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“Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.” — Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild), 2017

[zeldytherainbowbirb]

Made it to 100 posts and realized I never introduced myself- so uhhhh- here you go :D

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I’m ZeldyTheRainbowBirb! you can call me Zeldy, Rainbow, Birb, or ZTRB.

My pronouns are she/they (I’m experimenting with them at the moment due to questions about my gender identity), and I’m an asexual lesbian.

I’m a traditional artist with a cartoon style but I don’t post my art on here that often. I’m also a writer, I have two original stories that I’m currently working on (and depending on where life takes me they might become shows or webcomics later on).

I’m also an animal lover, that includes ALL animals. Sharks were the first victims of cancel culture, argue with the wall.

I’m in a lot of fandoms, as evidenced by my profile, so here’s a list :)

The Legend of Zelda (specifically BotW and TotK, this is also why part of my name is Zeldy)

Star Wars

The Amazing Digital Circus

Various Glitch Shows (I’m not as involved in these but such examples include Knights of Guinevere, The Gaslight District, Gameoverse, and Lackadaisy)

The Owl House

Amphibia

Wednesday (TV 2022)

Stardew Valley

The Hunger Games

Total Drama

The Life Series (just a lot of mcyt in general really)

Cobra Kai

Kpop Demon Hunters

Wicked

Gravity Falls

Minecraft

The Legend of Dave the Villager

Aaaand that’s all of them (I think).

One last thing: I’m a minor. Don’t fuck with me. If I see that an account labeled 18+ started following me you are getting blocked. It’s not personal.

DNI: NSFW accounts, MAGA accounts, Pro-AI people, any form of homophobia/transphobia/racism/ableism/misogony, etc.

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Alright that’s everything! Be gay do crime >:3

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(Long rant incoming, sorry in advance :3)

To be honest, I think most authors should avoid blatant self-insert characters.

I mean, if you want to write one, go ahead, more power to you.

I feel like a lot of people tend to be biased when writing a character fully based on their own personality. I’m not going to generalize and say everyone’s like that, but a lot of people are. There’s nothing to be ashamed about, it’s normal to be biased towards yourself. That doesn’t mean you should act like you’re the victim in every situation or a literal god, but it’s fine to want the best for yourself.

Naturally, bias leads to somewhat lackluster character writing.

Take Jax from TADC, for example. Gooseworx has explicitly stated that Jax is her self-insert. Even though he wasn’t presented as a main character at first, most of the show is everyone else being sidelined in favor of watching him continuously manipulate and abuse people, feel sorry for himself but do nothing to correct his actions, while revealing his past at an agonizingly slow pace.

It’s very clear the show is biased towards him, and it definitely has something to do with his status as a self insert of a less-than-great person. He takes up all the screen time.

This is what I mean when I say self-inserts can ruin your stories. You have to be careful not to be too biased towards them, even if they’re an amazing person (unlike Jax). Other characters deserve your time, too.

Something I’ve always done with my characters as someone who tends to project onto their OCs is to make only a select part of their personality based on mine.

I like art, so I made one of my characters a graffiti artist. I like history, so I made one of my like history. I’ve felt like the “mom friend” in a lot of my friend groups in the past, so I made one of my characters the mom friend in her group. I built their characters around those traits as a starting point.

I didn’t pile everything on that makes me myself into one character and let them have complete and extensive lore compared to the skeletal backstories of everyone else, even the supposed “main cast”.

You need to treat your characters as if they’re real people, not as gods or victims in every situation, or just side objects that only exist to lift you up or bring you down.

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I just watched Pearl's POV of Pan!SMP and oh my fucking god oh god holy shit-

Apo telling Pearl "You're... intense" and her replying with "oh thank you!"... insane flashbacks to that one part of Secret Life where Bdubs tells Gem, "You are terrifying" and she giggles and says, "aww thank you!" which only makes her even more terrifying.

my beloved shinyduo... I see them everywhere

Honestly, I get the feeling Pearl's going to be the last one standing. She seems like she's hiding something very important about her past, and she has a lot of eerie similarities to Double Life Pearl. The fact that she's associated with the night could mean something also... *cough cough wolf symbolism cough*

Edit: I also just realized the pantheon logo on pearl’s thumbnail is the only one that isn’t multiple colors. Suspicious

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sometimes I wonder if anyone has searched "traffic" on here out of curiosity and accidentally stumbled upon a legion of neurodivergent queer disasters crying over cube people in a glorified hunger games

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started playing undertale today and guys this is literally my man (I'm a lesbian)

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I keep seeing people attack each other for no reason over this and it's pissing me off so I'm making a post about it like the chronically online potato sack that I am.

For the last freaking time. You can like Jax as a character without defending his actions. It's completely reasonable to like characters that are bad people as long as you accept that what they did isn't okay. He drove two of his friends to suicide and continuously bullies the other circus members, you can't defend shit like that. Just say "I like how complex and flawed his character is" and MOVE ON. We should've left excusing bullies and abuser's actions back in the 80's, y'all.

With that being said, don't attack people who don't like Jax. If they're not hating on him because of transphobic or misogynistic reasons then there's absolutely no reason for you to be rude to that person.

Jax is not a "precious baby". He is not "secretly a sweetheart". He is a bad person. He is a manipulator. He is an abuser, and he is a bully. Let people dislike him. You don't know about someone else's experiences. Some of us don't like him, and there shouldn't be an issue with that.

We can disagree with each other and still coexist. TADC is not a perfect show, someone criticizing it (mostly due to Jax favoritism) doesn't mean they hate it. We should criticize it BECAUSE we love it, because we are allowed think it can do better.

And if you don't have any criticisms? Great! Whatever floats your boat. Just don't attack people for saying otherwise.

Someone saying "I don't like Jax, I understand his character I just don't like him because he's abusive" does not mean they need to be hunted down by internet freaks absolutely drooling at the prospect of blowing things out of proportion.

These fandom wars serve no purpose except to make whoever participates miserable and frustrated.

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egg diner

[fandomlife-confessions]

[slugghee]

"I am Youssef, an 18-year-old young man, and my dreams and hopes vanished in an instant. My family’s house in Khan Yunis was destroyed, and I found myself and my family living in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, under the scorching sun, inside a tent swaying in the wind. I wake up every morning to the sounds of waves crashing on the shore, but they no longer mean anything to me—they only remind me of the freedom we lost and the life we once had..."

Hello everyone! As of writing this, Youssef is at $3,877 out of his EXTREMELY ACHIEVABLE $15,000 goal. He has only gotten eight don@tions in the past day. Youssef is asking for $15,000 to support himself and his family, mainly for medicine, shelter, and food, which are hellishly scarce as a manifestation of Israel's genocide. He is only 18 and he is responsible for his family's SURVIVAL. Please take the time to read Youssef's own words on his GFM page, as well as on his tumblr account, @yousefjehad3 . Read them, stare at them, process them. Let them truly sink in. Then, go to his fundr@iser and DON@TE. Every single coin you can spare counts, because everyone's small contributions will snowball into a massive one. None of these fundr@isers reached their goal because of one loaded don0r. It was always a group effort.

And, whether or not you're able to d0nate - SHARE, with your family, your friends, your groupchats, your tumblr followers, so that someone who can will have the chance to see it! If you are on Tumblr, you are able to reblog.

Don't ever think your contributions are useless. They provide material help and are expressions of care during impossibly dire times. Palestinians quantifiably cannot afford your apathy.

Youssef's GFM is vetted. He is shown on line 255 on the Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundr@iser List by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi.

Donate to Help Youssef Provide Medicine and Shelter, organized by Vann Dukas

I am Youssef, an 18-year-old young man, and my dreams and hopes vanished in an in… Vann Dukas needs your support for Help Youssef Provide Me

(btw, I've heard that it's not a good idea to tag posts like this with terms such as correctly-spelled 'don@tions,' which is why I'm spelling things as such. I encourage you to refrain from tagging your reblogs with these terms just in case..)

[yousefjehad3]

A reminder of a simple dnati@n that saves an entire family🇵🇸🍉

Donate to Help Youssef Provide Medicine and Shelter, organized by Vann Dukas

I am Youssef, an 18-year-old young man, and my dreams and hopes vanished in an in… Vann Dukas needs your support for Help Youssef Provide Me

[zeldytherainbowbirb]

was anybody gonna mention this orrrr

I really do wish we had more interactions with these two I love their fuckass dynamic </3

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I've been rewatching Ridonculous Race and I actually love them so fucking much. They're my sons I adopted them <3

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no because these three would actually make the peakest trio ever

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why is it that every time a sapphic ship is confirmed canon (usually after already being widely shipped by the fandom) it's "boring" or "badly written"?

I've seen this take made about Lumity (and also Abstragedy, Caitvi, and Catradora, though I've never seen the original media for the latter two, so I won't really be discussing them) and it's just so lame.

Lumity is not a "boring cliche love story". They're a key point in the evolution of sapphic representation and the first explicitly confirmed queer couple in any Disney media. Their development definitely wasn't bad considering the heavily shortened time the show had.

Apparently they "don't have enough angst" or "exercise too many popular tropes".

Feel free to burn me on the stake for saying this, but the enemies to lovers trope has rotted people's brains. No, I'm not saying ships like that are bad, Lumity themselves are literally rivals to lovers - it's just that people think every relationship has to have constant arguments or underlying toxicity to be interesting. Thus, causing them to think that because two (fourteen-year-old, mind you) girls have an actually healthy and sweet relationship with each other, it's boring.

This is also definitely somewhat rooted in misogyny (a lot of things are) and people’s gross need to sexualize sapphic relationships but if I got into that discussion we'd be here all day lmao.

Queer women (+enbies) really can't have anything without being judged and it shows.

And look, people can ship what they want as long as it doesn't contradict a character's sexuality or it's pedophilic or incestuous or something like that.

I have no issue with people who prefer shipping Luz and Amity with other people as long as it doesn't use the aforementioned contradictions (I refuse to get into the Lunter discussion on here, I will not be elaborating further on which ships I'm talking about).

But for the love of god. If you don't like a ship, you don't need to make false claims about it in an attempt to justify whose is better. It's really not that deep. Stick to your ships if that's what makes you happy and treat people with respect.

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I’m honestly really tired of the “divorced parents that still love each other” trope.

I mean, obviously that CAN happen in real life, but it’s so much less common than people make it out to be.

I have divorced parents myself and they despise each other. They’re much better off without each other because they just don’t work, and that’s okay.

Not every woman needs a man to get places in life. We don’t need to be married or have kids to be memorable. A woman should be able to divorce a man without being accused of still loving him.

It sickens me that no matter what we do, we’re hardly ever taken seriously. When we suffer from emotional or verbal abuse it’s dismissed because there’s “no proof”. When we suffer from physical or sexual abuse it’s censored and hidden because men would prefer to do anything except take accountability.

No matter what we do, we’re never anything more than “the wife” or “the girlfriend” or whatever we are to the men who claim to own us. They don’t see us as people, they see us as objects.

Single moms and women exist. I have one and I’m so beyond grateful to have such a wonderful parent. We don’t need to be associated with a man to be worth something.

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if I had a nickel for every time an all-female trio of color-coded inseparable "best friends" (who are clearly in a polyamorous relationship) saved the world with the power of yuri I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

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I’m just gonna leave this here

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Ragapom 🤝 Wenclair

Having that one gay ass hug with its own personal music score that lasts for a prolonged period of time during a season finale while the world is falling apart around them (also one of them is touch averse but willingly hugged the other anyway)