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theorderofthetriad · 2 years

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as a venture bros fan in this current media landscape, i feel myself often suppressing the urge to be like "venture bros did that first" "venture bros walked so [X] could run" about a lot of things that are comparatively recently trending in media, especially in regards to using geek genre satire as a jumping off into a bigger concept. like i could bring up a lot of examples on this

but i'm writing this post because i can't help but think of the thing venture bros did first that they didn't mean to, which is create a character that's a critique of hyper-masculinity that a certain subset of fans completely missed the point on and uncritically treat as a idol to look up to and emulate.

walter white who? rick sanwhat? the crown of uncritically idolized paragons of toxic masculinity belongs to Brock Samson.

#venture bros #brock samson #i'm not saying this to shit on brock (or tumblr vbros fandom.) i love brock #it's just that doc and jackson have literally talked about how they don't mean for brock to be cool or admirable #like his whole point is yeah he's doing all this cool looking violence and is hot but his life is meaningless and ultimately unhappy #(likemaybeifhewasabletoadmitthathewasinlovewithrustyhecouldgetoverhimselfenoughtobehappybutchancesareslim)#but people kept asking them stuff like ''when's brock gonna kill again? i wanna see him piss on more mummies''#they've gotten so unsubtle about what they're going for his plot in the final episode was:#''i'm gonna kill a bunch of guys for fun because i'm dissatisfied with my life''#like he literally ANNOUNCED it! over a PA system!#and that's not even getting into the casual regular misogyny and then the outspoken obsessive transmisogyny #like who's gonna write the essay about brock's fragile af concept of masculinity in regards to his vocal transmisogyny?#wait what do you mean /i/ have to write it because it's my concept? why can't someone else think it for me?!?#top tino post #santagno

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