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The best ship is actually "human avatar of repression" X "unrepentant degenerate freak"

"Fan of fiction podcasts" is not the funniest trait you can give a fiction podcast character but I do think it's in the top ten. Top twenty at the very least.

When they break the 4th wall during Change/Timawarp, it scratches my brain in a good way. Specifically when the characters somehow interact not with the audience but with the person controlling time and/or their actions. The idea that the characters are aware of this kind of outside influence on their life is fascinating

The best shapeshifter trope in media is when they get damaged or desperate and just start rapidly and/or uncontrollably cycling through all of the previous forms they've assumed.

I feel like Owen Wilson plays a cowboy no matter what genre he's in

i love you, characters who have the explicit purpose of representing entire concepts in the narrative. i love you, characters bigger than themselves. i love you allegorical characters. i love you characters so wrapped in metaphor and the creator philosophizing through you it eclipses you as a "person," i love you characters who haunt the narrative long after you're gone. i love you characters who are doomed because the thing that they represent are doomed. i love you characters who are more lesson then character.

Some ships I see making out and I'm like ehhhh not buying it. Then we have the ones where person A will literally just say Person B's name and I PERISH

Characters who you’d think would be assholes but are actually goofy bleeding hearts have my heart and soul.