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Thank you @khonaker and everyone who got me to 2000 reblogs!

When I'm in a "My character got pushed aside for Bakugou" contest and my opponents are any of the Dekusquad

Wow, what a nice picture of the MC and his good friends, I sure hope they aren't ignored or lose complexity in favor of the MC's childhood abuser

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You're welcome! I'm sorry if it looks like I was speaking over you, I had started typing my response before you posted yours

I find it hilariously stupid when some K̶a̶t̶a̶a̶n̶g̶ s̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶r̶s̶ undermine the maturity gap between Katara and Aang by saying: "Oh I love that Katara is taller than Aang, and Aang is short cuz it breaks societal norms"

IT'S NOT LIKE AANG WAS BORN SHORT AND KATARA IS BORN TALLER,

Aang is shorter than Katara In This PARTICULAR AGE PHASE because He's A 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉, he still hasn't hit puberty yet, meanwhile Katara is already a teen and older

To examplify that, me and my brother who have the same age difference as Katara and Aang respectively, when he was 12/13 I was taller than him, but when he started to hit puberty he drastically changed and even became Taller than me

In fact when Aang grew up, he became Taller than Katara, as seen from the photo of Aang and Katara as adults which destroys the argument that "Aang is short"

The "Shorter dude/Tall gal couple" only applies to Zaheer and P'li because when they're both grown adults (*given also that Zaheer is older) P'li is taller than him

What's even funny is that Zaheer himself is actually tall (he's 6'1) but P'li is just a giraff

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First of all, the OP wasn't talking about their ages being why their maturity gap was so big. She was talking about how it impacted their heights and that Aang being shorter isn't a dynamic like Zaheer and P'li. You're not even arguing the right point.

Second of all, I absolutely remember being twelve and fourteen. Just starting middle school and getting ready for high school are two very different places. Looking at a 6th grader like that never even crossed my mind, and I distinctly remember thinking the 8th graders looked like adults. The 8th graders also had way more expected from them maturity and behavioral wise because, again, they were getting ready for high school.

Third of all, the difference in their maturity doesn't just come from their ages, it comes from their upbringings. Aang's upbringing was carefree; he didn't have responsibilities and was allowed to prioritize fun. Katara was delivering babies, taking care of kids, taking care of her brother, etc. Katara's maturity comes from her parentification as well as her responsibility to her village that she's been taking since her mother was killed, not her age. Which is why she's often (not all the time) more mature than Sokka, who's older. She takes the burden of taking care of people, especially Aang, which forces her to be the mature one.

I find it hilariously stupid when some K̶a̶t̶a̶a̶n̶g̶ s̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶r̶s̶ undermine the maturity gap between Katara and Aang by saying: "Oh I love that Katara is taller than Aang, and Aang is short cuz it breaks societal norms"

IT'S NOT LIKE AANG WAS BORN SHORT AND KATARA IS BORN TALLER,

Aang is shorter than Katara In This PARTICULAR AGE PHASE because He's A 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉, he still hasn't hit puberty yet, meanwhile Katara is already a teen and older

To examplify that, me and my brother who have the same age difference as Katara and Aang respectively, when he was 12/13 I was taller than him, but when he started to hit puberty he drastically changed and even became Taller than me

In fact when Aang grew up, he became Taller than Katara, as seen from the photo of Aang and Katara as adults which destroys the argument that "Aang is short"

The "Shorter dude/Tall gal couple" only applies to Zaheer and P'li because when they're both grown adults (*given also that Zaheer is older) P'li is taller than him

What's even funny is that Zaheer himself is actually tall (he's 6'1) but P'li is just a giraff

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When I'm in a "My character got pushed aside for Bakugou" contest and my opponents are any of the Dekusquad

Wow, what a nice picture of the MC and his good friends, I sure hope they aren't ignored or lose complexity in favor of the MC's childhood abuser

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Hey since we are on a momo rewriting...I can't offer much but....can I ask this: how fucked is to see your daughter being harassed and do nothing?

Bc Mineta sexual harassed her in the sport festival....you know, the Sport where the entire nation watches more than Olympic (🙄)

Like even if we are to say "bad parents" they should at least do something...they are rich, sure they could do something. Are they ok in seeing their kid being treated like this?

Well considering Hori...if her parents had for smth...it would be framed as in a bad light and Momo would have to apologize to Mineta.

Yeah, it's definitely... Odd. I can think of maybe 3 reasons as to why they wouldn't do anything.

Exploitation. The MHA world seems to thrive off exploiting hero students, especially girls. The whole Sports Festival is a bunch of grown adults watching and scrutinizing 14-17 year olds. Maybe Momo's parents are the kind of people who think all publicity is good publicity?

They're so negligent that they didn't even watch/pay attention to the Sports Festival. Now this is unlikely since it's "more anticipated than the Olympics," but they could be shrewd business people who only care about the stats of heroics which they can get secondhand

They're making a point to not interfere in anything school/hero related to "help" Momo's career and teach her independence. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense but hey🤷🏾‍♀️

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Consider this a part three for the Momo rewrite! As said before, as the story goes, Momo becomes a parallel to Ochako, and becomes a parallel to Ochako. Ochako and Momo are very sweet, loving, understanding girls who are often underestimated because, well, they're both girls. Ochako is someone who wants to tackle that head on, and show people she's her own person, but still is that bubbly, upbeat girl we all know. Momo, during her arc, is still quiet, timid, and still has a lot of internalized thoughts of how she should be "feminine" and to "be a lady". Her parents in this didn't even WANT her to be a hero because "it is not a job for a women and isn't ladylike." Momo is confident, and assure of herself, and during a girl-on-girl talk. Ochako reminds her that SHE is hardworking! That she is a great leader! She shouldn't be so hard on herself, and do what she wants. Momo is silent, smiles to herself, but isn't that simple. She opens up a bit about her homelife. They just... kind of talk. Momo gets a better perspective on things. She has a lot to think about. I would also like to think that when Momo and Kendo have their intership, we can add onto this. Momo on that arc was just. Uwabami literally just used Kendo and her for their looks. I think it was a wasted opportunity to make a commentary thing about how women in Japanese society need to be quiet and be something to look at. During this, Momo has gotten a lot of confidence, at least to stand up. After she arrives, and does that commercial, Momo overhears the "looks" comment, she directly challenges Uwabami of her stance, and shots that shit down because JESUS. After this, Momo has had enough. Momo wants to transfer her (and she recommends Kendo do the same) to Ryukyu's agency. She wants to be taken seriously. She's getting fed up with just being seen as the pretty girl. She's tired of Mineta harassing her, she's tired of people downplaying her compliments, she just wants to be seen as a person. Not some artificial mask. Also during this arc, the girls get a quirk upgrade too and something that helps them move along their stories. Maybe Momo has her own villain in the LOV besides Toga who has a lot of internalized sexism. I'd manage her quirk upgrade would be just her forming a shitload of guns, or just weapon artillery, and commanding like a badass, finally showing off her skills, and helping people. Also, the girls with Ryukyu get more roles during the yakuza arc. I've had some thoughts for it. If y'all want, I can go over my rewrite ideals to how I expand on the girls with that. Lemme know what you think!

Love it, love it, love it!

You gave Momo more characterization in 3 asks than Horikoshi did in 400+ chapters

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Another horrible day to have eyes

Huh?!

Chat is this true?

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I have a dump of issues with the Glee subreddit, but your response back was one of the major things that bothered me about that place. The line was always being moved around there when it came to what was to be taken seriously and what was supposed to be campy. If Rachel did something, like send Sunshine to the crackhouse or make Run Joey Run so that she could show off 3 guys being interested in her, it's supposed to be campy and "peak Glee". If Santana done something like audition for FG, she's thrown under the bus on that sub. Multiple times I've witnessed the characters of color being criticized and hated on relentlessly on that sub while characters like Rachel are praised for their wrongdoings or it's excused. A lot of what is said about Brittany is also very ableist, where some viewers see her as a child who is incapable of having a relationship but only when it comes to dating Santana. The same conversations aren't held with Brittany's relationships with men.

The Glee subreddit is catered to Rachel stans and Rachel stans only. The Santana hate, it's not even valid criticism to me, comes from a lot more than just disliking the things she said. A lot of it seems to bleed from sexism, racism, homophobia and a small part of me also thinks it's about what we know BTS of the show and the cast.

Honestly, I think a lot of the Rachel pandering comes from the Lea Michele scandal.

When Samantha Marie Ware exposed Lea for being racist, there was a rush of sudden Rachel hate. Remember, pre-2020, there wasn't a lot of that (at least, not much in comparison). Knowing that Lea was like Rachel (x100) irl and that she put her co-stars through hell really changed a lot of people's perspectives on Rachel as a character. It, very understandably, makes a lot of Rachel's actions uncomfortable to watch. And that in turn, reasonably, made people start to dislike Rachel altogether.

I think the Glee subreddit, in an effort to combat that, decided to overcompensate by sucking her off constantly. I think in their minds, making light of Rachel's actions separates her from Lea and, in turn, the hate that came from Lea's actions.

And listen, we all hate when our favorite characters are misunderstood and hated by others. There are a ton of characters I'm protective of. But I don't attack other people for merely having a different opinion. I only argue when that hatred comes from misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. My beef with the Glee sub isn't that they hate Santana, it's that they repeatedly bash WOC like Santana, Mercedes, Sunshine, etc. to make Rachel and/or Finn look better (or in Quinn's case, when they act like Finn wasn't awful to her too and hold her to a higher standard than they do him). That's what isn't okay to me.

And about Brittany, they absolutely need to stop treating her like a child. Infantilizing her just because she isn't as smart as other people is so fucking stupid. Glee literally had a whole episode about how Quinn and Tina were wrong for trying to shelter Becky from having a relationship, why does anyone think that's okay to do to Brittany? And the fact that they only do it to argue against Brittana and not her relationships with men just screams homophobia and biphobia. Santana can never have anything, can she?

Not to mention, Brittany is one of the most emotionally intelligent people in the show. Especially when it comes to Santana. She's the reason Santana had so much development in season 2. Because she's one of the only people Santana can be herself around.

(Btw, this page isn't for Brittany/Brittana antis if that wasn't clear. I can't even believe how many Santana stans are anti Brittany)

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"Please keep cooking🔥" Will do! 😊 Thank you for the compliments, that was very nice of you! Consider this a 2nd part to the Momo rewrite anon, thing. Next up, a redesign for Momo's hero costume. I actually really like her hero name, Creati. It's very cool, and fitting for her character. As for the nature of Momo's rewrite design, I was thinking of something along the lines of street fashion. While she dresses more conservatively. Considering a lot of the items she makes look like they probably would weigh a ton, she would probably need more comfy, and light-weight clothing. She'd wear a crop top (like a decent, normal one. She's 15-16.) She would wear long pants, but through all of her pants, there's zippers everywhere. On the back of her crop top, there's an open compartment to use because for the "surface area" she uses her back more, anyway. Also for design points, I gave her some fingerless gloves. They can have a practically purpose to. Like maybe her gloves gives a boost to whatever she's creating. Let's say she creates like a gun or something, the bullets will pack more of a punch or something. I gave her like you know translucent, visor glasses? She has those has a way to communicate with other heroes and team members. Momo also has certain pockets if she needs whatever material, and better than that bulky, ass belt she has going on. She wears more sneakers, more comfy, light weight. Lemme know what you think!

Listen, anything is better than canon. As long as you're focused on functionality. That's the center of Momo's hero gimmick. She's supposed to be a rational, functional person and her suit should reflect that.

Me, I would have given her an open back (since she often has to rip her suit to summon things from her back anyway), a zipper, and gotten rid of that dumb bookcase on her back (maybe replace it with a visor like you said) and then called it a day. As long as her quirk is still functional, anything works

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¿What is your opinion on Himiko Toga?

In my opinion, she's wasted potential all around. As a tragic character, she's unexplored in favour of a tasteless love triangle with izuku and ochako.

And as a yandere character, she's the most boring yandere i've seen in my life. Like toga barely has genuine interactions with both of the objects of her obsession, she's an embarasement to the arquetype.

¿How in the fuck are we supposed to think that izuku and ochako want her to change, when she barely shares any actual information of her past to them?

The fact that the audience knows, but not the other characters that supposedly want to save her makes it impossible for me to care for her as a PERSON.

Agreed, for the most part.

I don't have many issues with Toga's concept. I even liked her at the beginning of the story. I think her backstory was pretty solid. But, similarly to Dabi, she's wasted potential.

You can actually see, though the two of them, where Horikoshi decided to change the direction the story was going in. The implication they both had in the beginning was a kinship with Stain, who- even though he was extremist- did want to change the world for the better. They were meant to be the products of the faults with society, and their role in the story was implied to be to change those faults, even through villainous ways.

But of course, keeping that in would also mean addressing how society failed Izuku. Which would also mean condemning Bakugou's role in that. Which means Horikoshi couldn't as easily justify Izuku forgiving him without actually giving him a solid redemption arc.

It's so sad how so many faults in the story tie back to Bakugou's shitty character

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I will say confidently that MHA has done this. It has given me a lot of ideas for my own story. It also has a lot of inspo from Avatar: The Last Airbender as well, but it's still it's own thing. I will say, as a treat. Here's a Momo rewrite!

Momo, as said before, grew up with rich parents. I'd also like to believe for this rewrite she has like older siblings. For the reason why Momo feels so inadequate is because her classmates have so much going for them, her siblings are so much smarter and wiser than her, and her parents aren't... around that much. She doesn't feel good enough, and she just wants to show that SHE can be that good enough.

I'd say she'd still have that same fight thing with Shoto and Aizawa, some things tweaked here and there but still the same. As the show goes on, I feel like it would be interesting to show a different side of the field when it comes to how quirk society treats certain people. Momo is up on the ladder. Very wealthy. Her parents have extreme expectations for her, and she has to be perfect. Grades, social life, clothing, etc. She gets compared a lot to Shoto and her siblings, which can be apart of her arc and why it affects her so much. Also a reflection of Japanese society of always having women to be perfect, prim, and even her parents basically forcing her to be like a perfect housewife for her next "husband." But Momo doesn't wanna marry or fall in love with WHO her parents want her to be. Maybe she realizes during school she's a lesbian or bisexual or w/e sexuality. She is not quite as knowledge, but very open to learning. She and Jirou get close, and meets her family. Her family is so kind and supportive, and what a family should be. She feels conflicted. For Shoto parallels, Shoto comes from a well off home, but a not so good family life. Even throw a parallel to Toga who went through the same thing. Ochako also grew up dirt poor, but has loving parents. Momo learns about a loving family IS, and I feel she would try to reconnect with some of her adult siblings, and it goes well. Rocky, but well. Shoto getting the courage to stand up to his own dad. It makes Momo think, Momo's parents in this, aren't as accepting of the LGBTQ+ , but are quiet about their judgements. Momo and Jirou's romance is a slowburn mainly because MHA takes place within one year. But, tbh, in my rewrite of MHA the final battle with Shigaraki is when all of Class 1A are like in their 4th year of school. By then, Momo and Jirou are dating. But if we're sticking to the canon timeline, there's hints of it. But Momo stands up to her parents about this and doesn't take their shit anymore. She's her own person. She's her own hero. I'd also like to imagine Momo also becomes a foil to Toga. Because in this rewrite, they have quite a lot in common, and is also present in the whole Toga V. Ochako show down. She would become a part of the Dekusquad, and be like a 2nd defacto leader. Also, in this rewrite, Midoriya, Iida, Ochako, Tsuyu, and Momo go to Shoto's house, and not just Bakugo and Midoriya. Momo is very confident and becomes a great leader, and hero. Lemme know what you think!

Weird way of proposing, Anon, but I DO.

This is all I've ever wanted for Momo. Substance, drive, ambition, ALL OF IT IS SO PERFECT. And it also feels very true to her character. So many Momo rewrites make her entirely different (seriously, when people make her cold and snobby it really turns me off because a big part of Momo's character is that despite being rich she has a generous and kind heart), this one takes what's good about Momo's canon characters and enhances it. Horikoshi wishes he could write women half as well as you.

Please keep cooking🔥 If you ever make a fic I'll be the first one to read it

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Hey there yet again! :D I have an MHA question, two to be precise! :)

You happen to like Momo Yaoyorozu, right? I saw on your page the pinned post that she's one of your favorite female characters! :)

If you do, then what do you think of Izuku/Momo? :) I just felt like this was a little bit of a missed opportunity in the manga and the anime(even though I'm on like, season 3 in the anime and manga) to see how they would get along and talk more, as well as the whole rich girl and the middle-class boy getting together. And I don't know, I just like that cute tall girl and short guy dynamic also. Really, though, their personalities are so similar: dorky geniuses, striving to be better, excited over the simplest things, and...yeah, I just like them. LOL! No offense to Ochako, it's just...well, Horikoshi said he didn't want to do a harem-type situation, but just make Izuku like Spider-man! Let him have one crush, then another comes along, and another! Three girls totally that he gets in a relationship with, the third being the final gal or something! It's a school-themed shonen manga, for crying out loud! XP But yeah, what do you think of this ship? :)

(By the way, I may be around season 3 of MHA, but I'm kind of up to date on what's happening a bit, thanks to the MHA Wiki, as well as having new volumes of the mangas. X) )

I do love Momo! I'm a sucker for intelligent and creative female characters (like her and Shinobu) because they remind me of who I wanted to be when I was younger (also strong girls like Diana, Korra, and Adora, but shh). Also, her quirk is the coolest, so underutilized.

It's not a bad ship! It's not one of my personal favorites, but I definitely think they should have interacted more. They could have complemented each other well. I personally headcanon Momo as an ace lesbian, but to each their own

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I'm curious about your thoughts about the Glee subreddit and morality. When I was active on that sub, I left some time back because of the insane Rachel glazing and Santana slander, I noticed a lot of the arguments or discussions were coming from a moral standpoint for me. Santana's my favorite character and often how she was criticized on there seemed to come from sort of moral high ground. She's a terrible character because she did this wrong (biphobia, racism, homophobia, bullying etc) and that isn't okay without people remembering the time period that Glee aired in or that Glee thrived off of dodgy/satirical jokes or humor. They hold Santana and her actions accountable as if she was created in 2024 and not 2009.

Was this something you also noticed when you were there? This weird morality stance when it comes to controversial characters like Santana? It honestly felt like she was being judged to 2024 standards. Sorry if this sounds a bit disjointed but I'm interested to know your viewpoint.

No, this is a really good question.

It's common knowledge for people who have left the Glee sub that it's on some self-righteous moral high ground. And I wouldn't care about their morality stance... if they were as harsh on Finn and Rachel as they are on Santana, Quinn, Mercedes, etc.

I can give you a lot of examples of their double standards.

When anyone tries to bring up Rachel slapping Santana, they'll cry about the times Santana slapped Quinn and Finn... But nothing about Finn trying to yank Quinn out of her wheelchair, beating down on Puck, attacking Jesse, etc. Hell, they'll fucking praise him for assaulting Brody. In all of these situations, Finn always gets an excuse: oh Puck betrayed him, oh Quinn manipulated him, oh Jesse and Brody HURT poor Rachel!! But then they'll make excuses for demonizing Santana... despite the fact that Quinn revealed her private medical info to get her demoted and Finn literally outed and doxed her to the entire state.

Ergo, they're fine when Finn resorts to violence because it's SO UNDERSTANDABLE, but Santana's a bitch who deserves what she gets so she isn't allowed to be upset in any way.

Do you know how many times someone brings up Mercedes quitting? Do you know how many times they condemn her for being childish, disrespectful, and leaving the way she did? But... Rachel did the same thing for years. Why is it only condemnable when Mercedes does it? Why is Rachel allowed to complain and get angry, but the minute Mercedes does it she has an attitude problem?

Rachel playing Maria in WSS was fine, but for some reason she has the right to condemn Santana for auditioning for Fanny? And the Glee sub thinks that's perfectly okay.

It's funny you mention satire, because apparently that only applies to Rachel, not Santana. Rachel can make whatever comments she wants about Black people and Chinese people and anyone who isn't American and it's so cute and funny and endearing, but when Santana did it, it was racist and she's terrible.

(Honestly, I know Santana is Mexican in canon, but Naya was Black irl, so it really feels like this is misogynoir (especially when Mercedes is only liked as long as she's being perfectly unproblematic). If Santana was a white Hispanic and not an Afro-Latina, I feel like people in the Glee sub (and everywhere else tbh) wouldn't be nearly as harsh on her)

Also, you pointing out people judging her by 2024 terms is hilarious, because that's the exact thing the Glee sub accuses Finn haters like myself of doing to him. Except... condemning most of the shit Finn does was perfectly the norm in 2009. The Office (THE FUCKING OFFICE) took the time to explain why outing was bad. A ton of sitcoms pointed out that abusing your size to beat people up when you get mad is wrong.

IT WAS 2009, NOT 1989. The last episode of Glee aired in 2013, when progressive shows like Steven Universe were coming out (hell, Adventure Time is even older than Glee and it did things so much better; Finn Mertens>Finn Hudson) Glee isn't the aged relic people make it out to be. And firmly holding Finn to "2009" standards- while not doing the same for Santana (or Quinn or anyone else)- and them attacking anyone who dares to say "Hey, Finn's kind of a dick," is a double standard that screams misogyny and racism

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Just read @justatalkingface's recent post about the Sports and part of it made me think... And that part is the Sports festival being more popular than the Olympics and how they fell out.

Now I'm not gonna say BNHA is directly what Hori thinks or feels about things, but the fact that he chose to say such a thing about an important event in history to build up his tournament arc was... a choice.

When it's super obvious that they can just implement quirks to being allowed in the Olympics to make things more interesting and add new sports as well, so Hori literally had no reason to write that.

LMAO THAT'S LIKE SAYING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE NFL😭

I vaguely remember reading/watching this, but it is pretty pretentious. Couldn't he have said almost as anticipated as the Olympics? Also, that just makes UA more exploitative. A bunch of grown adults watching unprofessional teenagers more closely than they watch adult sports.

Now if this was UA against all the schools that would be different. That would kind of make sense. But again, it's literally one high school😐

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The Roast of Katsuki Bakugou

In celebration of Bakugou's birthday, I thought it would be fun to shit on him a little. Everyone reblog with a roast to celebrate. I'll go first:

Bakugou is an ugly rat:

Now it's your turn!☺️

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One thing I've come to realize is that male Kataang fans don't even try to hide their hatred of Katara. They're the ones behind those dumb memes about her talking about her mother. They're the ones who ignore that she was parentified. They're the ones to try to downplay how strong of a water-bender she is. They're the ones who preferred her in LOK.

They're the ones who show the most overall contempt for Katara. But they love Kataang because the "unattractive" guy got the "hot" girl he's been pining over the whole show

anon where’s the lie?? You’re so right. Katara’s value to them is “caring pretty girlfriend” and her other characteristics — positive or negative — are just not relevant to them. Never mind her trauma or her rage or her incredible accomplishments.

Tbh, I’ve seen some female Zvkka shippers act this way about Katara too, and ofc they also ship Ka/taang. The Katara ship I see in most Zvkka fics is Ka/taang, which is unfortunate because I also like Zvkka, but that makes it harder for me to enjoy most of the content. Anyway not every woman relates to Katara, obviously, but the way some Zvkka fans aggressively distance themselves from Katara is almost weird. I mean it’s not new for a female character to be downplayed in favour of an M/M ship, but it still annoys me. My pet peeve truly is “female character gets stuck in a mediocre canon relationship bc the M/M shippers can’t be assed to give her a better partner”

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What a lot of Finn Hudson fans/defenders/apologists don't understand is that it isn't just about the outing.

Don't misunderstand, him outing Santana was fucking terrible. It was a shitty thing to do and there's no excusing it.

But for me, 3x07 will always be worse than 3x06.

I've said this before, but everyone in Glee is awful and everyone does shitty things. But what matters here is framing and execution.

Take Rachel sending Sunshine to the crack house, for example. You are NOT supposed to be on Rachel's side. Her actions are called out by everyone- even Schue and Finn who usually let her get away with her shit- and this is the focal point of her changing her behavior the rest of the season.

The show, even in its satirical phase, made the effort to stress that Rachel did a bad thing and it shouldn't be brushed over or justified.

Hell even compare it to the f*ggy scene in season 1. The show makes it clear that not only is Finn using the slur not justified, it makes the effort to address the fact that he has prejudices he wasn't aware of. He tolerated Kurt being gay, he didn't accept it. His arc that season was acknowledging that and making the effort to fix it.

Now, compare that to IKAG.

The show goes out of its way to excuse Finn outing Santana. We all saw why he did it in 3x06, he did it out of retaliation. He deliberately did it to be cruel to her because she was mean to him, the consequences of doing so never even crossed his mind because he didn't care enough.

But for some reason, 3x07 tries its damn hardest to convince us that he did it because he cares about her. That he was so afraid of her dying that he absolutely had to force her out of the closet and strongarm her into "accepting" herself. Mind you, in this episode he proceeded to blackmail her even further out of the closet under the guise of doing her a favor.

Finn was downright vile in IKAG, yet the show is bending over backwards to make him seem heroic. No one called him out and everyone was on his side (except Brittany, but they couldn't even have her say anything against him). Not only is this deplorable, it's also contradictory with what he saw in the previous episode. Almost like the writers realized that they had made Finn come off more spiteful than they meant to and scrambled to do damage control the next episode.

Listen, nothing could have made what he did better. But if they wanted to salvage any of Finn's character, they should have had him, at the very least, admit what he did was shitty and show even an ounce of regret. That would have made him a character that had the potential to be better.

(Hell, that's even what they did with Santana. She, if anyone recalls, always got called out. Season 2 was all about her behavior not being condoned or rewarded. Her name-calling in season 3 is also framed as antagonistic, even Mercedes and Brittany tell her to chill. So defending Finn by saying "well Santana's a bully🤓" amounts to nothing because Santana's actions aren't being framed positively like his constantly are)

In conclusion, fuck Finn Hudson all my homies hate Finn Hudson