#or don't.

[maoist-adachirei]

misread it as "molest-adachirei" and took that as a command...

i'm sure many can relate to your readiness to touch the robot, but be nice

[darlingwhumps]

ALSO i have noticed that when people have a story they first try to gain traction for it through selling their character(s). but they don't write or post anything except ask games or meta posts but then never get enough attention to feel like they want to start writing because there's no audience for story-less characters. the truth is you have to start writing and posting if you want an audience and THEN you'll have people interested in your characters. it simply does not work the other way round.

this (unfortunately?) does not apply to when friends show you new characters... because then i have a vested interest in making you happy and i am interested in the character because im interested in you. but if you try to befriend people with the sole purpose of getting a free audience that's also. dicey.

it's like the issue in book publishing and marketing where authors or fans are trying to promote books by advertising themes like "coffee shop romance" and "sci fi queer adventure". that's not an advertisement that's a diversity pull. you can't diversity pull your way into making characters that people want to read a story about, you have to write a story that people want to read and maybe part of that will be that you have a diverse cast of characters but first of all i'd presume that that's a given in the current writeblr climate and second of all its not my first priority when trying a new story to understand if the characters are gay and feminist it's more important that it's written well.

tldr be friendly for the sake of being friendly & write your story before you have an audience. this is the secret to happiness.

[dwyyyn]

I am ENApilled. I am Polygonmaxximg. I am absolutely goated with the shapes. Don't fw me while I'm obsessing over my bipolar blorbo. She resides in my mind 25/7. I'm investing in therapy for anyone who accidently crosses me and happens to ask what I'm thinking about cause there is no brain to think with. She's like an isopod to a fish. She's taken my brain, eaten it, and replaced it, all while taking every single thing I've ever liked and made it associated with her in an energy sucking cycle. I can do nothing but watch as my psyche slowly deteriorates into nothingness and she is the sole reason for my spiral into insanity.

[the-forsakenlegionnaire]

@thehouseofivo Julian is copiously stared at by lien-da. "Have you.... ever held a gun? Did you... ever need to hold one? I need the truth. Please."

[satans-knitwear]

Honestly, how dare he sit like that. I'm so weak. And thirsty. Is it hot in here????

[squidbroom]

finally formally made my anger playlist. it’s for when you’re having a breakdown and want to turn anxiety and sadness into their more productive cousin, anger.

featuring:

- only eight songs that do not have some reference to death in the title - a slow transition from screaming rage to sizzling anger so you calm down a bit over the course of an hour or so - one song about a party and then back to being mad again - an ending on an unresolved chord

enjoy!

[scxrred-crxmscn-blog]

Wasted potential and stupid plot lines.

I might lose a few followers over this, but FUCK IT. Long post. Very long, actually. Some ramblings of a tired mun.

You know, I was just rewatching Volume 1 and 2 and I am just...laughing about how much Adam’s direction seemed to change between then and now within Rooster Teeth. Like. Look at her description of him in volume 2 episode 10. 

It’s just fantastic how Blake seemed to refer to Adam as her teacher and partner. Speaking in the calmest voice. Not once she mentioned her being in love with him. Or that he was her lover. He was her teacher. Partner, someone she trusted. You know what this conversation leads to? The fact that she left him because of ideological reasons. Then this conversation follows right before he is interrupted by Cinder in Volume 3 chapter 7

You know what that tells me? This script? He does not give a shit. Blake abandoned him, he is clearly angry. But does he run after her, stalk her or try to murder her friends? Fuck no. He wants to go away, actually. Back to Mistral. My guess is that he wants to reorganize with Sienna and actually speak to her about the Cinder incident not too long ago. The only fucking reason he went to Beacon because Cinder threatened to kill all his men and also offered dust reserves. I have absolutely no doubts that he could have escaped this, but his men would have died. And so he is forced to comply. 

And then. Suddenly, without any prior indication of that what so ever. this happens. 

Mind you, it happens literally THREE CHAPTERS after Adam is shown to be ready to abandon Blake to pursue what actually matters to him. White Fang cause.

And so, I am left with one question. Why? Wasn’t his goal for coming here is to save his people, being blackmailed by someone who clearly had powers to kill them all? Why would he give a shit about Blake? Why does he act like he expected her to come here and he came here specifically for her? Is this where the change in direction occurred? 

Of course, there is an argument that an abuse victim sees everything through pink glasses. And that was the intention all along. To show a romanticized version of Adam and he was always like this and we just been watching a very carefully view on him from Blake’s perspective. 

There are two flaws in that logic. In my opinion. 

First. The flashback where he clearly wanted to abandon Blake and go away into a different kingdom was not from BLAKE’s perspective. Second one. All the abuse victims I know, and this is just my experience, either do not talk about their abuser at all, because they don’t WANT TO or decide to shower them with spite and anger they RIGHTFULLY deserve. Blake had enough strength to run away from him. If she ran away from him because he was a violent abuser then what pink goggles are we even talking about? If she ran away because she realized how bad he is to her, then what reason does she have to speak of him in that sort of positive-ish light? If he was a lover, then why not address him as such? It’s not like she does not talk about him, might as well call him what he really was. But she does not. So that means she didn’t run from him because of the abuse. Or even from the lovers turned bad situation. She ran because the white gang violence was not something she wanted for the Faunus anymore. And now the Abuse plotline feels...tacked on, unnecessary even, right? 

Well. My working theory is that Adam’s character was changed because of the direction, that the writers wanted to take Blake and Yang. They wanted something that would bring them closer. Spread these seeds of LUV. And here is where Adam comes into play. Abusive ex-boyfriend formula is actually pretty effective when it comes down to separating any possible romantic connection one can have. Actually, it effectively erased any opportunity for redemption for a character. It’s a very clever thing to do when you want to establish a character’s personal connection to one of the villains without the need to bother to write a cohesive storyline for the said villain. He exists there to pursue Blake, be the boogie-man and follow her no matter how illogical it is for his character of how stupid that makes him look in the process. And in the end, he DIED to bring Blake and Yang closer. An ultimate moment of victory that results in a very nearly confirmed ship and crowds cheering for the monster’s death. And that is smart. 

The only, really, disappointing thing about the entire ordeal, is that entire White Fang plotline was, quite literally, thrown under the bus. Adam Killed the charismatic leader of White fang after her being on screen for a whole lot of five minutes!!! Adam, then, proceeded to go even more ape-shit and decided that he wants everyone to die from Grimm invasions so he will go destroy all the schools real quick. He was stopped in the most hilarious and stupid way possible, ran away like a pussy and everyone lived happily ever after. Adam is the reason White fang turned into a grey-morality force that fought for Faunus using faulty methods into a bunch of racist bumbling idiots who all band together to go after a single Faunus girl because of their Plot Device leader. A shame, really. And so we come to a conclusion here. 

You have successfully changed everyone’s perspective of Adam’s character, RT. You achieved your goal of bringing Yang and Blake as close together as possible. Without a doubt, a romantic relationship between these two would be absolutely logical. But please, for the love of god, do not bullshit anyone about how this was Adam’s character from the very start. It was not. Never was. You changed him. And drastically so. Is that change bad or good? Well, that depends on completely subjective reasons. But The only thing I can personally say is that Adam is not a well-written character. Todoroki Enji aka Endeavor is a well-written abusive character, I can name you all kinds of abusers in anime and other forms of entertainment that are written LEAGUES better than this. 

But that was not your goal, to begin with. It was never your GOAL to write him as a character. He was and still is a tool. Just like Salem. Just like any other villain in the series. And that is okay. Heck, Marvel movies are, most of the time, using their villains just to further the plot and never gave him any sort of personality or good backstory or any logic to their action (with rare exceptions such as Killmonger, Thanos and some other ones.). But I will never stop being sad about wasted potentials and stupid plot lines. That’s it.