You and your little friends are going to be the main targets of the mass reporting and the FBI t*rrorism tip line. I hope you enjoy this blog while it lasts
what really bugs me about the omegaverse isn't the freaky sex dynamics, it's that if you're choosing an animal to model your freaky sex dynamics after, wolves are objectively the most boring choice. this website boasts about "cannibalism as a metaphor for love" and "the eroticism of the wound" but then in their wildest imagination the freakiest thing that can happen is getting stuck inside your partner for a little bit. YAWN. so much for the monsterfucking website! it's so mind boggling when insects are RIGHT THERE. there's your average "biting the male's head off during the act", "killing the male after being unimpressed with his displays of affection", but if i may make a suggestion, i think bed bugs have the freakiest mating model of them all.
while traumatic insemination, or wound fucking, exists among several invertebrates, for bed bugs it is the ONLY option. to love is to kill and to love is to die. their little tiny systems are not so neatly separated as ours. blood and lymph circulate together in a mixture called hemolymph. if you can get to their hemolymph, you're just about everywhere inside them. everywhere! talk about an all-consuming love! now i know what you're thinking. "this all sounds heteronormative". i have good news!
that's righr. bed bugs can yaoi. they're yaoing on your filthy bed right now, cucking you as we speak you piece of bitch. rejoice, fujoshis! i'd say your wildest dreams have come true but your wildest dreams are so fucking boring. unlike bed fugs.
inseminated male beg fucks show characteristic "mating scars". scientists have found no benefit to this practice. they have conjectured that an inseminated male might be able to carry another male's sperm to a female when mating, depositing both of their sperm in her (talk about a love triangle!) but in practice this has shown to be near impossible. they simply do this because they love it. the absolute freaks. and what do YOU bring to the table. you should be ashamed of yourself.
from a creator to another, i really admire the audience you've managed to gain and how you are able to connect to them while also not letting them push boundaries. if it isn't a bother, could i ask you how you did it? naturally, you're a thicker skinned individual (judging by the amount of hate comments you get based on nothing), but how exactly did you manage to get a fanbase that admires your work while respecting you?
i mainly ask because (not calling out anyone in particular, i'm just referring to something i've noticed a lot in spaces where the creator also makes visual novel games) the shift in fandom culture and etiquette has changed so much that a lot of people who claim to consume another creator's art might not actually respect them, which leads to creators having to change their vision to fit the likes of the general public and annoying or disrespectful fan interactions.
wish you and your husband both well in your creative journeys.
Thank you, anon. It's funny that you bring this up, because this very same observation was actually the driving force of what motivated me to put my work out there!
I actually started out my presence online as a digital artist sharing my work on Twitter, and while I gained a modest following, some commissioners, and friends, I understood a kind of 'fundamental truth' with how Web 2.0 was set up to run, which is that it was meant to steal your attention and force you to develop submission over metrics. These metrics would be enough to shatter any person's sense of self-worth, because it assigned a number value to your worth. You just didn't have your own insecurity to fight, you have what is seemingly an objective metric that tells you exactly what it's worth.
At least, that's what it seems like in the surface. And to very susceptible young people who haven't developed their personalities yet, they can fall prey to this pretty easily.
But, I guess, it clashed with some of the actual things I believed in real life. I actually have a very adversarial relationship with popularity growing up because it's been a huge theme that contributed to my abuse. Not to recount a lot of details, but my mother was obsessed with her reputation even prior to this internet, and she was often 1) wracked with nerves about people's perception about her, and 2) a slave to trends that fades away every few months. Not only that, she would force this anxiety to her children, and make us abide by trending norms. What I understood from this constant exposure to trends... is that they often made me feel nothing. Their desirability is built on FOMO. Without FOMO, they were nothing but cheap, mediocre creations that's meant to appeal to the least common denominator. The mediocrity is the appeal, because it inspires participation from everyone involved.
^ Having realized this even at Age 12, I realized how I conducted myself as a slave to algorithm made me realize my perspective was shifting to that like my mother, and I was... essentially offering people slop content to distract their lives with. I could not contain my disgust towards myself, because I betrayed everything I believed in.
So, I started Reanimated Heart to be the opposite of how I conducted myself on Twitter. I wanted to create something that embodied what I actually love, which is classic and obscure literature absolutely no one gives a fuck about and obscure indie artists who took risks. I wanted to create something slow, intensely personal, and took a long time so my vision dripped from every element. I wanted to make art people sat down to experience, not mold to their liking. Regardless of how people see Reanimated Heart, I wanted it first and foremost to be mine.
I guess my greater point is that while it's easy to fall into FOMO, I actually don't think this is human nature, because I have this optimistic belief that humans, deep down, want something new and beautiful, something that actually respects them and their time, that connects with them as a person and not just as a metric behind the screen. And I think that if I approach my work in this way and I approach fans in this way (where I constantly never forget their humanity), they are also prone to treating me the same, or at least, that's what I like to believe. I like to jokingly preach about never giving a fuck and just doing shit rahhh!! But the truth is that I actually approach people with a lot of love and optimism, that I believe they can also reach for something true and authentic within themselves, then they are actually prone to responding in kind. And while, yes, I've gotten hate and disrespectful interactions, this remains as the core belief in everything I do and make, and I see the unpleasantness as outliers, because there are more people that support me even silently than not, and I prefer to focus on those good interactions. So, people who understand that I conduct myself in this way stay and become loyal, and recommend my work to their friends who are the same, while others who are using me to gratify themselves eventually leave, because they know I don't entertain them.
I know my growth can be better if I submit to trends and fan demands... but, fuck, I really do not want to, hahaha. My gift to fans is my dedication to improve my craft, my consistency, my authentic artistic view, and my respect for their time and humanity, and they can decide what that's worth. I'm pleased to see that they at least think that's worth something!
ever since i was young i've been drawn to narratives where a character acquires powers by being premeditatively attacked, subdued, and forcibly empowered by some kind of invasive procedure, leaving them feeling guiltily ashamed, alienated from their own body, and violently uncomfortable under any amount of attention drawn to them despite their new enhanced ability to defend themself and others. for no particular reason.
You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.
Absolutely. One of my favorite examples is Citizen Kane. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful movie about how a traumatized child becomes an authoritarian billionaire media mogul with apparently no soul. It was written, performed and directed by an anti-fascist who was a leader in the racial integration of the theater. It’s a movie that was timely in 1949 and remains relevant to this day, possibly more than ever.
And yet it’s also a product of 1949. Despite Welles’ track record on race, it barely has a black character. Its sexual politics are not blatantly offensive, but its female characters still exist to be props in Kane’s story. There’s a lesbian-coded librarian who’s very shrewish and cold to the reporter for no reason, and that’s probably not a coincidence. Its sole Jewish character is not the most negative stereotype ever, but there are definitely some very dated ideas about Jewish men still clinging to his character.
And we have to say, hey, this is a piece of art, it’s a window on a time that’s worth understanding, and it’s part of a conversation worth having about power, money and fame. What does it say that in some ways Welles failed to live up to his progressive ideals at time? What does that say about him and what does that say about society in 1949? And how does that inform and/or conflict with the themes of the film?
People with limited understanding of media can’t engage with a piece of art without either wholeheartedly endorsing its creator or wholeheartedly condemning them. And it’s like, both of those responses have their time and place, but much more commonly… artists are human and art is our window to understand them, perhaps their failings, the reasons for those failings, and what good they did or failed to do in light of those failings.
It's incredible how all of the censorship on the modern internet doesn't actually seem to be making society kinder or more wholesome hmm maybe there's a lesson in this
i don't even gaf about shipping discourse because i'm a big boy and a bad person for other worse reasons but if i can be real for a moment "proship DNI" in bio means nothing to me. if you want to keep me out you're going to need to line your blog with salt and iron or rat poison or something.
actually if i were to be less flippant and more brutally honest with you all my disdain for it stems from how much of it is just a thinly veiled excuse for people to fight about their fictional relationship preferences or simply for the sake of arguing without any investment in the reality of what they're claiming to represent and then take pride in their empty, performative activism. i still recommend the rat poison though.
girl help they are calling me a pedophile sympathiser in the notes for trying to point out that being disgusted by something is not the same as meaningfully working to prevent and safeguard against it by critically engaging with the complex reality of it. can i please just have the rat poison.
if you want me to consume a new media you MUST catch me at the exact moment when the stars are aligned and the air pressure is equal to the current degree of the sun’s peak against the horizon and all the cosmic energies are perfectly unified (aka my old interest is fading out) or i will nod and say “im adding that to my list!” Knowing theres no chance i will check it out
“unless its a book!” “unless you tell me it has gay people in it!” “this but only for live action shows” “theres a good chance i’ll get to it eventually” no wrong this post is not for you this post is ONLY for bitches who could have a treasured friend recommend them something that sounds grown in a lab to be your personal catnip and, with no choice in the matter, immediately know it will never be the right time to watch/read/listen to it
Japanese is an incredibly fun and rewarding language (if you’ve ever wanted to learn it for ANY reason, most importantly including the “silly” reasons) but the fearmongering and capitalist intervention involved in the language learning process have given it a reputation as an “impossible task” for English speakers, leading to confusion and dkn learners and weird pessimist attitudes about the whole thing. In this thread I will explain how to effectively learn and retain Japanese. This is a tried, tested and true method; probably 99% of all people who try to learn Japanese give up, but everyone I’ve met who has tried and stuck with this has been at or above N3-N4 after 6 months or less including me
You can teach yourself Japanese for free if you have a little free time every day and a computer
1. Drill yourself on hiragana and katakana. These are the phonetic building blocks of Japanese, think of them as equivalent to english letters. This site is a good resource in general. Once you have a solid grasp on this, DO NOT LINGER HERE; move to step 2. You will master kana later.
2. Download Anki. This is a flashcard service. They have a paid app if you’re willing to invest for it, but if not, they have a mobile website (create an account and sync it with your computer).
This is the deck you’re going to download. Import it to Anki and do this every day. I have learned the hard way (twice) that skipping this is bad. If you become overwhelmed, you can change the number of new cards and reviews by clicking the cog next to the name of the deck!
3. Cure Dolly (Youtube, grammar) + transcript. She has kind of a posh accent, you might want to turn subtitles on. Watch a few videos when you feel like it but most importantly set up 4 and 5 as soon as possible
4. Yomitan (must have) is a browser extension that functions as a pop-up dictionary. you need to install dictionaries for it to work. here are some dictionaries you can use with yomitan and explanations of what they do
5. READ. DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET STUCK BEFORE THIS STEP. JUST READ!!!! Most people who fail to learn Japanese do so because they are afraid of not being ready to move on, which is counterproductive. Just read. When you were a child did you spend years on vocab and grammar before reading? No I bet you did not. Pick something to read and learn what you don’t already know by reading in Japanese.
Jiten.moe has a list of novels and visual novels that you can read on your computer sorted by difficulty. So does jpdb. There’s also this document. There’s also this document. Hey look this website is cool too
For visual novels: download LunaHook. It “hooks” to your VN and allows you to use Yomitan on words you don’t know. Turn off the translation feature, it does nothing to help you learn
For literary texts: ttsu e-reader supports epub and htmlz files.
You can also learn Japanese by watching anime, but it’s a little more convoluted and requires a lot more patience.
For manga, utilize Mangatan, but I don’t recommend this right out the gate because when you’re first learning sentence structure you’ll want something with complete sentences.
Set your computer up for mining vocab before you start reading. Once you finish your kaishi deck, you can drill your mining cards (I didn’t do mine until after finishing kaishi because it was too much).
Most importantly: reading is going to be hard at first. It is going to piss you off. You need to muscle through with this because this is where the bulk of your learning will happen. After a while you will just feel like reading because you love reading! Try not to pick something too hard for your first read, but if you’re interested in the story you might be able to muscle through something a little tougher.
Remember to consult yomitan and cure dolly where needed, that’s what it’s there for. As you can see I am quite normal about the Japanese language, so if you have any other questions or need help with anything else feel free to shoot me an ask and I will get back to you promptly. Japanese is not your enemy and it is not impossible. It is your friend
fictional characters can't consent because they aren't real.. but YOU can consent to reading heavy themes, and you can withdraw consent by clicking the back button and stopping any time, it is your choice to read stories that include or exclude consent 👍
accusing people of lying for clout on this website is so funny this is literally the most useless platform to be popular on. the only reward is hate mail
A = Affection (How affectionate are they? How do they show affection?)
Wendy is the god emperor princess of lovebombing and clinging. She will send you way too many texts a day, including long paragraphs describing your charming qualities and those wholesome pastel drawings of like kittens hugging with "you're so special to me" captions that people online go insane over. If you describe any interest or hobby you have, prepare to be spammed with things she finds that relate to that thing for the rest of time. In person, she will latch on to your arm like a koala, like a second goddamn skin. She will ask for hugs and kisses and attention annoyingly. She will make cute faces and do cute things "innocently" to see if it gets you to glance at her. Or, alternatively, she will try to be Sexy. No fruit is too low hanging.
B = Best friend (What would they be like as a best friend? How would the friendship start?)
Silly and bubbly and ready to get up to hijinks. She's likely to match your energy. If you just want to be whimsical and trade stickers and keychains and watch anime, she'll do that. But if you're putting down more meanspirited vibes, she's going to get rowdier to match you, and can get carried away with bad behavior pretty easily. You wanna cyberbully that guy, catfish him, key his car and slash his tires?! Awesome, let's go! She's equally here for doodling with glitter pens and drinking and getting into bar fights.
Wendy is not really a good person, but she's a very loyal one, so she's easily influenced to hate on all the same people you hate even if it's for zero good reason. She'll even try to pretend she doesn't have traits you say you dislike when she absolutely does, in an unhealthier dynamic, but cry and get frustrated if you confront her directly on the lie. "Well it doesn't count if it's ME right??? You love ME!!! Don't be mean to me!" and then she'll go between acting really sensitive and really pouty.
Being Wendy's friend is as easy as asking her to be your friend. Giving her any positive attention whatsoever also does the trick.
C = Cuddles (Do they like to cuddle? How would they cuddle?)
WENDY LOOOOVES TO SNUG! If you don't stop her from doing it she'll dehydrate and starve and wither away and become a skeleton with you from only snuggling. She'd like it to be full-body contact or for you to use her boobs and thighs as a comforting headrest/stress toy. She'd like it if you squeezed and squished her until it almost hurts. Boa constrictor cuddling or sexually suggestive cuddling are the best kinds.
D = Domestic (Do they want to settle down? How are they at cooking and cleaning?)
YES, she wants to settle down!!! She wants to be cozy and taken and living out a dreamy fictional romance! Make her your wifey! She will burn all your food so badly it fills your entire house with black smoke, somehow fuck up a PB&J, leave rotting takeout boxes out and give you a fly infestation, make toxic bleach fumes with the cleaning supplies that nearly kills you, and do horrible things to your laundry. But she can pretend to be submissive and fulfill your most disgusting fetishes, doesn't that matter more?!??!?!?! She is a sexy gamer, don't you want to drink her bathwater?
E = Ending (If they had to break up with their partner, how would they do it?)
Death. Wendy has a one hundred percent death-to-breakup ratio. The expanded answer is that she's never initiated a breakup in her life! It's always the other party. But once they start ending things, she just needs to be thorough. You want to end it? Let's REALLY end it. You can move on from me in the ground.
F = Fiance(e) (How do they feel about commitment? How quick would they want to get married?)
Today, if you want! Let's go right now! Let's go to the courthouse! Come on! Let's go! It's time! She's ready! She already has a dress! You can wear a graphic tee and sweatpants if you want! Just come with her and say "I do" at the right time!
To give a more in depth answer, Wendy's deepest wish is to merge souls with another person and be the single most important, most beautiful, most unique and unforgettable woman in their life. She would sew herself to this soulmate's body if they wanted her to. Everything would be permitted, every kind of lust, every transgression. Although she ideally doesn't want to commit a murder-suicide with them unless it's extremely cool and special. She associates killing her significant others with breaking up, so she'd rather be doing terrible adoring perverted things with and to you while you're both alive and functional. She wants to spend the rest of your lives crossing each other's boundaries and trying to fuck each other on every physical and spiritual level possible.
G = Gentle (How gentle are they, both physically and emotionally?)
She can get really soft and mushy and very, very sweet. If you're upset, she'll hug you and cry with you, like full body sob because you're sad and relate her own sadness to yours. She'll crack herself and all her vulnerabilities and ugly parts open for your viewing pleasure in hopes it'll make you feel less alone.
Wendy misses a lot of social cues and she has a spiteful streak, so she can be insensitive, innapropriate, and rude, too. But generally, when someone she likes is directly asking for sweetness, she's going to drown them in it. And the more obsessed she is with a person, the more attuned she is to tiny shifts in their moods, even down to things as wordless as energy and body language— she'll feel it in her body and act on that feeling before she even understands it in her head. If nobody else asks if you're okay, if you're bottling things up and giving forced fake smiles, Wendy is likely to smell it on you and corner you about it like a therapy dog with bad boundaries. An unfixed therapy dog.
H = Hugs (Do they like hugs? How often do they do it? What are their hugs like?)
Obviously, she loves them. She practices the ancient weeaboo tradition of "glomping". She will do it as frequently as she can get away with. She really does enjoy a good tackle hug, squishing her tits against you, and shaking you around in a burst of affection zoomies/cuteness aggression.
I = I love you (How fast do they say the L-word?)
She will be mentally calculating how early she can say it to you without you getting a restraining order. Your reaction is the only limiting factor on when she says it. She's just waiting for an opportunity that straddles the line between normal and romantic. She's already saying it in her internal monologue!
J = Jealousy (How jealous do they get? What do they do when they’re jealous?)
In the hitmen's loose polycule arrangement, she can get pouty and jealous if her Favorite isn't spending as much time with her, but she also thinks watching other people have sex is really hot and she still feels included when she gets to jack off to it. And since it's okay for her to also beg for attention from other people, she doesn't have to focus on her pouting to the point of detrimental agonizing angst.
As soon as you officially commit to her in any kind of monogamous way, she will threaten, torture, and kill other people you show romantic interest, and she's risky with even really hot best friends. She will also get erratic and bizarre and unpredictable with you. Wendy is one of the more mentally ill hitmen and her serial killer pattern was killing lovers that tried to leave her, so the more abandoned and neglected Wendy feels, the more wacky toxic shit she is going to get up to. And she's already wacky and toxic on a good day, so imagine how dark that gets.
K = Kisses (What are their kisses like? Where do they like to kiss you? Where do they like to be kissed?)
Sloppy and mushy. Heavy on the tongue and wet plush lips, likes sucking on your lips and tongue, she's going to drool all over you and try to drink your saliva. She'll lick your teeth and the corners of your mouth. She'd love to make out for five hours and get horny love drunk off of it. She will try to grind on you while it's happening. There are too many moans and gasps and whimpers happening, it feels like you're in a hentai.
L = Little ones (How are they around children?)
She's ready to build forts, tickle and chase them around, play pretend, play dress up, and geek out about cartoons and the stupid indie video games kids like, but please be careful. If left unattended, it's very likely that she will show them age-innapropriate manga and anime and not think anything's wrong with it because she was had zero internet restrictions at their age and was looking at even worse things.
M = Morning (How are mornings spent with them?)
She will wake up late in the afternoon if she doesn't need to be up for work. Or even in the evening, at sunset, because she stayed up so late the previous night playing video games or watching porn. Wendy would love to spend the "morning" being as lazy and degenerate as possible with you. Let's cuddle and stick our hands down each others underwear and eat cup ramen and potato chips in bed. Let's show each other our favorite niche porn videos. Let's not shower until we absolutely need to go outside. Ideally, you'll both be walking around totally naked the whole time.
N = Night (How are nights spent with them?)
She's a bit more perky at night! A naturally nocturnal girl! She would love to go out clubbing with you, go to a movie theater, do karaoke, or take a walk and dance around and climb on things and make each other giggle. She'd love doing something impulsive and wild like going and skinny dipping in a lake or river under the stars.
O = Open (When would they start revealing things about themselves? Do they say everything all at once or wait a while to reveal things slowly?)
Wendy is actually highly layered. Her first layer is that pandering bimbo manic pixie pervert layer. She's very manipulative and generally keeps a lot of her more cunning internal monologue private so you won't catch on to just how much she's trying to present a fantasy of herself to you, whether that fantasy is sexual or of a pitiful girl that needs you to fix her and light up her life, she wants to come across as accessible while still maintaining control and autonomy.
She's very good at compartmentalizing things and honestly often buys into her own delulus as much as she wants you to. When she feels seen and safe enough, or caught off guard by someone making an insightful observation about her, she loosens up on the seperation of her different identities a bit and acknowledges more of her trauma, more shit that makes her sad and angry, and more of her unrepentantly evil side. She'll stop playing dumb.
P = Patience (How easily angered are they?)
Whether she bickers, pouts, or gets super horny when someone teases her really is a coin flip.
Wendy is very happy-go-lucky, generally, but she's also volatile and prone to fixations. Things either just roll off of her like water off a duck's back, or she holds an insane grudge and does not let it go, with very little in between.
Q = Quizzes (How much would they remember about you? Do they remember every little detail you mention in passing, or do they kind of forget everything?)
Wendy is a stalker freak, so she absolutely remembers everything. Ideally, she's read your emails, texts, and knows all your social media accounts, and checks said social media accounts like they're the morning news. She has gone through your trash. She is writing down what you have for lunch each day. She is eavesdropping on your conversations with your other coworkers. She's always creepily staring at you and hoping for a chance to notice some tiny thing so she can bring it later and win points with you for knowing you so well and you'll FALL IN LOVE WITH HER!!! Also, she's just fetishizing the information she gets. She will find some way to masturbate to even the seriously mundane things. She has the power.
R = Remember (What is their favorite moment in your relationship?)
Meeting you, of course, silly!!! It was love at first sight and changed the trajectory of your lives forever!
S = Security (How protective are they? How would they protect you? How would they like to be protected?)
Wendy will stab anyone who looks at you wrong 87 times. Use this knowledge wisely because she is very unlikely to be wise if you influence her to be crazy about you! She is also ready to yell at anyone who hurts your feelings even slightly, regardless of if it's the right place or time. She will scream at that nasty grandma at Walmart who's judging your tattoos. She will punt a small child that called you fat or ugly, right in front of the parents. After the fact, she'll repeatedly tell you how unfair and unacceptable and not okay it was that the person hurt or tried to hurt you, bundle you up in a blanket and squeeze you almost to death. Again, over major or minor slights. How fucking dare that disgusting woman take the cereal YOU WERE REACHING FOR. Should we go kill her? Should we track her down, break into her house, and kill her and her happy middle class family in their beds???
As for being protected... she'd like to be validated and stood up for emotionally and especially with the parts of her people think are annoying and cringe and unlovable. She's a very strong and physically capable girl and she's more than used to men thinking she's weak and needs to be protected from scary guys when she's usually a bigger creep than the scary guys are. But people never defend her personality and emotions. That would truly deeply leave an impression on her. That would change her brain chemistry.
(I'll clarify, people in the real physical world haven't defended and sympathized with her in this way. She has weirdo internet friends she does share these things with, but it's lonely to only have them live in her phone and computer.)
T = Try (How much effort would they put into dates, anniversaries, gifts, everyday tasks?)
Oh, a painful amount. She will be a tryhard to the point of physically and emotionally straining herself and it'll go into that uncanny valley territory. She is desperate to please you and try to just throw anything at the wall in hopes it'll register as special and she'll turn into something irreplacable to you. She's going to study your expressions, words, and reactions like they're a textbook, and then try to do what she thinks you want her do to. And it might be based in a misunderstanding! She gets overexcited and ahead of herself and digs herself into a really deep hole. She thought you wanted this, sorry!!! Did she ruin your birthday??? Sorry!!!! Whoops!!!! Would it help if she let you hit her??? SORRY WHOOPS OOPS! Spiraling now! Mental breakdown time! Wheee!
U = Ugly (What would be some bad habits of theirs?)
This whole thing is just listing off her bad habits, but let's see. She obnoxiously fetishizes Japan. She's obviously internet addicted, video game addicted, and porn addicted. Her hygeine upkeep is purely based on trying to make people attracted to her. She's not always politically correct in the way she talks about the ways she's been abused in childhood and teens, or the way she talks about and experiences her sexuality in general, in ways men can get away with but people find more offputting in women.
She's not a "girl's girl"... but she wouldn't be a boy's girl, either! She's romantic partner centered, no matter the gender of the partner! She WILL shove her friends to the sidelines IMMEDIATELY if she's dating someone!!!!
V = Vanity (How concerned are they with their looks?)
This is complicated. Wendy likes being a curvy woman and she likes being traditionally attractive because it makes others want to engage sexually with her, and she does get horny looking at herself in the mirror, she will squeeze her own ass and tits generously and feel like she's watching porn. But Wendy is also, on a soul level, a gremlin? She's a slob gremlin nerd and womanhood is definitely a costume for her to dress up in, just the same as her anime character costumes. Wendy The Hot Girl is not any different to Wendy than Wendy The Pink Haired Catgirl.
Her looks are a tool and they're FUN, she doesn't RESENT OR DISLIKE THEM, but she often doesn't identify with them on an intense personal level. She identifies with the girl in a giant Pokemon hoodie, no bra or underwear, and stained sweatpants. Some people don't feel like themselves when they aren't presentable, but Wendy absolutely feels most like herself when she's lazing around and hasn't showered yet.
W = Whole (Would they feel incomplete without you?)
Yes. Wendy feels hollow. She aches. It is agony. She was born this way. She thinks about it when she wakes up and when she's about to fall asleep, and throughout the day, it is a dull, evil hum. Empty. Is it your shape that's missing?
X = Xtra (A random headcanon for them.)
Wendy's character design is meant to make you think of Valentine's Day chocolate boxes. She loves goth, punk, emo, scene, and jirai-kei fashion.
Her last name, "Baker", is a reference to Resident Evil 7's family of antagonists. I wanted a fairly ordinary last name for her, Baker was in my pile of options, and I ended up choosing it specifically as a nod toward them.
Y = Yuck (What are some things they wouldn’t like, either in general or in a partner?)
Someone who will leave her, mainly. All else is forgivable.
But on a smaller note, it does bother her to have a partner that shits on her hobbies and engages heavily in cringe culture, like watching video compilations just making fun of weird dorky different people. She does not like that, it makes her bristle and it makes her strongly aware of just how much of the relationship is purely based on her physical appearance instead of her heart. She understands that if you could press a mute button on a remote and just fuck her or have her as eye candy, you would.
Z = Zzz (What is a sleep habits of theirs?)
She drools. So much. And grabs you in her sleep. Her arm and leg are LOCKED around your body. If you have tits she's going to grab them, but arguably she's just pretending she's asleep while doing that. Wendy's sleepwear is kind of hectic. Sometimes she'll do panties but a bare chest, sometimes it's a big t-shirt and nothing else, sometimes she's full nude. You might even experience a rare weird one: Just a bra without underwear. In other words, when Wendy is falling asleep, she often does it as if she gave up undressing halfway through and has zero routine of which article of clothing she takes off first. It just happens how it happens.
do you have any advice on making characters not ocs? i saw some diskhorses about how nowdays shows/indie games dont make actual characters but just ocs and im curious of your opinion
Tbh this ask genuinely baffled me because I have no idea what anon means so I started speculating what it could be with people.
From a literary standpoint, there is no difference. It means literally the same thing. Every single "character" in a newly created piece of work is someone's original character unless they're deliberately creating subversive fanfiction.
So, it kind of seems like this narrative to differentiate "OCs" with "characters" is simply to segregate characters one views as serious with others viewed to be self-indulgent and juvenile.
"A "character" is a three-dimensional exploration of people while an "OC" is just someone's self-indulgent fantasy!"
But, if one starts to interrogate any actual substantial differences here, one will be unable to arrive at actual meaningful conclusions. "An OC is one-dimensional." How do you know what all OCs are like? "An OC is self-indulgent." Do you think authors don't indulge in self-indulgence? Why is self-indulgence wrong? "An OC is too horny and pornographic." Some of the greatest examples of fiction are explorations of lust and desire (ex. The Picture of Dorian Gray). "OCs look cartoonish." Extremely reductive, and sets discourse around animation back 20 years -- "not all animation is for children." Being cartoonish has nothing to do with anything. "An OC is too personal." What do you think most fiction writing is, if not personal explorations about everything one feels and learns about? The very foundations of our grasp on language is based on our personal experiences.
No matter how much you explore this thought over and over, there is no meaningful difference here other than one person's perceived disgust, so the thought essentially boils down to:
"OCs are disgusting and cringe while characters provide real literary value."
And I completely believe that there is nothing meaningful into categorizations created solely out of disgust, so there is no real discussion to be had here.
I am aware of what possible meanings "everything is OCs" could entail tbh. Certain recent works like the adapted Tabletop game shows and the very DeviantArt OC-looking shows like Hazbin do seem like what OP might be what's being referred to as "OCs."
But, again, the only reason why one would feel inclined to admonish those IPs on the bases of being "OCs" is only due to aesthetic disagreements, and comparing them to stuff they've seen online that they view as "cringe" and similar enough to insult. But, I find this pointless and mean-spirited.
I think, essentially, all of one's complaints boils down to the quality of writing. There is good and bad examples of everything, even media displaying the veneer of "looking like someone's OCs." Look at Toby Fox's work. I find his aesthetic similar to Vivziepop in the sense that they're both from very specific corners of the internet with furry inspirations, but people find his work well-written enjoyable nonetheless.
If people still find his work disagreeable because the characters "look too much like OCs", then perhaps they shouldn't be engaging with media like that at all.
I disagree that everything looks like they're OCs. I think one might just have a very narrow media diet. There are plenty of movies and TV shows that are still coming out with very grounded designs and stories, so if the aesthetic is the sole basis of disagreement, I recommend those people look into those.
