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"Is it a safe space to say i hate-" NOT IN THE MAINTAGS IT ISNT

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I hate the trend of just describing books with what minorities the main characters represent and nothing else. not only does it feel weird + exploitative to me it's also such a shoddy ineffective marketing technique. "this is my book with queer polyam disabled vampires you should buy it" ok great but what is it like. about. what are the themes. why should I read it

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not a wolf, not a dog, but a secret third thing

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fuck one day, we need to have this conversation now that white conservative woman think everything is peachy keen just cause they’re white new flash you still a woman and they WILL treat you like such. and booktok is rotting yall brain with these dark romance shit that a big morally ambiguous man gonna come out of the wood and protect you till the end cause you’re “special” you’re “chosen” you’re not like any other girls who dare to challenge your man. spend your time reading those shitty ass books before the government you voted for ban them. fuck! you!

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fanon ships and the alpha male x cinderella fantasy

i typed this on my phone, so i couldn’t expound as much as i wanted to, but these are some common features of big fanon het ships and the migratory fandoms that ship them. ima compare zuko x katara (zutara) from atla, kylo x rey (reylo) from sw and (klaus x caroline) klaroline from the vampire diaries - i’m choosing these ships because i’ve had been part of the fandoms they arose from, and because of their shared traits: all three have massive online fandoms known for badgering writers and actors/ heading twitter campaigns, bullying other fans/ generally making fandom inhospitable to other shippers, misinterpreting the characters and reducing the ship down to a cinderella-esque fantasy.

in each instance the female character being shipped - Katara, Rey, Caroline - has a canon love interest or friend who’s sweet, kind and selfless, who loves them very much and who they love in turn. these relationships are shown as gentle and supportive and very caring, vs the fanon ship where the fans emphasize their “amazing chemistry” and “sexiness” and overly romanticize combative/sometimes downright vicious and manipulative dynamics as evidence of deep passion. the male character they’re being shipped with has also done real, material harm to her and/or the people she cares about, but these wrongs are quickly subsumed by the fanon desire for a romantic connection between the two.

Continua a leggere

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mutual: *interacts with a post i maid*

me: woah, i thought u despised me and wanted me 2 die a gruesome death based on 0 evidence, but im so glad u r actually deeply in love with me instead. i will forget this in less than a day

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some of y'all fundamentally misunderstand my favorite characters but im being sooooo normal and mature about it. i haven't even killed anyone yet

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i think if twitter went down, TV writing would get at least 30% better

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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale

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What a view, huh? The desert at night seems to stretch on forever.

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I really hate this idea/trend in ya fantasy, na fantasy, and romantasy where the love interests have to both be the most powerful in order to be “equals” in a healthy relationship. I see it often when readers or the main female protagonist compare love interests and use and emphasize “he could never match/understand my power” as part of the justification not to be together (like this argument can be left out, many times there are other reasons).

Like how fucked up is that? You are telling me that because one love interest does not have the same level of power as the other one they never will truly be equals and therefore it wouldn’t be a healthy relationship and should not be together? The whole idea is just so disgusting.

Why should this be an obstacle to a relationship? Why - in a truly healthy relationship - would it matter? It is because you think the other would use their power on the other in a disagreement? Do readers think that the less powered one’s opinions would be ignored/overrided by the other more powerful person? Does the respect one partner has for the other derive from the power the other one has?

This idea doesn’t reflect reality. Yes I get it it’s fantasy!!! It doesn’t have to reflect reality! No one in real life has magical abilities. But readers go on and on about these relationships being healthy. Well, where did you get/model the idea on what is healthy? Oh from reality?

People are different. They do different things and have different jobs. People enter into relationships where one partner makes more money than the other or is stronger or smarter, etc. There are imbalances in relationships and these imbalances do not make the relationship inherently unhealthy. To be equals in a relationships stems from an agreement to respect the other, to listen to them and care about their opinions, to take them into account in decision making. It does not stem from equal physical abilities, or equal monetary resources.

I feel like there is more that could be said about this and I would be really interested to hear others opinions about this as well.

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Fascinated by this phenomenon

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Starting fights on here completely unprovoked, but I’m not a fan of pathetic simp Celeborn headcanons. “Uwu he’s just a stupid little meow meow Wife Guy” NO WAY BITCH.

Literally the way that Galadriel and Celeborn get introduced they’re explicitly said to be the same height, both with heavy piercing gazes.

He acts like a ruler: he expects Haldir to report important things to him directly. He’s not meek: he criticizes Gandalf and snaps at Gimli before later apologizing. He’s practical and generous: he’s the one who asks Aragorn “yo how y’all gettin down the river” and gives him the boats the Fellowship needs.

“Galadriel only thinks he’s wise cuz she likes him” get outta here with that bullshit! She calls him wise because he is! He can’t look into the future like she can, but he can clearly spot problems the Fellowship might have and is clearly ready to help provide solutions. He stands up for the wisdom passed down by matrons as scoffed at by Boromir (no shade btw, I love Boromir a lot, but he was the one who made the “old wives’ tale” comment).

So no, I’m not here for Himbo Celeborn hcs, thank you.

EDIT: I also wanna say that I’m already in a minority of Tolkien fans generally and RoP fans specifically for liking Celeborn (and Celedriel) at all! But “uwu short wife guy with one braincell” Celeborn hcs tend to be used by other Celeborn fans as well as Celeborn resenters, so I guess I’ve just put myself into an even smaller fandom minority lol

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Something about magicians in Bartimaeus Sequence erasing their own names for self protection is so Tasty. In order to perpetuate that violence, to treat demons (and commoners) as less than human, they must first symbolically make themselves unperson. So many cultures practiced damnatio memoriae as one of the worst punishments and they did it to themselves. If you are alive as long as your name is spoken they are dead long before they die.

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Miraculous' biggest plot twist

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One fan talked to him during the London premiere of the season finale, here's the source:

wdym celebrian isn’t born yet in trop???? where is the source for this? 😭