#sexist but that's rife in the genre (as it is with all of them)

[ssaalexblake]

idk, i’m having a genuinely problem trying to describe my STP annoyance bc It entails context for me, I think it’s fanfic-y (derogatory), but not in a way where i think anything bad about fic itself. I strongly support the rights of everybody to write good fic, bad fic, fucked up fic, ooc fic, fic with the tropes i hate the very most, weird fic, any kind of fic you could name (just don’t expect me to read it), but So much of that stuff Belongs in the world of fic and shouldn’t leave it. 

While i’d roll my eyes at a fic including all these tired, overdone, and more than a lot sexist tropes, i’d just scroll and move on. Have fun with it, I guess! I don’t approve, but this isn’t about me and isn’t hurting anybody. 

But this is like, the actual show. If the show was going to have a plot straight out of a fanfic it damn well better have been a Good fic. The kind that respects the women there and doesn’t revolve them around the men to help Them develop. The kind where the writer did a ton of research of what happened in the shows before. The kind where the plot is natural for the characters rather than a plot where most of the characters are bent into place to make it work despite how much of a mess that is. 

Mostly, if i saw a fic where beverly and picard had a secret love child she hid from him for 20+ years whom she’d named Jack i’d be like ‘wow that is So fanfic’ and never remember it again for how cookie cutter and unimaginative that is. I literally have no issues over this guy’s fic. Aside from the fact that it’s not fic, it got shoehorned into canon despite it Not Fitting The Show It’s In. They had to ditch the show’s cast to make this work. That’s how much it doesn’t fit in this show. That stuff doesn’t matter in fic! That’s what fic is For. This isn’t fic. 

This is just many negative things stacked up in a trench coat. It’s 2023, I expect Far better than this as the bare minimum from tv in general and i hold trek to a higher standard than that because the whole point of trek is that it holds itself to a higher standard, or i guess, that it is committed to Trying even when it doesn’t succeed. I don’t care that the plot is objectively shit, tbh, i didn’t much like the plot of s1 either and it didn’t bother me, it’s that they’ve Truly bought the 80s attitude from tng back when in the first two seasons this wasn’t the case. I may not agree with all the character choices in the first two seasons, but it was new, they were trying even when they weren’t succeeding, and it wasn’t This. 

I don’t hold by ‘not real trek’ arguments bc it’s so subjective and kind of absurd imo, but i do not think this season of the show is trying to do much of anything at all. I can make a crack at a few themes, but when i start to get into it it falls apart because it Always ends up back at one thing. Nostalgia. A good story choice totally ignored because if they do ignore it they can have a dramatic shot of one of the tng crew with a tear in their eye. Trek imo, is about many things, but not looking backwards, never That. Not without them trying to make a really good point from it, anyway. 

[fiendtheanonymous]

FAQ

Q. What the fuck is wrong with you?

A. I was assigned a miserable bastard at 12 and 3/4ths years old because I'm Allah's least favorite little shit and interpret media in the most batshit convoluted ways imaginable that most likely would give their original creators an aneurysm on the spot. I am playing 12-D chess constantly to create the most convoluted and batshit takes on characters and AUs imaginable. I don't really have an excuse for this I'm just unhinged and you all have to deal with that. Also I'm autistic but in a way that's too weird and not palatable to allistics.

Q. Where can I find your work?

A. Art Blog, Ao3

Q. Are you actually a fiend?

A. Yes I'm an actual fiend, a silly purple imp that shitposts on the internet and talks too much about 90's and 2000's cartoons. Also will talk about Mario, character design, airliners, and my 9/11 historical archival work if prompted. If you mention any mid 90's to mid 2000's cartoon of your choice in a mirror three times, a fat little imp will come out and infodump about the art direction and its influence on the animation industry today for five hours.

Q. Why the hell do you like Jasper, the Rowdyruff Boys, and Jérémie Belpois? Jasper is a piece of shit, the Ruffs are one note and sexist, Jérémie is an asshole.

A. Brain disease called "I have bad tastes regarding fictional characters". Seriously though I find them deeply fascinating characters to dive into with a ton of potential that gets pushed aside both in canon and fanon. I do like them as characters themselves (Jasper is a genuinely tragic and fascinating character so rife with anger and grief that I need more of, the Ruffs are hilarious to me and the original RRB episode is one of the coolest episodes of TV to me and probably my favorite PPG episode besides Boogie Frights (I won't take criticism), Jeremie is such a fucking loser but also super passionate about people they care about and would do anything for them), but I think just how much potential they have regarding my very specific genre of batshit world and character building makes me adore them.

Q. Trans headcanons, go.

A. Transmasc bear seahorse dad Bowser, T4T trans Luigi and Daisy (I have no specific identity for either of them because they're like Jessie and James to me, I can see them as any type of trans and I'd be like "yeah totally"), agender (specifically aroace agender) transfem Cackletta, genderqueer/maverique butch + otter T4T Butch/Buttercup (post-canon: find out in their late teens, come out in their 20's), transmasc Yumi Ishiyama (post-canon: finds out in his 20's and comes out a few years later), transfem Jérémie Belpois (post-canon: finds out in her 20's and comes out shortly after), non-binary Odd Della Robbia (post-canon: finds out in their 20's and comes out in their 30's), non-binary (unlabeled otherwise) Diane Nguyen, agender Pongorma, transfem Somsnosa, transmasc Wayne, this is literally just canon but non-binary Desdemuln (specifically a multigender boygirlthing), the gems in SU are nonbinary so this is also canon but more so specifications but I headcanon Jasper as an agender butch and Amethyst as neutrois.

Bonus: I personally headcanon Professor Utonium as cishet ace but I think you all should take @recoveryshit's later in life trans woman Professor Utonium headcanon into consideration it's very good.

Q. Selfie?

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Q. Why do you talk about grief and fucked up family dynamics so much?

A. I watched Hereditary once back in 2018. All seriousness though, I find diving into family dynamics, particularly nuclear and found family dynamics, to be so fascinating. Especially when they're so clearly rotting and ready to collapse at any moment. Also I talk about grief so much because I'm a miserable bastard.

Q. 🖕

A. 😈🖕

[gayfertilitygoddess]

This keeps happening so I'm going to rant about it: I keep running into people while I'm talking about my thesis who are like "but Percy Jackson is racist bc it's all white ppl" or "how can you do a feminist critique on LotR it was written in the 1950s when Everything Was Problematic???" I know. I fucking know. I'm trying to write about the problematic stuff *while* dealing with complicated literary theory. So like, it doesn't help when people point to what I'm studying and say, "that's problematic." I am an adult. I am a well-educated, self-aware, socially conscious adult. If something I'm saying is problematic, I'm probably going to catch it. Then I will educate myself, or reach out to people who know more about the topic than I do, or honestly just think on it for a little while and realize it's shitty. The last thing I need during this stressful, time-consuming, mentally and emotionally draining process is shit from baby sjws who don't know what they're talking about because they've never heard of nuance. I'm writing this thesis *because* the genre of fantasy has been the domain of the straight white male for the past 60 years. The genre's fandom culture has historically been rife with misogyny and racism. Over the past decade or so I have delighted in watching nerd culture be taken over by women, poc and queer fans. It's so important now that we demand representation in the kind of media we already love. But to me, the fact that I can be interested in fantasy lit at all without someone assuming I'm doing it to impress guys is amazing to me. I wouldn't have imagined I could be doing this when I was a kid. I think everyone deserves to see themselves in LotR, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, etc. If you're not interested, that's fine but *please* don't assume everyone is willing to drop our favs like hot potatoes bc we've suddenly realized representation is important. These works are important to me. It's important to me to try to be taken seriously while discussing them academically. And the reason I'm so pissed off at other students'** need to police me is because it's really important to me that the people of my generation think what I'm doing is worthwhile. I guess I have to learn not to care bc I can't keep snapping at people and running off to have anxiety attacks every time someone tries to out-Wendy** me. One last thing: I'd like everyone who has an issue with me studying Lord of the Rings through the lens of social justice to go up to any English scholar and be like, "you know Shakespeare/Chaucer/Joyce/Lawrence/Austen/literally 90% of the authors whose works comprise the English canon was racist/sexist/homophobic/classist/etc." Tolkein, Pullman, Rowling and Riordan are saints compared to those shitbags. **this has only been an issue with students at my school, mind you. Thank fucking god no one on this website knows I exist.