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I have a specific pet peeve of mine which I've been seeing a lot recently in the Ranma 1/2 fandom. It really bugs me when people depict Ranma Saotome as both trans-feminine and like a soft domestic type woman. I have 0 problem with interpreting Ranma as a trans woman, and I actually think there's a lot of textual evidence to back that up. But also depicting her as a soft sweet domestic type really weirds me out. Canon Ranma does enjoy being a woman sometimes! She also loves martial arts, and is fiercely competitive. She shows love and care by teasing and roughhousing. She is good at cooking, and I'd say she enjoys it (especially when it's a form of martial arts) but she doesn't take on the role of a housekeeper ever. She does enjoy wearing women's clothes, but tends to pick fashionable clothes, often ones that show more skin or are more typically 'sexy'. Idk man to me it just says something weird about ones view of women if when depicting Ranma as a woman one also reimagines her as a blushing domestic. Ranma 1/2 has tons of complicated women, and Kasumi is there if that's your thing, but Ranma doesn't fit that mold.

Like obviously everyone has their own spin on media, and the fun part of fandom is reimagining and whatnot, so I do understand different folks can have different interpretations of a character and canon doesn't always really matter. Making a fun AU doesn't really have to ground the characterization or the world in the themes or characterization of the original text. Also we are all, as I like to say, "playing dolls" here and that's the fun of it. This is just something that I don't enjoy.

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that feeling when you accidentally hit on the mother of the reincarnated guardian moon princess who you've sworn to protect until the next silver millennium

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You guys had a bunch of stuff to say about the polls in the Queerest Character in the Dungeon Tournament, so here's some comments I thought were particularly funny, grouped by which poll it was commented on.

Kaka vs Kiki (round 1)

if kaka is gay hes scared about it. kiki fucks

(in response to the namari x kiki comic) kaka is like ??? when kiki is just I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE. A BOTTOM

Hien vs Benichidori (round 1)

kissing hien would solve half of beni's problem imo

Otta vs Cithis (round 2, part 1)

theyre both gay but otta is gayer

Otta is so gay and kinky she went to jail for it

Gillin vs Senshi (round 3)

YOU CAAN'T PIN TWO BAD BITCHES AGAINST EACH OTHER. also senshi sweep

Thistle vs Winged Lion (round 3)

this is bullshit the winged lion had gay sex on screen

destory that lion u funky lil elf

thistle sweep im sorry lion but theres no straight explanation to the plant thing.

Kabru vs Marcille (round 3)

hydrogen bomb vs hydrogen bomb

DESTROY THAT TWINK

my horrid son and my cringefail daughter

Lycion vs Otta (quarter finals)

pitting two kings against eachother

Falin vs Izutsumi (quarter finals)

ahhh this is difficult. always gotta choose cat girls tho

Thistle vs Marcille (quarter finals)

whatever thistle has going on is some weird sibling attachment issue also marcille literally necromancied her gf

Falin vs Marcille (semi-finals)

anyways VOTE FARLYN BIG GIRL SWAG WEIRD GIRL SWAG MONSTER GIRL SWAG LESBINAN GIRL. SWAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is evil u hate lesbians. <- /j

the real winners of queerest characters in dungeon meshi are the fans dedicatedly yuri-fixing the polls in the name of love

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Watching Vintage Sailor Moon, Jupiter heterosexual phase is so over.

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Dungeon Meshi

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The dunmeshi anime should have one of those EDs where they make anime girls do choreographed idol dances except it’s marcille doing the worst dance you’ve ever seen in your life. Not even in a cute way it just sucks ass and you wish someone would put her out of her misery.

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Source: Yotsuba&! | よつばと!

by Kiyohiko Azuma

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Get you a man who doesn't question your bizarre, superhuman strength in the least, but instead simply says "Wow," as he watches you kick a man into the ceiling.

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