Djokovic today?
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A sketch of the boy
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Akutagawa's soft gasp when Atsushi wraps him with his tail >>>>>
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modern au zhu yuanzhang and general ouyang from the radiant emperor are besties (worsties) and they wear these btw
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Hobie Brown calling Noir 'Pe-Be'
Short for Peter Benjamin. Coincidentally also short for peanut butter.
PB and Ho-B lol
That's it that's the post
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It's me again🤣😅 YES MAKE THAT MAN GROVEL FOR OUR SUNNY'S FORGIVENESS.
TOO MANY BOOKS OF FMC BEING SO FORGIVING AND THE MAN DOING THE BARE MINIMUM.
Miguel being the doting partner sunny deserves and overprotective of her and the child yet sunny " I'm a hero Miguel, not your partner, nor your wife, I was only your stress relief"
But slowly Miguel is winning her over...
THISSSS
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madoc
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ATJ: "'cause as you can see, I'm sort of a... I'd rather stay pretty quiet, but..."
BTH: "That's okay, though, because we finish each other's..."
ATJ: "... sentences."
BTH: "And we know exactly what each other..."
ATJ: "... is gonna say."
BTH: "Yeah. So, it's like a natural..."
ATJ: "... chemistry."
BTH: "There you go! And that's how we got the part."
(Still undying @ever-constantineffable!!)
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All these people bitching like they wouldn't have been on the frontlines harassing Eret/boycotting the stream(s) like they tried to do to Tommy
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- via instagram
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ben parker: boy i sure do love being alive :)
every new york resident who owns a gun: something is wroung
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My mom has a gay guy friend who wears his hair long, makeup, dresses etc and actually “passes” pretty decently, but he is adamant about being a man who just likes to dress femininely. He told me that in the past few years, he keeps getting asked if he’s trans and uses she/her. even when he says no, he says that people (especially younguns) just cannot wrap their heads around it and resort to “they” for him. just more proof of how trans ideology doesn’t champion actual gender nonconformity.
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Anna “my-cuteness-will-kill-you-so-sweetly” Torv
Irina Nedov – Young Lions (2002)
Virginia Grey – The Pacific (2010)
Olivia Dunham – Fringe, 1.16 (2008)
[first two gifs by @whatsuptyrone]
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