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me core uh

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holy moli. they hanged me

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Man, I love oil paints

I live in a pigsty btw

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Birds appreciation post

I love birds. I love drawing them, watching them, infodumping about them, learning about them. THEM>>

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im so back

bruh I forgot how to draw

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A meta-analysis on Emma-May and the treatment of women in media and fandom

Okay so this has been on my mind for a while but fuck it Emma-May Dixon/Mcgucket analysis. For a character we know nothing about, I think about her all the time, and when I think about her, I get genuinely frustrated by the way the narrative and the fandom treats her in general. Either she’s a non-existent character whose erased or ignored for the sake of keeping their shipping of Fiddleford completely pure and fine, OR she’s villainized as being a horrible wife/ made into a poor ignorant beard in order to progress the male characters narratives. 

I actually deeply hate both of these interpretations, and I know people who do this are simply doing it so they can enjoy their ships or whatever, but turning a female character into a prop like that is incredibly frustrating and gross to me in general. So, based on the limited information we have about her, I want to throw my hat into the ring and share my thoughts about Emma-May and her relationship to her son and ex-husband outside whoever people want Fiddleford to be shipped with instead.

For one, I think it doesn’t go acknowledged enough that she was a single mother for the vast majority of her son's life. Considering both the time period, and the fact that due to the implication via her name that she is also from the south, she was likely a stay-at-home mom prior to becoming a single mom. Into the 70s most women were still homemakers, especially those in more rural traditional locations. There is no doubt in my mind that the struggle of entering the workforce after having been out of work as a mother, in a society which is incredibly disgusted by that idea, was deeply traumatic and terrifying for her, not to mention the stigma surrounding divorce she likely had to endure as well.

Moreover, I think it's likely that her choice to divorce Fiddleford was one made on her own (for reasons I’ll get into shortly) and I think the common interpretation I’ve seen in shipping contexts where he wants to leave her to he can go be with one of the Stan twins is… flawed, to say the least. Specifically, given we know from ”Legend of the Gobblewonker” that Fiddleford created a killer robot in response to being served with divorce papers we can infer that it was likely not a mutual decision, and also likely one made at the point where Fiddleford is long gone in terms of mental capacity. This to me indicates it wasn’t something that happened shortly after the end of his time with Ford, as “Society of the Blind Eye” shows us that it took several months to years before the effects of the memory gun fully materialized.

Her choice to return to her maiden name would also have been deeply shocking for the time and situation she was living in, and that to me speaks to the idea that she is both deeply resilient and also to the idea that she was deeply hurt by making this choice. Honestly, even in fan works which do include her as a character, she’s typically not shown as being particularly angry at Fiddleford for blowing up her life and leaving her a single mom, either being absent or being waved off as being okay with it. This is, in my opinion, just an extension of the narrative’s choice to treat her as a nonentity, and fandom’s tendency to ignore or erase female characters who are “in the way” of their ships.

Despite what seems to be fandom consensus that Fiddleford is gay and closeted, and his marriage to her is essentially a one-sided lavender marriage, I actually don’t agree. This isn’t to say that I disagree with the idea of shipping Fiddleford with the Stan twins on principle, I don’t. Rather, I think the problems in their marriage don’t stem from a fundamental incapability in terms of sexuality, nor do I think Fiddleford was simply using her to cover for his true desire to be with men. In fact, I do think he loved Emma-May and I think she deeply loved him, which is what makes the results of everything else so much more tragic. Frankly, I think Fiddleford’s choice to “abandon” his family wasn’t seen as that to either of them when it began.

Instead, I think it was seen as an opportunity to further his field, and being a loving and supportive wife, she approved of the idea. I think this is further supported by the mention in Journal 3 that Fiddleford keeps a portrait of her and their son on his desk to “remind him of what’s important”. Fiddleford is definitely a bad husband, but I don’t think those traits reflect negatively on Emma-May, either as a wife or as someone oblivious to the fact that her husband can’t love her the way she deserves to be loved. I see Emma-May as a character who is often unfairly ignored or maligned for the sake of slash-shipping, which is unfortunately deeply common for female characters in fandom.

I perceive her character as being a strong and resilient woman thrust into the workforce and single-motherhood in a time when both of those things were even more difficult than they are now. A woman who lost her husband not to an affair or incompatible sexualities but to a profound mental illness. A woman for whom divorce was not a desirable outcome or even a freeing one, but an unfortunate necessity and one that wasn’t wholeheartedly accepted by the man she likely still loved on some level. And I personally find this character far more interesting than being a blank slate, oblivious beard, or nonentity erased for the sake of shipping her husband with whatever Pines twin the fandom is gushing over this week.

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Emma may needs more appreciation

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My Pre-Portal Stanford Pines x Reader dating hcs!!

He leaves you for Bill Cipher.

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Trying to get myself out of the artblock(it doesn’t work)

Plus!

Toxic old man yaoi doodle

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sketch of Еda that I did at school cuz I bought Procreate🤭

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cryo family

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I’m becoming obsessed with these three silly men

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Day 18|yuri

Wives🤭

I just realised that Ford looks like Jack Walten….

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I feel like there are a lot of people out there who needs to hear this:

If you dropped out of school because of diagnosed (or undiagnosed) ADHD, Autism, ADD, OCD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, schizophrenia etc… You did not fail. The education system failed you.

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sketch I made instead of sleeping

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yippee

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🚨 ATTENTION FIDDAUTHOR SHIPPERS!! 🚨

Me and @punkesignn organized a Fiddauthor Week! During October 14th until October 20th, you can participate selecting the themes sorted to each day and create any piece of art you want!! (Drawings, fanfics, edits...) and using the tag #FiddauthorWeek!!

JOIN US AND HAVE FUN!! 🪕👓