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milfbrainrot · 21 days ago

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i know other people are tired of female characters having stories revolving motherhood but god it is so nice to get stories about it that are actually... written with care? i imagine some of the fatigue around these stories is bc of how it's done with the assumption that all women must be or want to be mothers or it's done without any actual examination of the woman's characterization--and i also get tired of those! but there are so many female characters who specifically do not have or want kids as well these days, so i am glad that we can have a balance of ones who are fine without kids but also ones who are well-written as mothers??? idk. it makes me happy that we can have both, because parenthood will always be a thing, even if some people... equate their own preference of avoiding those stories altogether with automatic misogyny when a story does include it at all.

#txt #just. finishing up agatha and there are so many characters who fit that same vibe as her as having angst around motherhood #like oddly there is a big pattern with a lot of my witch blorbos having a big piece of their characterization be because of having lost #a child - taryn / vera / serafina / etc #aND i never got the sense that those characters... got their actual personhoods overshadowed by that facet of their story #(and those shows also have women who do not have kids in them!)#i guess what i just am always reminded of--speaking of hdm--is how mad hdm fans got when marisa's #promotional poster's descriptor was “mother” meanwhile asriel's was... adventurer or something?#like “how dare they reduce a woman to motherhood!” when............................. her whole story did revolve around #un-suppressing her fucked up emotions and wanting to learn how to be a mother to lyra #(WHILE tons of other well written women in that story had 0 kids lol)#it wasn't reducing her to motherhood it was developing her around a core facet of her life in a way that #ngl i felt was meaningful bc of it playing against misogynistic expectations as well #she couldn't be a mother to lyra bc she was made a pariah for things men got away with. she didn't get a choice in that really.#her actually... choosing... lyra... on her own volition despite the consequences... was actually rly fucking cool #anyway i'm just. thinking about this bc of finishing up agatha rn where i can just imagine that #some people were pissed about the nicky and billy thing (i do not care to actually look but i knowwww if i were to #search twitter i'd see annoying takes)#because i understand we are still building up to equality in media where we do get stories focused on powerful (and queer!!) women #and knowing fandom i just. know. people probably thought the motherhood aspect ruined it bc it isn't the story They wanted #idk trying not to make up a guy to get mad at but unfortunately i know im not making it up js;ldfljsdflkj #ANYWAY ALL THAT TO SAYYYYY i am rly glad that AAA has done this so well #as opposed to being done without thought to motherhood being optional #(even though im sure some people will still treat any portrayal of motherhood as though it was done with unchecked misogyny)#it just makes Me personally happy to have this #anyway #disk horse #kinda?????? im complaining so i'll just. put that there for filtering.#i may not be making much sense either im only running on caffeine rn <33

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