r/osp

If you've heard the most recent OSPodcast, you know where Red stands on this hill. As someone with a caffeine dependency who also enjoys the taste, i kinda want to see if I'm the minority opinion. Sound off whether or not you actually like the taste of coffee or if you only like the additional flavorings that get mixed in.

To start off, i drink somewhere between 24-60 ounces daily (i work in education, i will not take input about the volume). I typically drink a Colombian roast and i drink it black. Sometimes i add creamers and syrups just as a change of pace, but i still like tye taste of coffee on its own.

I thought it had it's own video, but I guess not?

The idea was that a character has the choice to do bad in a situation that no one would blame them for, but chooses to do the right thing anyways. Example being if you're a bounty hunter and found out your target is a child. No one would blame you for killing or kidnapping a child, but you save the kid anyways because you couldn't live with that guilt

It's a really good trope talk that I want to revisit, but I don't remember what episode it's from

By who’s standard?

See, as much as some Internet denizens beat the “objectively” drum at deafening volumes, the phrase “One’s trash is another’s treasure” is far more appropriate of an adage.

And in the case of female characters, this borderline meme of how they’re rarely “well written” in a way male characters aren’t judged by starts to get suspect.

Stop me if you've heard this one before:

A show with quite the dedicated following is largely female led or, at the very least, has a considerable female prescene in the cast and the narrative. However, a very vocal portion of fans be they boy, girl or variations thereupon will often find themselves gravitating towards a male character be it a lead hero or villain.

These characters might've earned their flowers with how well their arcs were written or how their personality shakes out generally. Even so, there's a lot of fans who seem to overlook any of the girls in favor of the boys despite the girls often having quite a bit of depth to them. Essays, fanfic and fanart galore.

One can't help but sense an... imbalance of sorts.

But perhaps this little routine gives you deja vu:

2. A show's fandom will often make headcanons and theories out of a male minor character/character of the day but often leave female characters be they major or minor high and dry. Often the claim will be that the female cast isn't well-written or well-developed in spite of how willing fans will dig into a guy's possible subtext or maybe make crud up whole cloth.

That's not even getting into double standards as to how boys getting up to questionable shenanegins will get a slap on the wrist or at least get more than a few devil's advocates in terms of understanding why they're like this. Not so much with female characters be they, say, vying for love in a very hormonal way for their age and clearly getting in her own journey to romance.

Not trying to say that just anybody is trying to intentionally be like this on a conscious level. Blindspots like these are called that for a reason but I feel that just acting like they don't exist is part of the problem.

Maybe the female character’s arc isn’t relatable to you.

Maybe her personality just isn’t your cuppa joe.

Maybe her presentation in the narrative does reveal a skill issue on the part of the writer but the cons are vastly overstated.

Or it's a skill issue on your part.

Many like to heap the onus upon the writer solely but contrary to another popular adage: not everybody is a critic.