I have to say it. ‘enemies to lovers’ started going down the shitter when people began treating it like 'people who kind of annoy each other to lovers’ ENEMIES to LOVERS is about if two girls FOR REAL want to KILL each other
OP turned off the reblogs on this bc it was clogging their notifs but I just wanted to say that the notes on this are so funny like ppl are SO BAD at reading for tone and intent.
Like OP clearly wasn’t proposing this as an actual challenge, but commenting on the fact that fandom tends to flatten female characters’ personalities into a set of popular prepackaged fandom buzzwords and soundbites, and every fandom person in a 1000km radius decided to immediately
1) interpret it as an actual fun challenge to take a crack at
2) in doing so, invent so many novel and inventive ways to reduce female characters’ personalities to prepackaged soundbites and buzzwords.
People unironically commenting stuff like “she’s a war criminal and I want her to step on me” thinking they passed OP’s test like babe not only was there never a test in the first place, you’re literally just doing the thing they were making fun of :T
Like there isn’t an actual test but if there was you’d get crushed by the anvil. sorry.
i love looking too deeply into joke characters. it’s like a court jester jingled onto the stage and started performing and i stood up in my seat and wailed audibly
i wake up and i am immediately thinking about those characters. i eat breakfast and i am thinking about those characters. i do chores and i am thinking about those characters. i do any work, i study, i walk the dogs, and i am thinking about those characters. i go to bed and i am thinkign
The worst thing filmmaker’s ever did was decide that because it’s called “Dracula” it must be because it’s about the actual guy Dracula and his melancholic woes and alluring world of darkness and seduction and not the fact that every single character in the book hates him. Every single worker he comes across cusses him out and tells him he’s ugly and his vibes are rancid. Jonathan Harker wants to chop him up with a machete Quincy wants to shoot him so bad Renfield wants to crush his windpipe Van Helsing and Seward and Arthur and Mina and everyone else want him dead by impalement and decapitation. It’s called “Dracula” because every single character wants a piece of that bastard.
So fun fact: At some point in my life I got it into my head I wanted to make a Highly Ambitious Sci-Fi Simulation Murder Mystery Game, where all the characters in it were fully simulated and had their little simulated goals and ANY of them could have done it and it was up to you to piece together the clues they’d naturally leave behind in the wake of their nefarious deeds to decide who actually had the means and opportunity as you slowly realized EVERYONE present had motive.
Obviously, it would be a riff on Murder on the Orient Express, but that’s not important.
But, when I realized that I wanted to have a SINGLE person be the target of all that aggression, I realized in my heart of hearts that person had to be Dracula.
And BOY did the plot of the game write itself out at that point. So many various reasons people could want this bastard dead.
Ultimately, the ambitiousness of the simulation was its undoing: I wasn’t yet in a point in my programmer skill tree where I knew how to properly debug AI, so it ended up unfinished (and for a platform I no longer have access to, alas).
HOWEVER let me leave you with my very favorite bug:
Because I needed lots of reasons for characters to be constantly moving around and not just holing up in their space-train cars, they had various bodily needs, like hunger and thirst and the need to go to the bathroom, you know, normal things.
Imagine my horror and delight when I was running a test game to figure out why Dracula kept Not Getting Murdered only to discover he was *LOCKING HIMSELF IN THE BATHROOM AND PISSING ETERNALLY*.
Turns out I had a bug where you just…wouldn’t stop.
I ALSO had a bug with the locking mechanism and people could let themselves IN but not out, so eventually the entire cast ended up there in the Infinite Piss room, unable to leave, and unwilling to murder because of all the witnesses.
Hell is real and its a buggy simulation game.
Op I’ve been laughing at this for 5 minutes. Literally have tears streaming down my face.
Y… you’re OP.
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# new rule
# if your addition to the post is funny enough you own the post now
im curious to hear how ppl view these colors, so can u tell me which color u think they look more like? yellow or green? blue or purple? yellow or orange? pink or purple? blue or green?
Treating popular fanon regarding a character as authoritative, and getting angry at people whose feelings toward that character are informed by the version who appears in the actual text
Conflating “it’s possible to construct this particular narrative from elements present in the text” with “this is the narrative the text in fact presents“
Dismissing criticism of a particular aspect of the text on the grounds that you can imagine some hypothetical context in which the cited elements wouldn’t be problematic
Elevating a particular body of fan-work above the source material, and acting like anybody whose fandom doesn’t take the former into account is missing the point
Getting so immersed in a deep subtextual reading that you reflexively assume anyone who has an issue with the explicit text of the source material is engaging in bad faith
