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okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

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that feeling when youve written down 2k+ words and havent even got CLOSE to the main part of the fic yet </3

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Not to venerate the halcyon and bygone days of yore, but it used to be that declaring that girls are too fragile and delicate to ever possibly compete with the boys or ever be as good as them at anything was rightly denounced as the kind of raging sexisim that made you sound like the flatly written villain of a teenybopper movie.

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I stand by my current theory that Rudolf works in the porn industry.

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In a move surprising absolutely no one, JKR has now added asexual people to her list of people to mock and bully online. While obviously this is nowhere near the amount of vitriol she aims towards trans women in particular, it's continued evidence of her bigotry and yet another reason not to support or engage with the new HP show if her continued transmisogyny still wasn't enough.

Anyway fuck HP and fuck JKR.

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Behold the patron goddess of female misogyny.

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A big part of what makes Eva and Hideyoshi the most effective (read: dangerous) husband-wife pair in this discussion is that they're the only pair that are actually on the same page. Rudolf and Krauss both deliberately keep their wives in the dark regarding things that they really, really shouldn't. Krauss doesn't defend Natsuhi properly. Rudolf tells Kyrie to be quiet when Kyrie is the most intellectually dangerous person in the room.

But Eva and Hideyoshi have this bad cop-good cop dynamic down pat. Eva is the iron fist. Hideyoshi is the velvet glove covering it. But deep down, when it comes to money, he is just as much of a shark as she is.

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Considering that EP4 will bear out that Kyrie can easily talk Krauss straight into a corner, Rudolf is really, really shooting himself in the foot by telling her to be quiet and not letting her be an asset.

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Ugh.

Rosa is what she is (read: indefensible as a parent), but I never fail to feel really fucking sorry for her when she's alone with her older siblings. Everybody else has a husband or wife watching their backs for them (or trying to), but her only defense is to keep her head down and pray Krauss and Eva forget she's even there.

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Never forget that 'Goldsmith' was first mentioned early in EP1. Makes you wonder what Sayo-as-writer might have had planned for her version of EP3, which was supposed to be even more obscure than EP1 and EP2.

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Leila Chatti, Night Lament in Hergla  

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it’s really frustrating how you have to wait like, 2 weeks before you can drink milk after you buy it. i know you gotta wait for the date on the bottle but like why cant the store just sell the milk thats ready?

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Kinzo continues to be a disgusting man, and I keep imagining the Witch in the disclaimer page stomping on his corpse after he dies.

Taking off my anger goggles for a moment to analyze the scene, this is what feminists mean when we point out that in cishet relationships a female domination kink is still in service of a man's ego.

Kinzo is begging for humiliation, for the scorn of a beautiful woman, but Beatrice (the witch/the temptress/the frigid whore) must still smile! The punishment he asks for is Kinzo's sweet reward, the fantasy of her claim on his life still a bond tying him to her. For Beatrice to kill him is for her to service him because he wants death. To kill is to fuck. To die is to be united for eternity.

This is an abuser's apologies. Making it about him. Imagining forgiveness. Imagining death. The only thing he cannot abide is silently living with his own actions until the end. Rehabilitation without rewards.

The fact Nanjo and Genji are witnessing his depravity and Kinzo doesn't even care. This is a man lost in the sexual pleasure of his own delusions.

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Never mind, the extra space was Nanjo's. Good grief, I'd actually forgotten about him for a minute. (And yeah, I knew Battler couldn't be that tactful.)

Given that this scene is from Battler's perspective, it makes me wonder just what exactly he knows about Rosa's con artist ex. Does he really, actually think that Rosa is married, or is he just trying to throw a fig leaf on over it to be considerate? Do I even think that Battler's capable of being that tactful?

On another level, I wonder whose idea this nasty little dig was.

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Krauss's Kinzo vs. Genji's Kinzo.

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It does also occur to me that the extra space could be Ange's, since the bout of illness that kept her from coming was pretty sudden. Still, I think the dig at Rosa is probably more likely than it just being Ange's spot, considering... literally everything about the Ushiromiya family dynamic.

Given that this scene is from Battler's perspective, it makes me wonder just what exactly he knows about Rosa's con artist ex. Does he really, actually think that Rosa is married, or is he just trying to throw a fig leaf on over it to be considerate? Do I even think that Battler's capable of being that tactful?

On another level, I wonder whose idea this nasty little dig was.