Hi friend. Just a quick fyi- on your Disney shirts post, I'm pretty sure the "beauty and the bump" one is related to pregnancy, and the partner that got them pregnant, which isn't related to the very important point you were making about boomer-ism in disney apparel. Would have just left you a reply, but tumblr is always 50/50 on reply options. Ciao!
Hey! Yeah I know it’s about pregnancy. I’m not that daft.
A few pics above it I wrote:
I believe this should indicate that the following few shirts weren’t directly tied to the original point but I still wanted to include them as I thought them cringey. But perhaps I should have made it clearer as people seem to have missed that.
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The fact that the Doof had been paired and proved most compatible with Perry, canonically and repeatedly proclaimed to be one of OWCA's best agents in the field, is curious to me.
Some fics have a throwaway line or two talking referring to his compatibility with other agents. I think, also, about the canonical fact that he remains as third most dangerous evil scientist in OWCA's ledger.
I also like thinking about the fact that we have been proven, multiple times, in VARIOUS dimensions and fluctuations to the time space continuem, that were he not continuously thwarted throughout his career, he would not only have achieved tyrannical rule, he would have EXCELLED in it, and perfectly undefeated, EVEN BY HIS EVIL PEERS that people loved to pretend were always more competent than him.
Like. I think about that. Why? What makes Heinz so dangerous? What made everyone else incompatible to a point OWCA realized they needed to send their best, and he needed to be on call ALL THE TIME?
Curious
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“I p-promise—” Hero sneezed, their whole body jolting. “‘M not sick…”
Villain hardly looked impressed, pulling the covers back up around the other’s shoulders. Not even at gun point would they admit how much they were worried about the hero’s worsening condition.
“Don’t be a martyr, sweetheart. The city can waste away until you’re better.” With shaky hands, Villain carefully tucked the duvet under the frail hero, making sure they didn’t jostle their infected wounds too much.
The crime-stopper coughed, water rattling in their lungs as their fever raged incessantly. “C-Can’t…” Their glossy eyes locked onto the villain’s. “Please... Keep them safe.”
With that, exhaust dragged Hero to the depths of a feverish sleep that would keep them tossing and turning all night. But Villain couldn’t be there this time, this time they had a city to protect.
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Let's talk about « The Princess's Jewels »
I saw a lot of people (rightfully) criticizing "The Princess's Jewels" but at no point did I see people WHY the young girls who read it love it (far too ready to insult them).
Do people really wonder why some people are able to look past the heroine's flaws?
She is not a shy and fragile little thing who allows herself to be mistreated and erased by the male characters. She knows what she wants and does everything to get it, she assumes her sexual desires without any shame, she is strong enough to beat the shit out of all her opponents while still being feminine...
Conversely, in how many fictions have you seen useless and/or weak female characters, completely overshadowed by the guys? Can we talk about Ochako, who, since realizing her feelings for Deku, sees her character revolve solely around him? About Sakura, the example of useless female characters? About the thousands of works where women are harassed or even sexually assaulted without it being questioned?
For once, it's a fiction where it's the girl who has the power. She is the one who uses, possesses and surpasses the male characters. For once, it's the men who are reduced to the status of objects and used to make women shine.
Even in reverse harems, men are not entitled to the same treatment as women in classic harems. I haven't read many, but I don't remember any panty shots about little boys or arguments about who has the biggest (boobs) dick. They're generally treated with a lot more respect and not just as boobs with legs (or in this case, abs with legs).
And it’s not just a story of “revenge” (big quotation mark, I don't have a better word). It is also (mostly?) a question of identification. Girls know that they are not potted plants, uninteresting holy of holies destined to have their lives revolved around a man.
In this webtoon, the heroine has desires without being demonized, she is manipulative and intelligent and is celebrated for that, she's physically strong and can talk a good game instead of being a dullard who can't put her feet up...
The representation problem can be very effective in hiding problems in a work. Some even use it intentionally, in order to have a fan base in desperate need of representation, and to be able to call the critics haters *cough* Little Mermaid live-action *cough* (not to say that haters will not indeed come after representation of minority).
A quick thought about this comment from a black reader who was so thrilled to see a black character in an important and positive position. The character in question is owned by a white woman and is the only one of the "Jewel" group to wear a dog collar (he is also a werewolf. The only werewolves depicted are members of his family, also black. No black people exist outside of this family).
So for those complaining that no one criticizes this webtoon, two things:
not true, people criticize it. I discovered its existence because of the numerous videos criticizing it on YouTube. Even in the comments, readers pointed out the flaws in the writing or the horrible behavior of the heroine (even in the advanced chapters where everyone who didn't like it has already left). Here an exemple
If more people criticize Redo of Healer, it may be because a manga popular enough to have an anime adaptation, thus making it even more famous, attracts more people likely to criticize it than a not very popular webtoon. known.
Of course, this does not prevent us from criticizing this work.
This obviously does not prevent the heroine from being a selfish, self-centered, hypocritical, fatphobic daddy's girl Mary-Sue who has no respect for her poor fiancé and who succeeds in everything because she "is so beautiful” and that she “smells good” (no joke).
This does not prevent her half-brother (supposedly a villain), despised for no reason by his father, physically and psychologically abused by his mother, who is absolutely right about the MC and who does not get everything by snapping his fingers unlike her, is a character a thousand times more appreciable (the fiancé too).
But when you're an adult, you don't insult teenage girls for liking poor quality works.
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