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« on: September 24, 2016, 12:02:32 PM »

When I first joined the community, I made a thread asking which fictional characters you identify with, and it didn't go over well at all. Now that it's a socially acceptable meme, I ask you again for the three characters that you have posted/would post on social media in picture form or otherwise.

I have 4 in mind (Leslie Knope being the only lock), but they're all tv characters, so I want to hear what some of y'all have done.
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2016, 12:22:46 PM »

I've only ever noticed a striking similarity to one, and that would be: Lily Aldrin (How I Met Your Mother)



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(Yes I can be weird like that too sometimes but not nearly as comically petty)

Plus she's quirky and sometimes strange, another match!
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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2016, 12:24:25 PM »

When I first joined the community, I made a thread asking which fictional characters you identify with

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« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2016, 01:11:32 PM »

I'm far too uninteresting to be able to identify with any character, which, by design, has to be interesting.
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« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2016, 01:24:04 PM »

Ah, you said three?

Here's the second:

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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2016, 02:01:51 PM »

The characters I posted on FB weren't that thought out, but for what it's worth:

Max Caulfield
Greg House
Lydia Deetz
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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2016, 02:07:13 PM »

Why do people believe they're important enough to embody 3 different characters, and then *share* them!?
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« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2016, 02:10:15 PM »

Dwight Schrute
Ted Mosby
George Costanza

lol me
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« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2016, 02:27:35 PM »

Why do people believe they're important enough to embody 3 different characters, and then *share* them!?

I'm not important: that's why I just shared two.
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« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2016, 02:29:38 PM »

Cersei Lannister (not incest though)
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« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2016, 02:31:14 PM »


This is the scariest post I have seen in a long time.

Incest isn't even close to being the worst thing about Cersei Lannister.
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« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2016, 02:33:23 PM »


This is the scariest post I have seen in a long time.

Incest isn't even close to being the worst thing about Cersei Lannister.
It's sad how you fail to understand this character, she's not an evil monster as you think she is.
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« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2016, 02:55:42 PM »


This is the scariest post I have seen in a long time.

Incest isn't even close to being the worst thing about Cersei Lannister.
It's sad how you fail to understand this character, she's not an evil monster as you think she is.

Actually, the fact that she's not a complete monster the way Joffrey and Ramsay obviously were makes her a lot more horrifying to me.
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« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2016, 03:01:31 PM »

Brak (of Space Ghost), Ron Swanson, Silent Bob
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« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2016, 03:01:48 PM »


This is the scariest post I have seen in a long time.

Incest isn't even close to being the worst thing about Cersei Lannister.
It's sad how you fail to understand this character, she's not an evil monster as you think she is.

Actually, the fact that she's not a complete monster the way Joffrey and Ramsay obviously were makes her a lot more horrifying to me.

In windjammer's defense he probably doesn't mean it, just trying to be edgy Cool
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« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2016, 03:05:28 PM »


This is the scariest post I have seen in a long time.

Incest isn't even close to being the worst thing about Cersei Lannister.
It's sad how you fail to understand this character, she's not an evil monster as you think she is.

Actually, the fact that she's not a complete monster the way Joffrey and Ramsay obviously were makes her a lot more horrifying to me.
I honestly don't understand why you hate her so much?

Honestly, I like her quite well. She just tries to survive, she's evolving in a hostile universe to women and she manages to survive.
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« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2016, 03:06:06 PM »

Have we been watching the same show? Huh
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« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2016, 03:06:34 PM »


Well, yes?

Please tell me what exactly do you dislike about her?
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« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2016, 04:09:37 PM »

My three were Mark Corrigan from Peep Show, M. Gustav H. from the Grand Budapest Hotel and Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter.
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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2016, 04:23:56 PM »


Well, yes?

Please tell me what exactly do you dislike about her?

All right.

The main thing that makes Cersei so uniquely vile and despicable is not really what she does (she does horrible things, sure, but the same could be said of many characters, and she's not quite the worst in that metric), but why and how she does it. She never does anything out altruistic concerns (her "concern" for her children is extremely possessive and therefore fundamentally selfish), or because she's advancing the greatness or anything she believes in, or out of pragmatic self-interest, or even because she's "just evil" like the two previously mentioned. Rather, she just gives in to all the darkest, most evil human instincts: spite, paranoia, pride, envy, cruelty, possessiveness. She's a slave to her emotions, and the emotions she usually feels are the ones a good person should never give in to. This leads her not only to hurt people around her, including people who meant no harm to her whatsoever, but also, very often, to hurt herself. And since she's so prideful and unable to ever question herself, she ends up blaming others for her self-inflicted damage.

tl;dr she's a spiteful, paranoid, self-righteous sadist.
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« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2016, 04:35:27 PM »


Well, yes?

Please tell me what exactly do you dislike about her?

All right.

The main thing that makes Cersei so uniquely vile and despicable is not really what she does (she does horrible things, sure, but the same could be said of many characters, and she's not quite the worst in that metric), but why and how she does it. She never does anything out altruistic concerns (her "concern" for her children is extremely possessive and therefore fundamentally selfish), or because she's advancing the greatness or anything she believes in, or out of pragmatic self-interest, or even because she's "just evil" like the two previously mentioned. Rather, she just gives in to all the darkest, most evil human instincts: spite, paranoia, pride, envy, cruelty, possessiveness. She's a slave to her emotions, and the emotions she usually feels are the ones a good person should never give in to. This leads her not only to hurt people around her, including people who meant no harm to her whatsoever, but also, very often, to hurt herself. And since she's so prideful and unable to ever question herself, she ends up blaming others for her self-inflicted damage.

tl;dr she's a spiteful, paranoid, self-righteous sadist.

Well, Cersei has been in a universe where she has been treated like sh**t, because in this universe women are being treated like sh**t. She was constantly being raped by her former husband, who beat her.
It is her strong desire of survival (including her children and Jamie as well), and her strong desire of proving this misogynist world she is someone that makes me lover her so much. I don't understand the hatred towards her, she's just trying to survive.
And no, she's not particularly paranoid, it was clearly obvious Margaery was trying to undermine her influence, particularly obvious when her son was constantly telling her "why don't you go back to Casterly Rock?".
She definitely has more balls than all of these useless characters that are basically the Stark family, Sansa being the victim, the father being the "honour honour honour" guy but no problem of ruining her life while he did know how sh**tty her husband was, and Arya who has no role at all except just being an edgy teenager willing to take her revenge. Cersei takes actions, she has more balls than anyone else.
I really love this character, I obviously don't have her life (thanks god), but I managed to understand so much her character, I love her, most underrated character of the show Smiley
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« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2016, 07:28:59 PM »

That's such a weak defense. Almost half major GoT characters have been treated like sh*t at some point or another, and some of them have had it far worse than Cersei. Sure, you can definitely empathize with what she's gone through and understand why this has led them to do what she does, but that doesn't excuse it. If explaining and excusing were the same thing, then this mean you can excuse anyone for anything.

And no, she's not just "trying to survive". That's just bullsh*t. She's had plenty of occasions to secure her position all the while not doing harm, and instead she always chose the option that hurt the most people even when that wasn't the best option for her or her children's interests. Margaery wanted influence, sure, but she wasn't an enemy until Cersei deliberately made an enemy of her. The Starks, meanwhile, are actually trying to survive and are doing so without doing horrible things (at least not as often and not so gratuitously... I'm not excusing all they did but that's beside the point). I guess that makes them "useless". Roll Eyes
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« Reply #22 on: September 24, 2016, 09:37:09 PM »

I can't think of any right now, but I remember Holden Caulfield resonating with me a lot as a teen. Not sure what that says about me frankly 😂
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« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2016, 09:56:59 PM »

I can't think of any right now, but I remember Holden Caulfield resonating with me a lot as a teen. Not sure what that says about me frankly 😂

It doesn't say much at all, really.  Unless you have a savior complex.
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« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2016, 01:04:22 AM »

probably a mix of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Andy Dwyer from Parks and Rec, and Holden Caulfield.

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