azarathian:

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Let me just start off by saying that I love seeing people do in-depth character analysis on cartoon characters, and this is one of the best I’ve seen. I’m really on the fence about Terra, and I’m sure that’s how the creators wanted to make the character. My mood toward her changes from day to day. In the comics, she was pretty static-she was evil and insane. Period. This is one instance where, instead of making a comic character flatter, they made her more multifaceted. (I could wax poetic about how Slade’s been reduced to nothing more than an evil mask with a hot voice, but that’s for another day.)

I agree with most of the things on this list. However, I do differ on some points, one of which is Terra’s rationale for joining Slade instead of the Titans, and her mindset toward them. I don’t think the lifetime of chocolate off a stranger vs. a group of kind teenagers her age analogy quite does the situation justice. Terra was a runaway. We don’t know how long she was homeless, but it’s safe to say that the other homeless kids she encountered probably weren’t stereotypical “street rats with hearts of gold”, or Jump City would have its own Disney movie. They were probably just as rough around the edges as she was. Hell, Terra might have been crashing in crack houses for all we know (not saying she was on drugs, just squatting) and that could help explain why she just “made herself at home” so rudely-it didn’t even occur to her to see if the Titans had a washing machine before she scrubbed up her clothes in the sink. For all she knew, they were just like the kids she’d previously encountered, just with more money.

Her interactions with adults must have been limited-maybe policemen or other people chasing her out of their towns after all the mudslides, earthquakes, and avalanches Slade mentioned. When Slade approached her she was probably in awe. It wasn’t like he was a truancy officer trying to make her go to school, and he wasn’t trying to arrest her or run her down. He was offering to help her. He wasn’t like the inept “bad guys” Terra claimed to have been “squashing”. Yes, she recognized he was bad, but at the end of the day Terra’s flaw was that her insecurity completely overrode her sense of right and wrong. Here was an adult, confident, sure of himself, willing to help her. What if he was right? What if the Titans did turn against her? She’d reached the west coast. The end. For all we know, she’d started at the east coast and had swept her way across the country. Terra was probably at the breaking point, probably sick of fair-weather friends who ended up betraying her. She must have thought the Titans were even worse than regular people: they had superpowers like her, but they were all in complete control of them. They might judge her even more for her ineptitude. I’m not saying cutting out when Robin mentioned her powers wasn’t stupid and immature, but she bolted at the first sign of trouble, which was probably typical.

As far as Starfire goes, that “tiny bit of persuasion and reassurance” was all Terra needed to turn to Slade. He convinced her that he was the only one who could teach her and reassured her that the Titans, like every other kids she’d known, would eventually turn against her.

Terra’s not evil. There are hints scattered all throughout the cartoon-she obviously had at least a little crush on Beast Boy before Slade got to her, she kept having flashbacks about the Titans, and in the end she sacrificed herself for the good of the city. She’s not an angel, of course, but at the end of the day I think that what annoys me the most was her vacillation between Slade and the Titans. She reminds me of a middle schooler trying to be a mean girl because it’s cool, or because she feels pressured to do so, Miss “I have absolutely no regrets”. For a time she really didn’t seem to have any. She seemed to relish being the bad guy because it was easy and was a good way to get the hurt she felt toward the Titans out. Cut to the cave scene, Slade slaps her around a little bit, and she realizes that he’s been playing her like a fiddle. Suddenly, remorse! Terra’s scene in the cave has most people convinced that she’s got a heart of gold, but it took her losing complete control of her body and getting pimp-slapped by Slade to knock some sense into her.

I’m not saying that her actions are excusable or even completely forgivable. I’m just saying they’re predictable. Predictable for a kid who’s been running away from everything her whole life, been around unsavory characters, and who’s ended up jaded with nowhere else to go. The yo-yo of her choice between Titans-Slade-Titans is just the culmination of her inability to cope. Unlike the others (Starfire, who came from royalty, Raven, who came from Azarath, Robin had freaking Batman) she never even got to see a moral compass or anything stable.

Personally, I loved the idea of Slade having a willing apprentice. I also loved the idea of adding another Titan to the team. Combining the two, changing them, and killing the storyline and Slade, I was so pissed just made for a big headache. But that’s what some people like about her. You can see what you want to see, put her on a pedestal or glorify her as a villain. At the end of the day though, I think that we can all agree she had a few character flaws. She was unsure of herself, jaded, a little self-absorbed, indecisive, and insecure. These flaws made Terra completely human-in the most irritating ways possible.

To read some godawful fanfiction that at least gives Terra a bit of a backstory, check out “The Ties That Bind” on fanfiction.net.

blonde-bookworm:

I mean, sure, he’s can be a stupid, hormonal teenage boy. He can be reckless and thoughtless, but that’s what makes him so likeable; he’s not perfect.

Harry’s brave, loyal, kind and noble. He’s a typical Gryffindor.

And in the end, he was willing to sacrifice his life for those he loved. Harry…

I don’t like Harry James Potter. I can respect and appreciate someone from afar without liking them or wanting to hang out with or have a conversation with them. He just doesn’t seem as interesting as most of the other characters.

intofireforever:

candyxberry:

intofireforever:

Why? Because she has a fucking vagina?

I’m going to assume you’re one of those creepy Saw fangirls who gleefully throws all the male characters into ship after ship with each other, and then also hates all over the female characters JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE FEMALE. “Amanda is a bitch. Jill is annoying. I’m gonna go pair everyone with a penis together.” That’s called internalized misogyny, and you might want to work on that.

(*Cisgendered male and female characters, rather. These fans are too fucking ignorant to take anything but genitalia into account and I’m not taking the time to try and educate them.)

THIS FOREVER. I sometimes feel like the only Chainshipper who doesn’t ship everyone with a cock together in a massive disturbing orgy in this fandom ;A;

This confession was from an anonymous, so I can’t really say whether or not your assumption is correct. I wouldn’t be surprised though. I believe what Amanda can “contribute to a relationship” (angst yay) is nothing less than what a lot of seemingly flat characters from IV-3D, which a lot of people seem to ship pairings with.

Don’t mind me, I’m just a I-III only fan doing good in this fandom and having opinions and respecting others’ so much to know practically everything in this series because I like running these blogs and contributing fandom fun. And then I get my own opinions stomped on later, but that’s a different story.

THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING. See, slash is totally fine. If that’s what people like, good for them! Let them ship what makes them happy! Like, if you enjoy Chainshipping, that’s cool! It’s when the slash fangirls turn around and HATE on all of the women for no legitimate reason that I get pissed off. Why can’t they just like slash without being so goddamn misogynistic everywhere? I ship Amanda/Jill but I don’t go around loathing all the men!

(I am creeped out by all the orgies the fandom has created, though that’s just my opinion. There’s the Gordon/Hoffman/Adam/Mallick/EVERY OTHER GUY one, but there’s a huge following on LJ for John/Amanda/Zepp, which creeps me out even worse…)

I confessed this. As to what I DON’T see in Amanda, I DON’T see someone who could free herself of cutting or tendency toward violence despite the fact that she looked up to and seemed to believe in the serial killer she thought of as a father. I see the messed up little girl who screamed “fix me, motherfucker” right before she failed her final test. 

In the grand scheme of things, I see a movie character I didn’t like very much, but I don’t go out of my way to curse at or belittle people who like her, I just genuinely don’t get what you see in her and I fail to see how this anonymous opinion confession is “hating” on her.

For the record, I’m not an Amanda fan or a slash fan, but I can see that you have me pegged as such because I don’t like her. That’s called faulty reasoning, and you might want to work on that.

darlingmermaidmermaiddarling:

Slightly different angle Hiddles.

Hm…I’ve always had a suspicion about these two. They seem very cozy in pictures to me. >.> And they’re holding hands in this one…

I know I’m late jumping on The Hunger Games bandwagon, but I wanted to read the books before the movie came out. They’re immensely popular here. I’ve had friends telling me to read them for what feels like forever. So I finally caved, reading them in sequence in three days. This may have influenced my opinions on the books, because right know, I am mentally strung out. Exhausted. I have had Hunger Games dreams for the past couple of nights, with myself as Katniss, and have awoken feeling as if I’d gotten no sleep.

I’m not here to go into the Gale/Peeta debate or nit-pick at little details. My main concern is this: people love these books, obsess over them; argue over them. My question is….why? How can you love something like this? How can you read about Katniss’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and night terrors and the general concept of having Hunger Games and talk so flippantly about it? The books are written beautifully and the characters are superb, but I couldn’t get through them without being as horrified as Katniss must have been the entire time. In some ways I think that they were written a little too well, because super-sensitive or overly sympathetic people probably had a bit of a hard time with the books, especially the last one.

There are girls online making cutesy graphics and taking pictures of their braids and saying “OMG I FEEL LIKE KATNISS TODAY” and I’m wondering why the hell anyone would EVER want to feel like Katniss ever. Is it that you want to be a hero or shoot a bow?  I mean, I know it’s not because she’s likeable. She’s about as likeable as anyone who’s been thrown in a pit to kill or be killed can be. That’s one of the things that I admired about these horribly bleak books, and one of the things that made them so hard to read. The realism was spot-on. Katniss wasn’t peppy and optimistic, Haymitch was perpetually drunk, and all of the other victors dealt with the killings in their own ways. Even the “happy ending” was tinged with blood and sorrow. I just don’t understand how people can fixate on and love a story like this one, especially younger people. The gripping realism and dismal outlook of the books (not that I expect a Disney end to everything) just make them exhausting and hard to bear, at least for me.

loveroflove:

reading about how amazing others thought the last harry poter film is makes me feel upset with myself that i didn’t think it was. i don’t like that i felt indifferent as i was watching, and then i didn’t feel or think anything at all when it was over. i should feel sad; i’ve loved harry potter…

I felt the same. I kept trying to feel SOMETHING but I was so busy noticing how much they deviated from the book and thinking of ways the movie could have been better. And then after I was just kind of numb. :/

awkwardloki:

lokilaufeyson:

decemviral:

I can’t get over this picture.

They picked such perfect child actors for the roles. LOOK AT HIM.

i don’t know how that kid isn’t like

pissing himself

“Don’t look now, but Hannibal Lecter is RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND YOU.”

(via caleblaundryjonas)

scar-lip:

“When I‘m king, I’ll hunt the monsters down *demonstrates* and kill them all. Just like you did, father.”

When one of your sons is secretly a frost giant and your other son says this, the proper response is: “They’re not monsters, Thor, nor do they all deserve to be killed.” and to then go on about positive attributes of frost giants and frost giants who’ve helped Asgard.

Just FYI.

Holy. Freaking. Crap. ODIN IS OFFICIALLY THE WORST FATHER EVER. D:

misspepita:

“Hello, Mr. Magpie.”

Um…THIS. Holy crap, awesome. I love the realistic looking stuff. This is so good.

thebookofchaos:

Everyone wants to be special. This is common knowledge. Loki never truly opens up to anyone. Hardly ever. And when he does, he’s always crushed. Now, wouldn’t it be special if he opened up to you, and instead of crushing him, you showed him love?

Now there; there’s the ticket. Everyone wants to make the untrusting trust. Everyone wants to be that one person they will confide in. And everyone wants to heal someone’s broken heart.

I think you’re right on the money. And I also think that people see something of their own issues with belonging and fitting in mirrored in Loki, even if it’s not to his extreme. If his story could have a happy ending, then maybe there’s hope for you.