As a fellow Dovewing lover, it's frustrating how the fandom watered her down into a whiny brat who never cared about Ivypool. I mean, seriously? Not only did Dovewing care about her sister (reacting in horror when Lionblaze, her own mentor and Jayfeather are willing to potentially sacrifice Ivypool's safety by employing her as her spy instead of trying to get her out of the Dark Forest's clutches, hiding a thorn in her nest to cover for her scarring from her training).
Heck, even the scene where she tries to feed Ivypool her catch during a hunting patrol was demonized because 'she was trying to make Ivypool break the code like SHE does, as if it doesn't matter' and because she got upset when Ivypool started arguing with her! But you guys said she didn't care, right? Plus, people act like being forced into a prophecy is something you should be grateful for, as if it didn't irreparably change her close relationship with her sister? As if Lionblaze and Jayfeather didn't still keep her out of the loop (and for all the fussing they made about keeping it a secret, Lionblaze confesses his power to Cinderheart and Jayfeather doesn't even care).
Meanwhile Nightheart is angry he isn't orange and hates his mom for being exiled and the whole world has to stop for him. 🤪 And Bramblestar is simply so tortured by having an evil father, the only choice is to train with him and his evil half-brother and hide this from his wife! (But remember, it's bad when that witch Squirrelflight hides the parentage of the three from him, even when Blackstar and Leopardstar were still around after being complicit in the torture and killing of halfclan cats.) Why are these male characters sympathized with, even when they actively harm people (Nightheart forcing himself into Sunbeam's life by lying to everyone about being her mate without even asking her if she would be fine with that beforehand), Bramblestar (we all know what he does), but when Dovewing or any other female character is upset, people freak out and call them whiny brats or abusive for (checks notes) asking her partner if he loves her anymore after they argued multiple times in a book. Really makes you think! (Sorry this is so long, you just have based opinions!)
dovewing being characterized as this flighty airheaded vain popular girl stereotype in fanon is like. one of those biggest "we didnt actually read the books" things in the fandom. like theres so much fanart where shes grinning and giggling over the prophecy and shes besties with the trio and shes got preferential treatment, and then in the actual books shes basically the autistic kid no one actually likes. people really, REALLY overexaggerate that one scene where she snaps at ivypaw and brags. (and i dont wanna shit on amvs but i am forever side eying how the animation community handled dove back in the day. more than one person animated her getting murdered. normal.)
i do think its gotten better recently at least. but wow does it feel like at least one person on the writing team has a bone to pick
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im gonna say something controversial. im not sure id like astarion that much if i didnt have the spoilers about where his character is going.
by which i mean, i dont think id want to romance him, i dont think id be very invested in him at the moment. he's still fun to talk to and have around (the conversation where he asks how your PC would want to be killed in the event of mind flayer transformation is fun), and id probably have him in my party all the time, so id warm up to him. but right now, where i am in the early game story, he's just... not as compelling to me as what a couple of the other companions have going on
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i just ate so much food. i feel better now but i'll probably put a pause on writing and drawing for today.
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Can't believe how direct RSD can be sometimes. Had a small fight with my person a week ago and now its like they're nothing to me. Literally went from being in love and planning my with them to feeling kinda neutral about them. Like i dont hate them, i just. Dont care. They say they love me or say some cute flirty thing and my brain just goes "cool story bro".
Anyway how do you get back your feelings when your brain decided to Ctrl+F4 the whole fucking page? Asking for a friend, literally, cause i dont know what to say to them if i cant go back to how things were.
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im curious, brcu fans do you guys also know theater class? and magic funhouse? this might be a dumb question but most of us lean more towards his newer content and Real OG characters and i don’t see people talk about magic funhouse very much and especially not theater class so im wondering
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tge digital circus thing seems like fun for ppl who r into that (wasnt rly my thing) but ppl r right when they say the char design feels like engineered for teenagers to me. but i do support indie stuff and i think its fun more of it is existing so like godspeed salutes
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