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Done wery well, cant stop listening :)
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING legit losing my shit over this fucking song it’s fucking gorgeous and captures so many different aesthetics that reflect a group like Blackwatch. Seriously well done.
#epic
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rip im inactive lol
Watch: The trailer for ‘Hidden Figures’ is here — and it looks incredible.
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This is the money pentacle. Reblog and unexpected money will come to you!
Shiiiiit. I reblogged, and I got $750 in two days for basically nothing! The first day this client/POT asked my agent to invite some girls and I to his end. We basically sipped wine and left with $500 each. He called me yesterday and we took a ride on my highway and gave me $250😂😂😂. Money blogs everyday any day!
Won’t chance it.
Yo this shit works not even gonna front like I didn’t just get money
Let me reblog this 2x then 😂
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why would you even like tracer?
Um???? McScuse me??? Lena Oxton is not only super intelligent (she piloted a goddamn PLANE. Ok, like, sure, being an Astronaut is a step above, but I’d like to see you learn how to fly a plane before the age of 25.) But she is incredibly sweet. Her eyes are set on a goal of peace and not so much about the fighting but for the end result.
She’s very uplifting, like in the first short “Heros” to the little kid with the broken arm. She didn’t just edge on him to be a member or anything, but made sure he not only felt safe and involved, but INSPIRED.
But she’s also got such a tragic story with how her accident caused her to literally be unable to stay in one point of TIME for FOREVER until Winston helped out.
Now she’s got a bad ass ability, she’s able to fix herself through time which is so incredibly badass, because it’s only of herself in HER point of it. Like in the one with herself and widow when she rewinded from the Venom Mine, Widow was able to watch it, meaning Lena is her own point of fixed time, not that she can rewind the whole world, it’s just her self.
But yeah. She’s just an annoyingly hyperactive child who doesn’t know any better or how to do anything, right? Right?
I’m not saying this cuz I’m dating her, but Ash brings up a good point.
Sure, Tracer plays CAN be annoying, but Tracer herself is NOT annoying.
She not only learned how to fly, got caught in a terrible accident that she couldn’t control the time around her, and got fixed up by Winston to help that, SHE JOINED OVERWATCH! AT A YOUNG AGE! How much shit have you done in twenty years?!
She INSPIRES others! She, as Ash pointed out, strives for peace and not war (why she was at Monyetta’s rally), and she keeps positive around those who might have lost it. She’s what helps the group keep going by BEING POSITIVE!
And even after Overwatch was disbanded, she continued to strive for PEACE, and didn’t let her past mistakes rule over her. SHE TOOK IT BY THE THROAT AND SHOWED IT WHO’S BOSS!
So while I can understand why people don’t like Tracer PLAYERS, TRACER HERSELF IS A SWEET AND GENUINE BADASS!
my three most played characters in overwatch :’)
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It seems strange that all humans are 99.9% the same on a genetic level yet we can’t get over the color of each other’s skin.
Who are your top three mains in Overwatch? In order?
Tracer, Junkrat, Solider
Widowmaker, Lucio, D.va
Stan teaching Wendy how to be a criminal mastermind is something very dear to me.
*showers* *immediately puts the same pajamas back on, but this time with the Good Underwear™*
Hi, I was just reAding your defence against bad writing and I agree with it but I was just wondering what you meant by Mary Sue? You referred to it a few times. Thanks
The short answer: Mary Sue is the author’s idealized self-insert. (If you want to know alllll about Mary Sue, including the history and origins of the term, TV Tropes has your back. Also, if you aren’t careful, your mind and soul. Pack a lunch.) A Mary Sue story is one that primarily features a Mary Sue.
The slightly longer answer: That story you used to tell yourself, about the awesome girl who was totally pretty and everyone liked her and she maybe had magic powers and also like fifteen skills that you wished you did and also her hair never did that, you know, THAT THING your hair always does? And she was in your favorite fictional (or real person fictional) world, and all the characters or people that you loved the most loved her, and she married them or solved their problems or saved them or made them awesome food or held them when they cried? That story was a Mary Sue story, and that girl was a Mary Sue. Sometimes people write those stories down and post them. (AND THAT IS FINE.) Often the stories have limited appeal beyond the author and maybe her friends. (BUT THAT IS ALSO FINE.)
The “Sorry, you kind of touched a nerve” answer: While we can all identify our own Mary Sues, even if we’ve never written them down, people tend to spend a lot of time figuring out if other people have maybe written a Mary Sue, and checking every female character for potential Mary Sueism. In fandom times of old, the letters “OC” (original character) in a story header were a giant flag that meant Potential Bad Story Here, and the letters “OFC” (original female character) were translated as Guaranteed Bad Story Here. So people mostly stopped putting original female characters in their fan fiction.
But that couldn’t stop the inexorable progression of the Mary Sue Hunt. Canon female characters in fan fiction became the focus of intense scrutiny. Is this character being, perhaps, idealized? Is she better than she should be?
It was surprising how often she was better than she should be.
I mean, it’s one thing if we write John Sheppard being brilliant and solving a Millennium Problem while being extra super badass and a sharpshooter and extremely hot and having a troubled past and also he can play the piano and small children love him and he rides a horse. It’s one thing if we write Stiles as a badass motherfucker who can hack and do MMA and make small explosive devices and he saves everyone, and also it turns out he’s a surprisingly sexually skilled virgin, and also there’s this scene where he wears skintight leather and he has two boot knives. It is fine to write those things. (AND IT IS.) You could give Sheppard’s horse a telepathic soulbond with him and have Stiles elected president of universe (because he is awesome), and you’d still potentially have a significant and delighted readership. (WHICH IS ALSO FINE. Who doesn’t sometimes like a President Awesome with a Psychic Horse story? Give Sidney Crosby a psychic horse and you’ve got my click.) That’s just having fun and extrapolating from the canon. (Or, in the case of the telepathic soulbonding horse, it’s a crossover. From real actual published original fiction. And people call us strange.)
But if a female character does one of those things in fan fiction, she’s declared a potential Mary Sue. It’s out of character, it’s over the top, it’s wish fulfillment (as if there’s something wrong with wish fulfillment), it’s a self-insert. And that. That is less fine with me.
And the Mary Sue Problem is not limited to fan fiction. Turns out Mary Sues are also surprisingly prevalent in the canon itself! A tiny sample of the female characters I have heard described as Mary Sues:
Hermione Granger
Nyota Uhura
Natasha Romanov
Haruno Sakura
Rose Tyler
Bella Swann
Katniss Everdeen
Buffy Summers
Basically, think of any female character who gets more than eighteen lines, from any popular canon. Someone has called her a Mary Sue. Because she’s competent, because she’s smart, because she’s talented. Because she can do stuff, or because she tries to. Because she loves someone, or because someone loves her. Because she thinks she’s interesting. Because the author thinks we should care about her.
Mary Sue, in short, has become another way of dismissing female characters. Of telling women that we can’t be awesome. Of drawing the line between people who do (dudes) and people who are done to (ladies). Yet another entry in the long list of All the Unacceptable Female Characters. Yet another way of viciously scrutinizing every woman, real or imaginary, and either finding her excessively flawed (and therefore terrible) or excessively without flaw (and therefore terrible).
And also, of course, if the author of the Mary Sue story is a fan fiction writer, we make fun of her.
Which is why my actual definition of the term Mary Sue is: it’s a phrase that is useful for describing a certain common tendency in fan fiction that, taken to an extreme, is often pretty repetitive and uninteresting (but not, let me note, actually criminal or anything). Unfortunately, it has, over time, warped into a tool for knocking down ladies who write, and also other ladies, so I’m trying to learn not to use it any more. (But that is hard. Because see above about usefulness. Almost everyone has dreamed up at least one or two of these, and it’s so nice to have a name for them!)
This is a beautiful explanation of why I hate the term “Mary Sue” like I hate fire ant sandwiches.
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