Fried Chicken Friday was a success, I not only perfected my kara age skills, I made bone broth for the doggies, set aside tidbits for more homemade dog food later and what’s left of the bones is going in the composter. I literally used every part of the chicken thighs I bought, and while it’s not the same as using beaks and feathers, I’ve got this comfortable throwback feeling of satisfaction.
Could also be a belly full of fried chicken but no complaints.
prince zuko got you all out here thinking every dark haired antagonist boy is gonna do right in the end when zuzu was the exception not the rule
I really wish it weren’t though? I think it’s really telling that a lot of people like redemption arcs because we want to see people be good despite their pasts. The fact that there are so little redemption arcs in media is very upsetting because it just sends the message that people can’t change which we know is not true. I absolutely don’t mean this for characters like Kylo Ren though lol
Redemption arcs are hard and Zuko’s was successful for a couple of reasons:
1) Zuko wasn’t the worst character in the Fire Nation. From really early on it was shown that, compared to Zhao, Azula, and other Fire Nation leaders, Zuko was consistently more noble. He tried to be a good person and do the right thing, even when doing so led to him suffering for his actions.
2) Zuko suffered for his mistakes. He suffered when he turned away from Iroh, he suffered when he betrayed Iroh, and he suffered even after his face turn. There were consequences for his mistakes; he didn’t get off scot free because his childhood was hard. He was still held accountable by the narrative and made to take responsibility for the wrongs he did.
3) Zuko made tangible amends to the people he hurt. He rescued Hakoda, helped Katara get closure, and became Aang’s firebending master. He put in work to make up for the things he did and rebuild bridges with his new allies.
Most redemption narratives fail because the guilty party is guilty of much greater crimes than failing to capture the hero, never works to make amends, and never suffers for their mistakes. You wanted to see Zuko redeem himself because he had the capacity, wanted to do the work, and paid dearly for his mistakes.
you’re right and you should say it
“I absolutely don’t mean this for characters like Kylo Ren though lol” lmao you were THIS CLOSE to having a good opinion
you literally only want redemption for characters who are already more or less decent so the idea of somebody genuinely hateable changing doesn’t have to offend your sensibilities. “the guilty party is guilty of much greater crimes than failing to capture the hero” so you’re saying that actual villains are impossible to redeem? who the fuck do you think the viewers who need redemption narratives relate to? and what’s with the focus on suffering? I get it, it’s satisfying to watch people you project your abusers on to be miserable, but statistically extreme punishment is orthogonal to growth. you guys are boring and this is boring shit
Every comment antis leave on any post criticizing their community and rhetoric that more or less reads “you guys really wanna defend the right to ship abuse and incest” makes me lose my mcfucking mind. Yes, we ARE going to defend the right to create content that deals with whatever themes we want! If people want to write about incest, were gonna defend their rights to do so! If people want to write about abuse, we’ll defend their right to. What are you, a minature conservative? You’re laughing at us for defending peoples’ LEGAL RIGHTS?? And there’s suuuuure nothing fishy about attacking only a community of queer folks and women, so many of whom know what it’s like to be abused, passing these stories among themselves but staying quiet when men are out here releasing every gross “trauma-fetishizing” story into the public completely unwarned for. It’s not as though conservative christian groups have already targeted the same exact people to ~cleanse their communities for the children~ and only served to launch a homophobic missile of destruction on queer survivors. Sure, laugh this shit off. Old people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about anyway, right?
why. do people get off on writing traumatizing events happening to their ocs
why cant you just say “yeah i enjoy developing my ocs’ backstories” or “its fun coming up with their lore” instead of being freaks who talk about how fuuun it is to abuse your ocs n how you just loooove making em into bloody messes
like its not cute
i dont know how to make this clearer but that comics like this:
are fucking everywhere on tumblr and always have like 50k notes is terrifying. yall get a hobby and stop n*tting over trauma n abuse its weird n youre Not off the hook for being the character creator if youre gonna act like THIS about it
almost 100% the time it’s the creator projecting their own trauma on their ocs and it’s actually painfully obvious that that’s the case…
Actually it’s also just people writing what the hell they want a lot of the time and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Also the comic example here is clearly a style of exaggeration to make something funny out of a relatable experience that’s developed over years of talking about it in a certain way; in most people’s cases, the relatable experience is creating drama and development through anything from tragic back stories to traumatic events.
If you go back a couple years on tumblr, you’d actually find posts discussing why so many people wanted to create sad, dark, or painful stories for their characters, and why they were always put through such horrible things (and why everyone seemed to ready to do it.)
Some people said they did it to explore their own experiences. Some people did it because it was a way to explore those themes they were unfamiliar with in a completely fictional world. I think overwhelmingly, people agreed it gave characters a lot more depth, ability to be empathized with, and attachment. It fosters protective feelings in people to see characters go through bad experiences.
In any case, there was a shift in how OC treatment (and character treatment in fandom as well,) was viewed and talked about. People went from “I’m about to make my fav go through something bad bc I love him and it’ll make him into the character I love” (or something similar, you get my drift,) to funny posts like the ones above, because among creators there was and is an understanding of how we all tend to do that to them, and its making a joke from it because you don’t get noticed by being the nth person to make the same ~relatable post~ again, you do it by taking something relatable and making it new and funny (welcome to tumblr.)
But I guess it’s more edgy to completely ignore the language development that’s pretty consistent with the dramatic escalation EVERYTHING gets spoken about on here (basically the “cultural subtext,”) to call people freaks in order to participate in callout culture and feel superior in some way, so good for you I guess?????
Writer/roleplayer jokes and character development is are problematic now I guess.
Stories have conflict in them Karen
Do the initial posters live under a rock, or????
How exciting, now people are telling us how to write and talk about our own ocs! Not only must you fic in certain approved ways. Woth approved characters and ships, but now your original stuff must also pass muster.
I’d say tumblr makes me long for death but I expect soon there will be posts about how stating one wants to die/be killed needs to stop too.
I’m sorry, let’s go back to Storytelling 101 where we learn that conflict is necessary. Whether that means the characters are being chased around and/or eaten by dinosaurs, snapped out of existence by some purple alien asshole, suffering a long and miserable journey to the heart of a volcano where they have their finger bitten off, losing their parents and an entire school of friends and mentors to a pissed-off wizard without a nose, or coping with drug addiction and/or an abusive relationship (obvs the most relatable out of these options) CONFLICT IS NECESSARY!
We (meaning fandom creators but also mainstream creators, see above) use conflict as a medium to tell a story. No successful book has ever been like, “These cool people existed, everything was fine and they lived happily ever after the end.”
And anyway, they’re fictional, so why does OP even care?
“Animals don’t go to war because they’re cinnamon rolls unlike ebil humans uwu” Check-fucking-mate Linda, cephalopods are having trench warfare in the ocean.
They’re literally in the shell age
So…they’re shelling each other?
*takes a long drag on a shitty cigarette* war is shell
Why isn’t anyone even bothering to mention the countless wounded soldiers of this cephalopod war? Many come back missing tentacles and eyes! Some even return home with a bad case of…shellshock
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