How to write HATEABLE Villains

1. Give them power over something the reader cares about A villain who can’t actually hurt anything important is just annoying. Give them control over a person, a system, a truth, or a resource the protagonist and reader are emotionally invested in.

2. Make them punch down, not up Readers hate villains who abuse people with less power. Targeting children, the vulnerable, the innocent, or the desperate instantly signals moral rot.

3. Let them feel justified The most infuriating villains believe they’re right. They don’t see themselves as cruel, they see themselves as necessary, logical, or “doing what must be done.”

4. Make them calm while doing terrible things Cold politeness, soft voices, or pleasant manners paired with cruelty feels far more disturbing than loud rage. It creates emotional whiplash that sticks.

5. Give them small, petty cruelty on top of big evil Genocide is abstract. Stealing someone’s last comfort, humiliating someone publicly, or enjoying another person’s fear feels personal — and that’s what makes readers angry.

6. Let them win more than feels fair A villain becomes hateable when they keep getting away with it. Let them succeed. Let them walk free. Let them hurt people without consequence — for a while.

7. Deny the reader catharsis Cut away before justice. Interrupt revenge. Delay consequences. The lack of emotional release builds frustration that gets attached directly to the villain.

8. Make them emotionally invasive They don’t just hurt bodies — they manipulate, gaslight, shame, isolate, and reframe reality. They make the protagonist doubt themselves.

9. Let them corrupt something good They twist love into control, faith into obedience, loyalty into fear, or law into cruelty. Watching something pure rot because of them creates hatred fast.

10. Don’t soften them with too much sympathy A tragic backstory can explain behavior, but if you want them hateable, don’t excuse it. Let the story clearly show that their pain does not justify their harm.

lol why is a good majority of this how I write my PROTAGONISTS 💀💀💀💀

Mention anything that I am disgustingly interested in or knowledgeable of and I’m going to look at you like this

Sorry tumblr user I stole this clip from your post I can’t stop laughing why is he doing that

you can tell how much a fanfic writer loves their favorite fictional character by how much they torture them in their fanfics

still thinking about how perfect a flag this is for human space exploration. Shapes and symbols can change meanings between people and cultures currently, let alone hundreds or even thousands of years into the future.

And what is the purpose of placing a flag on a foreign planet? It’s a way to say “we were here.” And the one, immediate symbol that any other human who came to the same spot any number of years later would be able to recognize a human hand. Even if governments change and collapse, we all understand a handprint.

and if you found yourself somewhere where you wanted to mark humanity’s presence, but didn’t have a flag with you? Well, you have your own hand.

some days you’ll effortlessly write 3k words of perfectly coherent sentences with stunning metaphors and perfect grammar, and some days you’ll rewrite “the table was red” 32 times and not be able to get a single sentence right.

both are valid. both are progress. and you shouldn’t beat yourself up if you’re experiencing the second one.

the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)

assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life

Uh oh

hey, do you mind if i immensly value our relationship, in a way i'll never properly be able to fully verbally communicate

the thing that I can't stop noticing about commercials for chatgpt and other ai shit is that they can't even seem to come up with creative or interesting shit to do with it. like everything that they show people using it for is stuff that you could already do if you had, like, any friends or the ability to use any search engine

was thinking about bear/bare

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

This is so real. It freaking sucks, but in this little section on Tumblr, we are a fringe community with comparatively really really strong views on AI that most people don’t have. It’s all psychological. But yeah, being stuck with really strong, really non-mainstream views like this that we can actually BACK UP kinda sucks when you have to, you know, go out and interact with society.😭😭😭

"post without tags?" OH IM FUCKING SORRY #BEES #9/11

Baby Telemachus trying to make his momma Athena kill me. doodle inspired by the baby bison

SLFKJSDLKFJSDLKFJSLDF LMAO THATS PRECIOUS AND HILARIOUS

pov little wolf and odysseus

We all know Furbies lay Orbeez eggs that Worms on a String hatch from, but did you know that when a Furby escapes captivity it will revert back to its feral long worm form in less than a year

I hope this clears things up

What the fresh fuck

I've been laughing about the Mark Hamill gaygay tweet for six hours

Ben grinding his teeth over this might be the funniest thing I've seen in years. Bro. You're seething over the Mark Hamill gaygay tweet.

Is nobody else going to mention the fact that Mark signs his name as Mar Camel???

A mom helping her kids beat a hard level in Super Mario Land, 1990s.

this is a renaissance painting

Oh my god, oh my god, I just saw an ad on YouTube that started with ‘want to become a great scriptwriter? Well with one click we can generate an AI script FOR you’ WHAT?!?!? No???? That’s literally not at all how that works what the hell? I hope that’s a scam, please let that be a scam, they can’t be THAT stupid…