#we stan character development

[wither-rose-circus]

So from what I’m getting, Joel went from “BBEG? What BBEG? I don’t see any BBEG, you guys are just making stuff up now. I’m gonna go back to my build.”

To “I am the BBEG now.”

And yknow what? Proud of him

#we stan character development #mcyt #empires smp s2 #smallishbeans

[demigods-posts]

annabeth going from being so out of touch with humanity that she has difficult forming healthy attachments and relationships with people at twelve years old to annabeth being the person that everyone goes to for comfort because they all value her as a friend and partner at seventeen years old is such an important detail and i don't see enough people talking about it

#annabeth is such a softie when she gets older and you can't convince me otherwise #annabeth is incredible #she killed me in the war and i was so honored #i love her with my whole heart #we stan the daughter of athena #we stan a legend #we stan a queen #annabeth chase #annabeth chase character development #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo text post #pjo

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character

#anti got #anti d&d #anti show sansa #anti sansa stans #like literally one of the worst written characters on that show because they tried so hard to make her the most important #while being entirely incompetent and their only method of doing so was to steal from other characters which ruined the plot #the only arguable achievement was defeating LF but even then it's written in the script that she had to go to Bran to explain things #/she rallied the Vale army!/ no she didn't 😭 she wrote a letter to LF and he did everything. instead of showing her arc in the Vale and #her learning about politics to rally them herself they took the quickest route to give her a /badass/ savior scene #which only ended up making her look selfish + power-hungry for putting her brothers' lives at risk for not telling anybody about said lette #and idiotic in the aftermath after relying once again on LF even though he was very obviously manipulating her #/pawn to player/ sounds catchy on paper but without seeing that growth/development it doesn't work #Arya was terribly written but at least we /saw/ her training in a way we never did with Sansa #and people try to apply this same logic to the books and think she's gonna suddenly spring forth as a political mastermind #when that's not how George writes...we see characters develop and make mistakes on page and get actual earned growth #feminism isn't defending the writing of two men who gave her a rape plot not in the books because they thought it was /interesting/ #when the only aspect of that plot they adapted was a woman suffering abuse :/ #and as per usual with stansas their only /evidence/ of her being well-written is accusing you of being misogynistic if you don't like her

[spindle-and-nima]

He was cranky yesterday but extremely hyped up to exist today

#character development we stan #bunblr #bunnies of tumblr #spindle

[lavellenchanted]

also still thinking about the fact that airk has tried so hard to be what he thinks a good man should be and that that’s basically the opposite of madmartigan (which, ouch)

and that he’s tried so hard to resist the evil of the city and the crone because he knew something wasn’t right and he only gave up after being physically broken down and almost dying of thirst multiple times

and if elora and kit can’t save him after all of that I’m going to be so mad

#willow #willow 2022 #airk tanthalos #willow spoilers #look nothing's gonna get me to stan a character faster that having them try so hard to do what's right #while having circumstances conspire against them #like airk has not been in it much but there is so much potential in his character #(elora fell for him because he was KIND when no one else was) #(he's been living in kit's shadow but never resented her) #(he just wants to be the person his father never could) #so I really hope he's saved and given room to develop if we get a s2

[pidayforpi]

(Sometimes I find it funny that Donald is jealous of Mickey for being apparently more famous

When Donald is literally the single most developed character out of the entire "Mickey & Friends" cohort)

#and probably one of the most developed characters under Disney actually #I understand this is a long-standing character trait of donald #but it is just funny to think about #Dona-chan you are way way more famous than you think #Not even Goofy can compare #(for one you have two handsome latino boyfriends what else can you ask for) #random thoughts #donald duck #we stan dona-chan in this house

[alienheartattack]

Starting a support group for straight women who are not attracted to Adam Driver, and another support group for romance readers who jumped into a book that seemed good, only to find that it was unreadable Reylo fanfiction with the numbers barely filed off.

#i have taken so much psychic damage from AD fans #in this house we stan rat boys not cat boys! #god i'm so mad about this book that was not advertised as reylo fanfic #i wasn't digging it because something seemed off and i was right #fanfiction writing is not romance fiction writing!!!! you need to develop the damn characters!!!! #also stop making me picture adam driver when i read! he is the avatar of vaginal dryness over here #i endured the last duel for the *other* adam on the cast thank you very much

[welcometogrouchland]

Getting back into comics is fun. Minus the Getting Back Into Comics part of it all

#ramblings of a lunatic #fascinating opinions from everyone. truly every death threat over characterization is in proportion and within reason #sorry just. I've seen things #i think dc tumblr might be one of the only fandoms I've seen where it's equally as toxic as it's twitter counterpart #but on the other hand. funny and pretty drawings <3 #I'm generally taking a ''its not that deep unless i feel like it'' approach to comics #not everything needs to be high art and i can excuse work where i maybe don't agree with certain aspects or portrayals #as long as i can find some kind of value in it #which i think you genuinely can in most comics #i think maybe we should all just drink some water. y'know? #anyway i read stargirl: the lost children (was very good! i didn't get most of the golden age refs- #-and also i. didn't know i had to read the sprinbreak special but! besides that! i enjoyed it!- #-todd naucks art is great (i have yj98 stockholm syndrome for it <3) and i like courtney and emiko being friends!- #-also SECRET MENTION WOOOOO GRETA HAYES STANS STAY WINNING(???do we???) #uhhh what else #ooh i read truth & justice no.6 which was a fun story w/ Damian and the batfam! #characterization was off but in a ''we're playing things fast and loose for comedy's sake'' plus they did great work w/ damian #i definitely get why some ppl are sad he's losing some of his surly and more formal edge in his character voice #but i think I'm cool with it tho I'd like if it was maybe casually addressed in story as part of his character development #he's let his guard down. he talks like a shitty teen and not an 18th century warlord now. he's picked up some nightwingisms #he's not crushingly insecure and by consequence violent and vicious anymore #but like again I'd like it acknowledged slightly but that's just me. i at least appreciate all the affection his current writer- #-Joshua Williamson has for damian. like i read adam glass' teen titans run (bad. btw <3) you don't know how comforting this is to me #he called Damian his little babyman on a podcast and i nearly jumped out of my seat thinking ''HES JUST LIKE ME FOR REAL!!!'' #he clearly bases most of his work with damian off of tomasi's work with the character which is comforting i think #where was i going with this #anyway yeah. comics tumblr is WILD there is no way you guys are ever getting me to go there full time ever again #once I figure out how to draw dc characters (again... it's been so long) then it's OVER for you bitches

[shima-draws]

🔥+ mha because i just wanna see the world burn

I'm gonna say it. The villains are overrated and overhyped. I've actually talked about this before too. They're just so boring to me? And bland? Literally the reason why I haven't finished season 5 yet is because they switched over to the villains arc and I was like. I'm not interested in this can we PLEASE go back to the kids and see what they're doing. And this was when season 5 was releasing so I STILL haven't watched anything past that lol

Also why is everyone so obsessed with Shigaraki he's just a crusty ass little twink who throws baby tantrums when he doesn't get his way. Get a better villain

(Btw this is not an invitation for y'all to come fight with me in my inbox lmao if you like Shiggy cool good for you! I get the appeal I just don't care for him personally)

#Shima answers questions #I'M SORRY TO ALL MY VILLAIN STANS. YOU DO YOU #I just. Don't care about them. Even after the backstory reveal #Idk maybe when I actually see all that in the anime and emotionally process I'll get more attached but like #Even with Dabi who I KNOW is a Todoroki and has a Tragic Backstory™ #And is arguably the most 'attractive' one of the bunch #I'm still like. Meh. He's there I guess. He exists #I'm STILL waiting for BNHA to give me a villain I can get attached to. It hasn't happened yet #Besides Gentle and La Brava but they were there for 5 minutes and that was all we got of them. #TRAGIC really bc I adore them. They feel more developed as characters than Shigaraki and he's been the main villain the entire time #Shrugs I like what I like I guess. And Shiggy's crew ain't it #BNHA

[arklayraven]

Seems like the price for Asmo getting a little better writing treatment in NB. Was Solomon getting some poor writing in return huh? lol

Sheesh what a mess...

#;little raven speaks #obey me #obey me nightbringer #context on my blog in other posts over what I learned...I might make a long ass post about this all later... #over the poor writing and execution over Solomon's character development from og OM to NB... #Like unless we learn the Solomon we are with in NB isn't our real Solomon...Then what has happened is just a mess. #and some people shouldn't blame some of us Asmo stans for being upset at Solomon for what he's done in NB.

[cometblaster2070]

ashlynn ella calling everyone ‘honey’ regardless of any fact is a hill that i will die on.

#eah #ever after high #ashlynn ella #i am here for ashlynn #her calling everyone honey platonically is something that gives me so much serotonin #ashlynn's underrated man #she's the ultimate mom friend #and she had a lot of room to develop her character #it's just a shame that didn't happen #but you can argue that about every character #anyways #in this house we stan ashlynn ella #and everything she stands for

[prettyinpwn-blog]

More GF Incorrect Quotes

(Specifically focusing on interactions with all the Shack gang because Ford didn’t interact enough with Wendy or Soos in the show imo)

*Squad reactions to being told ‘I love you’* Mabel: Thanks fam! Wendy: Oh no. Stan: *cries* I love you too. Ford: Sounds fake, but okay. Soos: *A flustered mess* Dipper: Can I get a refund? 

*The squad's reaction to being told they're the chosen one* Mabel: I will not let you down. Dipper: Sounds fun. Wendy: K. Stan: No, I'm fucking not. Soos: Do I have to be? Ford: Please god, I am so tired. 

Soos: A mouse! Wendy, pulling out a knife: Go back to where you came from or I'll stab you. Ford, pulling out a frying pan: It'll make a nice meal! Mabel, giving the mouse cheese: You deserve a treat, little guy. Stan, gasping: It's Ratatouille! Dipper: His name is Remi, dummy. Soos: ...I was going to say to just trap it and throw it out the window... what is wrong with you people.

*the Squad at Disneyland, in the teacups* Wendy, Soos, and Dipper: *spinning a little and talking* Mabel, Ford, and Stan: *flying past them, spinning as fast as they can, screaming*

*when the Squad drops food* Mabel: Eh, oh well. Wendy: FIVE-SECOND RULE! Stan: FUCK! Soos: *just gets more food* Dipper: *drops to their knees and mourns the food* Ford: *eats the food off the ground*

Soos: So, did everyone learn their lesson? Wendy: No. Ford: I did not. Dipper: I may have actually forgotten one. Stan: Also no. Soos: Oh good, neither did I. Mabel: *Exhausted sigh*

Ford: Man, they look like a real handful. How do you deal with them? Stan, watching Dipper screaming, Wendy trying to set a sleeping Soos on fire, and Mabel choking on air: I don't know either.

Wendy: Why did you guys dress up as each other for Halloween? Stan: Ford is the scariest thing I could think of! Ford: Stan told me I should pick the dumbest costume possible.

Ford: *speaking Spanish* Stan: I know, I know. Soos: You speak Spanish? Stan: No. I just know the phrase, 'this is all your fault' in every language Ford speaks.

Wendy: Would you take a bullet for me? Soos: ...yes? *Ford angrily bursts into the room* Wendy: *running away* Great, thanks!

Ford: We can bake these cookies at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or 4,000 degrees for 1 minute. Soos: No, that's not how you make cookies. Dipper: FLOOR IT!! Ford: How about 4,000,000 degrees for 1 second?!? Soos: yOU'RE GONNA BURN THE HOUSE DOWN- Ford: I'M GONNA HARNESS THE POWER OF THE FUCKING SUN TO MAKE COOKIES! Stan: DO IT! Soos: NO-

Wendy: What’s wrong? You look 10 seconds away from ripping someone’s throat out. Stan: Fucking Dipper and Ford were trying to invoke one of the minor gods again last night. I didn't get an ounce of sleep, thanks to their bloody chanting.

Dipper: Tell Mabel off, Ford! Assert yourself! Ford: That's my ice cream! Dipper: Good! Now let them have it!! Ford, handing Mabel the ice cream: Here, you can have it!

Dipper: Remember! Curiosity killed the cat! Ford: Yes, but you forget that satisfaction brought it back. So yes, Mabel, go find out if that thing can catch fire! Dipper: You're a bad influence. Ford: And you don't know your sayings.

#gravity falls #Stanley Pines #stanford pines #dipper pines #mabel pines #wendy corduroy #soos #you can't tell me Ford doesn't eat the weirdest shit after decades in sci-fi sideburn land #and Stan's just like 'bro stop eating wildlife we're gonna get the DNR called on us' #Ford: *puts chipmunk down with a glare* #also we need more Wendy Soos and Ford interaction headcanons in general #I imagine Soos would admire Ford after a bit like he does Stan hence the Stanfiction #as for Wendy I think she'd admire Ford's dramatic flair I mean sliding down pine trees or alien ship walls kinda similar #and Ford would slowly come around to Soos' asking him a million questions for Stanfiction purposes #as for Wendy Ford would try to encourage her to do better in school and help her study and she'd hate it outwardly but secretly feel happy #cause no offense to her dad or Stan but ah... Ford's probably the first older sort of dad-ish figure she's met that cared more about school #he'd maybe even encourage her towards college whereas before she always thought she'd just take over her dad's work #granted wendy just needed more character development in the show in general

[essaytime]

Do you have any ocs?

Well, that's sort of complicated:) As a person with a penchant for creating stories in my head that I never write down, I've created a lot of characters, but in fact I forgot most of them and a large percent of the rest are outdated to me. I have one universe I still remember and I love, though, and it's actually based on a weird sentence I got on Duolingo. Basically, it's 1981, a Norwegian architecture student accidentally messes with a witch and as punishment gets teleported to a random house in Poland - then, just a few days later, Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial state and it gets worse. I would have to work on the characters, though, because the few that survived a strict story-revitalising process are more briefly sketched outlines of people, but Zofia (unless I change her name), her mom, aunt and maternal grandma have names and are here to stay.

#ESPECIALLY maternal grandma #(she's a maternal grandma through adoption. the aunt is her biological child though) #we stan Lieselotte #and she's also not a main character (she's going to be important. I didn't create her like that to not give her screentime.) #yet she's the most developed of all #and for good reasons

[djappleblush]

Damn, I still can't believe my OTP is canon this time. The feeling of elation is unparalleled.

#love between fairy and devil #cang lan jue #supermoon lovers #苍兰诀 #dixin couple #xiao lan hua #dongfang qingcang #esther yu #yu shuxin #dylan wang #wang hedi #this OTP is easily in my top 3 list #I will never forget them #also they are canon and that's the best bit #I just feel ao proud of their development and growth together #so different from 90% of dramas nowadays #we stan a well written love story and characters #I feel so blessed

[lemonhemlock]

I can’t find the post now, but recently you reblogged something about how the show didn’t think through the implications of making the Velaryons black- it phrased mte very well! I love the actors chosen to portray all these characters- Steve Toussaint is wonderful, and as you said, Wil Johnson absolutely maximized his time as Vaemond. Both actresses for Laena were criminally underused, and Phoebe and Bethany are excellent! I have no complaints about casting! But the writing for the Velaryons specifically just makes it so uncomfortably obvious. For one, in F&B, this family is already shafted by team black. Laenor cuckolded and eventually killed, Vaemond murdered and the cousins mutilated- in the context of the show, for saying the very obvious truth! Like I’m shocked they didn’t think through how this would play on TV, aside from allowing Laenor to live (which is its own thing that has weird ripples they also didn’t seem to think through)

The show then takes it a step further and makes Rhaena and Baela little more than set dressing for the first season. In F&B, we know both girls have plenty of significant moments to come, and if they were white characters played by white actresses, it wouldn’t seem so glaring. But obviously they aren’t, and it instead reads like black characters getting shelved in favor of white leads. It’s just so frustrating to see major showrunners not seem to comprehend how these choices will be viewed by modern audiences. Sorry to rant in your ask! It was the first time I’d seen that touched on in a way that really spelled out the problem here.

Hello there, thanks for dropping by. I'm torn on the issue of the Velaryons, because, on the one hand, for all the criticism, it does make a difference, especially for the actors. You have to question whether HotD would have really been improved upon if everyone were white. It's a ridiculous question to ask, because networks trying to be more inclusive and hire more actors of colour is always going to be a good thing at least for said actors' careers. And the Velaryon actors really hit it out of the park with their limited screen time. Even so, the visibility spike they must have had by appearing in a very popular show watched by millions can't hurt, no matter how mangled their character's development is. So, ultimately, are we really worse off with making the Velaryons black? Not saying I have the answer to these problems, but it's not as easy as just dismissing this decision for diversity points.

On the other hand, there's really no way to say this differently, but not only are the Velaryons shafted hard by the Targaryens in the book, they also end up shafting each other. Corlys does his darnest to prevent his granddaughters from inheriting, Baela and Rhaena bring their 6-year-old cousin Daenaera to marry her off to their brother, Alyn cheats on Baela etc. It's very messy. All of these characters are flawed and meant to be critiqued, but race-swapping them has also geared the conversation away from that, since they already suffer from being shelved in favour of white leads, like you said, so fans are perhaps more wary of being critical of them.

It's true that Baela and Rhaena are reduced to set dressing in the show, but their participation in the war is very limited in the books too. I've criticised their acquiescence to Rhaenyra's betrothal plot in the show, but they're content to be the consorts and not heiresses in the books, as well. So this is not just a show-only thing, it's in line with their book behaviour.

There is also a popular interpretation of Rhaena's character as a symbol of hope and reconciliation for the Targaryen dynasty. It's true that she is the more diplomatic and gentle of the sisters, but, in the wake of HotD... how do you chime into the conversation to point out that ultimately this is a character that was designed to be a white Targaryen girl who just hatched a fire-breathing monster and could very well partake in that supernatural power? (Baela is worried she might use Morning to avenge her first husband's death) I realise that mine is decidedly the unpopular interpretation, but for a corner of the fandom that is so hellbent on criticising the Targaryens for their use of dragons and wholeheartedly agrees that Westeros is better off without them, Rhaena gets off the hook a lot for perpetuating this very system.

In addition, no one bothers to point out that Morning also dies pretty shortly afterwards (for a dragon). Where exactly is the hope here and for whom? Not for the King, certainly, as Rhaena leaves court because her brother cannot stand to be in the presence of dragons (she says she feels unwelcome). He is known to history as dragonbane as the last known dragon dies in 153 AC, so there's no way Morning was older than 24 when she died. After that, House Targaryen's obsession to bring dragons back will haunt them for the rest of their history.

[This is more of an aside, not criticism, but indicative of the same environment. Rhaena's marriage to Garmund Hightower is also seen through rose-tinted glassed. Fans like to think that her six daughters are indicative of a happy relationship, but they do not take the Lady Sam situation into account. If you look at the Hightower family tree, the High Septon refused to marry Lyonel, the heir, to Lady Sam and for a good chunk of time, all their six children were illegitimate. Martyn, the second son, had no issue. Which means that the High Tower would pass to Garmund's line. Perhaps we should interrogate if the reason they had so many children was because what Garmund needed/wanted was a boy, but they just kept having girls. In any case, this exercise was rendered futile at one point, as the new High Septon did indeed agree to marry Lyonel and Lady Sam, after which they got their children legitimized.]

#ask #anon #house velaryon #not saying they're the worst ever or anything ridiculous like that #but ppl tend to stan them without any critical approach #we beat the dead horse over aegon going to the fighting pits or not #but baela is also known to spend her time gambling in the rat pits of flea bottom #if they ever came to show that onscreen ppl would throw hands #so you know 🤷‍♀️ #again keep in mind that the twins were conceptualised as white girls while they were written like that #so idk developing their characters is very much needed in the show but they are also flawed people #and i'm not sure fans accept that they're not above criticism

[i-still-hate-spitelout-jorgenson]

LMAO WHATS WITH THE GUSTAV HATE RECENTLY 😭😭😭

#i dont get it did we all just simultaneously get bored??? #Also I dont dislike Gustav #like yeah hes annoying. hes a kid #Dragon riders are a recent change made my teenagers when Gustav was 12. hes gonna think thats TIGHT AS FUCK. #Gustav is like the closest person to their age we know of on berk!! ofc hes gonna be excited abt that!!! #AND YEAH. HES ANNOYING. #but like all the reasons hes annoying are the same reasons youre not supposed to like snotlout that much in rob/dob #and obviously gustav doesnt have as much known depth as snotlout does but like #If we hste Spitelout for threatening to disown snotlout at the games i think we have to hate Gustavs mum for selling him for a shiny rock #just sayin 🤷‍♂️ #Ive always seen gustav as a character who WILL have meaningful development. just not in a time frame we'll ever see. snf thats ok! #hes 12 in rob/dob and 16 in rtte. when the riders are 15 and 19 respectively. The riders are thus going to find gustav annoying REGARDLESS- #of whether or not he ACTUALLY is. because theyre teenagers and thsts what teenagers do! #Tldr i dont rlly have sny thoughts on Gustav Larson BUT its unfair to hate him so im going to be gustav stan no.2 (mona is no.1) #(/lh irdc how u feel abt gustav i think opinions of others are important but heres my 2 cents) #httyd #rtte #rob/dob #riders of berk #defenders of berk #gustav larson #spitelout jorgenson #snotlout jorgenson