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[funhouse-mirror-barbie]

This will be more of a vent post than it is a critique or review. It’s just something I personally find so agitating and I wanted to talk about it to just get the feelings of my chest.

I hate. And I mean hate. That they named her “Vaggie”

More below cut/includes slight spoilers from released content and leaked audition sheets.

I just. And please keep in mind that this is all my personal opinion and you’re allowed to think whatever you want. You can love her name and think it’s the most creative beautiful name in the world and that’s fine. That’s your opinion, and that’s great!!

But this is my opinion—V’s name isn’t funny. It’s not creative or clever.

It comes off as trying to be “edgy” or daring, but it just flops. And it’s incredibly frustrating to be sapphic (I’m a lesbian) and to see one of only TWO sapphic characters be literally named after “female” genitalia.

And I wondered for a while if I was just being weirdly picky about this, but if this leak turns out to be real (and I am PRAYING it’s not):

Then the exterminators, a seemingly entire female group, are named after genitalia. Like. Why? What is the point of having a group of characters being named after genitals??

I have a hard time describing why this makes me so angry and makes me feel so disrespected. I think it’s because:

1. Whether intentional or not, it comes off as reducing women characters to their genitalia.

2. It’s reducing a sapphic (possibly lesbian, but never confirmed) character to her genitals. Again, whether or not this is intended, the writers have made it so that everyone who hears these characters names immediately thinks “oh like Vagina”. This is even a joke in the prequel comics:

And the FIRST EPISODE:

Apparently the original character that V is based on was actually named “Vagina” just straight up. Oh but they used a Y. Because. That really makes it unique a cool. (Being sarcastic)

3. Again. I don’t care if this was the intent or not. But it feels just so so reductive to name a whole GROUP of women characters after different female genital parts. It’s just disrespectful. And again, I don’t think it was meant to be this—but it just? It’s so reductive and just stupid.

Like. I also want to make it clear that I’d be saying the SAME thing as I am now if it was a male character named “Penissy” or “Scrothomas” or some stupid shit. If Angel Dust’s name was like… “Tainty” or “Schlong” or something I would also be frustrated and upset.

Because that would be the same thing. A gay man character reduced to his genitals. Anyway this is done, it’s disrespectful and feels gross and reductive to me.

But I don’t know what I expected because this is the same writing team that thinks a character referring to himself as “The Dickmaster” and saying “dick” 600 times in a row is peak comedy writing. Ugh.

Again, I’m sorry this is more a personal vent than any sort of review or critique. I’m genuinely hoping that the Lute audition sheet is not anything that will show up in the show, and that Clitorissa and Labianne will never see the light of day. It’s just.

It’s not funny. It’s stupid, and annoying, and I hate it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And V deserved to be called by a real name, not a edgy unfunny punchline.

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

it's been nearly 6 months since the ted lasso finale and im still pretty much:

[laundryandtaxes]

Me when I'm so stable and am reasonably upset at the obvious genocical intentions behind the idea that it should not be outright illegal for um...women to decide to only be among other women in certain instances where the sex of the people around them is immediately relevant to women's own safety and comfort

[obstinaterixatrix]

in general my philosophy is that if there’s a story about gals and especially gals in love. male characters should be used as props at most. extremely minor characters. characters used to enhance and further the narrative of the gals. limited backstory, character arc, and distinctive character traits. I have to care about so many male characters in everything else I read but NOT IN YURI ❌ NEVER IN YURI ❌❌ THIS IS A GIRLS 💃🏻 LOVE 👩‍❤️‍👩 ZONE 💃🏻 OKAY????

[idsb]

It’s so insane that my job here got so bad so fast I relate it to loml of all fucking things

[aholotte]

i've never heard of James Somerton in my life and now i'm glad i never watched him

[hairtusk]

At risk of sounding like an alarmist, I'm worrying more and more that when Western countries begin to experience the drop in birth rates currently being experienced in East Asian countries like South Korea and Japan, we're going to see a huge decrease in women's fertility rights. It already seems to be happening, slowly, at governmental levels (the overturning of Roe v Wade being the big indicator), but I feel like anti birth control rhetoric is creeping into our pop cultures, turning young women away from the best methods of controlling our fertility. The rise in 'homesteading' influencers, 'natural cycle tracking', and anti-pill advocates leaching from right-wing circles into the mainstream is incredibly worrying. I only fear that most young women won't realise until it's too late, and we have no way of controlling our own fertility, and choosing if and when we have children.

[bumpintheroad]

>:(

[sashathethundercuhntofficial]

...um ... back, THE FUCK up.

... Gentlemen, are you telling us that, if we (women) let you guys join us in all our fun secret nerd stuff, e.g. Legos, MTG, DND, Football, ect. ...if we let you part-take WITH US... you won't be misogynistic, gate-keeping, assholes? Cause make no mistake motherfuckers, if we can 'buy ourselves flowers' WE SURE AS SHIT CAN GET THE NEW MANDELORIAN LEGO STARFIGHTER SET! YOU CAN BET YOUR BALLSACK ON THAT!!

Think it through, gentlemen. Discuss it amongst yourselves. Because if you fuck this up, ONE. MORE. FUCKING. TIME. (By doing DUMB shit, like: asking of our commander deck is 'our bf's deck', or talking to us like we're FUCKING stupid, or asking if 'our bf wrote our campaign') THEN I SWEAR TO GOD AND SUNNY FUCKING JESUS, WE WILL COLLECTIVELY REFUSE ALL DATES WITH ANY OF YOU, EXCEPT JOANNE FUCKING FABRICS!!! AND YOU BEST BELIEVE YOU LITTLE BITCHES ARE PAYING!!!!

So, think it over, guys. We'll try not to immaculate you with our superior game play. 😘

[moonrver]

If Daniel 'PR Machine' Ricciardo could do some training on how to answer questions about women I would be immensely grateful 🫶

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

their cute attempts to like integrate dark souls symbol language and ludonarrative continuity (im sorry i said it like that i cant think of a better way to phrase it) are so funny bc they clearly dont understand literally even as much as the average dark souls player about what dark souls is saying

[inu-jiru]

Damn Jazz Back At It Again With The Helluva Boss Rambles

Back on my bullshit again with another post now that I’ve mellowed out from the shock of how shit that episode was lol

I wish mobile made it easier to add the “Keep Reading” tab but it’s fine 

I’ve seen so many people go around being like “o it’s ok if Stella’s generic and not given more personality like everyone else because women can be bad didn’t you know that something something Amber Herd” and apparently anyone who thinks otherwise is just a Vivziepop hater who thinks she’s a misogynist (love the strawman shit mmm so juicy). And while evil for evil’s sake can be fun and cool in something like Sleeping Beauty (aka an adaptation of a fairy tale that’s already a story of “good vs evil”), why would you expect me to be chill with that in a show where the demons are, for the most part, more than just evil demons? If Stella was some minor, one-off character like that asshole imp guy at Loo Loo Land, that’d be one thing, but she’s not. She’s one of the main antagonists. This isn’t a “good vs. evil” story where you don’t need to worry about that kind of thing, Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel are supposed to be more than that. I’d be just as confused if Valentino or Vox, for every second of screentime they had, were doing nothing but going “haha rape haha prostitution haha tv is so cool” for 25 minutes and that’s it. But I digress.

I’m writing this because I was suddenly reminded of a character that’s basically what Stella could’ve been: Flowey. Flowey is just as volatile and agressive as Stella is, attacking you, killing you, and possibly having done countless genocide runs in the past with his own ability to RESET. Then, we get his backstory and find out who he used to be and why he’s the way he is. He’s an unfeeling sociopathic child. He was created with absolutely no way of feeling empathy because he has no SOUL. The child that he used to be is angry, longing for his past and his old friend, and was put into this situation for reasons that weren’t even his fault. Flowey is also a victim, but that doesn’t mean he can’t also be evil or do hurtful things. Whether or not you choose to show him pity or mercy is up to the player, but the fact that he’s that complex enough to warrant that choice is just part of Undertale’s writing. Hell, even Toriel is a better Stella than what Stella is in “canon”. I personally don’t like Toriel, but she does have depth to her (until the end where she just waltzes in and takes over the situation and no one does a thing to stop her because it’s Toriel and I guess everyone’s just chill with the traitorous queen coming in and acting like she’s in charge). Toriel comes in acting all sweet and nice, but is very clingy and definitely has issues with guilt and a black-and-white morality to justify her own actions. She’s not simply “ah, my child have some pie and we’ll be a family my child” 24/7. She’s a spiteful bitch, a hypocrite, and runs away from her problems. Again, this is because Undertale’s writing is (for the most part) consistent with giving it’s characters more depth underneath the memes and quotable dialogue.

Now, why am I writing all this about Undertale? Because it and HB/HH are on similar levels of writing. They both try to show more than just what’s at face value. Charlie is nice and sweet but will throw hands and has self-doubts, Alastor is everyone’s nightmare, but according to the comics, he does crave genuine interaction and is much nicer towards women (aside from Vaggie but my theory is that it’s because she’s not as feminine as Charlie or the Sheep Woman and far less easy to charm). So if Alastor, a mass murderer and cannibal who is more than likely going to do everything he can to mess with the Hotel’s success for his own entertainment, can have elements of good in him, then why the fuck can’t Stella? Oh, I know why, because Alastor isn’t interfering with the “romance”. I already didn’t like Stolitz before but Season 2 has nuked any chance of making me change my mind. This whole “romance” is being pushed so hard that it’s tainting the writing with retcons and things that just make no sense. Why would Octavia say “you ruined it” to Stolas in episode 2 if Stella was apparently just mean and nasty the whole time and Stolas was just soooo innocent? Why does the Ozzie’s song frame it like Stella and Octavia are victims of Stolas fucking up if Stella was always secretly the evil one and not Stolas? Why is Stolas ashamed if he was so proudly yelling about his divorce in front of her friends? Why is Goetia divorce a thing if the Goetia family looks down on it and sets up arranged marriages? Why the fuck is Stella just around and eating at the dinner table like they’re married if she can’t stand Stolas? Why is she ranting about Stolas being a cheater on the phone, if they’re separated and if she just doesn’t care about anything but money? And why the dickshit would Stella, someone who everyone is so fucking sure is only in it for her image, just blabbing about how shit her marriage is if that would just make her look like a loser who’s settling for trash? It makes no fucking sense unless it’s all just some poorly done retcon of earlier events. Hell, the pilot is supposedly non-canon, and yet a scene of it pops up in the new episode, so I can’t even be sure what’s true or not.

Sigh, but I guess at the end of the day, I saw this coming. They’re trying so hard to push Stolitz that the writing has to suffer for it. I’m not even sure I want to continue the series, if it’s just gonna become some genetic telenovela where everyone is so evil unless they wanna help Stolas in some way because he’s “such a victim”. I never wanted to have to write something like this and I sure as shit never foresaw myself reblogging critical content, but it is the way it is, I guess. But, that’s what rewrites and AUs are for, and I’ll be working on mine.

Anyway, that’s it for now unless I find something else to ramble about. Later.

[sapphic-loser16]

*taps microphone*

it’s not misogynistic to dislike BOTW Zelda, people need to chill the hell out

[scumbag-the-hedgehog]

"Anyway, more proof bitches love short kings."

[lizbethborden]

Found out today that one of my employees hates me and thinks I'm incompetent because I always make jokes on Slack. Wait until he finds out about my actual incompetence!