#mannerism

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Title: Crouching Figure of Atlas Artist: Baldassare Peruzzi (Italian, 1481-1536) Date: unknown Genre: figure study; mythological art Period: High Renaissance (Cinquecento) Medium: Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint or black chalk Dimensions: 20.6 cm (8.2 in) high x 13.4 cm (5.3 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Writing Notes: Character Mannerisms

Character Mannerisms - a character’s unconscious individual gestures, affectations, or other distinctive behavioral traits.

These character quirks can be physical (like a character who constantly drums fingers on the table), vocal (like a character who mumbles), or have to do with a character’s personality (like a character with persistent anxiety).

In fiction, characters’ mannerisms help make them feel like real people and reveal character truths on an involuntary, subconscious level.

How to Use Character Mannerisms in Your Writing

Nonfiction and fiction writers alike use character mannerisms to create distinct, instantly memorable characters. However, these mannerisms can also serve practical purposes in your writing, helping to convey essential information about your characters or story. Here are the ways that you can use character mannerisms in your writing:

To convey self-image: You can learn a lot about fictional characters through their quirks, speech patterns, and personality traits. For instance, if one of your main characters enters a room with perfect posture and their head held high, readers might gather from their body language that they consider themselves to be proper, serious, or high-status. In this way, mannerisms are a way for a writer to adhere to the adage of “show, don’t tell” when it comes to character creation.

To show character development: In the same way that a character’s little quirks can give us initial information about that character, the addition or disappearance of character traits can let us know when they’ve changed. If the same character who entered a room with perfect posture at the beginning of your novel or short story leaves with a slouch, we can surmise that the character has lost confidence. The changing of character habits can help us track a character’s development.

To differentiate between characters: Each of your characters should have their own unique idiosyncrasies. Not only does that make it feel like the characters exist in real life, but it helps the reader tell the characters apart. Oftentimes, a reader will have an easier time remembering a character through their mannerisms than through their name or occupation.

To reveal information: A character’s mannerisms can reveal information about the scene or the plot as a whole. Say one of your main character’s traits is that they do not make eye contact and can’t stop fidgeting when they’re lying. If we find ourselves in a pivotal scene and our protagonist’s eyes dart to the ground when he’s telling his wife that he’s been faithful, the reader immediately knows that he’s been cheating on her. Oftentimes, mannerisms are a much more artful and direct way of revealing information than simply having the character say it out loud.

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"THE CRUCIFIXION WITH THE VIRGIN AND SAINT JOHN" HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN | c. 1624-25 [oil on canvas | 61 x 40 1/4"]

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bronze circular plaquette with frieze of mannerist figures, diameter: 14 cm; italy c. 1900.

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Anyone else miss when kids were just… kids?

I’ve heard that the some of the antis are prolly literal 11 year olds (makes sense because of their lack of knowledge but WHAT)

I mean— don’t get me wrong, I’ve done my fair share of— if I think about things remotely similar to these experiences— looking and writing wattpad stories, fanfiction.com, Tumblr, and using Episode and stuff at around that age (courtesy of being the weird kid with unrestricted internet access).

But I was weird in peace. I was quiet. I knew my place.

I was respectful.

Sure, I had fictional crushes. I got into loads of fandoms. I occasionally stumbled into stories that were definitely not written with my age group in mind. I spent a certain amount of time online, though I also went out a lot to play with other kids and socialize. None of that is exactly new.

What surprises me is how many kids seem to be creating and treating fandom discourse like a full-time job and being bratty about things that aren’t for them. At that age, I was mostly hopping between hyperfixations, making up stories, and then going outside when my friends texted me. The internet was a hobby, not my entire worldview.

Maybe I’m sounding old, but finding out some of the loudest people in these arguments are barely in middle school makes a looooot of things click into place. It’s not even the interests themselves that surprise me— kids have always been curious and wandered into spaces they probably shouldn’t. It’s the level of investment. The certainty. The unhealthy level of obsession and parasocialism, and the lack of respect that these CHILDREN seem to have. The way some seem to build their whole identity around online discourse.

Meanwhile, I was busy being cringe, touching grass, and moving on to my next fictional healthy obsession three minutes later.

And, of course, their attitudes. At that age, I was always polite to people, online or otherwise. We learnt a lot about empathy and thinking about others, which is something these kids lack.

I mean— dude… These children not only stumbled into someone else’s house, but they’re also acting like they’re the ones who own it, rearranging the furniture, yelling at the residents, and then getting shocked and furious when people point out they’ve lived there for years.

Kids ending up in fandom spaces, reading things they’re probably too young for, having fictional crushes, and getting way too invested in characters? That’s been happening since the dawn of the internet. It’s why a lot of us grew up being weird kids (that, and also real life hyperfixations).

What’s weird is the attitude of walking into communities that existed long before they arrived and immediately trying to rewrite all the rules and harassing the directors and actors who’ve worked so hard to bring it to life. It’s like showing up halfway through a movie and demanding everyone change the plot because you don’t like what’s happening.

Mind you, they don’t even KNOW what’s happening in the game. If they did, they’d know that Valko is important to the main story and has been foreshadowed. If they did, they’d know they can ignore him if they don’t like him. If they did know, they wouldn’t be playing a game made for adults and ruining the entire game for it’s intended audience and being so ungrateful over something that doesn’t affect them— that they were never supposed to even be a part of— that they have to tear down a beautiful character that was made with so much love from the development team who had worked so hard on him and made the game we all know and love.

The antis don’t love the game, they just loved the idea of an unhealthy parasocial relationship where they simp over a character so much that it is physically and mentally so bad for them. For a character who wouldn’t even like them. So ‘we’ does not refer to them.

I’m not bashing on them for not knowing. They’re kids. That’s why they shouldn’t be here.

I’m bashing on them for deciding to join a community made for an older audience, barely understand anything, and immediately act like they have the authority to decide what should stay and what should be removed.

There’s a difference between saying “this isn’t for me” and demanding that everyone else change because you personally don’t like something.

Maybe this is my “back in my day” moment— though I wouldn’t call myself old at all, but when I was that age and found myself in spaces clearly meant for older people, my first thought wasn’t “everyone here needs to change.” It was “oh, maybe this space wasn’t made for me.”

If I felt tempted to stay— something I don’t recommend but I didn’t know better at that age— I treated people with respect and didn’t whine and cry over not getting what I wanted with others when I knew I wasn’t even supposed to be there. I didn’t expect everyone else to rearrange an entire community around my personal preferences.

Kids being online every now and then isn’t the issue. The issue is them looking into things they were not meant to see at that age and being disrespectful to the adults and the fandom that have been here from the beginning. The world doesn’t revolve around their experience, and that’s something they need to learn.

I hope that the internet becomes more regulated one day and that there are better ways to separate age groups online (with privacy-respecting methods, not invasive systems or AI guessing people’s ages). Certain spaces exist for certain audiences for a reason.

Kids need room to be kids. They need time away from screens, time to socialize, time to explore other interests, and time to learn basic things like boundaries, discipline, respect, and understanding that not every space revolves around them.

And again, this isn’t me saying “kids shouldn’t be online ever.” That would be unrealistic. A lot of us grew up with the internet (before it was the mess it is now). A lot of us found communities, hobbies, and creativity through it.

But there’s a difference between being a young person exploring the internet and being a young person who has made the internet their entire reality.

At the end of the day, kids need guidance. They need to learn that “I don’t like this” doesn’t automatically mean “this should not exist.” They need to learn that other people have different tastes, different experiences, and different boundaries and that it’s okay for something that you don’t like to exist because maybe someone else enjoys it or maybe it’s important and serves purpose for something bigger.

They also need to learn that not every space online is meant for them and, no matter if it’s real life or online, they need to respect every space.

Just like in real life, different places have different audiences, expectations, and rules. You wouldn’t walk into a private club, a workplace, or a conversation between adults and immediately demand everyone change the environment to suit you. Online spaces work the same way.

Being curious is normal. Exploring new interests is normal. Finding fandoms and communities is normal. But part of growing up is learning when to step back, recognize “this might not be for me,” and respect the people who are already there.

The internet is a huge place with room for everyone— but that doesn’t mean every corner of it is meant for every person. If you find a corner you do like, have discipline, etiquette, respect, have some maturity, and learn more before joining.

I hope kids can be kids again one day, instead of being entitled internet brats meddling in spaces that were never meant for them. They’ll only get themselves into a lot of unnecessary trouble and face adult consequences for their bratty actions if they don’t.

No wonder these people were so immature and lacked basic knowledge + comprehension and embarrassed themselves by showing that said lack of knowledge confidently (that’s not to say everyone is a minor or that all minors are disrespectful. I know quite a few respectful kids, both in my family and as a babysitter. The antis are probably a mix of minors and adults. Remember: adults can be brainless morons too.)

We need to restrict internet access and let kids be kids again.

Keep fighting, stay strong, and take care of yourselves, LADies! We got this. Love you <333

Thank you.

~~ SumHunterLADS