#boy and girl interesting dynamics

[1000sunnygo]

Do you ship lawbin?

I don't exactly ship them but I don't hate the ship either.. Just neutral, I guess? It's such a harmless ship but massively hated for no reason lmao.

I discovered it was a thing only after Sawyer7mage talked about them in a chapter review (good reviewer btw! some sarcasms he made here reminded me that he's a professional therapist pfff) Initially I didn't like the idea but some valid points have been raised in favor of the ship by him and others. Law/Robin don't have a lot going together so far, but public opinion can be easily swayed if Oda lets them interact more. Given the recent developments in late Wano, the chance is quite high.

Only problem is that these two seem to be drawn towards the type of people that are opposite of each other. Robin had flirted with larger and older men who aren't "conventionally attractive", and Law's buddies are all silly little fellows with little pride who like to pamper him all the time. But fanarts like this by @/takara_op did a great job convincing me that they'd be pretty fun to follow as a duo 👍🏼

Oda's depiction of Law and love and his character dynamic with women is an entirely different topic and I have a year old draft meta on this,,,,maybe I should post it some day 🫠 doesn't have much Lawbin in it though

[dulcewrites]

Olga Orozco, from Engravings: Torn from Insomnia: “To Destroy the Enemy,” // Anne Carson, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides // Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in Dune // Olivia Cooke and Tom Glynn-Carney as Queen Alicent and Prince Aegon II in House of the Dragon // Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale // Wenzel Tornøe details // The Trojan Woman

Cassandra Devereux, Queen Consort of the Seven Kingdoms // Queen of Ash and Bone // Queen of Grief

[73647e]

you’re telling me no one has sat down and actually thought about this??

[camelspit]

Oooh why are you a Lava Cake hater? I’m so curious

😔😔😔 ive been discovered /j

I'm not even really a hater I'm just strongly. disinterested in it. It doesn't do anything for me, and I'm struggling to see how it got so popular (no hate to the shippers though lmao have fun!!!)

maybe this is gods revenge for the garvar era. punishing me for my crackship with another one. 😔

[transxfiles]

so SO funny how the entire narrative is trying to push misty to get together with walter. like he is clearly at least kinda crushing on her and the directors are paralleling them and the writing is trying to push them together. meanwhile misty keeps going "i would like to see nat again please. stop talking to me." walter looks at misty with big eyes like PLEASE we only need ONE hotel room RIGHT and misty says, "two hotel rooms. i would like a separate one. yeah put it under a separate name. freak." and leaves him in the dust.

[minakoainosupremacy]

Just thought of an AU where the sailor team doesn’t fully awaken and it’s just Sailor Moon and Sailor V fighting bad guys, not working together but not working against each other either, and over time they develop a mutual respect for each other and become somewhat close without ever revealing personal details or their secret identities to each other. When they get to high school, Usagi and Minako become really good friends and are very close, but it still takes them years to discover each other’s secret identities.

[magical-xirl-4]

the fact that i would've actually loved cat noir if he just didn't try to flirt with ladybug and just did his own thing. if he was just a stinky ratbag boy goofing off being a jokster and not trying to be a tryhard swuave nice guy for a girl who clearly doesn't like him back

[fiendtheanonymous]

It will never not disappoint me that the one PPG/RRB scene in "The City of Clipsville" isn't talked about as often as a fascinating piece of media satirizing early internet fandom much in the same vein of episodes like "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochy Show" from season 8 of The Simpson. It's such a smart and funny critique of the shipping culture at the time (which was and still is mostly led by preteens and teens, in comparison to the adult audience of the Simpsons fandom at the time).

I don't know, I think both the animation community and fandom historians really overlook this as a fascinating piece of animation and early online fandom history, and it's always disappointed me. The City of Clipsville is going to be 20 this month, I think it's about time somebody really went in depth and dissected it for a wider audience.

[lollytea]

about your latest reblog (the female character one) who exactly were you thinking about, because I think we're both thinking the same thing 👀👀👀👀

Remember in Reaching Out when they decided to flesh out Edric a little more and they just gave him season 1 Willow's problems

[itspileofgoodthings]

happy and cute teaching stories present and accounted for, my 3rd period class has only 5 sophomores in it and it is a TERRIBLE combination of students--they don’t particularly get along or mesh, and they’re not motivated enough to really propel themselves forward with maybe one exception, all of them hate the small class size, and honestly sometimes teaching them is torture and makes my head hurt. 

[woahajimes]

i hate tumblr new format. alsooo whatd i miss

[thatoneautisticfnaffan]

Because Kimberley doesn’t have much of personality in canon - apart from being implied to be smart - if I do decide to ship her with Greg, I’ll just use my HC version of her.

[oflgtfol]

gawd having to act straight at michaels is crazy bc so many of my coworkers just talk about the guys theyre dating and or fucking and its crayzay so my one manager showed me a pic of the guy shes just fwb with right now and she was like hes sooo hot and i was like meh i mean not my type i guess like not ugly but whatevs and she was like well what is your type and i was like OH NO i shouldnt have worded it that way so i said oh i dont really know i just know it when i see it i guess. and she was like well cant you list like traits characteristics and i was like. Well. i must say this. i know its controversial but i do like mustaches. and she was like. that is very controversial

[rustystars]

i need . to rewatch tcm2

[daisyachain]

Hmmmm how to say. There’s a certain peerhood of character dynamic that comes from two people in a work being both girls/both boys/both neither. That isn’t to say that life isn’t fluid or that you can’t build a dynamic between male and female characters that ignores this divide.

To take an example at random—MP100. Emi, Asagiri, Tsubomi all interact with Mob as Girls. They’re foreign, agitating or destabilizing elements in Mob’s world (the audience’s world) as non-peers. His interactions with them are always in the context of Gee I’m Talking to a Girl. Mezato is an edge case but still Girl. Mob ends up misinterpreting her journalistic curiosity as interest in the Divine Tree arc, which only makes sense if she’s viewed as Girl before Classmate. Tome, on the other hand, is fully a Peer character. She’s Mob’s closest friend from what we see in-canon, they go on what he describes as ‘dates’, but she’s so far out of the Girl social role that Shigeo never associates her with the fresh intrigue of the Girls. Instead she’s a comforting, reassuring force on the story in the way that Reigen and Ritsu are. She even steps into Mob’s shoes for the oneshot! There are gendered roles and non-gendered roles and actual gender doesn’t have to define them. Tome is a girl and not a Girl.

So, it’s interesting to play around with his characters’ genders can shape even non-romantic dynamics, or how dynamic is itself gender. People who are similar feel kinship. A tomboy will hang out with boys on the playground or a kid bullied for being a sissy will be part of the girl group. That gets complicated when genders bend around in-story.

Specifically DGM Alma Karma was born from the transmigration of a woman’s soul into an an artificial male-assigned homunculus. Her/his/their key dynamic is with Kanda as two-of-a-kind. Both experiments, both exorcists, both (assigned) boys growing up together. The sense of sameness and equivalency is important to that relationship. They have no one else in the world like them except each other.

PastKanda’s dynamic with PastAlma also fits into a strictly gendered structure: Kanda is a brooding gruff man searching for a lost cheerful kind woman. They’re the action hero/deadwife cliché. Kanda has abstracted PastAlma away from any semblance of personality because he doesn’t even know her, he just has a vague impression. The woman is separate, unknowable, distant, and though Hoshino is a lady herself, the trope is a misogynistic one that relies on the idea that women are mysterious creatures rather than human beings with thoughts and dreams.

By then transposing the somewhat gendered relationship of childhood friends-twins-equals-peers on to the irrevocably gendered trope of sadman/deadwife, Hoshino then challenges the way that gender informs the whole story. Kanda’s view on Alma is wholly interior. Alma is himself reflected, openly expresses what Kanda feels and hides, is the one person who truly knows and understands him. Then his view on PastAlma is entirely exterior; she is an inscrutable ghost, an invisible gap in his life. Kanda has idealized PastAlma and resented Alma for a decade only to find out that they’re the same person. Which begs the questions: did he think of them differently just because he thought Alma was a boy? Was PastKanda even a man? Do we the audience read PastAlma as opaque just because she’s a woman, where Alma is such a lively screen presence? Would Alma present as a woman if she weren’t trying to go incognito, or did they genuinely identify with the boyhood he was assigned?

Who knows. Social pressures always weigh on the edges of a story. Even if they’re not obvious, they inform how events unfold and how audiences interpret them. Gender (patriarchy) is such a pervasive hierarchy that a writer/reader’s got to consider how it influences plot events. Alternately, ignoring it has got to be a deliberate choice and you’ve got to think hard to keep gender from sneaking into the reading (eg a perfectly neutral interaction between girl characters will read as misogynist between a girl and a guy).

[sexysilverstrider]

an an english teacher and a writer i have some gripes with the series specifically the writing. it was a bit cringey at first but after getting over that its an enjoyable read! there were some typo n grammatical errors but nothing tht bothers me too much. like i said its simplistic and cheesy but sometimes i need that kind of simplistic writing style.

the characters are very cartoony like characters from a manga and not from irl and i love that since i see characters as 2D instead of real life in my version.

the plot is sometimes pretty over the top--again, like im reading a dramatic josei manga--but i enjoy that. the sex scenes are pretty eh as rough smut with dom man/sub woman isnt my cup of tea (which is my biggest critique about twisted love) but i think the sexy scenes in twisted hate and twisted lie are a nice read! the transition from rough/hate smut to sweet/loving ones made me go ehee.

overall readers can either hate it or love it. im in the love it gang coz i love drama and this book is like playing an otome game except its a physical book