#it happens with male characters too

[1980shorrorfilm]

shotgun in my mouth the next time i search ellie williams on here and see joel miller smut.

[shnuckattack]

Women who fetishize wlw relationships to an uncomfortable extent when woman character is anything except a lesbian: 🤯🤯🤯😡🤬😡🤬

[starlooove]

“Fandom isn’t fun anymore fandom isn’t fun anymore” tbh it just feels like white racist “normies” jumped in as opposed to white racist nerds and for me personally u can feeeel it kinda but it doesn’t change much

[solradguy]

I'm so grateful that the only GG fans that care about the light novels are the ones that can be normal about things because Lightning the Argent goes from the rawest scenes of carnage imaginable to Ky Kiske doing something mildly religious like offering a short, silent, prayer for someone that got mangled to death by WMD dragons, and I just know that, in the wrong hands, those brief religious moments would generate the most annoying goddamn memes you could ever imagine

[spicyicymeloncat]

Idk if this is a hot take but why is it always “Kai slaved away and worked his ass off to raise his sister” and never the other way round or them working hard together?

Like, I know he’s older but in the show, does he really… act older? Like if you think about Kai and Nya’s dynamic yknow? Because from my understanding:

When Kai and Nya are introduced we see Kai fail at making a sword and Nya being the one to chide him for it. Kai makes an overconfident statement about wanting to be a better blacksmith than his father. This suggests that one, Kai is rather rash as well as inexperienced (something that lines up with the rest of his character arc in the pots and also generally), with Nya being the more mature figure in contrast

Also just a note but in the shorts: “I can handle it!” “No you can’t, stupid”

Kai frequently being very good at neglecting people or things: leaving Lloyd at an arcade whilst being focused on finding samurai x, not even knowing samurai x was Nya or that she only did it because she felt left out by him, completely abandoning both Nya and Lloyd in s3 (and Ik he was going through it at the time, but in line with the fandom’s characterisation of him)

Kai in season 5: “After I lost my dad, I lost my way. But I was lucky to have my sister watch over me”

Generally, their dynamic isn’t one where Kai really provides for Nya at all. In fact, judging by the fact that Nya can make entire mechs and Kai struggled to make a sword, Nya was probably busting her ass to provide for Kai. And judging by the s5 quote, that’s probably true. I’m not saying Nya raised Kai, it just rubs me the wrong way when she’s treated like a decorative flourish to a narrative that paints Kai as a burnt out child who was forced to grow up too soon especially since that is such a mischaracterisation of him in the first place.

[transwomansambeckett]

Sam Beckett 🤝 Chase HatecrimesMD

seemed maybe mildly attractive to me when I thought they were men but when I realised the truth (they're women) I wanted to marry them. Also, both doctors

[opheliasam]

I think kripke should be in extensive therapy and i personally don’t want jared on that set i just hope things work out for the best however.

[lloydfrontera]

i think it fucks immensely that bk moon went out of his way to 1) establish rakiel wished to live a long life and eventually pass away of old age, 2) have him very briefly envy an immortal being only to be told very clearly to be careful what he wishes for by that very same person because living forever isn't all it's cracked up to be, 3) make the main antagonist be another immortal being who is so desperate to die he's willing to destroy the universe just to finally rest and 4) have said antagonist psychologically torture rakiel with the threat of making him live for a thousand years as everyone he loves and knows eventually grows old and dies and becomes nothing but forgotten memories.

only to then end the novel by making rakiel also immortal

like. god. it's so fucking good i love it. i'm not being sarcastic i genuinely think it fucks and it's one of the best ways bk moon could've wrapped up the plot.

it's a happy ending by all means but it has consequences and through the entire novel we've been shown and told over and over again just how heavy the consequences are and/or will be on rakiel.

he got his happy ending but it was at a price and by the last time we see him he's only just starting to pay for it.

it's great i love it

[rainswolfs]

smth smth about people hating on female characters but loving male ones for having the exact same traits smth smth

[spacestationstorybook]

not to "discourse" but if you think that making a gay character bi is the same thing as making a straight character gay or bi block me. this is a terminally uncool thing to do. not only are straight people absolutely everywhere in fiction, it's not unreasonable to imagine that someone may not have devoted much thought to their sexuality and end up realizing they're bi or gay later in life. it's quite common and happens irl. but making a gay or lesbian character bi is just. SO disrespectful to irl gay people who've questioned their identities and done the work to figure out who they are And Aren't attracted to. as a lesbian who constantly has to hear arguments like "sexuality is fluid" and "everyone's a little bit bi" in attempts to convince me and other lesbians that we Must secretly want to date men, i have zero patience for shit like this. there are so so many fictional characters out there. it can't be that hard to find one who fits your type and isn't canonically gay.

[snobgoblin]

you know it's interesting the team had trouble coming up with age-appropriate plot lines they could use for Sedusa bc like, besides manipulating people via seduction, she also like. robs banks and kidnaps people. and like, she doesn't necessarily need to be sexy to seduce (she didnt when she was Ima!), and she doesn't need to seduce to manipulate... I just feel like they really could've gotten a few more episodes out of her, shes really cool and it's a shame we barely got to see her (and in like a third of her appearances she made my favorite character cry)

[lazyveran]

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[shopcat]

im sorry my opinion on genderbends changes every seconddddd i just think there's a difference between liiike for example gay girls drawing male characters fem for fun / yuri reasons, or trans ppl having fun w characters in a not weird way, VS (mostly cis) ppl getting up to well cisgender situations because they're crazy and are just drawing random women or men (8 or V) with 2 identifying characteristics slapped on and they look NOTHING like the actual character (or take into account how they COULD look different and aren't doing that either, like how a hyperfeminine chara who is that way bc she likes feeling pretty would still be a pretty boy. etc.)...

you can sniff out transphobia/weird gender shit/blatant homophobia in some people is all. i think it's also helpful im not exposed to annoying genderbends lately they've been fun or cool for fun reasons and not weird reasons like erm doing gender essentialism 😀

[oracleofsecrets]

listen I enjoy Temenos as much as the next guy but there are Seven Other Main Characters to choose from (and some who also have some Gay momence…)

To avoid loss of biodiversity in the Octopath 2 ecosystem, there needs to be a Temenos Tax. For every one (1) creative work centered on Temenos, there must be two (2) creative works focused on Any Other character (no, Crick doesn’t count for this purpose. I lov him but he is a risk factor). Works focused on women are worth twice as much

[wallyslinda]

i'm anti several popular (fanon mostly) ships that my favorites are part of... this is just me keeping track

[duskittycat]

everyone is entitled to their own interpretations of media and all that, but some of the mental gymnastics fandom people pull off in order to excuse their favourite character's wrongdoings are frankly ridiculous. totally unrelated but today i saw someone claim that manfred von karma isn't actually abusive to his kids because he's neurodivergent and has lead poisoning