#meanwhile fictional characters are fictional

[frownyalfred]

"umm can I ask u a silly question 👉🏼👈🏼 so there's this soap lex likes...can he use it pwetty pwease 🥺"

Clark had no choice. He literally had to bring him inside. You can't roll up and ask questions like that and not endear yourself to god and everybody. No fuckin wonder Alfred loves this guy. We all love this guy. Lex loves this guy (realization pending).

I've never been jealous of a fictional character before but. Lex. Jesus Christ if you don't mate that and let me live vicariously through you...

DanLex 5ever man. +30million kudos attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clark seriously had no chance. He was all prepared to stand his ground and then Dan was like 🥺 and he just lost it for a second. And then of course poor Dan was like “oh god is he mad at me??” meanwhile Clark is just going “shoot, I really like this guy AND he seems good for Lex but this is the worst timing ever”

Of course Lex didn’t welcome him with open arms and a kiss or anything. That would be too easy right? Luckily Dan knows what the stomping means by this point.

[self-loving-vampire]

I'm familiar with the trope in general terms and have posted about it before, the bit that seems to be coming out of nowhere for me is the specific direction it takes here.

As in, I think "character is born a woman but forced to play the part of a man" seems much more legible as being trans woman-like than the reverse.

One example mentioned in the link that I have talked about before is Ryuunosuke Fujinami, who is a woman and really wants to pretty much socially transition, but she lives with an abusive father who beats her if she doesn't fit his insane standards for how to be a man, which she has no interest in doing.

Meanwhile the Bridget type of narrative is just... okay, so because of a superstition about twins her village classified her as a woman from birth with a name and pronouns and everything (most cis people in our world don't even think you can change your gender in any way), she initially tries to resist this but eventually decides she prefers being a woman anyway.

These are both examples of the legendary "AFAB trans women" people kill each other over, but while they're both fictional I'd say that the first one has considerably more real world parallels and applicability compared to the second one. It's a much more grounded and realistic type of character in my opinion.

There aren't a lot of cultures that I know of that reassign the genders of infants based on superstitions, but there's a lot of abusive parents who try to force strict gender roles onto their children, nearly always in the direction of making them behave in line with the stereotypes for their gender assigned at birth rather than the other way around.

For example, I think a lot more trans women have had to deal with something like being forced to cut their hair against their will rather than being forced to grow it out.

I don't personally care about whether Gwyndolin specifically is a trans woman but I do wonder: Since when is this a thing? Bridget really is about the only other example I can think of and that seems kinda recent.

A lot of the "trans woman-coded" characters that I can think of (and the ones that make more sense to me personally) actually go into the other direction.

Characters who are women all along but who grow up pretending they're men and were treated as such, often against their will.

[qiu-yan]

real talk i think modern au jiang cheng would be a jiang cheng anti

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

[simpingforcys]

Oh how I love this man. I adore every part of this man.

I won't lie, my 5-year ago self would be screaming if she saw me now on her knees crying 'why' and all I could be saying is "he silly"

[the-witchhunter]

I actually think toxic relationships are fine to write about, it’s just how you handle it. Like, obviously tag your stuff, but as long as you’re not putting it on a pedestal it’s fine to write

Like, characters don’t have to be good people that handle things in a healthy manner, and the fact some people like to enjoy stories about that kind of thing does not reflect some moral failing for those people. Life is messy and complicated, and some people like that reflected in their fiction

And toxic relationship in source material? That’s the power of fanfic, canon is barely a footnote. Removed from the context of source material, all that really matters is the content of the fanwork

Everything I���m saying is about fan fiction

Like, guys, who gives a shit what people ship?!

Like, as long as it’s not incest, pedophilia, sexual assault, any forms of abuse (ie emotional, physical, financial, mental, etc.), have a problematic source material, or an actually toxic relationship in the source material, then, and I’ll say it again

WHO GIVES A SHIT?!?!

Just let people enjoy themselves and their fandoms please

[queerfables]

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[bizarrelovetriangel]

men throwing tantrums about about love and deepspace because the characters are making them feel insecure,,,,, sounds like a skill issue idk

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

Angel and Dogday: *see a man with religious trama(?)*

Also Angel and Dogday: "WIFE THIS MAN"

Angel and Dogday when the pathetic guy has the religious trauma to spice him up:

[loveinsomesacredplace]

When I say I’m a Bellyjere shipper I mean I love both of them, separately and together (obviously). I’m not Team Jeremiah only and I’ll tolerate Belly because he loves her for now but he deserves better than her - which is a sentiment I’ve seen pop up lately.

[aceofwands]

idk man I just think of all the franchises you could try to make the Next Big Thing by creating a bunch of new shows and movies, maybe don't pick the one with the notoriously nitpicky obsessed with canon fandom ?? if you don't plan on applying any sort of consistency to the world, characters, alien cultures, entire ethical and moral framework of the universe, etc etc ????

[unladielike]

tell us more about what vivian sees in kai & thinks about him

          UNPROMPTED ASKS. » always accepting!

Well, Kai might not have white hair like the two dimensional men she tends to favour immensely, but he ironically possesses qualities she finds attractive in a man... confident, assertive, non-touch averse, and someone who radiates 'mean dom' energy. He also coincidentally ticks off plenty of boxes on her bingo sheet, like his tendency to smirk, the fact he has nice hands, and him having a high sex drive, so for someone as sexually frustrated/repressed as Vivian, he is pretty much her own wet dream personified. It also doesn't help he resembles her favourite fictional volleyball character.

Because Kai's dangerous, however, and goes against everything she stands for (religion, kindness, heroism, etc), him being her type was pretty much at odds with her initial dislike of his personality, to the point where you could say she never really acted on her attraction towards him... until, that is, Kai proceeded to touch her and coerce her into coming home with him, causing her judgment to practically fly out of the window, which ultimately culminated in her losing the virginity she had maintained through years of abstinence.

Honestly, at first, Vivian absolutely loathed Kai. Not only does he have no delicacy whatsoever, he lacks tact, is excessively violent, engages in sinful vices (drugs, alcohol, adultery), has nothing good to say about her religion, breaks hearts wherever he goes, and gets underneath her skin so much, she's the epitome of this meme, yet at the same time, she also can't help wanting him. To make matters worse, they're sexually compatible, meaning she finds herself back into his bed time and time again.

Still, Kai not being a fussy eater and him having the gap moe of sometimes being all soft or shy on her further endears her to him; what's more, he would pick her up from school, tousle her hair, badmouth a girl who accosted him with the words, 'Were you blowing me off all this time for a freak like her?', and snark back at her, until somewhere along the way, she eventually started having fun around him. Why, at some point, Vivian started liking when Kai calls her 'Viv', the way he would laugh, and how his arms would look every time he flexed before knocking down all the pins from their bowling lane.

Even so, she would never admit she's in love with him... not when she's convinced he doesn't care about her and she herself never feels good enough for him. Why, so often does Vivian say the wrong thing, thereby causing him to get angry at her, she thinks she would never manage to earn his love as long as she remains herself, and because Kai already hurts her more times than she could even thought with his thoughtlessly uttered words, it makes her continue being dishonest out of mere self preservation.

Honestly, he makes her both sad, lonely, and enraged... leaving her with emotions so intense, she would self harm. Vivian, though, has gotten to a point where she's very obsessed with him and the added hopelessness of what she presumes to be unrequited love has her emotional dysregulation practically worsen, until one day, she would show up at his place, bearing self harm wounds she inflicted with the knife she stole from his apartment; in other words, her love is very much accompanied by hate.

anonymous ( concerning @gloryundimmed )

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

I’ll be honest, whenever I start enjoying a fictional lesbian couple I start to ask myself which of them seems more transgender that I can project trans headcanons onto. Usually it’s not that difficult, but for both Marcille x Falin and Sorawo x Toriko I’ve flip flopped multiple times

[loveinsomesacredplace]

The fact that so many people online are fighting about what is essentially a Taylor Swift songfic is sending me. July’s probably going to be a bloodbath.

[kisolvetica]

I have messed up a relationship so now Aventurine will ALSO mess up his relationship with Ratio!!

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

If there is at least one thing I can credit FE for doing better than Tales in localization, it's not trying to actively go out of their way for an entire game to avoid subtext or direct text between two men that is romantic or implied romantic. Funny when it's so present that the attempt doesn't even work; infuriating that it was attempted to begin with.

So as much as I often have issues with some of FE's localizations, at least they have a leg up on loc Tales for that.