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loveinsomesacredplace · 8 months ago

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Is it true? Are people coming around to the fact that Show Belly is a different character from Book Belly? Has critical thinking finally entered the chat? *gasps in transformative fandom/show canon enthusiast*

#belly conklin #mind you all these changes have a certain portion of fandom in their feelings really bad #Do you mean to say belly can’t exist as a character unless her story and growth is solely tied to a boy?#Say less please #masks are coming off #some of y’all really want her to stay sixteen forever #and none of that crowd is what a ‘girl’s girl’ supposed to mean #Let show belly thrive away from early 00s internalized misogyny and Not Other Girlism #at this point i really would prefer bells to choose herself and not end with either brother because the fandoms are so fucking toxic #OBVIOUSLY i would choose her to be happy with Jere #But the way the discourse is so heavily focused on shipping and people clamoring for belly to be punished #Like how many times does she need to make amends? what does she need to do to get forgiveness?#Book belly regression bleeding into show belly is a hacky writer choice and i hope the smarter fans realize #instead of jumping straight to oh poor conrad meow meow jerebear blah blah #She’s just as much of a victim of the narrative

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