#she truly was THE main character

[bolly--quinn]

The hardest thing ...

#amphibia #amphibia spoilers #amphibia all in #amphibia the hardest thing #the hardest thing #amphibia fan art #anne boonchuy #sprig plantar #sasha waybright #marcy wu #amramart #fan art #art #i actually cried at the finale ok!!! #like i rewatched all in and then the hardest thing and i bawled my eyes out #anne my beloved <3 #she truly was THE main character

[barblaz-arts]

Fellow Chaggie shipper, here and I wanted to ask you a question. Could you please do an analysis post on the Chaggie argument from Hello Rosie. I know this will sound weird but I can't get over the level of icy anger Charlie had towards Vaggie or how despite everything going on, Charlie is more hurt from Vaggie not being honest with her. Just angst all around.

Oh yeah sure I'd love to!

I'm not sure there's a lot I can say about that argument that isn't already super obvious, so I wanna talk about Charlie's anger because of something my brother said as we watched episode 7. He loved that episode apparently because "When they're separated, it's even more obvious that Charlie is the one who's more quick to lose her cool." Which, looking back, is actually true!(To an extent)

Vaggie and Charlie are both quite quick to anger. Charlie is just better at hiding it because she's a chronic people pleaser. Although Charlie wouldn't immediately show her anger at a person being a jerk to her specifically, she's immediately summoning fire and brimstone over anyone who hurts/insults her friends or the cause she's fighting for.

Love this lil bit in "You Didn't Know". How Vaggie is the one telling Charlie to calm down, as if she knows what's about to happen. She knows that if she doesn't at least try to reel in her girl Charlie would be spitting literal fire at a goddamn seraphim.

It would seem like such a surprising role reversal, but if you look at all the times Charlie would lose it whenever Vaggie's not there to tell her "babe, chill", then it makes sense.

But then when their fallout happens, Charlie's short temper is even more apparent. She calls Alastor an asshole to his face even though she considered choosing his support over her father's. She openly glares and rolls her eyes at Rosie when she jokes that her and Alastor look like an item even though she still kept things cordial with Valentino after he licked her arm. She flips the bird at some old lady even though she didn't take visible offense at all the demons that inserted their crude and rude selves in "Happy Day in Hell." While she was cold and subdued even when upset with Vaggie, she was explosive and in ur face when she was pissed at everyone else.

Vaggie reigned in both the girl in Charlie who dreams a little too big and the demon who's waiting to lash out in flames. It really makes me wonder if there's a difference in the kind of person Charlie used to be before Vaggie. Before she had friends to be angry on behalf of and a person to calm her down. And then, in the wake of their argument, Charlie is left with a lot of anger that is easy to ignite.

But I love love love that despite all that anger, Charlie can't bring herself to deny that she loves Vaggie with all of her hurt heart.

This little moment is one of my favorite parts in the series. My brother mentioned that this episode and episode three were his favorites because he liked the beats the dialogues followed. So he looked back--

(the man literally paused the episode to check the opening credits of ep 7 and 3. I was a little annoyed because I just wanted my Chaggie dammit! We'd make terrible youtube reactors with all the pausing and discussing mid-episode that we do...)

--and was satisfied to see that it was written by the same person, Ariel Ladensohn. Apparently she's in a sapphic relationship too and projected her own experiences whenever she wrote Vaggie and Charlie, and it must have paid off because the moments she wrote with them felt so real.

Charlie expressing her fear that even Vaggie's support and love could also be part of the lies she told was understandable considering the betrayal she felt. But immediately following that she goes "Oh that's a horrible to thing to think!" which I love even more. Even when she's understandably mad she thinks about how Vaggie would feel over Charlie thinking that of her. Because although Vaggie lied about who she is, Vaggie was always sincere about how she felt for Charlie. Vaggie's past may have been a lie, but the things she did for, to, and on behalf of Charlie were very real and held dear in Charlie's heart.

I dont have anything smart to say to conclude this. Sorry, I'm not even sure where I went here. Let's all just appreciate the smile Charlie has on her face when she thinks about Vaggie even when she's under a lot of stress I guess.

#asks #hazbin hotel #chaggie #truly love charlie as a character #i dont agree with people who say that charlie didn't feel like the main character of the show #she is still very much the heart and star of the story #if they felt more drawn to the male characters that isn't fully the show's fault #Alastor didn't even have as much screentime as i thought he would have #which is good! #he's entertaining but better in certain doses

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Call that a Cave Story.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen chao #wang lingjiao #mianmian #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #I had to cut the comic with JC 'holding WWX back from fighting the Wen Assholes' but it is with me in spirit. #It reads (to me) a little bit like JC is scared of Core Melting Hand and wants to have an excuse to hold on to WWX for comfort. #As far as I can recall they are around 15-17 in this arc. #And a guy who can rip out your golden core? The thing we know JC truly puts so much weight upon that he feels meaningless without it? #Yeah that's pretty terrifying. I hope WWX hugs back (he will not) #I have a lot more thoughts on Wang Lingjiao and Mianmian but I will keep them for later. #WLJ is a character I feel got done a little dirty because she has a ton of interesting potential that gets pushed aside for Mean Villainess #Let's be fully honest. Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao are *THE* characters the Protag of one of those 'Reincarnated as the villain!' stories #Set up to be assholes to the main character and meeting a horrible end in retribution. #Do you think MXTX thought about that? How Wen Chao is basically the original Shen QiugQiu? #Who's going to be the brave soul who writes A transmigrator in wen chao's body (accidently makes wwx fall in love with him) story? #Though If we are going with “any mxtx character sho dies transmigrates to another book” WHO is the transmigrator? #Hear me out. I think it should be Original Liu Qingge. I think he and wwx would make a funny duo and I want to see it so bad. #AND the contrast of womanizer Wen Chao VS 'What is a woman' LQG.

[aheathen-conceivably]

Is this an Antoine aging gracefully post or a sim style evolution appreciation moment? Both? Both is good 😌

#Antoine is the first one of this gen’s main characters to age up into an adult #which I have FEELINGS about omg #I feel like they’re all entering new phases of their lives/we’re well and truly on this train to the next gen #and I am not okay about it 😭 #also a moment for Zelda’s ~evolution~ between these two posts is all imma say thank you very much #let us not forget the shy 20 year old waiting for that man to make his first move #like her character arc is in some way’s just as quiet as she can be #but also like I see it sometimes and just wanna cry for her and buy her a drink #that’s enough ranting in the tags for me thank you good day #sims 4 historical #ts4 decades challenge #ts4 historical #sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 legacy #ts4 legacy

[wavebiders]

Boy, I sure hope everyone complaining about main character Imogen also had a problem with Percy, Vax, Fjord, and Caleb

#gosh golly I wonder what the difference is between her and the other examples #or are we still denying this fandom has any sexism in it at all? #its especially annoying because as much as im nowhere near the camp saying laura is always getting done dirty #she has for 2 campaigns in a row gotten very limited time truly in the spotlight #mostly a result of her favoring gradual internal journeys with her characters over the major plot stuff imo #but just this once her character is actually at the center of the main plot rn and of course people just cant handle that #critical role #cr spoilers

[mustangs-flames]

Pretty much how he's doing in Part 6 tbh lmao

Haunted by the horrors, the death of his best friend, said dead best friend being replaced by a monster, hunting alternates every other month, going to therapy, taking his meds, and somehow trying to hold a job at a local gas station to make his half of the rent. Life is... going. It's certainly going sdjgkjdfgfd

#hail true body au #mustang answers! #htb mark #at least thatcher is there to ruffle his hair and give some kind words #lord knows mark needs that stability in his life lmao #oh. and his dog is there too #darcy is mark's lifeline ghgdfahsfg #she truly is the main character of the au #holding this sad christian boy who is a modern day saint together #thank you so much for this!! i love your art!!

[uwukechi]

most p5 fans will never deserve ichiko ohya but that's alright since at least I know I'll give her the respect she deserves.

#persona 5 #ichiko ohya #truly an underrated character. her confidant was one of the most tied into the plot and she had so much going on #she was directly involved with the main plot! her partner was a direct victim of shido's conspiracy! #also in vanilla she was the one character to go to akiren's hometown to get judge of character testimony to get him out of jail

[ambrosiagourmet]

Rin Dungeon Meshi I love you... I’m sorry you don’t get more time in the spotlight but you will always be famous to meeee

#god her character bio + comic in the world guide truly just wrecks me #she cares SO much & she’s been thru so much…. I feel like she could have such an interesting dynamic w/ the main cast #not that this is entirely my point but like also Marcille/Rin could fuck so severely. the things they’d have to get over #to understand each other… it could be so good #but yeah we love a repressed character with trauma and a huge heart #….. Falin 2 LOL. except like opposite outer personalities. man. Falin/Rin also very good huh #her and Kabru should just start up the first greater Merini polycule

[eyestrain-addict]

Funny how both Sonic and Shadow are "Even if I'm exhausted and broken I'll keep moving forward, and I'll hide it from everyone because they need someone to believe in/ I won't let anyone emotionally close to me" type characters but Shadow is loud about it and Sonic is quiet about it

#shadow puts on a angry facade(or atleast he did in good versions) the same way sonic puts on a happy facade #but at the end of the day both of them are like no one can know im bothered/hurt #main reason i ship sonadow is because i think shadow is the only one who can truly see past sonics facade #best versions of sonic are the ones that acknowledge sonics horrible fear of being letting anyone know stuff gets to him #like in sonic frontiers i wish he had a moment after sage 'dies' where when they look away he has a sad face #cosmos' death was one of his best character moments ever #he wasnt smiling but he was completely blank. not because he wasn't sad but because he knew he was the one who had to be strong #also the reason why i dont like sonamy even when shes well written cus she likes the hero image sonic puts up #sonic has a big sister complex is essentially my point #sorry i put way to many tags here #sonic the hedgehog #sth #shadow the hedgehog #shadow robotnik

[spacedlexi]

it honestly frustrates me when i see people reduce the ericsons cast down to "just some teens in the woods" acting like theyre no different than any other group of lone teenagers from other existing properties and treating them like an overused trope

it is sooo important to acknowledge the "troubled youth" aspect of the whole equation. theyre not just some random teens in the woods clem stumbles across. these kids were abandoned by their families for their various "difficulties" and fucked up by The System before the outbreak even began. and then once zombies started roaming the streets their familes never came back for them and the adults that were in charge of taking care of them just left them there to rot in that old boarding school (except for ms martin who was like their lee 🥺 the only person who ever saw them as the scared traumatized kids they were and died protecting them)

the whole aspect of them already being fucked up by the adults that controlled their lives is like.....kind of important when discussing the whole "delta is stealing kids to force them to fight in a war they have no real part in and want nothing to do with" aspect of the season. and its important when comparing them to clem and her journey of also suffering at the hands of the adults around her forcing her to become self reliant. AND its important when discussing the "just trying to build a safe home (and future) worth fighting for in this world that wants them dead" aspect of the season as well

these kids were forced to come together to survive. and a Lot of them didnt... theyre the only family they have left and you can tell that even when they argue with each other theyre still a close knit group who looks out for each other. theyre a Real family before clem even gets there (and its why what really happened with the twins and brody and marlon hits them all so especially hard)

all of this is what REALLY makes ericsons such a perfect home for clem. its a Real community of her True peers. theyre not Just teens. they mightve had a layer of safety clem never had by at least having walls to keep them safe. and having the benefit of the school being hard to find. its the only reason theyre still alive when clem shows up. but theyre also some of the only people who can Truly understand where clem and aj are coming from. and its why it hurts so much when they vote to kick them out. but its also partially why she merges back into the fold so easily when she returns. plus the fact that shes Really the only one who has any idea what shes doing. shes their rock and she makes them feel safe because underneath it all theyre still just those scared traumatized kids ("EVERYONE is scared, clem..." vi was Definitely including herself in that 'everyone'), and on some level, so is clem

they saved clementines life. and she saved theirs. "the school was supposed to help them with their trauma, now they help each other" its about the LOVE the COMMUNITY the SUPPORT!!!! and thats the shit that makes good zombie media honestly 👌

#it speaks #twdg #there i go again writing another essay but i will Always defend the ericson cast theyre one of the strongest out of all 4 seasons #complaints ive seen about s4 typically include mentions of the teens as a trope being overused and im like.......did you even pay attention #the fact they were branded “troubled youth” and basically thrown away by everyone who was supposed to take care of them is SO IMPORTANT #these kids are Fucked Up but theyre Trying to make a kinder world #nobody talk to me i fucking love the ericson cast 😭😭😭 theres not a single one of them i dont like im serious #them using poor pilgrim of sorrow in ep3....ericsons is heaven to clem 😭 all the comments she can make about feeling safe there 😭😭 #clem being everyones rock but violet being clems rock back 🥺😭💕 waaaaahhh thats why it was over for me when vi stood up for them in ep 2 #vi having the courage to stand up to her group for aj........... yeah she had me in a vice grip after that. she fought for them so hard #and if it wasnt for her advocating so hard for them to stay they ALL would have been taken or killed #vi cared about clem so much she undoomed them all #and aj loved clem so much he undoomed her :') #s4 is just the perfect ending to clems story truly itll make me happy for the rest of my life im so happy for u clem 🥺 #tfw the media you like gets a good ending and the main characters are respected and it feels like it was made from a place of love #instead of being like...actively hostile to its fanbase and destroying its own characters for the Laughs #and when i say “good” i dont necessarily mean “happy” i just mean “competently written" #i wouldnt call it perfect but it survived both a cancellation AND the financial collapse of a major game studio. its perfect to Me #for what it is (and what it originally almost was with the clems house plot) we truly lucked out so fucking hard #truly a return to form of season 1 but with less despair and more hope which i appreciate :') #all the things ive liked over the years that were destroyed for me by bad or weird writing decisions... clutches onto twdg like a lifeboat #god i love s4 so much nothing has ever been More Specifically Written For Me Personally

[girl-drink-drunk]

dave foley is a fantastic actor with a varied career that spans multiple genres. however he is never going to top his peformance as mayor marilyn bowman in death comes to town. the only thing that rivals it is his performance as chris in the it's pat movie

#it is breathtaking the way he just. disappears into marilyn. #like #i truly do not see someone playing marilyn #she's my patron saint #favorite line is definitely “i want to speak to the mayor of russia!” #same with chris in it's pat who honestly should've been the main character #i truly don't see dave foley acting there #the kids in the hall #dave foley #death comes to town #it's pat

[kaseyskat]

thinking about scary and normals relationship again do NOT hit me up

#dndads #dndads spoilers #kasey rambles #admittedly the only teen ship i’m like. actively into is oakworthy #because i’m much more focused on the platonic relationships #and scary and normals platonic relationship fucks me UP and it just keeps getting worse #i think that knowing how similar younger scary was to normal just adds such an interesting layer like GOD #and scary was SO protective of normal in the earlier season she only turned on him when he got the main character energy from his lineage #and i miss that and i hope their relationship can mend but for now i am sitting here #picking apart each tangled thread of parallels #wondering truly if normals headed in the same direction scary found herself in before and if she’ll catch it in time to stop it

[neetori]

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I don't find Asterion physically attractive at all, yet here I am bestowing him the title of husbando/the new brainworm. It wasn't until I learned more about him that I fell in love.

Karlach on the other hand tho...👀💕

#astarion #karlach #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #rambling #like it's such a big thing that he seduces people and #the only thing that made me want to romance him was truly knowing him #demisexual experience? idk it just happens that i fall in love with characters after knowing them better or establishing something #i swear he is a mix of ardyn and lucio so that was one main reason jkdasljkadj #it's like that scene with amy from doctor who #when she says that she didn't find rory handsome but the more she got to be with him the more beautiful he became #meanwhile karlach is cinnamon roll #she perfect the end

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

follows an unhappy nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company - the corporate structure of gods & spirits in the modern world who deal in prayers and belief

he meets a succubus who convinces him to go freelance, and they travel the world getting their own sustenance and building a relationship

but the elder gods aren’t finished with him, and he’s tasked with stealing an artifact from the British museum, with the help of a human magician from the succubus’ past

nonlinear storytelling

#Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #another one I was really enjoying for most of it but by the end a few things I feel hm about #I thought the narrative style was really interesting and I REALLY enjoyed the concept of the corporate god stuff lmao #(tbqh I would have liked more focus on that. it’s mostly context/background) #the relationship between the main two….I wanted it to be like dysfunctional immortal couple kind of vibes but it kinda ended up a little to #like the MC spends a lot of the book being jealous and upset she won’t say she loves him and I’m fine with that as a character trait #if he got over himself but it’s more like She gives in at the end. eh. I feel like we didn’t truly see much depth in their relationship? #maybe wish there was more than one female character and also her being a succubus means she is kinda regularly raping people. #the examples we see are mostly shitty men and like obviously all the other gods are murdering people too but also.... #That is a thing in here. It maybe could have been discussed a little more idk. #Having said that I did still enjoy a lot of aspects of it!

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

okay posting this now because i feel like the surprise song combo was so intentional and i hope we get to hear more about it on ttpd !! the getaway car/august/other side of the door mashup got my gears turning and now i can’t get them to stop.

the common thread between those three songs is the third party — i wanted leave him i needed a reason, you weren’t mine to lose, was she worth this? — and i know that basically ever since the breakup people have wondered if joe cheated, and this seemed like it could have confirmed it. while i definitely see the evidence for that, it hasn’t quite seemed like the right fit to me, and after this surprise song combo i finally figured out why. i don’t think that the third party she was singing about in melbourne was an actual person, but the idea of a person.

a huge theme on midnights is what led her to being who she is now. she is both the anti-hero and bejeweled, a mastermind and the unreliable narrator in dead reader… there are so many different versions of herself. clearly she was contemplating these different versions and the implications of being each of them.

a huge theme in gothic literature are characters that are not present in the setting, but the idea of them and what they would do is so strong that they end up influencing the story anyways. this happens in rebecca, the novel that inspired tolerate it, where the main character is haunted by living in the glorious shadow that rebecca cast, an impossible standard to live up to, despite the fact that rebecca died and actually, crucially, wasn’t as great as everyone made her out to be. but it doesn’t matter that she wasn’t that great or that she’s never actually there to be truly compared to because it’s the IDEA of rebecca that’s so powerful. it’s the GHOST that haunts the narrative.

and i wonder if that was part of what drove taylor and joe apart? not an actual ~other woman~ but the idea of who taylor could have been instead. all of the other versions of herself she contemplated on midnights. the third party she seemed to be singing about. even on other albums, before this, she’s contemplated what version of herself could be loved — “i’ve been the archer, i’ve been the prey, who could ever leave me darling but who could stay?” i wonder if there was an idea of taylor (a taylor that isn’t “too big to hang out”) that was so palpable, so real, that it ended up taking up the space of another person and haunting their narrative anyways? because, like the main character in rebecca, how could she live up to the idea of a perfect life?

basically: how can you say that you love someone you can’t tell has died? did you love the real me or the version of me in your head that perfectly fit into your world?

#it’s like in wuthering heights after catherine dies and heathcliff begs to be haunted by her #like. they could have been together when she was alive. but the ghost of her is far more powerful than the real woman ever was. #because it’s the IDEA of love and happiness and a perfect life. and that idea can’t be touched! #and a real human person can’t live up to that!! that’s what happens to the main character in rebecca and to heathcliff! #like yeah it would be great if we had no problems and had the exact same interests and wants and didnt have to compromise on anything #but a real human being will never be like that. and we know taylor swift is midnight rain #she does not want it comfortable. she wants to roll up her sleeves and attack the hard things #but how can you attack or dissect or truly understand the idealized version of you living in someone’s head? #when that version of you doesn’t want what you want or have the same fragile human feelings you do? #much to think about. both rebecca and wurhering heights were books i GREATLY enjoyed. #i could be reading into nothing here but dont worry. thats never stopped me before! #taylor swift #ttpd #eras tour #random thoughts with grace

[amorremanet]

seeing a post that has interesting canon analysis and wanting to reblog it until you get to the last paragraph and just

#fandom shenanigans #tumblrisms #actual about me #wank for ts #opinions for ts #kassie hush #mine: text #i am always here to talk about how MXTX Be Gendering Again in her novels #bc truly there is SO MUCH to talk about re: how she plays with gender & this usually applies to Wangxian Bingqiu & Hualian bc Main Ships #but it also happens with the supporting characters & relationships and i love love LOVE analysis of this shit #please do talk to me about how the relationship coding w/ jiang cheng & wei wuxian is more romantic than brotherly & jc gets the fem tropes #but that being said: it’s one thing to say that JIANG CHENG believes wei wuxian’s ‘blah blah blah duty & debt to the jiang clan’ nonsense #from guanyin temple…………but i deeply question the media literacy of any READERS who actually believe that story for themselves lmao #i also seriously question their read on wwx as a character when he spends the entire novel being an unreliable narrator abt his own feelings #but like okay cool we have fundamentally irreconcilable reads on both wwx & chengxian; you do you *thumbs up*