I only got interested in Elden Ring after the DLC came out so I don't know what the fandom was like before, but I thought Miquella being morally questionable was actually a super interesting plot twist.
Not necessarily in that "good guy is actually bad guy," way, but in how it plays with the player's expectations. It really surprised me to learn how controversial it was.
Miquella in the base game is only truly selfless demi-god, with a dream of a world of kindness and equality. He represents the "perfect option"
One thing that Elden Ring shares with it's FROMSOFTWARE predecessors is that there are no perfect options.
In the basegame, this concept is carried out by having this "perfect option" unavailable to you. Miquella has been diminished by Mogh's mad actions, reducing him to a thin arm falling out of a strange cocoon.
It's part of the tragedy, That even if you wanted to fix everything, you cant.
The DLC furthers this concept, revealing that this perfect option never even existed to begin with.
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the topic of Helpy makes me go insane /pos like I have this headcanon that William/Springtrap just, DESPISED Helpy because William took heaps of pride from the Funtime line of Animatronics, he saw it as his son's crude mocking of HIS creations, when in reality its just Michaelangelo S Afton trying to use humor to once again cope with the horrors™️
Like I've probably said this here before but I headcanon that Helpy found his way into the PizzaPlex's marketing is because after the FNAF6 fire he just was under the rubble remarkably preserved or something and instead of going into the RockStarRow Museum, the FazExecs had dollar signs in their eyes and were like "yeah, that one will make us bank, ong"
Ive also probably said this (bad memory sozzz) but a headcanon to go in tandem with that headcanon, is that Glamfreddy sighs in resignation whenever he passes by one of those Helpy monitors (he wasn't paid royaltys <//3 )
AND LIKE I GOTTA KNOW WHAT (glam)MIKE WOULD THINK OF THE ENTITY THAT IS SATAN DISGUISING HIMSELF AS AN AGENT OF LIGHT (Helpi) WOULD HE FEEL SAD? ANGRY? AT THE MIMIC? THE COMPANY?!
please the topic of helpy is so interesting PLEAs-
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I'm currently slowly working my way through the Animorphs books (just finished The Andalite Chronicles today and this goddamn tragic children's book nearly made me cry) and I'm so upset I never picked these books up as a kid, I would've adored them. But I'm also incredibly amused that one series I did imprint on as a teen was Michael Grant's Gone series, specifically for its freaky sci-fi worldbuilding and the way it portrayed kids and teens going through horrific situations and comitting horrific acts without brushing over the resulting trauma and consequences or treating it as just a 'fun adventure'. And then I find out that Grant co-wrote the Animorphs books and is married to Katherine Applegate. Yeah, I can see that.
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call me naive but i really thought athletes would enjoy competing against the best of the best in their respective sports. imagine my surprise when i learned they’re RACIST. it’s time to send the flood or another asteroid or just blow the planet up
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If crinkle sent you here, YES i picked the worst chara to simp for, YES i am mildly ashamed. In my defense i was very quick to whisk off this dip to an AU in which NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS, EVERYBODY LIVES AND NOBODY HURTS. EVERYONE IS SOOOOO NICE TO ONE ANOTHER
(its called the latte au. peeps who are not in on the secret latte projects will simply have to hope Crink will upload the super secret fics one day ;)
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The weird thing about people who hate the word "transandrophobia" is that so many of them seem to think power is just like.. someone something HAS and is enacted on another. Like a dodgeball or something. That's not how power works, it's a system.
In the middle of the woods, a black trans man and a white cishet man have the same amount of social power. They're just 2 dudes.
But in SOCIETY, the white cis het man is part of a number of in-groups, and that membership gives him power. He has the power with other white people to exclude black people from spaces. He has the power to say "this black man attacked me" and to be believed. He has the power to decide with other cis people that a trans man shouldn't have access to medical care. The power to band with other cis men and argue that the black trans man isn't a real man. If he attacks and sexually assaults the black trans man, to teach him a lesson about where he belongs, other white people, other cis people, other cis men will all band together and say "of course you did the right thing. We got eachother into this places of power (police, jury, judge) and we can see, since you are a member of our group, that you did the right thing, and are not at fault."
Trans people don't have that in-group power of gender. A trans man does not, CAN NOT, engage in the systemic oppression of trans women on the basis of gender. Trans mascs are NOT part of the in-group. They are not prioritized for certain jobs, are not valued more, are not seen as being more truthful. Trans men can't get together and decide to deny a trans women the right to medical care, or to safety from discrimination. While there can be lateral aggression, eg. a trans man being transmisogynistic, he can't DO anything with power he does not have.
When people talk about transandrophobia, they are talking about how they are treated as a group of specifically trans and masculine and trans-masculine people. No one is saying that trans fems are behind systemic transandrophobia.
Arguing that trans men should just shut up about their oppression, and saying that they oppress trans fems, is WRONG. It is inaccurate, and harmful because it is silencing an oppressed group who are trying to raise awareness and to discuss the oppression they face. This whole idea that people (of all genders!) have that trans mascs are using the word transandrophobia as a weapon to harm trans fems is harmful and not based on facts. If you believe in that, you are not helping trans fems, you are just harming trans mascs.
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