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really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram
Do we think in the furry community of the pokemon world making your fursona(well, pokesona) like. Palkia or Dialga or something is considered blasphemous and there are crazy reddit threads and twitter doxxings over it
youtube thumbnail concept. the title is "the LASS with a DARK SECRET..." or somethinglike that
Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.
Reblogging for edits
"We're meant to be mortal enemies but oh no he's hot" is so trite. Could happen to anyone—it's hormones, most likely, and you'll live. Take a cold shower and/or masturbate and get over it. "We're meant to be mortal enemies but I have to admit he's making a compelling argument" is so much more delicious. You cannot brush off something founded on the most merciless logic. It forces you to rethink your entire life. It's sexier than sex, actually.
not even the sea will take me.
Re my last reblog actually what I love is a character who has any notable relationship with death as part of their story. Characters who are brought to the point of suicide characters who don’t want to die but their time alive is so limited anyway characters who find a reason to live characters who romanticize martyrdom and think about their death all the time characters who will do anything and rage against the world to stop themselves from dying characters who value self sacrifice and will do it every time precisely because they love life and there’s nobility in giving something up that you love. Any and all of them.
fun character types
character who is not allowed to kill themself
related: suicidal character who physically can't kill themself
alive character who has successfully committed suicide
character who hasn't died but has committed thematic suicide of the Self
character who thinks they're suffering karmic punishment for killing/trying to kill themself
"[...] writing about groups that aren't you and are oppressed isn't as stressful because there's a distance from it [...]"
@halogenwarrior
I couldn’t tell the context with which you quoted me but just to be clear I was talking about this phenomenon of people being more comfortable with writing about oppression that isn’t themselves to criticize how I see this in other people and to explain, not justify why they might act that way, not to say I feel that way myself. I worry taking this part of my quote out of context might make it seem like I was just happily admitting my own biases or something.
contrary to common intentions authors have when making such characters, making a character low empathy is one of the fastest ways to get me to like them. "isn't it freaky that this guy just doesn't understand what they do to people? aren't you so unsettled and creeped out right now" bro you have just described to me a tragic tale of isolation wherein the chasm of separation only grows wider & deeper with every attempt to reach beyond
More 👏 low👏 empathy👏 and👏 socio👏 pathic👏 characters
I will ALWAYS love a good low empathy character.
Yk. As someone who struggles with empathy.
More low empathy characters that aren't tragic, too! Or characters that start out that way and gradually do get better at understanding but from an intellectual standpoint and get to be happy and chill about it, without becoming deeply empathetic.
Characters who have a range of emotions and experiences but they're often very lowkey compared to the people around them. Characters who aren't sure what they're feeling and who just don't seem to feel some things without being treated as one-note robots. Characters who don't really get sad, who are often indifferent or fascinated or even amused by others' struggles, but can still shut down or get pissed off when it affects themselves or Their people too much or in the wrong way. Some characters with selective empathy and some characters who still don't feel pity but just like their friends and get irritated when their friends have less time and energy for them. Characters who will help for the "wrong" reasons but they're still helping and that's way better than the people who feel bad and do nothing.
Characters who are unbothered by the things that upset everyone around them, so they make the best therapists and pillars of support, because they won't get dragged down alongside others and can stay calm and objective and focused enough to give great advice or help deal with the problem or even just laugh it off enough that it makes the problem seem less overwhelming.
I say all this as someone with very high empathy who can be very emotionally volatile, and who tends to get more upset when my friends get upset because I'm upset so I often feel like I have to bottle things to keep it from "spreading". I so deeply deeply adore my low-empathy friends for being able to be so chill and grounding when I'm upset. Of course there are times when I wish they cared more about some things, of course no one will ever have the exact response anyone else is hoping for to every situation. But SO often, it can be so nice, and I'd desperately love to see more media portray the ways having low empathy can be actively positive and beneficial to people around them, regardless of the empathy levels of people around them. Hell, give me a friend group where multiple people have different brands of low empathy, even, instead of always treating it like a rare outlying thing.
Give me stories of psychopaths who barely feel shit but learned their whole lives how to fake it and are really good at reading people, so they make a point to be nosy and use a talent for manipulation to get their friends to take better care of themselves without always even registering how much the psychopath character is helping, who try to take care of all their friends to maximize how often they get to have fun with their friends. Give me stories of narcissists that focus on the insecurity as much as the grandiosity, characters who have trained themselves to go through the extra mental steps needed to motivate themselves to take really good care of their friends, partly to earn the external validation they crave and partly because they've trained themselves to weaponize their egocentric thinking and developed really high cognitive empathy where they can imagine themself in any situation and go oh hell no and get really worked up about it on another's behalf. Give me fucking variety with "scary" disorders.
And yeah absolutely also give me stories where other characters are going, "wow, that person doesn't seem to understand basic humanity, how creepy", and maybe even stories framed in a way likely to prime the audience for that too at first, only to then go, hey. This sucks. This person's not even fucking doing anything except Existing Incorrectly, apparently.
Or hell, bait and switch. Have a character/figure a lot of others talk about that way, or show some characters talking about True Crime type shit, etc. Have one character who tends to shrug off those conversations. Switch to that character's PoV and reveal they're really good at masking, so their friends have no idea how often they're talking about them, but they sure know exactly what others would think of them if they ever dropped the mask for a second. I'm sure that's a normal and healthy and sustainable way to live.
TL;DR - MORE LOW EMPATHY CHARACTERS! MORE NEUTRAL AND POSITIVE STORIES FOR THEM! MORE VARIETY IN THEIR STORIES!
Terra
Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.
Is your girl blorbo a city girl or a country girl?
City girl
Country girl
Mid-sized town girl
Suburban girl
Secret third thing
Nuance
Is your girl blorbo a city girl or a country girl?
City girl
Country girl
Mid-sized town girl
Suburban girl
Secret third thing
Nuance
if the animorphs were on tumblr, what kind of blogs would they have and who would they ship, if anyone?
Tobias: An entire blog of shitty bird photos. He collects them like candy, and people start tagging @redoftailandtiredofshit in their worst bird photos so that he can be sure to reblog them.
Cassie: Social justice blog, obviously. Lots of promoting good news about environmental wins, lots of suggesting ways people can help out in their community, lots of lists of ways to be a little more punk (by helping out your neighbors and destroying hostile architecture) in your everyday life.
Marco: The authority on Powerpuff Girls discourse. He cites his sources, he edits gifsets to back up his headcanons, he shares huge sets of screenshots and links to the show. It's 80% curatorial fandom, 25% piracy resource, 5% unhinged headcanons.
Jake: Made exactly one post, which reads "DAE ever suspect a member of your family got secretly replaced by an alien?" It attracted so many conspiracy theorists, and people shouting at the conspiracy theorists, that he eventually deleted it and gave up.
Ax: Food reviews! Including reviews of such foods as styrofoam cups, wrapping paper, and laundry detergent pods. Known for printing out his entire blog twice a month so that he can have paper copies as backups.
Rachel: All the aesthetic posts, all the time. For concepts, for fashions, for fictional characters. They'd combine short quotes, design ideas, cool photos, and anything else she found. Since she's secretly a diehard romantic, she'd be the one shipping Scully/Mulder and Kirk/Spock and Thelma/Louise and all the other major ships of the era.
David reposts Jordan Peterson lectures and incel rants. Later on he gets really into Norse mythology and you're afraid to ask.
How do you think the characters/series might be different if someone other than Cassie was an estreen?
My thoughts:
JAKE: Would get in touch with his more artistic side in his rare moment of downtime
RACHEL: Would always morph a bear arm first and foremost so that she couldn't immediately start punching enemies
MARCO: Would morph in such a way that always managed to "mysteriously" end up closer to Rachel (for ex when shrinking to a cockroach with Rachel on his left, most changes would happen in ways that made him lean/fall left, no one knows why, such a weird thing)
AX: Would unfortunately have one more "proof" in the superiority of Andalites over humans.
TOBIAS: Interesting question: is estreen-ness tied to mental focus or genetic luck? Would he still be an estreen once trapped in hawk form? Regardless, I do think it would have taken him a little longer to get trapped, because he his go-to when he got stressed would be to more hawk wings on his human form for a couple minutes and it would help calm him down, and he might feel less trapped overall.
What do you think?
I love all of these. And now I'm fascinated by the idea that Tobias just doesn't try that hard at morphing, and most of his apparent delay behind the others is just down to lack of motivation. Because it certainly fits.
He accidentally-on-purpose traps himself in morph. He hates seeing his friends go into danger and being unable to help, of course, but other than that he rarely morphs. He seems to have less interest in morphing for fun than the others — he does maybe three? quirky side quests (commercial crashing in #3, mouse infiltration in MM1, parrot sabotage in #15) and for all of those he's out of morph rather than acquiring new stuff for hijinks. So I love the idea that morphing skill is driven by motivation, with Cassie having the highest for clear character reasons and Tobias or Marco having the lowest overall.
Also, as far as the idea is, I think that there’s heavy implication that being an estreen is not a function of luck or some in a skill, but rather something that comes from having deeply internalized knowledge of biology (and possibly the ability to visualize it well). The two estreens in the series, Cassie and Estrid, have significant in-depth knowledge of biology in a way that few of the other characters do.
Animorphs #23: The Pretender thoughts (pt. 5):
Controversial opinion incoming: I don't like the end of this book.
Like, this post really sums it up:
Animorphs is not that bad. Cassie's not related to anyone important, at least, and Jake's tie to Tom is mostly just inconvenient. HOWEVER. It's still canon that the Ellimist "stacked the deck" by recruiting Animorphs who are relatives of people like Eva and Elfangor and Tom, and the implication about ~*~superior genes~*~ is still in there.
To me, the reveal about Tobias being related to Elfangor:
Cheapens the message about these being ordinary kids — dumb jocks, bully magnets, screw-ups — who are literally in the wrong place at the wrong time when superheroism gets thrust upon them. Jake is my favorite because he cuts against type for SF heroes: he's not an outsider nerd, he's not talented; he's just some dumb jock who is also kind and brave and optimistic. Giving Tobias the classic SF backstory makes him less relatable, in my book.
Undercuts Tobias's friendship with Ax. Along with the backlash to "they're such good friends they must be in love", I'd like to start a backlash against "they're such good friends they must be related." Because it's still implying that some types of love are more valid than others. The shorms are family before they find out they share genes; do we really need that added element?
Undercuts Tobias's own call to action in the first book. Tobias makes this instant connection with a stranger from another species, in a way that Jake notes only Tobias could ever do, and it ends up pulling all five human kids into the war. There's heartbreaking power to the idea that Tobias is this overflowing with empathy and also naïveté. But whoops, nope, turns out it was a genetic connection all along!
Straight up doesn't make sense? It's a rare case where Animorphs' otherwise pretty good continuity slips up big time — Loren's three husbands, Chapman's contagious amnesia, both Tobias's parents going from "dead" to "missing", Ax's childhood suddenly being illogical. There are so many ret-con gymnastics going on that this twist doesn't feel worth it.
Loses the realism. Animorphs has my love forever for details like Marco not being able to afford admission to the Gardens and Ax fighting tears at the thought of disappointing his dad and Rachel having to be the second parent to her sisters. Tobias having a dogshit home life, just because, and using morphing as a desperate escape hatch — that's realism. That feels perfectly in line with the themes of the series. It feels like things I saw as a kid that no adult, and no other kids' book series, would talk about. Tobias having a dogshit home life because his dad's an alien prince who got time-warped off to fight a cosmic war while his mom was attacked by his dad's ancient enemies and given fantasy!amnesia because of her former role as the first human ever to be mind-controlled... Fuck off. If I wanted fantasy escapism, I'd read a different book.
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Hmmmm hm. Okay. Worldbuilding/story idea.
One million years after humanity disappears, octopi and ravens have independently developed sapience. And one day an octopus child and an elder raven meet at the edge of the ocean.
Where is your mother and father? asks the raven. I have no mother or father, says the octopus, blushing pale. All octopi are children. Once we’re grown, we will mate and we will die. It is the first and the last thing our mothers tell us.
But that’s horrible, says the raven. It’s not all bad, says the octopus. We play, we hunt, we make games for ourselves in the deep. Yes, but who remembers your songs? the raven says. Who passes down your stories?
What is a story? the octopus asks.
And the raven thinks about this question. And finally it says: A story is how you remember things in the past. It is how you know where you come from, and what happened before you were born. A story can be a warning, or it can be advice, or it can be a silly joke told to make you feel good. Someone remembers the story and tells it to the next generation, who remember the story and tells it to the generation after them.
And the octopus thinks about this answer. And finally it says: Can you tell me a story?
And the raven tells the octopus a story. And it’s a good story. And the next day the octopus returns and asks for another. The next day it brings its octopus friends, and the raven brings its raven friends, and many stories are shared on the edge of the ocean.
Months later, the octopus returns to the raven. I am grown, it says. I am returning to the sea to find a mate and lay my brood. I will not be coming back. I’m sorry.
I will miss your company, says the raven.
I have one thing to ask you, says the octopus. In time my children will come to the edge of the ocean. I would like you to tell them a story I have made. And when they have stories of their own, I would like your children to remember them and pass them down to my children’s children.
Of course, says the raven. What is your story about?
And the octopus thinks, and says: It is about an octopus child and an elder raven who meet at the edge of the ocean.
And this story has been passed down to this day.
Has your girl blorbo canonically grieved?
Yes, defining component of her character
Yes, focus of a significant plotline/arc
Yes, focus of a subplot/side story
It’s implied/referenced but never depicted in the text
It’s plausible that it happened but it’s never referenced
Will probably only really happen post-canon
Highly unlikely to have happened
She died before she could grieve 😔
Nuance
