#at this point idc anymore but i wish ppls would stop writing it with a z when ive said multiple times its with an s lol

[neomedievalistbr]

001, Fandom: RWBY, 002, Ship: ????? Choose whichever u want idk much about RWBY ships, 003, Character: Blake Belladonna!!

ahhhhh, RWBY.

Favorite character: Penny 👍 when the robots are autistic and trans‼️

Least Favorite character: ehhhhhhh, the list is real long bc theyre either boring or are not likable at all. Jacques maybe

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): For legal reasons, I'll not be commenting on RWBY ships. joking, at this point i only really like ruby/penny, tho ruby/emerald and ruby/blake are nice tol

Character I find most attractive: carmilla, from the novels

Character I would marry: uhhhh, kali and ghira. sorry blake im gonna be your third parent now

Character I would be best friends with: penny and ruby!

a random thought: pour one out for everyone still in this sinking ship, i have already abandoned it 🥂

An unpopular opinion: List is too long, main one: i don't really care abt bumbleby (blake/yang). good for everyone else tho, hope your ship doesnt end up being queerbaiting

My Canon OTP: none lmao

My Non-canon OTP: ruby/penny

Most Badass Character: yang. obviously

Most Epic Villain: 😬 i wish the villains were good. uhhh, cinder bc shes hot and at least has a backstory, the other guys dont have and im not putting salem here

Pairing I am not a fan of: jaune/weiss (which has the BEST shipname ever: white knight.)

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): List is too long, main one: penny. thx RT for making all that shit up that she didnt like being an android, then making her human and immediately killing her again. when the writing is good 👍

Favourite Friendship: yang and weiss

Character I most identify with: i see myself a lot in Adam. /j

Character I wish I could be: penny. i wish i was a cool robot girl, man

i wont be doing 002 bc. well idc anymore abt any rwby ships besides the occasional reblog lmao. so 003 it is

How I feel about this character: hm, complicated. blake is not really a character that crosses my mind. im very neutral on her

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: hmmm, while not really my favorites, ruby/blake and yang/blake (NOT at the same time), and ilia/blake

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: her and ruby! ... is what i would say if they were allowed to interact

nah but fr, i think her relationship with ilia was very good, as blake seeing herself in ilia and stopping her from following in the same path. i wish ilia blake's partner during v4-v5 instead of sun

My unpopular opinion about this character: ppl dont really see blake (and yang) as just the characters, its always blake and yang, just there for shipping. can you guys like, make her a better relationship with ruby maybe?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: well i wish her arc was better written. i also wish the animal people racism plot didnt exist.

Favorite friendship for this character: yknow theres not really much time for the characters to develop actual relationships, even the main ones (it took 8 volumes for blake and ruby to interact again...). that said, blake and ren

My crossover ship: none

[janiedean]

How do you feel about fic writers making ugly characters “less ugly”? (Like saying the unburnt side of sandor’s face is handsome to look upon or saying brienne is ‘plain’ or even that plain characters are beautiful etc)

I think I need to put two premises before I answer this, as in:

one: people can write what they want. if they want to do that, it’s their prerogative and I’m not gonna say they can’t regardless of how much I like it or not especially because I’m not paying for it and everyone can write what they like and if no one’s an ass about it that’s for the best, so even if I hated it I wouldn’t say people had to stop doing it for whichever reason also bc it’s not a thing you solve by censoring

two: we need to really make a point here that is that *beauty* is a subjective matter and the issue is how those characters are perceived at large, not by their partner/the person who is in love with them for a whole lot of reasons

example: if you asked me personally ‘if you could have a night out with one asoiaf character and have the longest one night stand of your life at the end of which both of you are too tired to walk who would you pick’, I’d straight-up tell you sandor without even thinking about it because he’s exactly my type entire package included, so if I, a person with that preference, writes sandor with anyone, his partner would most likely be into the whole package and would most likely find him hot regardless of everyone else, and maybe someone else who writes jb has a thing for tall women and whatever so to them describing brienne as plain ugly wouldn’t work etc, and it’s fanfic so I can’t exactly go ask people for philology. (or for one I know people who’d pass on jon and would go for sam without thinking instead etc.)

also, there’s another part where if you fall for someone for their personality first (regardless of the looks issue) when they’re conventionally not attractive either that won’t matter or you’ll probably start noticing things about them you actually do like (unless it’s like jb where you don’t realize what you’re into when you walk into it) and so on, which means that if a fic starts with A finding B not attractive but then they fall for each other and at the end they’re like B is actually hot then it wouldn’t really be a problem because like..... not everyone has the moment where you look at someone and go like OH YEAH THAT’S IT THAT’S THE PERSON, sometimes it grows on you

with that stated, my problem isn’t if the characters are described as ‘less ugly’ or not or if their partner doesn’t see them as such (ie I wouldn’t mind jaime going at brienne about how much he thinks her legs are hot as hell or her eyes or whatever because he would think that and he would find that hot regardless of everyone else) especially because again looks are subjective. I have a problem if their ugliness/perceived ugliness is a plot point and it’s ignored. I mean, I can’t feasibly buy a fic where sandor doesn’t have self-loathing issues over his looks or hasn’t had them at some point before the entire thing started because that’s like..... a fundamental part of his character and if I read fic I go for stuff that has the characters being recognizable, because I want to read about *those* characters. or idk if you have a fic where brienne is a professional model or smth like that I couldn’t buy if it doesn’t discuss in the premise how she’s a sensation for that or how she would have had to go over a ton of insecurities to even show up for an audition, because canon!brienne has interiorized to hell and back that she’s unattractive and no one would find her beautiful, so a version where that doesn’t happen either is well-explained or to me doesn’t work, because if you take that away - ie how society sees her as ugly/not desirable - you have taken away 50% of her issues but then it’s not brienne anymore at least for me, also because since I relate to her because of shared experience thanks to people who decided I wasn’t attractive enough for standards (and I can assure you I’m way more standard than brienne is) I’m really not interested in reading a take where that isn’t taken into consideration.

that stated: people use fanfic for wish-fulfillment all the time and for doing coping/catharsis all the time, so what do I know if someone who writes fic where brienne is either plain or who looks like gwen christie without the unflattering cut they gave her in the show and so on (so she’s hot and the text says it) doesn’t relate to brienne and doesn’t feel better by writing her like that? I mean, I personally don’t and it wouldn’t work for me also because imvho the discourse on aesthetics should move from ‘what’s beautiful or not according to standards that change every century’ to ‘everyone has different tastes so anyone will be hot to someone even if the majority might not agree so we should point out that looks matter relatively little and it’s your personality that does and someone out there will like you regardless of what everyone else thinks’ so I really don’t feel the whole ‘we need to say that everything is beautiful’ vibe and it doesn’t work for me. but if it works for other people I’m no one to tell them not to.

in conclusion: I personally read fanfic where the societal weight of someone’s looks is a plot point when for that character being Not Standard Attractive is a plot point because that’s what I like and I don’t care for handwaving it (actually for me it’s better if it’s not handwaved and the characters find happiness regardless of it) and I wouldn’t read fic where that’s handwaved because idc, but I have no beef with anyone who ignores that, I just won’t read it but they can do whatever they want. especially because again, fanfic is fanfic ie free stories where we all do wish-fulfillment to a degree and I don’t find going after fanfic worth my time when I can choose to not read it and when the problem is that so-called *ugly* people have very little space/rep that way (ie where they don’t turn magically beautiful/their looks don’t get magically better with a month of gym and a makeover rather than just have someone who likes them for who they are just like that) in mainstream media and that’s on content creators and societal standards, not on people who write stories for free in their free time. if instead we’re discussing their partner finding those characters beautiful to look at I have zero issues with it whatsoever because again that’s subjective and to say one, it’s obvious that j. is attracted to b. from the beginning (no straight guy thinks so much about a woman’s breasts if he doesn’t feel attracted to her) but doesn’t understand it bc he doesn’t process being attracted to people that aren’t c., which means that the moment he figures out if he goes to her and tells her that oh hey wait I think small breasts and large shoulders and long legs are hot as hell you want to see how much that would absolutely be IC. he doesn’t have (or anyone you partner brienne with) to be into her despite her looks, because again, tastes, subjective. and so on. so like, that problem is nonexisting. if there’s a problem is how everyone else sees those characters and how they’re written in retrospect but again I don’t go tell people how to write fanfic especially when I haven’t paid for it and I can just stop reading it if I don’t care.

my problem is people writing so-called **meta** undermining those things and behaving like being perceived as unattractive all your life doesn’t fuck with you and therefore undermining brienne and her issues or sandor and his issues or anyone and their issues and making it pass like peak text analysis and then calling anyone who relates to those characters worse things, not with people writing fanfic no one obliges me to read when I’m nowhere near interested in ruining someone else’s wish fulfillment or telling them I don’t like it. there’s fic I wouldn’t read bc it’s ooc but I wouldn’t go tell the author. honestly, I have a lot better to do with my life than having an issue with ppl writing fanfic when if I have to use my energies for that there’s the immortal mafia au discourse which is actually offensive stuff seen as romantic. xD