#I feel like im swinging a bat at a hornet's nest with this but im in a mood about it so I dont really care

[gayteensupreme]

the funniest thing by far about radfems to me is the scum manifesto. it was written by the woman who shot andy warhol and it contends that to solve all the problems in the world the simple solution is All Men Need To Be Killed and the world should be Female Only (by pretty clear association, cis-female only). half the people who read it say it's satire, half the people who read it say it's not, and the takeaway here is a bunch of radfems think the way to solve war, hunger and disease is to Literally Kill Every Man. this would be terrifying except for the fact that 1) its unlikely that All Men Will Be Killed due to the patriarchal society we unfortunately inhabit and 2) its just so fucking funny to say No No Guys Im Serious We Need To Kill Every Man

[g0blinwitch]

I dislike how if you critique something you're labeled as "just a hater" in some internet circles like, so? Am I not allowed to dislike something? I'm not saying you can't enjoy a show, I'm just voicing why I dislike it. If my reasoning for why I don't like something causes someone else to be like "hey wait a minute, this show/book/movie/whatever is dumb actually", cool! I have someone else to rant to. If not, also cool! It's okay that someone doesn't like someone you like.

(Not to mention that the "you're just a hater" argument is often lodged at people who criticize media that is deeply flawed(ex: racism, sexism, classism, etc) with the intent to "get them to shut up" so to speak)

[tiny-huts]

Saw someone complaining about people making bottom Astarion jokes the other day and like???? (While I think the way people talk about top and bottom stuff is generally reductive and borders on insensitive sometimes) I don't know how to tell you that you went for the reincarnation of Preminger BarbieFilm??? You went for the guy who expressed concern multiple times over breaking nails?? You went for the guy who spends his time cuntily drinking red wine in the corner?? Like bro. Insert Legolas "what do you think he is going to do" joke here

[kiwisandpearls]

This might be a little ironic coming from me but; it’s ok to not want to critically analyze every single piece of media you interact with. It’s ok to just have fun with a piece of media and not think too deeply with it because it you don’t see it as worth your time.

sometimes we all just wanna turn off our brains and watch something cool/fun, and your not dumb, media illiterate, and/or some horrible person for doing so.

[downsteepy]

i made a post abt leon so i want to make one abt ada now . this will be even more incoherent than my leon post bc my thoughts abt ada are a lot less organized lol.

mainly just talking abt how ppl mischaracterize her despite ... literally everything. i'll probably mention re4r spoilers if that matters to you! i'll only make brief mentions to separate ways, so please be wary of that stuff :)

i feel like a lot of resident evil characters get mischaracterized, but ada seems to get it the worst imo. a lot of people seem to just take her at face value and they're so stuck on portraying her as manipulative or that she just doesn't care abt leon which is. not even true LMFAO

ada's been shown to care very much abt leon! she's saved his ass a lot despite the fact that she literally doesn't even need to. she could see him in trouble and just leave, but she doesn't because she.. cares about him? like i don't know why people like to close their eyes when it comes to this stuff.

i would like to bring up the umbrella chronicles, specifically ada's side story, death's door. death's door shows ada's escape from the NEST, and after she escapes from the sewers, she goes to meet with one of her contacts, who she finds dead. a computer powers on to show wesker, and as soon as he mentions her having aided leon, she seems to tense up almost. ada isn't really outwardly emotive for the most part, but the way i viewed her tensing up in that moment was something maybe close to anger?

obviously it could be me reading too much into it or reading it wrong, but she definitely didn't seem too happy as soon as leon's name left his mouth lol. yes it could also be because of him saying that she betrayed him, but ultimately it could've been a mix of the two.

i do want to try and tackle re2r now which is going to be kind of messy so bear with me if i word something weird.

i think re2r is where a lot of people grab on to the idea of ada strictly only ever manipulating leon and using him. and i'm not going to type out this big long thing and act like ada definitely didn't use leon for her own goal, because she did!

THAT BEING SAID, she does also express care for him. when leon gets shot in the shoulder, she patches him up and uses her trench coat to cover him up. did she have to? absolutely not. she could've just left him there without helping him, but she did!

ada really is not as cold and emotionless as some people like to portray her as, and i think acting like she's incapable of actually caring abt leon is genuinely just. dumb?

i'll jump to re4r now because the dogshit takes i've had to see abt ada even to this day kills me. a lot of them do seem to center on how people viewed her in 2r, but hopefully with the release of separate ways people start opening their minds abt her a little more.

i think 4r does a very good job showing how ada cares about leon! i don't want to dip too much into separate ways since i haven't played it yet and i've only watched a handful of things abt it, but like. she does do a lot of things to help leon during the story of 4r. she gets saddler's attention so that leon can help ashley. she does a LOT of things for leon very willingly! she very willingly helps leon and it really isn't just bc she's wanting to use or manipulate him lol.

there's so much to ada's character that people just don't understand and don't seem to want to understand, which does suck a lot. a lot of people do seem to think she's a bad person because of the work she does, and i have seen some people say that she Obviously Doesn't Care about this or that. not to bring up the ending to re4r but the moment wesker mentions that there would be billions of casualties, you can see her change in body language, and she immediately takes control of the chopper. yes, ada is morally grey, but ada isn't inherently a bad person. the point of morally grey characters is that they aren't supposed to be viewed as 100% bad OR 100% good.

ada's moral greyness seems to be a very weird point of contention for people, and while i do get preferring characters that are more direct about their motivations, i feel like having characters that are morally grey bring a lot to a story. if you have a cast of characters that are always 100% good or 100% bad and there's no hint of moral greyness, it's.. kind of boring?

like idk, personally i like that ada is more morally grey. i think it compliments how leon is very much hellbent on helping and saving as many people as he can.

i do think a lot of the dislike or outright hatred towards ada is bc of how people view + treat leon, which sucks. really ultimately, as naive as leon may be sometimes, he's not a baby. i think a lot of this also comes from general mischaracterization of leon, but that's a post for another day since this is already incredibly long LMFAO.

tl;dr: ada isn't a bad character just because you don't like her. ada isn't a bad person because of her being morally grey. i think watering her down to "bad and manipulative" without looking at the rest of her character is doing her a disservice. i'm not really saying all of this to be like "you HAVE to like ada NOW" but i do just want people to understand her a little more 😭

also really ultimately capcom is like. very bad at writing women so that doesnt really help.. anyway. thanks for looking at my long ass post abt how ada isnt bad and a bunch of other stuff

[rosethreeart]

Listen, I understand yall are trying to come from a good place even if you are being patronizing about it but please understand that the drawing I did literally took me less than five minutes and that there clear "searching" lines (ie things that look more boxy or extremely circular) so its Not Polished. Also that I in fact did NOT draw him with "eurocentric" features. Believe it or not I actually drew him with *very* common features found in those of Chinese decent. PLEASE have more faith and trust and know that I DO make sure to research different ethnicities before I draw them.

[pixlostinatos]

oh hey now that the well and bitter medicine have gotten official releases can i say it now? The Well is a nosy neighbors song and Bitter Medicine is sooooooo dl!pearl

[tentechbiolognostic]

weve all seen and heard about posts that look like this

but what about all the comments that look like this

[crazyw3irdo]

and when they say "in a good way" they always mean "in a slightly less bad way"

[valentinoappreciator]

if the "Addict" music video is no longer canon, we basically have no evidence that Valentino is, in fact, a rapist

checkmate antis and haters 💅

[youngpettyqueen]

Genuine question alert ! Where you talking about specific characters in your 'bastardize the female character to male the male character gay' post?

yes! I could cite a ton of different instances but that post specifically is about BJ and Peg Hunnicutt, who are very in love and have a healthy relationship and a daughter, but Peg is often shoved aside or otherwise bastardized/villainized to push Hunnihawk as a ship because people really dont want to acknowledge that BJ is married and in love

[dearbisexual]

cannibalism isn't even poetic it's just eating people innit

[friendofcars]

thank you so much for the response to the mask adam mention ask, i feel like that cleared up a lot of things for me but i do wonder what it means to ronan to be somehow aware of 'lowkey' being attracted to gansey when cdth tells us he's been pulled towards adam since the moment he first saw him?

also since you talked about gansey and kavinsky i also want to mention that when ronan brings the dreamt camaro to gansey he also puts on a dreamt white sunglasses on gansey's face and i feel like that's such an important detail after "it was never going to be you and me".

you're welcome. thank you for asking in the first place!

so re: ronan being attracted to gansey vs adam, firstly, i think it's an entirely plausible situation given that a) ronan's second secret is his attraction to adam, not attraction to guys in general b) he and gansey have such a strong bond that (at least to me) sort of transcends 'relationship categories' like romantic, platonic, fraternal, etc. so if ronan, who fancies himself Captain Monogamous, was concerned about having feelings for both of his friends i think he could easily convince himself that his love for gansey is entirely brotherly because it's so profound that it could be anything - but at this point in the series, he doesn't even let himself understand his feelings for adam, so i don't think that would even be an internal conflict for him until bllb onwards- maybe a subconscious thing that he'd experience as anger, but not a conscious 'problem.' and even if ronan only wants a monogamous relationship for himself, that definitely doesn't preclude being attracted to multiple people simultaneously. he might not have fun figuring that out though lol so to directly respond to your ask, i think all it means to ronan in this present chapter is that he is thrilled that gansey-on-fire is making an appearance and is too riled up on adrenaline to be particularly worried that this version of gansey reminds him of adam.

to be completely honest i haven't started to think too much about the sunglasses (at least in the scene ronan puts them on gansey- in general i think it's fairly accepted that they symbolize kavinsky's secrets, particularly his vulnerability, how he uses brash language and behavior to obfuscate insecurity and instability; i also think they're a nice foil to gansey's wire frames that tend to appear in vulnerable, honest moments.). i think you're so right to consider them on gansey right after ronan leaves kavinsky though! it's as if he's imagining kavinsky in the camaro, or perhaps a more kavinsky-like version of gansey, shrouded in rumor rather than legend... not sure what to conclude from this. do you have more thoughts on this scene (when ronan gives gansey the new camaro)? i also think the reflective nature of the sunglasses (they're mirrors!) is relevant, which i think gives us the opportunity to discuss not only how ronan and other characters perceive kavinsky, but how kavinsky makes them perceive themselves.

[aro-attorneys]

Jekyon and Wrightworth are the same fucking ship

[jefferythejelly]

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