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[pollyanna-nana]

Look. I know some people are going to want to mail a pipe bomb to my house for three houses discoursing again in 2023-almost-2024 but can we please, for the sake of my goddamn sanity, agree that Edelgard waging war for any reason was objectively bad. “Well it was to oppose the church-“ Starting a war is bad. “The other countries didn’t give in so she had to-“ Starting a war is bad. “Well there was nothing else she could have done-“ Starting. A. War. Is. Bad. There is no possible justification on this planet for doing so that makes it a remotely okay thing to do. It is not a “necessary evil” and I hope people don’t take this mindset into actual real life conflicts happening right now as we speak. Yes she’s hot and cool and interesting but if I see one more person genuinely saying she was 100% correct I’m going to eat glass on live TV.

[redr0sewrites]

i will forever defend these two- NOT to start discourse but they are both so heavily mischaracterized by the fandom its INSANE like omg yes they are flawed but they are also trying their best PLEASE leave them alone 🙏🙏🙏

as usual im yapping in the tags if anyone cares

[byemambo]

Faifa Character Appreciation: Tough Love

I needed to take the time to make an appreciation post for Junior that's playing Faifa in Perfect 10 Liners. I'm sure that those who read the novel may have different opinions on how the source material is being translated on screen, but since I've only been watching the series, I'll just address my perspective from there.

In the beginning of the series airing, I was introduced to many new actors, as main roles or supporting roles. I knew ForceBook, Perth, AouBoom, and other actors such as Pepper, MarcPoon, JJ, etc. I haven't seen Junior or Mark in anything so they hadn't sparked much interest from me at the start. However, that's changed since the airing of episode 13.

We see the differences between the three brothers Newton, Yotha, and Faifa, roughly understanding that their mother and father split while Newton and Yotha grew up with their father and Faifa with their mother abroad until he was sent back to Thailand. Out of all the siblings, Yotha is the most resentful of their mother, which was illustrated in episode 13 when she visits them at their dorm. While watching the series, Faifa is described as this happy go lucky social butterfly who seems to migrate from group to group, connecting with many people with very little effort. He is someone who thrives off of taking care of others, we see this best with Wine and Gun (this scene with Wine is from episode 11).

However, his kindness also comes with a strong sense of justice if it stems from the defense of those he cares about, which becomes Gun after Yotha and Klao get hurt after leaving Newton's bar. I've seen lots of people tearing up Warich, Klao, Yotha, or all three in terms of their problematic behaviors, but that's not my focus nor do I condone how reckless they all become towards one another. I have a deeper appreciation for how Faifa has no hesitation in defending Gun against Yotha, who is truly the victim being caused the most harm from everything happening between those three individuals.

Faifa becomes the first person at Gun's aid and recognizing his state of shock, as we see the stark difference in Yotha's life and Gun's: the difference between someone who denied himself love vs. someone who basked in it. While Newton becomes indifferent to Yotha's behavior, I'm sure due to him also growing up in the same circumstances as Yotha, both of them have their own unstable relationship with emotional regulation and conflict resolution that becomes unhelpful and perpetuates the cycle of self sabotage and stagnation.

Although Faifa has a free spirit that's fairly lighthearted around Yotha, his more gloom and reserved counterpart, Faifa still has the confidence and strength to stand his ground against Yotha in multiple ways. Just because you're able to understand the features of someone's trauma and where their behaviors stem from, does not mean anyone should enable such behavior that creates a domino effect and harms the person they care about most, the person who has worn his heart on his sleeve only for it to get trampled on and wounded over and over.

Whenever Yotha yells at Faifa for treating Gun like an object after Kong and Gun switch rooms, this is the first time we see someone directly addressing Yotha where it hurts most, which Faifa advocates for Gun and his decision to distance himself from Yotha's toxicity where he has no one else to blame but himself. In a different timeline, Faifa could have easily sided with his brother due to familial loyalty, finding himself sympathizing with Yotha's parental neglect growing up as well as his past relationship with Warich that ended in heartbreak to the point of no longer believing in love. However, despite dealing with his own childhood traumas, Faifa chooses to do the right thing and protect Gun, someone who had become a strong friend while changing his brother little by little.

I'm excited to see where they go with Faifa, especially after Wine becomes the next code nong. I really hope Yotha truly takes this time to self reflect and to move past his own toxic behavior and past, knowing that if he doesn't, he will not only lose his love interest, but potentially his newly found friends and the closeness between him and his younger brother. I'm loving this series and if anyone needs to be convinced to watch, I hope this post will do the trick :)

[twist-shout-and-shells]

Hey, winteragent people. Anyone wanna take a look at a little something to see if I got the tone/characterization right? 👀

[godofstupidsentences]

I love my Lorcan Scamander so much, like... he’s a freak, he’s obsessive, he’s a nerd, he loves literature, he’s an misanthrope, he’s a hater, he plays d&d, he loves his brother deeply, he’s the personification of envy, he fell in love with albus and it ruined him forever, he’s a princess, he’s a bad person, he pretends to like black coffee for the aesthetic, he has no idea of how to comfort people, he considers scorpius his nemesis but scorpius barely knows who he is, he forced hogwarts to allow dogs as pets so he could bring his own dog with him, he’s the most likely to kill someone

[c-kiddo]

heard a taliesin character was up to some dumbass self destructive behaviour again

[ritzcuit]

i don't know ur situation too well bc im a new follower but like. idk people who are so adamant over making sure fictional characters have perfect healthy relationships are exhausting to be around. if you do end up posting "freaky" shit (in quotes bc tbh one persons freaky is another persons blowing bubbles at the park!) u should be proud of ur art! not anxious ppl are going to be mean about it!!

aaouuu anon.. holds ur hand

its such a pain!! and exhausting is totally the correct word for it... maybe a bit of ruby lore, not that its important, but i spent a good most of my teen years/early 20s obsessing over these types of "don't be problematic, don't ship anything immoral" discussions... and i mean obsessing in the clinical sense 😭 like suddenly youre not allowed to just, not care what other people ship. you have to have a Strong Stance against it... even if it doesn't matter in the slightest at the end of the dayenlkndfgd

i think a lot of people nowadays are realizing that tumblr cultivated moral ocd-like tendencies in a lot of us. that moral scrupulosity... it's so strong... but also, i think ppl (on tumblr) are easing up, realizing that fictional tastes =/= endorsing it in reality, so if i ever did draw something i was worried about, i'd probably just keep it on here. maybe twt simply does not need to see everything i draw. LMAO

ugh but thank you for the msg!! hearts!! it really does help to hear it!! lets frolic in a field together ok no one can hurt us here

[jewishcissiekj]

in love with moira mactagget and amelia voght call me charles xavier

[rebtrovert-girl]

Nothing can ever really prepare you for the heartbreak of knowing the one drama you really anticipated turn into that messy plot

[sun-marie]

unicorn overlord absolutely rocks btw.

[burinazar]

when applied to criticizing fictional characters i think for some reason i feel the way about “shitty” that many people do about “problematic” as far as it being an unuseful term to toss off

which is OBVIOUSLY, OBVIOUSLY silly because it’s an unserious offhand and casual word, but i can’t help it, my brain still processes it as a descriptor that feels pointless and somehow frustrating to encounter

i was thinking about this reading What Happens Next and seeing how often it was tossed off as a descriptor in the comment section. for me this got tied with how a lot of readers seemed more interested in classifying the cast as all Bad (tm) rather than like ‘ah so this is a character who is xyz and does xyz. Why Have They Done This And What Can We Take From It’ which is to me more interesting than one hundred people repeating What A Shitty Guy. What A Shitty Girl. They Are All ‘Shitty’

relatedly, i think there is an overprioritization of ‘rush to classify characters as good or bad’ in the way a lot of people engage with stories, where the first and foremost thesis of what you are going to say about a character is whether they are good or bad.

someone could probably say ‘well labeling a character doesn’t mean you aren’t also going to do the other stuff and analyze them’, and that’s reasonable, and also true of the word problematic, but, like the association many have developed with problematic, it’s just an association I’ve developed, unforch.

[gumm1defloor]

I would like a Valentino character analysis post so much right now actually, in general but also regarding his behaviors and mannerisms in episodes 2, 4 & 6 specifically now that the actual show is out and we don't have cherry pick uncanonized content and possibly outdated information

something something period specific socioeconomic implications of Vals caricature and how it relates to his personality and the various persona's he curates based on his relationships to the person he's interacting with and the environment he tries to take advantage of. Something something really don't want to rely on twitter for this and not overly enthusiastic at the prospect of reddit so here we are

[softepilogues]

*banging pots and pans* more one piece star trek aus

[avvidstarion]

Finished way of kings have lots of thoughts

[thegigibeegees]

reddit dudes translating manga will really put a whole disclaimer in front saying "i don't know if this chapter is canonical even though it was published the same place as everything else and follows the numbering as well as directly builds on what came before it" just because it explicitly confirms ~homosexual feelings~ that have been moving steadily from subtextual to textual the entire run of this 200+ chapter slice of life comedy manga. the home of phobia. what do you mean you don't think it's canon?? do you not know how to read???

like. bro. the school friend of the same gender who has a long-standing low-grade crush they'll never say anything about on one of the m/f romantic leads? this isn't like. untrod ground in animanga.

[gryficowa]

I came to mention that Marvel is owned by Disney and Disney supported Israel, so we are boycotting Disney

I'm giving you an additional reason to boycott (And I'm angry that Pixar's movie about emotions, the continuation of the previous movie, was a success, even a bomb, which means that Disney got the money)

So in short, Marvel belongs to Disney, and Disney supported Israel financially and even bragged about it, so if you type "Disney support Israel" on the Internet, you will see his message and how he brags about it)

So fuck Disney, not for "Woke", but for supporting Israel, for censoring the creators, for recording in the area next to labor camps during the filming of "Mulan", fuck him for everything

TOH proved that diversity is not Disney's problem and right-wing conservatives call it "Woke" I give depth to the characters, the problem is queerbaiting and paying for anti-LGBT+ organizations

Disney is a disgusting capitalist company that only thinks about making money (Pocahontas and how much they romanticized white crimes and antagonized the tribe because they are angry and aggressive towards innocent white colonizers… And this romance, which is problematic, because it was based on a book by a man who distorted the facts and the real Pocahontas gave him a hard time for what he wrote in the book)

This movie proved that Disney counts on money, not on quality and creative freedom (Because "Beauty and the Beast" won an Oscar, it must get it too, fuck the fact that the movie is distasteful to those who learn about this girl's story)

Disney has so much shit on its conscience that it's no wonder it gave money to the colonizer

So yes, boycott the movie not only because of the characters depicting Israel, but also because Marvel belongs to Disney