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supernova-17 · 16 days ago

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Sweet Treat

Anri x Fem!reader

Oral female recieving, grinding, dom character, wow I love women, shout out to the three lesbians that are gonna read this

“But– shouldn’t I– I mean if you want to relax, shouldn’t I–” You try to offer through stutters, but she simply laughs and shakes her head. “I said I wanted a treat, didn’t I?” She coos out, her hand coming up to caress your cheek, her thigh moving up and down rhythmically to grind against you in a way that has you melting in a pool of your own pleasure.

As you round the corner of the hallway that connects the bedroom to the kitchen, a plate of cookies held securely in your hands, you hear the familiar strained voice of your girlfriend, holding in obvious frustration.

“Yes… yes, I understand the risks,” She says, too deeply involved in her own, rather one sided, conversation to notice you enter with her dinner. “but if you would just listen to what I’m trying to say–”

Her face twists into an uncharacteristic scowl as she’s cut off, for what seems like the umpteenth time considering her reaction and the way she’s gripping her pen, growing more and more sour as the person on the other end of the line continues to speak. Finally, she parts her lips to formulate a rebuttal, only to hear the, unfortunately, familiar beep of the phone being hung up.

“...”

She looks like she wants to scream in frustration, until she finally looks up and notices you, her eyes widening a bit in surprise before softening in a way that makes your knees weak.

Metaphorically, of course, you wouldn’t risk dropping the food you brought.

“Trouble again, Hon?” You ask, taking in the way she hunches over the desk and how her usually bright eyes carry dark bags under them.

“You know it.”

She smiles tiredly at you, and you can’t help but feel flattered that despite everything on her plate, she still finds the space in her heart to show you she appreciates you in every way possible.

Of course, that sweet disposition and her determined nature was why you fell for her in the first place.

“Thanks for dessert, Darling.” She hums out as you pass her the plate, biting back a laugh as she watches you nearly fumble the plate because of the nickname.

You send her a half-hearted glare, because really, nothing makes you happier than seeing her laugh, especially these days as she seems more and more stressed, and pull up a chair next to her, resting your head on your hands to look at her.

She doesn’t even question your habit of watching her eat your food anymore, finding it cute that you care about her opinion that much, at least that’s what she told you when you asked if it did bother her, turning you just as red as her hair.

“...Do you want to rant? Not that you have to tell me if you don’t want to.” You ask after she finishes eating, despite knowing she’ll say yes, because who is Teieri if not someone who has to deal with endless bullshit.

“I thought you’d never ask.” She laughs bitterly, pushing her plate to the side so she can rant in typical Teieri style, complete with jerky hand movements and exaggerated expressions.

You find yourself leaning back, just in case she accidentally smacks you in the face like she did last time.

(There were many apology kisses given that day… some probably given because she liked kissing you… not that you were complaining either.)

“It’s absolutely incredible how not one singular person here seems to give a shit about the future of Japanese Football.” She starts out, a fire burning in her eyes.

You nod encouragingly, neglecting to mention the fact that you also would not give a shit about the future of football if not for Teieri.

“For them, it's either gimmick after gimmick, trying to raise a new potential genius only to ruin them by crushing their potential in this country for a cash grab, or the same bullshit team-comes-first playing style that discourages anyone from even trying to improve.” She says heatedly.

You hum in agreement, taking a cookie of your own to nibble on while she continues.

“And either way, it doesn’t matter to them, because they're content staying in their stagnant ways rather than trying to make a change, because they’re too scared to take any sort of risk even if it has the potential to benefit them.”

Chewing slowly, you nod in approval, not exactly having a clue about what she’s talking about, but vaguely understanding what she’s saying.

“But damn it, I’ll show them, I’ll show them that their whole system is flawed, despite everything they’re saying to me. I swear!” She finishes determinedly before turning to look at you, her gaze faltering slightly when she sees you munching on your cookie.

“Ah– sorry.” You apologize after you swallow. “I didn’t get to taste them myself before I brought them to you, did I interrupt?”

Teieri snorts and shakes her head. “No, you’re fine… you’re just… really cute.”

You flush at her words, a giddy smile slipping onto your face.

“Flatterer.” You scoff, before looking towards her. “So… Do you feel any better now?”

She looks at you contemplatively, a small, mischievous grin curving at her lips, making your heart skip a beat.

“Not quite.” She says. “I’m thinking I could use a treat.”

You give her a funny look, gesturing to the plate of cookies. “Help yourself?”

She grins at you, her smile somehow more… hungry and you feel heat rise up to your cheeks.

“Not that type of treat, Sweet-pea.” She says, leaning over to swipe the crumbs of your face with her thumb before pressing a chaste kiss to your lips that leaves you yearning for more.

“Tei…” You whisper out her nickname. “I don’t think…”

“You don’t need to.” She says gently, guiding you up to stand as she maneuvers you onto her desk, your legs dangling off the edge as she presses her leg between yours. “All you have to do is sit there like a good girl.”

You swallow nervously, a heat sparking in your core at the nickname, a shudder running through you as she shifts her leg upwards so that her thigh brushes up against your core, only protected by your underwear, as you had worn a skirt.

“But– shouldn’t I– I mean if you want to relax, shouldn’t I–” You try to offer through stutters, but she simply laughs and shakes her head.

“I said I wanted a treat, didn’t I?” She coos out, her hand coming up to caress your cheek, her thigh moving up and down rhythmically to grind against you in a way that has you melting in a pool of your own pleasure.

“Yes but–” You try again, but she shushes you, capturing your lips in a heated kiss, her tongue slipping between your lips to dance with your own, while her other hand makes quick work on unbuttoning your shirt.

You find yourself melting into the kiss, kissing back with just as much vigor as your hands come to tangle within her hair, a moan slipping into the kiss as she continues rutting her thigh up against you.

She pulls away after a while, with a trail of saliva connecting your lips together and with a smirk only reserved for you, that if you weren’t sitting you’d be sure that your knees would buckle.

“Don’t you get it darling?” She gets out in a husky voice, pressing her forehead to yours. “This is my stress relief, so do me a favor and spread your legs.”

Well, when she asks like that, how can you refuse?

And so you do as you're told, spreading your legs for her, shivering as she pushes you onto your back and exposing you before biting back a whimper as she looks at your dampening underwear as if it were an oasis in the desert.

Starting from your ankle, she slowly travels kisses up your leg, taking her time as if savoring your very taste.

You want to protest again, but swallow any complaints as her breath ghosts over your panties, and you feel yourself clench on nothing, your toes curling in anticipation.

She laughs at your reaction, before she glances up at you deliberately, her hungry gaze boring into your widened, startled eyes before her head disappears underneath your skirt and you feel the flat of her warm tongue lick a stripe up your core.

A light gasp pulls from your lips, your face reddening at the noise before she latches onto your lower lips through your panties, suckling in a lewd way that has you squirming ever so slightly, making her hands rise up to pin your hips to the desk.

“Fuck, baby.” She murmurs through open mouthed kisses. “You’re so wet I can taste you through your pretty little panties.”

You whine in response, something high pitched and needy that has you feeling distantly embarrassed, but you find yourself too preoccupied to concern yourself wholly with it.

“‘S not enough though.” She remarks, before pulling away to pull your panties to the side, exposing your bottom half to the cooler air of the room. “I need all of you.”

You can feel yourself melt slightly at her words, normally she’s so soft and sweet, but when she gets like this, all worked up, her words considerably more charged and filthy, you can’t help but squirm. Not that you have long to think about it though, because just as soon as you grasp the thought the feeling of her tongue laving over your sopping folds has you losing it immediately.

“Gods– fuck–” You gasp out, your hips jerking on impulse, as if raising to meet that stroke of her tongue.

“You’re so pretty baby.” She murmurs between long languid laps at your opening, between moans and mewls you let out. “So cute, so precious.”

It’s almost a shame when she pulls away, if only because she needs to rip your panties from where they try to creep to cover your core, and even if you can feel the way your slick sticks to the fabric before stringing away, you can't bring yourself to care when you know her mouth will descend upon you and make you feel heaven you’ve yet to experience if only for a few days.

“Tei–” You manage to breathe out before your voice breaks off into a long drawn out moan as her lips and tongue proceed to render you helpless to any semblance of thought. Her lips, so soft and smooth, press against your cunt while her tongue slips in, fucking you wet and messy, making you forget yourself and pull at her hair almost desperately.

Nothing that comes out of your mouth is even sensible, just babbling and pleading for her to do more, to slow down, to speed up, that all amounts to just pathetic whimpering and begging for something that you can’t even comprehend.

“Fuck–” You croak out, and you can’t look down when you’re tossing your head back, but you don’t need to to understand the extent of your juices flowing out of you and dripping down to her eager mouth.

“Whatdya want, huh? Be clear.” She murmurs through slurps and messy smacking of her lips, and you feel a throaty groan escape you as she lavs a long lick over your clit.

“Mm– Tei–!” You gasp out breathy and high pitched. “Please– I need– I’m gonna—”

“Then come baby, come right on my face.”

No sound comes out of your mouth though you part your mouth into a scream, but as you latch your thighs around her face and toss your head back and let the waves of hot white pleasure numb your mind, you find you can hardly focus on that fact.

She keeps going though, somehow though your thighs are probably crushing her, eager to get every last drop of you as you climax, her mouth practically sucking at your folds.

You think it might be too much for you, but just as your high dies and your sensitivity turns to slight pain, she eases up on you, slowly pressing soft kisses to you (with one final one of your clit that makes you shiver) before slowly pulling herself back up to face you as your thighs relax.

The sight of her, face red and covered with slick is enough to make you lose your mind for a moment, a familiar heat building back up in you as you pant heavily, trying to cool yourself down.

“Jesus Tei.” You say softly under your breath, before cupping her cheeks and pulling her in for a kiss, which she easily complies with. You taste yourself on her tongue and you wonder briefly if this is what heaven is.

“‘Was good stress relief.” She murmurs after pulling away, the both of you panting slightly.

“...I’ll bet.” You say with a slight smile. “Next time I’ll do the honors though.”

“Next time?” She asks, raising a brow. Her hand comes up to lift one of your thighs up so she can comfortably settle between your thighs, a small smile on her face that looks innocent but screams mischief to you. “I’m not even done with you yet.”

You blink, and swallow, your eyes darkening slightly.

…You might be in for a long night.

#afab reader #bllk smut #bluelock x reader smut #anri x reader #anri teieri #anri x reader smut

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prettycottonmouthlamia · 6 months ago

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Something I noticed as a young adult and budding trans woman are that games with character customization, or at least character building in some way, are very overwhelmingly two different options: men only, or men and women only. Very few of these games were women only, and I kind of jokingly refer to them as "games that would have cracked my egg".

Now I want to preface this with two things: one, this absolutely could be a matter of the genres I was in; and two that not every game that has male AND female options is doing so in a way that is lazy and there are several which make the gender choice impactful in meaningful ways. I want to refute these to a point because I know they're going to be brought up.

First, I mean as a kid I typically played RPGs. I wasn't the type of person who absolutely was only in the "macho" genres that were out there, and I mean I played a shit ton of Final Fantasy 6 and 13. RPGs with female protagonists are very real (and was a big reason why FF13 failed with the Youtube reviewer crowd), but there are basically none with a customizable female only protagonist. In addition, even despite this, why the fuck does genre matter? If your video game genre makes sense for a customizable character, it can make sense to have a female only game in that genre!

Second, this isn't necessarily a point about whether customizable female characters exist in the space at all, but this is a point much rather about how male protagonists are considered the default, and a male protagonist default usually informs A LOT about the game design and the world built around that character. In addition, for every game that gets this right, there are usually five more that don't, and the female character is treated functionally identically to the male character except they have to Ctrl+F all the times they use "he" in the game's script. This is why you get games that are aggressively heterosexual but because they did relatively zero work integrating a female protagonist, they accidentally give off big lesbian vibes. It's the same principle for why the representation for your game shouldn't only be paper-thin bisexuality.

Games with female main protagonists are often notably less common than ones with male main protagonists, and many times, this is buffered a bit by the addition of an ensemble cast. What makes FF6 and FF13 notable amongst their peers, including games like FF16 which have "female protagonists", is that the strongest female protagonists often form the narrative core of the story. FF6 has a large ensemble cast, but it is the struggles and efforts of Terra and Celes that drive things forwards, and to go into how Lightning, Fang, and Vanille form the narrative and emotional core of FF13 is a subject to an entirely different post. But like they still exist.

So many games have self-insert male characters compared to female ones. I'm genuinely surprised when I find a game with a character creator that only has a female protagonist. It is something that says a lot on the general sexism and misogyny in gaming spaces, how the male video game player is still considered the defacto default audience, and how worlds often aren't considered through the lens of female characters, or even just the perspective of a female player.

But on a more personal note, it's just...sad. Genuinely. I probably would have realized I was trans a few years earlier than I did had there been games like that out there and more in the public consciousness. So many games provided a cover in having a male option (and especially since so many of these games are aggressively heterosexual lol, looking at you Mass Effect) that I never needed to confront my feelings. It makes me feel bad than even to this day an entire audience of players aren't really considered as important.

Why can't we have games for us, you know?

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gacha-incels · 7 months ago

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The "if there's men I don't play" situation in CN is actually funnier than it sounds.

So, the thing about CN is that a lot of players like to track their favorite game's revenue, and playing a game with high monthly revenue can somehow make them feel better about themselves.

And these dudes' ideal game is kinda like those bullshit isekai clones where the player character is the only man living in a world full of conventionally attractive women whose lives centered around them and them only.

There fellas were loud so a lot of gaming companies chose to pander them. One of the more well-known game, the literal gospel for these dudes, was Snowbreak: Contaminant Zone (Imma call it SCZ for short). It's one of those softcore porn game targeting dudes who are too repulsive for real women.

And SCZ's revenue got steam rolled by Arknights, another CN game knows to have lots of women players and an active fandom composed of mostly women, every single month. Like Ak isn't some saint game made by saint company, but they do have record of firing male employee for engaging in hate speech against women using one of the company's social media account, so they had a relatively decent reputation among gaming women in China comparing to other companies.

So the SCZ dudes gets salty for not being the "silenced majority". They launched an attack on the game, spamming discussion forums when Arknights released a male character (Ulpianus), who debuted like a year ago and was presented in multiple story updates, this May, attempt to stir up community problem by pairing him up with a popular female character(Skadi) who was released at launch.

Now here's the problem. There are some dudes who want male characters out of Arknights completely, but they're like, 1% or something. Most people who played doesn't give half a rat ass about SCZ dude's big problem with fictional men existing.

Furthermore, the two character they attempted to pair together already had plenty of build-up to their relationship, and both the story's narrative and the fandom treat their relationship as teacher-apprentice/father-daughter. So their attack was largely viewed as "out of nowhere" and "ridiculous". They were also ridiculed by the community, people just kinda take their words and made a bunch of copypasta about popular ships in the fandom out of it.

And Arknights's playerbase was huge. It launched at the best time for mobile games in CN and it's the few weeb game that people who aren't into anime or gaming heard about or played. Heck it was even viewed as some sort of cultural phenomenon that influenced the UI, art style, story etc. of mobile games that comes after it. So the playerbase was huge, and the majority of it wasn't even aware that there was an attack at all.

So yeah the attack was as big as an ant bite on an elephant at best. Then these dudes go back to their little echo chamber enjoy their self-declared victory on Arknights. Then life continuous on as usual.

Also these dudes seems to have found a few more new CN exclusive gachas and called praised them too nabraska and back for not containing male characters in promotional trailers, only to be supersized by like one or two playable dudes at launch. Those lads were seething in the comments.

Also the Japanese Himedanshi/Himejoshi(people who enjoys yuri) community mistakenly interpreted their goal to be "only lesbian relationships allowed, no hetero bullshit". Funniest shit.

the snowbreak game is crazy lol truly the future of incel gacha. I feel bad for the women who just wanted to see lesbian relationships.

I’m glad they could be totally ridiculed humbled even though AK pulled this shit on their KR server which was never addressed by Hypergryph. This is at least really funny though. These guys seem to always try this “cuckolding” bait with the characters to make people riled up specifically within these Chinese incel gacha communities. I’ve seen the craziest shit recently looking into the newest clusterfuck going on with them and that Genshin Impact character “Wanderer” they seem to hate to an insane degree. after this I looked up their upcoming white pharaoh ™️ banners, it’s so many female characters and they still lose their shit like this about existing male characters… I think there was also a huge blowup with “Girls Frontline 2” with some assumed cuckolding issue, and the CN Blue Archive server literally had to issue an apology for doing a collab with the game Mahjong Soul because the BA players thought they were being cuckolded by the MA players

I don’t want to get too deeply into the more niche aspects of it because it’s not the main focus of this blog and I feel like I’m falling down a rabbit hole of info lol. but when I have a little more time maybe, just so I know I won’t be rushing and using a place like reddit to double check things. But thank you to everyone who has sent info, it’s been interesting to read about and see how it compares to the other movements chronicled here. It’s been hard to find some of this information in English so thank you to everyone who has ever sent a message for writing to me in English as well. Thank you for your patience. I’m trying to learn Korean on my own now so I can actually speak with Korean feminists in their own language and read their works without machine translation….

#Long post

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sephirthoughts · 8 months ago

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Can you do 15 and 32 for Cid in the headcanon ask game please?

I LOVE CID!! Thank you for the excuse to talk and think about him more

Cid Highwind

-15- pets or feelings about animals:

Cid seems like the type of guy who is just naturally adept with animals. You know the type? Where any wild or uncontrollable animal will be sitting and rolling over on command and eating from the palm of his hand within five minutes of meeting him. I also think Cid has a big, tough, super weirdly well-behaved junkyard dog that is so smart you can't believe it's not a person. Like Dogmeat from Fallout or D-Dog from Metal Gear Solid V, like it guards the airfield and knows how to use a combat knife and scope enemy bases and create distractions. And like Cid can say "Rocket" and then just click to it, and the dog will go "boof" and run off and like twenty minutes later it'll come back with groceries.

I think his love for big dangerous animals (and their love for him) comes in especially handy with Vincent because his Cid magic works on the Galian Beast too, so like everyone's scared of it but Cid. I have this HC that sometimes Vincent can't control the transformation, and just goes feral and becomes the Galian Beast, every once in a while. He usually has some lead-up so he can tell when it's going to happen, and they can get him somewhere isolated before he runs amok, but every once in a while it just happens without warning, at which point everyone is like oh shit we're screwed someone get Cid before Shinra sends in troopers and Rufus bills us for all the tanks that get destroyed

Galian: -rampaging tearing shit up throwing cars- citizens: -fleeing in terror- Cid: HEY! YOU PUT THAT BUS DOWN! Galian: *ROOOAAAAARRR* Cid: I SAID DROP. IT. Galian: *roooaarr?* Cid: -raises eyebrows- Galian: -drops bus and comes bounding over to Cid like a puppy acting like it wasn't the one who was just chewing up post boxes and tossing vehicles- Cid: -petting its belly- awww who's a good boy. citizens: …. Cid: uhh...heh. sorry, everyone. he gets a little rowdy if i forget to take him for walkies

NOTE: this applies even if you don't ship Cid and Vincent. i 100% believe they'd be like this either way

-32- toxic traits:

Ok, well there are funny and not-funny answers for this, but I think the not-funny ones have kind of been stealth retconned by this point, with how they've changed his character and just sort of not mentioned anything about it. Which is good because honestly Cid was a….difficult character to enjoy. Back then his toxic traits were literally verbally abusing Shera into the dirt over his misdirected anger about the rocket launch screw-up, and subsequent loss of his career and everything he'd been working toward. She blamed herself and let herself be treated that way in this simpering, self-flagellating, doormat way that made me eye-roll so hard the planet tilted on its axis. I have seen this trope in Japanese media with female characters multiple times, and it's always portrayed as if the female character is somehow doing a noble thing by spending her life as some prick's punching bag and i fucking haaaaaate it. I absolutely *hate* that they made them married in one of the games, too, because that just makes the situation way grosser and more toxic. The whole relationship between Cid and Shera was godawful and terribly written, especially since the other characters just took it in stride and were like "seems normal to me". It also doesn't track with the way they've changed his character in general, in the current iterations of the story. BUT NEVER FEAR! I have personally de-canonized the whole thing, removed the stupid and pointless abusive dynamic, kept Cid and Shera colleagues and friends who had some rough times and fell out and then forgave each other like adults yay character development, and made her a cool lesbian with her own life who doesn't take any shit from anyone. YOU'RE WELCOME SQUEENIX.

Anyway that's the not-funny toxic traits. On to the fun stuff!

MY Cid's toxic traits are as follows:

Smoking way too much and then being all surprised about it when he gets winded during really demanding fights

Acting like his aviator goggles are glasses and putting them on to pretend to squint at restaurant menus, just to mess with the waitress, like his vision isn't flawless (he's a pilot, it has to be)

Dad jokes

Calling Vincent a series of increasingly ridiculous pet names just to see how long he can get away with it (darlin, sugar, sweetheart, babydoll, cinnamon bun, angel pie, sweet potato casserole, nana highwind's famous pineapple upside-down cake). The joke is on him, however, because Vincent knows exactly what he's doing and takes every nickname in stride without objecting to any of them. Actually the joke is on the rest of the crew, who are the innocent bystanders having to hear all of this. NOTE: this also applies even if you don't ship Cid and Vincent. He absolutely behaves this way toward his platonic best friend. Which may explain why Vincent is his only friend.

Buying loaves of processed white bread and pre-sliced american cheese but then acting all fussy and particular about exactly which artisanal stone-ground mustard is used on his sandwiches

Pretending there's heavy turbulence but actually he's shaking the plane around just to amuse himself and annoy everyone

Using his accent to play stupid so no one asks him questions or expects him to come up with plans, even though he's an actual literal rocket scientist

Falling asleep in the theater during any movie or stage production whatsoever. It doesn't matter if it's boring or interesting or if he's into it or not, something about theaters just knocks him out like a light. As a result, he and Vincent have slept through a grand total of 26 movies and 5 productions of Loveless. Everyone knows about it but the general consensus is just let the old men sleep they're happier that way

OH ALSO this is not a toxic trait just a random HC: i think Cid and Reeve would get along really weirdly well. like they're from totally different personalities and backgrounds and have different lifestyles and careers and yes reeve is an executive at Shinra but they just hit it off like crazy. Cid is always nice to Cait Sith maybe that's what makes me think that. i dunno

Thanks for the ask, I hope you enjoyed my ramblings!

#cid highwind #ff7 cid #ask game #headcanons #headcanon game #character ask #inbox games #here there be headcanons #valenwind #or valenjustfriends i don't care #galian beast #vincent valentine #ff7 #final fantasy 7 #ff7 rebirth #cid #reeve tuesti #cait sith

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sleepingdeath-light · 1 year ago

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relationship hcs ; vaggie

requested by ; cookie simp anon (14/02/24)

fandom(s) ; hazbin hotel

fandom masterlist(s) ; here

character(s) ; vaggie

outline ; “may i request some vaggie relationship hcs? thanks!

-cookie simp anon”

note ; female reader is assumed because… well… she’s canonically a lesbian haha

warning(s) ; none, just fluff!

vaggie is, above all else, incredibly protective over you as her significant other and would put her life on the line for you in a heartbeat if the situation called for it — but she’s more than capable of handling herself in battle due to her past as a prolific exorcist, so you’ll never have to worry about anything like that

she mainly calls you ‘sweetie’ or a shortened version of your name, but she’s happy to respond to anything you choose to use as a pet name for her — well, as long as you keep the sillier ones to more private settings (she’s not opposed to them, not at all, she just likes to keep certain aspects of your relationship behind closed doors)

she is your number one cheerleader and your biggest supporter without a shadow of a doubt — she’s always there to listen to you talk about the things you’re passionate about, always the first one in your corner when you’re pitching a new idea, always there to catch you when you fall and help figure out a new strategy to get what you want, and always there to make sure that things go to plan (even if that means keeping other people… like alastor… in line through some more militant means)

vaggie is an expert at helping to ground you in the present moment whenever you’re struggling with something like a nightmare, a panic attack, self doubt, or fears about the future — she committed the exercises and reassurances that actually help you to memory and is always able to calmly walk you through them until you’re back in the moment with her and actually able to take in her advice

she has zero tolerance for anyone who talks down to you, makes you uncomfortable, or otherwise tries to treat you poorly and will shut that shit down the second she becomes aware of it — for as sweet and loving as she is with you, vaggie can be a terrifying woman when she wants to be and she takes full advantage of that when it comes to protecting you and your reputation

she loves physical affection, even if she’s not the biggest initiator of pda, and loves any and all forms of it — but there are a few favourites of hers, including: any sort of hug (whether that means you tackling her to the ground, one of you pulling the other into your sides, hugging you from behind and resting her chin on your shoulder as you go about doing your work at a desk, cuddling in bed, or huddling up together on one of the hotel settees and watching whatever is on the television), you playing with her hair, and, of course, kissing

vaggie’s kisses range from tooth-rottingly sweet to so passionate that they leave you flushed and breathless, and she switches between them depending on the mood of the moment

her sweeter kisses are always so very gentle and usually end with the two of you smiling at each other because, well, how could you not? — her thumbs are stroking the sides of your face, her palms are cupping your jawline, and she’s sighing into the kiss as she pecks your lips once, then twice, and a third time before you give in and wrap your arms around her waist to keep her close

intimate, gentle, sweet, and tinged with that unmistakable inclination that she feels as if you’ll vanish from her grasp the second she opens her eye and pulls away

her more passionate displays, meanwhile, are usually saved for private moments or those times just before or immediately after an intense battle where your hearts are beating so hard you can barely breathe and you’re both complete messes but you can’t bring yourself to care because you can see each other and you’re both alive and okay and all is right with the world again — her hands are in your hair or clinging to the back of your neck and your shoulders, her lips are moulding perfectly, wetly, against your own, you have to steady yourself on one leg to stop yourself from tumbling back onto the ground as she throws herself at you and your arms fly to her waist to steady her, your cheeks are both wet with tears of relief, and you’re laughing and crying and saying ‘i love you’ over and over again between kisses

glad to be alive, glad to be together, and wanting nothing more than to clean up as the rest of the world melts away and leaves you both in that bubble of relief and love and adrenaline

once she’s gotten her wings back, she makes a habit of wrapping them around you when you’re hugging — it’s not a conscious thing but it feels right, being able to hide you away from the world and keep you in that private bubble of love and smiles for a little while, so she keeps on doing it (and you’re certainly not complaining)

date nights are usually spent indoors enjoying each others company because of how chaotic and dangerous the world outside of the hotel is — but there’s plenty to do inside so you’ll never run out of fun activities to do

#sleepingdeath #cookie simp anon #fluff #fluff hcs #hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel fluff #vaggie x reader #vaggie fluff #female reader

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discopolice · 1 month ago

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fuck it. today i will be ranting about how fandom writ large hates female characters, and we are also discussing amalia sheran sharm, who is delightful and also done so, so dirty

this is a long rant meant largely for my personal satisfaction and, as such, i am not tagging it. if you find it, i request you not try to "defend wakfu's honor" to me, i do not hate wakfu or want everyone to denounce it because i have problems with it / the fandom, i am actually normal

those of you who have been in fandom for a long time may know that fandom has historically despised female characters.

I want to be quite clear that this includes, and I am specifically talking about, female- and queer-dominated fandom - the realms of fanfiction, zines, and shipping. male-dominated fandom is misogynistic and I don't need to elaborate on that. but my god, the fanfic and shipping spheres! Relena bashing, Winry hate, pretty much any female character who was "in the way" of a popular m/m ship was fair game. they were sporked, labeled Mary-Sues, and killed off in ever-more-creative ways in fanfiction.

when questioned, fandom will give you a few reasons for this:

there are the people who posit this is because most women are attracted to men, so of course they'd care more about male characters. gee, no wonder fandom is so hostile to lesbians, trans women, and trans lesbians!

there are the people who say "well, it's probably some self-hatred from people who would later come out as transmascs or trans men," to which I say: charming, but that's a you problem

and then there's the "well, women weren't written as well back then." this is true - women in older works tend towards the one-dimensional, the "motivated by men," the naive "why don't we just all get along" in worlds full of justified violence. Relena is a perfect example of this - she's literally named Peacecraft, she's somewhat annoying, and she's very feminine. she is also a woman in gundam pre-modern era, which basically means she's written like shit half the time. and like, I seriously cannot emphasize how much the fandom fucking hated her, despite her being a really interesting character for a gundam altho that's entirely off-topic.

... but then time marched on. publishers and creators realized the massive buying power of women and started to include female characters in traditionally "male" roles: fighter, adventurer, agent of the narrative. female characters became less "girly" and more rugged. misogynist men screamed out and continue to scream out in their little echo chambers.

but we're not talking about them right now.

we're talking about people in these historically female-dominated fandom spheres - some women, some nonbinary or transmasc - who, in response to this, have begun to cry out

"let women be feminine! let love interests be feminine!"

which, when interrogated, usually means: "let women be nice and unoffensive and delicate!" "let women be submissive and deferential!" "let women take their ordained role in heterosexuality and be protected by a big strong man!"

basically, all the traits people hated in Relena Peacecraft twenty years ago lmao. funny how there's always a reason. but in the end, whether you hate them or love them, ship with them or not, female characters are eternally treated as props for the men around them. there's always some reason to hate them, unless they get out of the way and let the men do plot actions. even better if they're, somehow, but quietly, the impetus for the men to do things.

what fandom has always wanted, beyond more girlbosses or more housewives, is for female characters to get out of the way.

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but ok, enough, let's talk about Amalia Sheran Sharm.

Amalia is introduced as a thirteen-year-old (thirteen) (remember this) princess traveling alongside her bodyguard, Evangelyne, a stoic elf woman who plays the "straight man" to Amalia's "antics." Amalia is comfortable in the trappings of traditional femininity, but Eva is not, at least not the high-heels and dress part; she's portrayed as a more "tomboyish" character for awhile, but more "traditionally feminine" in other ways.

notably, Amalia is assertive and entirely assured of her own worth. her relationship with Yugo, her romantic interest, is tumultuous; she is sometimes rude to him and certainly not deferential. it takes her four seasons to finally get into a relationship with him. Evangelyne is shown to have a shy, "vulnerable" side and soon gets into a relationship with Tristepin, the author's very favorite male power fantasy. from here, her character changes shape rapidly, as she moves away from agent into "waifu" and then to "mother," rapidly becoming a symbol of "proper" white femininity through motherhood.

you can choose to interpret this difference in character charitably, and say "well, it's supposed to be cute that the tomboy 'fighter' is more submissive and the princess is more dominant." you can also choose to interpret it uncharitably and say "of fucking course they make the white girl the venerated tradwife and the Black girl the one who's characterized as selfish and loud, that's classic misogynoir." perhaps both are true on different levels.

either way, the fandom has historically been much kinder to Eva than to Amalia. Amalia is "selfish," "rude," "bossy." when she, facing down the imminent death of her father and the fact that her love interest Yugo may never go through puberty, began to investigate an arranged marriage, the fandom lost their absolute minds bashing her - how dare she betray sweet, precious Yugo like that. when she, feeling neglected by Yugo and (again) realizing he's fucking prepubescent, kissed a guy who's basically his evil older version, it happened again. always "selfish," betraying the Nice Guy by kissing the Bad Boy who will never ever treat her right - and always characterized as "bossy" or "always wanting her way."

I do wonder, sometimes, if folks in the fandom view all of Amalia's actions through a lens of misogynoir. Black women and girls are called called "bossy" or "rude" for any action on the spectrum from "mildly asserting themselves" to "just existing in public." of course she is "immature." she is thirteen years old during s1 and s2. she is THIRTEEEEENNNNNNNN

and then her father is dying, leaving her to make some political decisions she isn't prepared for while dealing with her grief. the canon and the fandom both negatively compare her to Evangelyne, whose biggest family drama (at least, prior to season 4) is that her sister flirted with her boyfriend; whose responsibilities have shrunk to the sphere of the family, while Amalia's responsibilities grow to the size of a kingdom.

"selfish." okay.

you will notice that there is very little non-porn fanart or fanfiction of Evangelyne without Tristepin or her children. in the eyes of the fandom, much as in the canon itself, she has ceased to be an agent. characterizing her as "girlboss" and Tristepin as "malewife" (jesus christ are we watching the same show?) does not fundamentally change this. Tristepin is allowed to be his own guy in fanworks: there's stuff with him alone or with Rubilax, doing whatever. Eva is only shown in the context of her relationship with Tristepin. she doesn't get to have her own cool adventures, or any adventures at all. she exists entirely as one half of tristeva.

as of the end of season 4, Amalia and Yugo are married. a significant part of the ongoing manga focuses on their romantic relationship. you see them fuck, in fact. kind of to underscore the whole thing where the manga is edgy and dark and for adults, i guess.

those same fans who were calling her annoying and bossy now love her all of a sudden! she and Yugo are just so cute together, after all. so very shippable. now she's doing the "right" thing, going for the "nice guy" the fandom wants her to be with and not those "bad boys" like Oropo or Harebourg, she's finally allowed to exist without scorn...

but I notice she is also ceasing to be an agent in fanwork. nobody really wants to examine her as a character in her own right, as a political leader or as a person. she exists merely to affect Yugo's behavior and deliver him that delicious, delicious angst. her first appearance in canon is talking about a prophecy, which ends up being fulfilled... but I feel like we all kinda forgot about that.

both the canon and the fandom naturalize this. some elements say "well, it's natural for a mother to focus on her family," the reason why so many new mothers grieve their sense of self - it's not "natural" for a mother to lose her sense of self outside of motherhood and marriage, but society encourages the procession down that pipeline. others play up the "girlboss and malewife" angle to try and make it seem less patriarchal. Tot does the benevolent sexism thing really hard, talking about how he "respects women so much for all that they do" while also basically saying "women are important because they do the boring stuff while men are out being stupid."

personally, I'd like to see more of Eva or Amalia out being stupid. doing big things, making big moves. but that's me.

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codabound · 1 month ago

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Anyhoot

Hater time!!!

Can't wait for whatever TERF or Leasebound stan who finds this to dox me like a Danganronpa discord mod in 2020 when you didn't ship saiouma : 3

Small nitpick about leasebound and it's writing, and basically just a prod at Rusty's general mentality around lesbianism and women dating women

For somebody who prides herself and advertises her comic as being a "female centric comic that focuses on depth filled and well written female characters, at least in comparison to other comics... Rusty seems to be really stuck on making all of her lesbian and WLW relationships completely black and white

Every single relationship in Leasebound is portrayed as a overly wholesome, romantic and healthy one, all aside from Riley and Blaire, who are the only actively "toxic" WLW couple in the entire comic, and they're the ones who are bound to split up

Literally nearly none of the other characters in relationships, and I'm honestly halfway expecting that Jaden and Riley will be the same when they eventually get together, seem to have any relationship flaws or any form of up-and-down or personal issues within their relationship, any times any sort of actual conflict is presented between two characters in a relationship, it's usually started or egged on by outside forces, and resolved in little to no time (Such as Poppy and Sardonica, unless Rusty ever actually plans to come back to Poppy's whole worry about trans women and her hair stylist career thing)

Riley and Blaire also don't exactly feel very fleshed out and flawed in their relationship as the couple doomed to break up, because since Rusty hasn't had an actual social interaction with anybody who isn't a nazi wearing a ovary armband, the only actual real conflict that Riley and Blaire have is "Blaire think people might be different gender, Riley no agree but can't say anything"

Which is... Essentially heavily unrealistic and terrible writing all around, even without Rusty's lackluster attempts at making Blaire come off as a "manipulator" who's "trying to brainwash poor innocent pussies into becoming men and trying to mutilate perfect little girls" (I see some of y'all in the comics recent panels comment section, y'all are some fucking weirdos calling Blaire a "predator" and shit. Feels borderline disrespectful to victims of actual predators)

I think what also goes hand-in-hand with this is Rusty's constant infantilization of women, both in her narrative and just in her beliefs in general. She seems to constantly flip-flop and also simultaneously believe that women are #girlboss badass babes who can stand up to the man and kick the man right in the testies, yet god forbid a woman actually has to confront a real life issue, or what Rusty calls a real life issue, dealing with transgender people as even a concept, or dealing with actual real world misogyny, considering Rusty isn't too great at writing about that either, they'll crackle and crumble apart and need to be protected no matter what. She ping-pongs between treating women as untouchable, unbreakable forces, yet the exact opposite when it can be used to demonize transgender women, men and basically any other form of human being she hates.

Call me crazy, but I wouldn't exactly call it good character writing for a lesbian centric/female centric webcomic, when really... Little to none of your characters, in and out of relationships... Are any sort of interesting. Rusty's bigotry being a crucial part of Leasebound is simultaneously to the comic's detriment, because since she focuses so much on hating literally anybody who breathes around her who doesn't have a cooch, her actual regular story and character writing get... Virtually nothing.

It really just goes to show how Leasebound is honestly just a comic for nobody. Nobody except people who are mirrored images of Rusty herself. This comic is for transphobic white women with underlying yet rampant racism problems, and basically nobody else. As an AFAB individual, even if I were to look at this through a TERF perspective, considering every TERF I've come across on here believes without a doubt that I'm just a straight woman who deserves to get fucked, I just wouldn't be able to get into this comic because there would be nothing for me here. It's so insanely exclusive for a comic that promotes "trans exclusive inclusivity".

Which I guess makes it fun for us Leasebound enthusiasts on the side of clowning on the comic, considering it means that we all get to be creative and build from the ground up where Rusty hasn't built anything. But... Doesn't exactly make it any less disappointing

Rusty... Ain't exactly too good at actually writing lesbian relationships, which is... Kind of what we're supposed to be here for outside of her bigotry.

#leasebound #leasebound slander #fuck you rusty leasebound #fuck leasebound #but stan the many creative talents and artists who are actively able to create stories so much more fun and positive out of spite

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coldflasher · 2 months ago

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Fandom ask: DC LOT?

whew im so late responding to this one, i was sooo late clocking off work tonight 😭 anyway

Favourite Female:

There were many incredible women on Legends but I think Zari 2.0 cinches it for me!

Favourite Male:

John Constantine my beloved... im a sucker for a terrible bisexual man

3 Other Favourite Characters:

Leonard obviously... he'd have been my number 1 but I feel considering he was only really in season 1 he barely counts as being on the show in my opinion

Martin Stein!! I love that old man :( his death is still up there with the saddest tv deaths of all time for me

Aaaand I probably have to go with Mick for my number 3! His truly bizarre character development from violent pyromaniac to successful romance novelist with a clutch of alien babies born via ear might be one of my favourite twists of all time and it's genuinely so impossible to describe it to anyone who hasn't seen the show. Flash Mick and Legends Mick are absolutely not the same man but Legends Mick is so much fucking funnier

3 OTPs:

John and Zari Tarazi

Zarlie

Avalance (basic of me I'm afraid but what can I say I genuinely think they're really cute)

Notp:

Nate/Zari 💀 they make zero sense to me

Behrad/Astra (same, and also the writing for that ship is sooo dodgy cos one half of the writers' room was gunning for it and the other half didn't give a shit and you can really tell which writers were writing which episodes imo)

Funniest character:

Ava! Jes Macallan's comedic timing is unmatched and some of the funniest moments of the show hinge on her deadpan line delivery. Shoutout to "I wrote that review 😐", the episode where she writes Sara a card saying she's glad Oliver is dead and wishes Sara had never met him (I usually hate the "lesbian character despises her bisexual girlfriend's male exes" trope but I gave them a pass for that one cos it was genuinely very funny), and the time she just goes "goodbye!" and liea down in the middle of the road

That being said, the hardest I have ever laughed at a joke on Legends was the dad joke that Damien Darkh makes in the ep where John and Nora fake an engagement. It was during the peak of the pandemic. Me and my friend were locked in our tiny 2 bed student house rewatching all of Legends on my laptop because we didnt have a TV. we hadnt left the house in days because of all the restrictions, literally all we did for like a straight week or two was watch legends. and something about this dad joke ("Hi annoyed, i'm dad!") caught us so off-guard that it literally made us cry laughing, like that full-on painful, can't even breathe kind of laughter, for about 10 solid minutes. i can't even explain why it was that funny!! whenever i have seen that episode since, that joke has never got more than a giggle out of me. but at the time we were absolutely howling.

Prettiest character:

charlie is genuinely so beautiful (and having met maisie in person i can say that they are even more indescribably beautiful in person and have the most calming presence)

Most Annoying Character:

I don't want to jump on the Mona hate train cos poor Ramona got treated terribly by the fans but Mona was... not my fave. She got shafted by terrible writing. In my opinion her annoying characterization was 100% fixable with some good development but they just chose to write her out instead? Cowards.

Most badass character:

It has to be Sara, I feel!

Character I’d like as my BFF:

Honestly I'm not sure I'd personally get on with literally any of them 😭 I love them all but I'm not sure our personalities would gel. That being said I think I'd say Ray because he seems like an easygoing man and I think you'd have to actively try to not get along with him.

Female Character I’d Marry:

I'd say Charlie but she is too wild for me. She'd defo get bored and we'd end up having to divorce. I'd probably go for Ava... I'm not sure we'd be a good fit personality-wise but I appreciate her risk aversion and I need that kind of organized presence in my life. She'd probably also divorce me though, on account of the fact that i am not organized at all.

Male Character I’d Marry:

Again I feel Ray is the only safe choice here. John may be my fave but I would 100% end up dead if I married him because he has terrible luck with relationships. Also he tends to lash out and be horrible when he's experiencing difficult emotions and I am way too sensitive for that shit lmao. Also he smokes and that's a dealbreaker for me (I say, having previously dated a smoker. Must stick to my convictions next time.)

Character I hate/dislike/least like:

you know that meme that's like "I love all my children equally." *jumpcut* "I don't care for Michael" (or whatever the guy's name is)?

That's me with Behrad. They just shoehorned the guy in and I fear I need a few more personality traits other than "stoner" for me to be interested. They never gave Shayan anything to work with really and it's a shame cos Behrad could have been so interesting...

#answered

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algolagniaa · 9 months ago

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I think I used to view other women in my life through a lens of like. oh someone wants you so you’re different from me. and it wasn’t from a place of caring about male approval rly bc I wanted to be wanted by a woman but it was like - in kids books there are often a lot of boys and One girl and that girl is Very Special (and this was def something I picked up on bc I would make a lot of female characters and then despair of the fact I HAD to make enough boys to outnumber them. and the boys would all be super boring cardboard people bc I really only wanted to write about the super awesome girls but I thought that was how it Had to be) and then in teen books there’s again One girl who’s special enough to lead the revolution and have every single guy interested in her. and I have always had a huge complex about being special thanks mom and dad for how thoroughly you set me up for that and it would bum me out like I would lose a sparring match against another girl and in my head I’d be like oh :( I thought I was Alanna the lioness but I’m not :( that’s her and I’m just a normie girl :( which didn’t make sense bc I didn’t think the same about boys at all but it wasn’t even that I thought boys were better in any way I just thought yay I get to beat them up!!! like they weren’t in the running to be special at all bc 1) boys weren’t special and 2) boys didn’t Have to be special. and that was when I was a kid but when I was a teenager it stopped being so much about like, being chosen by faeries or w/e and started being about relationships. bc all my friends had boyfriends or at least boy drama and my brother had a girlfriend and did I have a girlfriend? no. bc I was an out lesbian and there weren’t a whole lot of out teenage lesbians in Orange County in 2009 but ofc I didn’t look at it that logically I just thought it meant I wasn’t Special. and it’s weird bc looking back on my life I have managed to attract a ridiculous amount of girls/women to me considering I’m a lesbian with no game like idk how I managed to do it but I figured it out somehow and p much always had if not a girlfriend at least a girl who I could sleep with. but usually they were very low quality women bc I had no standards whatsoever so they would treat me like shit a lot and then that still didn’t count for what I wanted bc they obviously didn’t love me and I was miserable and felt like I had to play a part in order to keep them interested and I would look at other women who were in relationships that seemed better than mine and go wow she’s Special. she’s so much prettier and better and more interesting than me. obviously or else she wouldn’t have been Chosen when I wasn’t. forget about the fact that we aren’t even competing to date the same people. the light of heaven shines down on her but not me.

anyway I wrote about more about that than I intended to but my original point was - that idea that I’m Not Special has been a part of my self concept for a very long time. and I’m at a point in my life where it doesn’t make sense at all anymore. and not even just because I’m in a loving relationship with someone who makes me feel very special although that does help. it’s a lot more that I have things in my life I’m proud of that I did by myself. not even just accomplishments in the general sense of the word (although getting a degree and getting such good grades and accepted into honors societies is a big part of it) but like I’ve Done things and gone places and had adventures and had so much fun. and I know I’m going to keep doing that. packing up this trailer sucks and is miserable but it’s also really cool bc I remember the miserable mindset I had when I moved in and the mindset I have now is so different from that. and I don’t feel any more like there’s anything that I need that I don’t have. and it’s really incredible BUT my brain still wants to hold onto this mindset of jealousy and not being enough just because that’s what it’s used to and not doing that requires a whole overhaul not only of how I see myself but also of how I see other people. and as hard as it is for me to admit that mostly means other women bc I’ve never in my life been jealous of a man other than my brother I just actually hate them.

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alarajrogers · 1 year ago

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It's... also usually not, anyway.

There's a huge difference between teenage girls being all giggly about their first slash ship, which is what is usually meant by "women fetishizing gay men", and men thinking that lesbians more or less exist to get straight men hot. It's a false equivalency.

I haven't yet seen a single complaint about women fetishizing gay men that didn't boil down to "it's icky and might make them feel bad/does make me feel bad", or that cited any actual harm the behavior causes. Men, in general -- including gay men -- simply don't have the right to bitch about what women do with porn. They just don't. I've seen how gay men who create gay porn draw and conceptualize other gay men; this whole "women fetishize anyone" discourse is basically misogyny and women-aren't-allowed-sexual-desires in a vaguely progressive coat of paint, because men, in general, are allowed and encouraged to objectify the hell out of anyone they want to fuck. Including gay men, in any society that doesn't actively criminalize gay porn.

So yeah. This is, in fact, often a TERF psyop to attack transmascs, but even when it's not -- even when it is, in fact, absolutely directed at genuinely straight women giggling over fictional characters they are picturing as gay, imagining them having sex with the same kind of "Ooh, I'm being so bad and transgressive" attitude they have toward getting dessert at a restaurant -- it's still demonizing a behavior that literally causes no real world harm. Personally I have never seen a single bit of evidence that the straight women who enjoy slash fiction are homophobic toward gay men in real life; there is a lot of "I can treat a gay male friend as if he were a female friend, except also kind of passively enjoy the fact that he's male and hot", but you know, I don't know what else you expect from a society that tells women to seek male attention and tells men that women are beneath them and wanting to fuck a woman means you should be demeaning her and treating her like shit. Fix straight men so they don't feel like they have to be contemptuous of the people they want to have sex with, and you will probably eliminate straight women's need to have "safe" male friends who they know won't be attracted to them.

This is similar to "white people mock Indian women for wearing saris and then want to wear them themselves", which, again, is behavior I've never seen coming from the same white person. There are white people who mock Indian women for wearing saris and there are white people who want to wear saris, but generally those two behaviors are never found in the same white person. Likewise, there are homophobic straight women and there are straight women who find gay men sexy and like to think about fictional gay couples, and those are almost never the same straight woman.

If you're a gay man who is bothered by women thinking about gay men having sex... have you tried not being bothered by this, since it has nothing to do with you? Those women have to live in a world where straight men objectify them and other women constantly; why are you so special that you get to say "no, don't think about people who are like me in a sexual context" and have anyone take you seriously? As long as they're not being rude to you or overly interested in your sex life, it literally does you no harm unless you decide to clutch pearls over it. And the truth is, most gay men understand this and are not bothered by it; most of this behavior actually comes from I'm-not-like-other-girls female white knights and people who want an excuse to be misogynistic.

So no. I don't think it's valid to "critique" straight women "fetishizing" gay men (and I don't think any of you know what the word fetish means). I think that if women are being rude to a specific gay man by showing undue interest in his sex life, they should be told to stop doing that because it's rude, but they literally harm nobody by fantasizing about fictional men having sex. And, since it was started as a TERF psyop to attack transmascs anyway, today is a great day to stop doing it.

"But it's valid to critique straight women fetishizing gay men!"

Definitely. But, is that person actually critiquing straight women?

Or are they actually talking about transmascs, and hiding it as "talking about straight women"?

Because that's what a lot of folks actually do.

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rotationalsymmetry · 2 years ago

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All right. So, I think it’s probably better to not continue engaging on the original post from a couple days ago and I think it would have been better if I’d done my usual and explained my position separately to start with. There are some things that mean things in context that would not have that meaning out of that context — for instance, perhaps arguing on someone else’s post “I want to be able to complain about stuff without it being associated with calls of censorship” might imply that I want to/am directly complaining to the writers about this stuff, since after all I am tagging this on to someone else’s post.

And there are some things about this that are very reminiscent of other times I’ve waded into Discourse without really understanding the context and as a result came across way, way differently than I intended.

(It’s I think somewhat analogous to the “queer as a slur” thing: the reason that whole concept is so fucked up is because queer IS a slur, queer is often used against us in derogatory ways and this is common knowledge, so someone who isn’t connected to a community that has reclaimed the word is gonna react with “ooh, I don’t like that word” and then you can’t tell which of the “hey just so you know you should tag the q word” people just don’t have the context and which ones are doing it entirely on purpose and which have run into and bought into some terf outlier ideas (like maybe they figure “lesbian” should mean “not attracted to men, period”) but aren’t full terf and might never be.)

There is something about dynamics on social media that just makes all this stuff extremely fraught and doesn’t really cut slack for normal amounts of not knowing stuff, not phrasing things perfectly, and/or picking up code phrases and using them for their surface meaning because you just don’t know what the dog whistles are supposed to whistle for.

Anyways my own blog my own opinions: I think part of where I was coming from is that I do actually think that “hey I have personal ethics and I want my writing to reflect that” I is not the same thing as censorship, and the original post was written as “you don’t have to” (which, when I mean personal ethics I don’t give a shit about, eg, writing about Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy or whatever) and then when Twilight got brought into it I was all like “yeah, I don’t want to write stories about stalker boyfriends who are presented as good and loving boyfriends.”

It’s important to me to tell stories that engage with themes of consent and bodily autonomy, either in the story itself or in the bigger context of the story (ie having a way to label things non-con or dub con if that’s what’s going on.) That doesn’t mean I think anyone else should have to or that I have the standing to tell other people what ethical standards to follow in their own writing if they’re not even asking me. But yeah, for me, if I’m writing, there’s some things I want to prioritize.

I want to avoid writing harmful (racial etc) stereotypes, I want to avoid writing scenes where it’s ambiguous whether this is a rape scene that’s intended to be kind of a turn-on — I have non-con fantasies, I could write non-con fantasies and I could also write stuff really digging into what effect sexual trauma has on people, I want there to be a hard line between these things. And I want to avoid writing stories where side character death is treated as, idk, scenery? ambiance? And I want to avoid “torture is OK if you’re the good guys” tropes and other designated hero tropes where the heroes are not in any way more ethical than their opposition.

I figured out how to work this around 15 years ago. Writing involves two types of things: a creative stage, like a plant growing, and a stage that’s like pruning the plant. (Which is mostly about technical stuff like grammar and pacing, but can also be about “is this the kind of story I’m comfortable writing?”) When you’re writing, “am I engaging in misogyny by calling my female villain a witch?” is going to block the creative flow and you should just use whatever words are coming to you without worrying about it, much as it’s also important to not get hung up on whether your spelling is right or whether you should be using the Oxford comma. That stuff is for the pruning stage. (Although it’s not always a straightforward write/edit thing; sometimes the “I want my writing to do certain things” stuff can be used effectively in the generating ideas phase too. But the important thing is that when you’re growing you should be growing, not second guessing yourself, you shouldn’t grow and prune at the same time.) There is a way in which getting too tense about writing responsibly can get in the way of actually writing, and it’s also possible to get writing responsibly (to your own standards) concerns in there before you’re showing off a finished product.

If you’re showing anyone at all; there is also great value in “I’m writing this just for me”, it doesn’t have to be a thing you show other people to be worth doing.

Most of the sort of ethical writing discourse I’ve seen on tumblr is beyond wonky and I generally ignore it. It is, well, extremely wonky to tell people “you have to write fem slash regardless of what you personally like, I don’t want to hear any excuses” or… I don’t even know what else is going on, because mostly I stay way away from that stuff. But there’s something that actually makes sense a few steps away from that, which is “if your default protagonist is always male, is that because you just haven’t considered trying to write female protagonists more often?” Because sometimes that happens! It happens with me! My internal sense of a default human being is male, in the same way that my sense of a default dog is a Labrador retriever, if I don’t get further direction I’m not going to picture a pekingese or a pug. He’s also white, straight, and abled — I live in a society, you know?That doesn’t mean I’m attached to writing Relatable Everyman characters, it just means if I’m going to avoid writing primarily extremely predictable white dudes (who are probably full of angst, because, well, that’s what I like to write about), sometimes I need to remind myself that other types of human beings exist.

And it’s the same with relationships and rape and stuff. I’ve read two books by women in the last few months that had scenes that were weirdly sympathetic to rapists/almost rapists, and I don’t know these writers’ souls but if that were me, that wouldn’t be because I actually wanted to write that, it would be because I’ve read too much High Literature by guys that treated that sort of thing as Art and I was just kinda copying it because I wanted to write Art too. You know? Whereas if I’m coming from a place of my own values I’m going to center on the experiences of people who are at risk of rape or who have been raped, and I’m going to be saying something on purpose that I want to say.

final thing. Sometimes people internalize other people’s “for me I want to do this” statements as “you should do this.” This is understandable because often people say “for me I want to do this” when the MEAN “everyone should do this” but want to idk be more polite or something. This especially gets tangled up with social justice stuff, because the social justice movement is a mix of people who are primarily interested in the greater good, people who want to personally be a good person and not a bad person, and people who want to be SEEN as being a good person and not a bad person. (And people who don’t want any of that but do want to use social justice language to bully and control and hurt.) It’s a mix of motivations and it’s complicated both by the bullies and by people who aren’t bullies but do want to use social pressure as an instrument of achieving social justice. Which necessarily is going to leverage people’s desires to be seen as a good person. It’s complicated.

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iamafanofcartoons · 2 years ago

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RWBY is a good show, and I’m tired of people pretending its not!

I’m sorry, I’m just so tired of all these random claims that RWBY is “boring anime cliche” or “racist white male writing”, So...let’s go over them in segments

Female characters:

Aren’t walking fanservice shots and aren’t sexualized

Aren’t degraded in their field (combat, tactics, dust usage, etc) to boost up male characters (cause seemingly female characters being too skilled at something is emasculating to incels)

When a woman says no to a man, the man takes no for an answer and doesn’t keep trying. (So dear Hbomberguy, stop claiming that Weiss x Jaune was ever a thing)

Women don’t require a man to “Defend their honor” (This is in response to the dude who harassed me in anonymous about V5 who was upset that Yang punched a creep)

Aren’t woobified or emotionally weakened, instead having reactions to things like normal human beings. (Sorry Shonen anime which loves to make women woobified or emotionally weakened vs men) Being capable of emotions but also doing things effectively.

Aren’t made into waifu for male characters. Nora is still a badass and even being allowed to explore who she is outside of Ren, which runs against the usual anime/manga bs. Weiss didn’t get with Jaune after finding out he helped w/ Neptune. Blake actually defended her boundaries when Sun crossed certain lines (even though they’re brotp not romantic, he’s a male character that could’ve been put as a pseudo-love interest). Yang is also shown to be more than just Blake’s GF as we see in Ruby Yang interactions, Yang vs Salem, Yang ageeing to talk with Robyn. They’re all their own characters not trying to be the perfect wife for a male character.

LGBT+ characters:

aren’t in a world of “everyone is gay or straight”, so for me at least coming across as more impactful

have Ilia (lesbian); Coco (lesbian); Terra (wlw) and Saphron (wlw) also married and w/ kid that aren’t treated different to any other couple; Scarlet (gay-male); Nolan (implied, I think its at this point and not confirmed, mlm); May (non-deadnamed, voiced by and helped crafted with the help of a trans VA, and not having her trans status be the central element of her character trans character); Blake (bi) and Yang (wlw) that are a main pair that are being allowed to build to a relationship at the same pacing as the hetero alt. pairing. BB being naturally built up and not rushed into a relationship, though still soft-canon locked in via Nora.

Are ALL ALIVE (funny how the straight white male characters get killed off?)

PoC characters:

Includes Marrow, Pietro, Joanna, Flynt, Yatsuhashi, Lie Ren, and Robyn as default heroes side

Includes Emerald having switched to the heroes side after having it foreshadowed in v3. Also possibly Elm and Harriet, depending on where they go in the future.

includes Sienna, who was admittedly actual wasted potential, being contrasted against Adam as the morally better version of violence in activism. A controlled violence actually giving a shit rights activist leader vs. a co-opting murderous abusive bloodthirsty psychopathic terrorist.

are easily the lesser in villain count vs. Caucasian villains.

So can the RWDE please stop trying to claim how RWBY isn’t better than anime/manga at least, but overall “isn’t progressive” in these areas.

Adam Taurus represents a very real element in real life regarding “Radical civil rights movements” ; extremism and co-opters; While the actual faunus rights aspect on its own is given a sympathetic light repeatedly. We also have Ilia Amitola, the female POC lesbian, get a redemption. While Adam Taurus, the cis white male edgelord? Is Evil and gets his death by double penetration at the hands of two lesbians. (Edit: yes, I know Blake is Bi, as is her VA. It was an expression explaining how cis white male “authority” individuals get emasculated)

The WF has a lot of references, not specifically the Black Panther one. Also the WF on its own is fine, its the version that gets corrupted by Adam’s psychotic co-opting terrorist ass that is the problem.

Reflective of reality where if any group for any cause crosses into violence that involves innocent bystanders; then they lose any credibility and are nothing more than terrorists. I don’t care what the cause is. Which is exactly what the WF under Adam presents; but is just 1 vein of it with Sienna’s vein existing, Ghira’s, and even Blake’s. Was it handled perfectly? No, you could have easily have shaved time from Adam to give to Sienna and had her live to continue. Personally I found Sienna to be the actual wasted potential, but EruptionFang naturally loves cis white male evil men as his favorite Meow Meows. Don’t even try to recommend a gay or bisexual dude to rwby critics, they’ll flip and call it pandering.

The MC’s aren’t remotely “paper thin”, nor secondaries. Heck the only ones that fit that bill are characters in the tertiary vein that are supposed to be that way. The “two traits” falls apart if one actually pays attention to the characters.

And most fixit fanfics not only sexualize the characters in a show with no fanservice...

Sadly they also overfocus on male characters and have their favorite male characters talk down the female main characters.

Robyn Hill represents the people standing up NOT against the military, but against fascism/totalitarianism. We see that for all the “good intentions” that Ironwood MAY have? It is always sabotaged by him. Ironwood backstabs Ozpin, brings an Army as a show of force, does multiple projects behind people’s backs, and yet displays more than few acts of hypocrisy. Volume 7 literally showed him acting as a dictator because he believed that only he knew the answer to everyone’s problems. Yet the consequences of HIS actions are what led to Atlas Downfall. Yang and Blake even tried to get Robyn to work with Ironwood and Robyn was literally willing to do so. Which of course pissed off Ironwood stans that anyone, especially a POC hero of the people, would stand against a Cis White Male Authority figure. The elections in V7 meant that anyone’s authority could be challenged by the people. Of COURSE Ironwood stans REFUSE to acknowledge the election part was good.

The attempt to balance idealism with realism is pretty interesting. What do you do against an enemy with an unlimited army, immortality, and agents who seek to turn everyone against each other? Do you submit to the “inevitable?” Or do you keep fighting to the end, instead prolonging the end?

You can think of this as having borrowed a theme or two from dark souls!

RWBY is at the very least leaps and bounds beyond most anime it's close in genre with. I remember seeing, partially in jest, the idea that RWBY has half the fanbase it does for being an action anime with a female case and no fanservice and I think it might almost literally be true.

It is depressingly hard to find a decent action show with a female cast that doesn't sexualize them in gross ways. Even shows I like on the whole end up doing that.

Of course, the points regarding love are helped by the fact that a good chunk of the female cast is front and center in the story. They’re largely in the driver seat and aren’t secondary to any male titular protagonist. Thus you don’t get cases where a girl on the main cast is there to be… the girl.

In any other story, Oscar and/or Jaune would be front and center. Heck, the three creators of RWBY are guys before their team grew so you’d think they’d “write what they know.” Yet they stick to their guns on having girls get shit done.

One Anime a person I know felt came close to this was, if you can believe it, Fairy Tail where Natsu might’ve been the prominent ass kicker but Erza is the one effectively leader the team, Wendy goes on an arc of learning to love herself and Lucy grows into the wizard that leads the charge against Acnologia.

Yet it sent mixed signals with how the girls (those of age) had designs that left little to the imagination. I can appreciate an artist honest in his horniness… but the Anime did something right when it came to Erza’s torture in Tartaros that helped sell the gravitas of the traumatic experience.

RWBY feels like the above but far more refined in execution. There’s a time and place for schlocky cheesecake but not when it clashes with the narrative and themes overall.

So tell me...without using Hbomberguys’ repeated false information about the “love triangle” or “self-insert” slander...how would YOU respectfully criticize RWBY? How would you claim to be “a critic” yet still encourage people to watch RWBY?

If you try to bring up Hbomb’s 2.5 hour hate video, then anyone who tries to claim that a video from 2 years ago no longer is relevant is just being hypocritical. (Looking at you, RWDE Apologist, you know who you are)

Oh, one more thing. RWBY seasons 1-3 were the weakest in terms of writing and animation. But even so, the fact of the matter is that anything that happened in those seasons are ignored by critics, theorists, and straight shippers.

Material Inspired from https://www.tumblr.com/crimsonxe/691425946111295488/since-i-ran-across-a-dumbass-earlier-that-tried-to

#rwby #ruby rose #yang xiao long #monty oum #rooster teeth #rwby is enjoyable #rwby is a good show #Blake Belladonna #weiss schnee #adam taurus #sienna khan #fairy tail #erza #erza scarlet #team rwby #Oscar Pine #james ironwood #ironwood

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papenathys · 4 years ago

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hey you probably have already talked about it, but I couldn't find it. do you have any recs for indian cinema by any chance? as a good latina i grew up on usa movies lol and I am trying to yk watch something other than this, and we seem to have a somewhat similar teste. thank you in advance!

Hello! All my cinema posts are under the #movies and #movie recs tags. Here are some movie lists I've made or reblogged formerly: list 1/list 2/list 3. Most of these are what you'd consider movies with a "dark academia" aesthetic, at least to differing degrees. I put together a small list here with very short descriptions, please keep in mind that I usually stick to Hindi and Bengali films and this doesn't reflect all of Indian cinema:

comfort films:

wake up sid: it's a story about friendship and family and mangoes and songs and beautiful sweltering mumbai in the rain. this film feels like a personal journal and imo it's the closest bollywood cinema will ever get to perfection. recommended if you like slow paced coming of age stories like lady bird.

aaja nachle: decades after she eloped, a middle aged choreographer returns from USA to her rustic north indian hometown, in an effort to stop the local authorities from demolishing her childhood dance theatre, and ends up having to stage a play with a bunch of village outcasts. has some of the sweetest and sincerest performances i've ever seen + WHOPPING OST.

taare zameen par: bitches be like comfort film then boom comfort be like *struggles with dyslexia* *struggles with parental rejection* *struggles with stringent indian academics* *struggles with art block due to mental trauma* (jk pls watch this film it's a gem)

bhooter bhabishyat: an aspiring indie film maker discovers an old mansion in kolkata and learns the truth about the vast array of ghosts who haunted the premises through diff. points in history. it's fcking funny but also VERY bengali so I understand if others don't like it as much.

ajab prem ki ghazab kahani: what you need to know about this film is that jesus christ rolls up in a pickup truck to try to get the two leads together at some point. ranbir kapoor is so feral and absolutely unhinged, I love him. *there is one small problematic and rather offensive scene, you can dm me and I'll let you know*

mere brother ki dulhan: extremely tired guy's extremely dramatic older brother has a bad breakup and decides to get married, the only condition being the former has to choose the bride for him. guy unwittingly ends up choosing a girl he had a weird past with. this movie is a personal fave, I was going through a rough time and it helped me so so much, it's just wholesome and funny and actually really good in some aspects of storytelling and characterisation.

english vinglish: this movie makes me cry now but anyway it's a gift to mankind. it's about the inherent elitism of knowing english and how non english speakers are treated like shit and the importance of respect and how respect and love are not always synonymous. the mc is one of my all time fave female characters.

any Feluda film: *aggressively hums theme music*

jodha akbar: swordfighting enemies to lovers pining like dumbasses in Mughal India for 2+ hours straight.

not very comforting but still faves

fitoor: search fitoor on my blog to see me have a breakdown in the tags, it's a 2 hour celebration of pure aesthetics and eroticism what else can I say

raanjhanaa: I call it a litmus test for incels and girlbosses because truly this movie has some COMPLEX character studies. the ost keeps me alive.

3 idiots: has one bad scene which you can skip but the rest of the movie towers in quality and has the sharpest social/educational commentary. does have a running arc of academic pressure and mental health, better check up triggers.

jaatishwar: reincarnated soulmates + themes of storytelling through music and interracial harmony + poetry battles in colonial bengal + my hysterical crying at 10 pm when I watched it the first time.

kahaani: heavily pregnant woman travels to kolkata (from abroad) just before durga puja in an attempt to piece together the truth about her missing husband. powerful performances + the usage of the city as an all pervasive entity gave me goosebumps. it's a thriller about deceit and bad cops and lying cities and grisly deaths but it ends with an ocean of female rage and ultimately, heartbreakingly with hope.

om shanti om: it's all fun and vintage 60s bollywood and campy humour and fun costumes and oh god oh fuck what just happened oh god take it back

omg lesbians

fire: one of the best sapphic films I've ever seen, it was a very controversial work at the time of release (fck right wings) but god it's so well made and nandita and shabana are so blessed for doing this

margarita with a straw: respectful and nuanced portrayal of disabled wlw, explores how people with disabilities are often infantilised or desexualised.

ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga: sonam kapoor ahuja answer my calls pls (side note: people had such unrealistic and weirdly scathing criticism about this film.... I'm sorry where's that same energy for rohit shetty movies or 50 something year old uncles romancing girls the age of their daughters in most bw films?) anyway cheesy happy wlw endgame film!

hopefully you'll get something to your liking from here ❤️

#mimiwrites #answered ask #movies #movie recs #bollywood #india #desi #wlw #bengali cinema #indian cinema #long post //#i forgot to put in koi mil gaya but whatever

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captnjacksparrow · 4 years ago

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Why do I ship SNS?

It is a known fact that when people experience a good media, they like to discuss various things they liked, hated, interpret what the creator trying to say and get something from what they have consumed. Eventually people end up in a shipping war if there are multiple possibilities.

I started watching Naruto on a whim, hoping to see some ninjas in action with some revenge as a background (after all when you have power, there will always be a revenge). Am a sucker for revenge, btw. I am a person who hates romance in media. Because, every movie, book, novel, series has this same recycled romance plastered into every story even though the story don’t need at all. So, I am very tired of it. Every media portrays romance as something inevitable, necessary and something we can’t live without. That’s wrong.

Usually, romance goes like this... Person A sees Person B... they hate each other and add some possessiveness, jealousy... they magically gets attracted through some shared experiences eventually... they kiss and make babies. There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s just very tiring as I’ve seen million forms of this same repeated trope. I always cringe and yell “Can you give us something different? Grrr.....”.

And also, my motto is that love can happen with any person. It can’t be restrained into certain boundaries. So, I don’t like to put some relationship under an umbrella called Gay, Lesbian, Straight or whatever. Of course, illicit relationships and incest are not normal and am not okay with it.

With all that being said...

My experience after watching the Shippuden series until episode 478 was “Wait, do they love each other?”. I know am very late to realize this, but I have never even viewed them with any romantic lens throughout.

On my first watch, I was always under the impression that “They are friends”... But there are certain moments I felt “Wait, why are they doing like this which could’ve been handled in a different way!!” I will get to this later in this post. But those moments were overlooked by me because of my curiosity of “What happens next ??”.

And on my rewatch, it only confirmed my view.

The other popular ships like SS and NH put forth many points to invalidate what SNS represents. The most common being “They are reincarnated brothers” or “They are best friends”. Am just going to debunk them from my point of view.

Naruto and Sasuke are like brothers.....

Nope.

The best brotherhood title, in this series, should officially go to Itachi and Sasuke.

You can argue as much as you want that Itachi mindfucked Sasuke and killed his parents....yaada yaada....

It is repeatedly shown why Itachi put a curtain on his own clan. The reason is, Uchiha clan decided to forcefully take over the village. No matter how much innocent you are, you cannot take over something with force. Dot. I will write about this in a separate post.

In short, Sasuke realised how his clan members were wrong after hearing the story from the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju. That’s why he openly proclaimed “I am going to protect Konoha and become Hokage”.

Back to the topic, Itachi and Sasuke are blood brothers. If I ship them both, then what you claim is very valid.

The above gif says, “Sasuke, I know, I made a mistake by filling you with hatred. But whatever you decide to do from now on, I will love you always”. Meaning, He stopped treating Sasuke as a kid and accepts that Sasuke has his own path to walk.

This is exactly how brothers behave. I would do the same to my kid sister. You can see a fraternal instinct from Itachi’s eyes realizing that this is their last time together.

Another thing, Brothers trope always has this hierarchy.... Protect the younger sibling no matter what. It is evident from Madara/Izuna and Hashirama/Tobirama.

Not convinced?

If you pull the Indra and Ashura bullshit, let me tell you one thing. Indra and Ashura were separated and formed their own clan long ago. They eventually branched off into Uchiha and Senju clans. No way you can relate a century old blood relation as brothers. It’s just their chakra got reincarnated over and over.

Don’t pull up an incest angle between Naruto and Sasuke. Because they never shared a womb. Dot.

Naruto and Sasuke are Best Friends only.

You know what, you are almost right. I thought that for a very long time. Remember I never wore any shipping goggles ON.

There are two types of best friend categories. Best Friends without a reason and Best Friends through rivalry.

Best Friends without a reason in Narutoverse are: Shikamaru/Choji.

They just became friends and became BFF. They won’t fight or hurt each other. But when you have something to share...you would go to that person and share everything honestly.

Best Friends through Rivalry: Kakashi/Obito, Hashirama/Madara, Naruto/Sasuke

I really cannot provide more proof for the first two pairings as Best Friends as it is not the scope of this post. Although the latter two also qualifies for shipping category. Why?

Because, the common thing among them is that all the three Uchihas awakened/reawakened their Sharingan for their best friend. But Hashirama/Madara and Naruto/Sasuke are the only pairings to awaken or evolve Sharingan when trying to break their bonds with each other.

Special Brownie points for Madara. He had 4 brothers and lost 3 but still couldn’t awaken his Sharingan but when trying to break up with Hashirama, his eyes were brimming red.

Sasuke’s Sharingan matures in the first Valley of The End.

That’s why I excluded Hashirama/Madara and Naruto/Sasuke from this Best Friends list.

Because to the both Uchihas, the other person meant something special which cannot be comprehended into a mere term called ‘Best Friends’.

Which is exactly why Kakashi/Obito would perfectly fall into this category.

The way they quarrel, fight with each other, protect each other are perfect scores for a friendship. What makes them best friends is when Obito decided to give his Sharingan despite Kakashi was always putting a cold air around him and most importantly asked him to protect his love ‘Rin’. Also Kakashi carried his friend’s will to his heart and passed on to Team 7.

It all falls under ‘In the memory of my Best Friend’ trope.

Obito may be a trash but he is a good friend. Because after Rin was killed, he massacred everyone around him except for Kakashi. He could have killed him. Understandable. Or he could have plucked his Sharingan back (because he literally plucked most of the Sharingans from the Uchiha clan massacre and kept those eyes as a reserve). This could have enabled him to use Susanoo. I believe Susanoo can only be used with Mangekyo Sharingan in both eyes. But for some reason, he didn’t.

So what makes me think Naruto and Sasuke love each other, not as a brother and not as a friend but something beyond which I can’t term?

My way of shipping is not about marriage, sex and rearing babies. Because literally everyone does this as an obligation.

So, I don’t ship them in terms of living together in my headcanon and having sex daily. Nope. But it is not wrong though if you ship in that sense.

In this Narutoverse, Women are just some stow away pieces whose sole existence is to fawn over their dreamboy and cry for them. (Usually literally nothing useful comes out of them). Me being a girl, as much as I hate this setup but I have come to terms with whatever it is and have accepted it. If you are a girl looking for a strong female character...... this is not the place. Watch something else.

But I draw inspiration from male characters who are characterized deeply for which I have to applaud the creator. Reason being, the very first character which I connected with was Itachi. It was when Sasuke thinks about his past with his family in the flashback before the first VotE battle in part I. I will be writing a separate post about Itachi in this week.

In short, If you are a person who wants inspiration, draw it from male characters. Not in a single moment, you stoop so low for characters like Hinata and Sakura. That’s not how I envision myself or any woman. Dot.

With all this being said, I ship them as a couple who necessarily don’t have to get married or have sex... But they each other has some special allowance towards each other in their hearts which no one can touch, not even their wives or children.

This doesn’t mean I accept what came after episode 478 as they are literally something they made for $$$$$.

There are some basic traits which are absolutely necessary for a ship to sail successfully. They are Acknowledgement, Reason, No Hierarchy, Influence, Owning each others rights and Privilege. (All these reasons should come from both the sides for the ship to be worthy)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Acknowledgement, I mean here, is to accept and acknowledge what they are to each other.

They both agree that they are Bonded/Friends verbally as well as emotionally.

To me, this is essential in any relationship especially for the ones you are trying to ship. I didn’t see this in any other ships like SS or NH where it is always one sided. Sakura confessed before the village entrance to which Sasuke said “You really are annoying!!”. Hinata proposed in Pain arc. Naruto didn’t even acknowledge her confession. He went on to beg for pardon for Sasuke. Again she proposed in the War at the expense of Love Cupid “Neji”. Naruto went on to joke with Minato that Sakura is his Girl Friend.

If I were in both of these girls place, I would literally be mad and drop this shit right away.

Wheras in SNS, I saw both the people I am trying to ship were asking “What am I to you?”, to which they reply “You are my friend”. To me this is very important.

Reason

To those who are saying “Love is blind”, “Love is Madness”, “Love needs no reason”, you all need self-evaluation. This is not some K Drama situation where you don’t need any reason. You should know why you love someone and why you need the other’s presence.

Naruto’s reason is very simple.

I could provide many reasons. But here, Sasuke, without any reservations... knowing full well of the consequence if he feed Naruto but still extended the helping hand to someone who was always hostile. It is just like what Iruka did. And many incidents which happened during Land of the Waves arc are evident.

He wanted to be friends with this lonely Uchiha boy way back when he was around 7 or 8 for a simple reason that he understands his pain more than anyone. But he really became friends when they were grouped together for Team 7.

Sasuke’s reason goes even way beyond when Naruto series started.

“Because he felt relief”.

Imagine a young boy who witnessed a massacre before his eyes and lost everyone he loved. But somehow another young boy of his age made him feel relieved. This explains why Sasuke went all out of his way to make friendship with Naruto despite being aloof.

Isn’t this what we want from someone we love?

Rather than being completely insensitive about an orphan life or just stalking from the distance and never offered any support, I would prefer someone who understands my pain from their heart and try to reach me. Sasuke reached out to him by offering the lunch and Naruto reached out to him by making him his rival and bug him.

NO HIERARCHY

This is pretty self-explanatory. Unlike blood brothers, there should be no hierarchy in a relationship I want to ship.

We saw Naruto yells at Sasuke many times absolutely for no reason, despite Sasuke bearing this cold attitude. Probably he is the only person who can call him by such variety of names.

Sasuke always calls him by his trademark ‘Usuratonkachi’. Sometimes he calls him fool just like everyone. But was never insulting or mean towards Naruto. Except for that time in the final battle, he made fun of his Shadow Clone jutsu citing his loneliness.

In short, be it a physical fight or verbal offense.... neither of them wilts like a flower. They equally give back.

The only other person who can verbally assault Sasuke is Karin and probably the only girl who never addresses him as “Sasuke-Kun”.

U-SU-RA-TON-KA-CHI..... Why do Sasuke spend such an effort to call someone with a 6 syllabic word, instead NA-RU-TO, a 3 syllabic word which is way more convenient to call?? I always wonder.

POSITIVE INFLUENCE

I don’t have to spell out anything here. There are many obvious examples but will try to keep it short.

Naruto became strong because of Sasuke. He trained hard for 3 years with Jiraiya , a month with Kakashi developing Rasen Shuriken and controlled Kurama’s power with Killer Bee. Except for Sage Mode jutsu everything he learnt was all for bringing Sasuke back.

In short, Sasuke is Naruto’s predominant strength.

Though Naruto was not the source of strength for Sasuke, but he brings out many vibrant emotions in Sasuke which he really needed for his traumatic mind otherwise he would always be that cold angry brooding doll without any emotions and I am sure Sasuke enjoys to banter with Naruto.

LOL!!! I don’t know why Sasuke feels competitve here. It’s pretty childish even for Sasuke.

Friendly tease :-) I think he also protected Sakura in this scene. He can also ask her the same, isn’t it? I mean as a friend.

The best one is yet to come

It’s incredibly hilarious to see how Sasuke pouts when he was with Naruto. Sakura!!!! You third wheeling joker :-D :-D

Throughout Shippuden, Sasuke never shows his emotions with anyone. He either looks very cold or angry.

Reminiscing his Team 7 days, for a split second.

Probably the only positive emotion is this, in all of the Shippuden. I mean not counting Episode 478.

I don’t think Sakura brought any kind emotions in Sasuke except annoyance when they were together in Team 7. Or Hinata too. These girls just moan “Sasuke-Kun”, “Naruto-Kun” but brings nothing to the table. Total wastrels!!!!!

OWNING EACH OTHER’S RIGHTS

This section is exactly where SNS moves on to a whole different level.

Sasuke wanted to inflict his pain over everyone who lives in peaceful Konoha for what it did to Itachi. (though I don’t really accept with Sasuke here since he never even bothered to question about his clan’s history, but what he was doing is understandable. Just like Naruto tells him).

But the context here is Sasuke is on a murder rampage. Starting from the Kage Summit, killing Danzo, unnecessarily hurting Karin and almost reached a point where he could not be stopped anymore. Then Ms.Annoying appears. She literally have no fucking clue what Sasuke is going through. So started to spout nonsense that she wanted to go with Sasuke-Kun with an ulterior motive to kill him without a strong resolve.

The interesting SS dynamics here is Sasuke asks Sakura “Do you know what I want?” and to which she gives a carefree-shitty-pathetic answer “I don’t care. I will do whatever you want”. Geez!!!

If I were Sasuke, I would think, “This person standing before me don’t even care about what I want but coming with an intent to kill me and not only that... she is a kunoichi from Konoha where I planned to inflict my pain by slaughtering them.. I better ram my Chidori and be done with it”... He doesn’t see her as his former Teammate. He just want to kill that person.

However, Kakashi deflects the attack and saves Ms.Useless.

( Me : I am a Sasuke fan through and through. But, Sakura..... You always says you will do this, do that.... But you never succeed at anything... Why is that? Why are you even continue being a ninja? No one asked you to kill Sasuke, you decided to. But why don’t you kill him. Probably you would’ve earned my begrudging respect... Pffft” ****sighs with a heavy second hand embarassment)

Anyways, Sasuke becomes an unstoppable maniac at this point because he was very irritated on seeing Kakashi and Sakura spouting some unreachable nonsense. So he started to attack Kakashi as he is even more irritated on seeing his Sharingan.

Again, Ms.Idiot wants to kill Sasuke when he is at his weakest point due to chakra exhaustion and that too from behind his back. (You!!! Gutless wrench). Sasuke sensed this and attempted to kill her again... (Naruto!!! You idiot. Why did you save her...)

However, Naruto appears and saves her. Naruto and Sasuke’s eyes meet each other.

But somehow Sasuke calmed down and hears out Naruto for what he has to say. He says, “Whatever you are doing until now, it’s understandable”.

Kakashi wanted to kill him and Sasuke got riled up and prepare his Chidori. Anyways, Naruto intervenes and they go to some meta physical plane and talks privately. And Naruto comes up with his idea and announces as below:

Me: Naruto!!!! Sweety..... Do you realize that you have a big dream of becoming a Hokage which you have been shouting from Day 1? But still you want to overthrow everything for that one person who is in unbearable pain. It’s alright. But you don’t want to go alone or send him alone. No Best friend would go this far. And to those Sakura shippers.... Why didn’t Sakura try to bear the burden? Why didn’t she come up with this Idea? Afterall, you spout nonsense like ‘Sakura saved Sasuke from Darkness, isn’t it?’ And, Naruto.... Who gave you the right to take his hatred and shoulder the burden? And what makes you think you are that only person to do it??? Sasuke, might have other special person in those 3 years. How can you decide on Sasuke’s behalf??? Aren’t you going overboard ?

The answer to all the above is simple, Naruto can risk anything for Sasuke. And he clearly knew that Sasuke’s only living bond is him.

And what happened next was almost unbelievable and for the first time I thought ‘What is it with these two guys?’.

Sasuke agrees with Naruto’s proposition to not destroy Konoha before fighting with Naruto.

Me: Sasuke!!!! You have every right to reject his proposition. Since, he was not in your life for the past 3 years, your side of bond with Naruto should have been cut-off long back, right? Sasuke??? Well, at this point he was just your former Team 7 member. You don’t need to honor your proposition. You can attack Konoha anytime. Why did you accept?

Also Me: Sweety!!! Why do you always question Naruto ‘Who am I to you’? Why do you need his opinion always? There is an annoying princess standing behind Naruto vying for your attention. And yet you didn’t even ask her this question at any time. But before Naruto, you completely calmed down from your rampage and willing to wait for what he has to say plus asking for his validation. After all you don’t care about anything, why just Naruto???

And the reason being, Naruto is still his closest bond which he couldn’t cut off despite trying very hard. After all, Many years ago, Sasuke was the one, who readily jumped in to protect Naruto knowing full well that it’s a trap. He was ready to throw away his revenge for this boy back then. Sasuke is afraid that he will give in to this bond once more and Naruto is his weakness which he wants to eliminate so badly.

This is definitely not any Best Friend would do..... Fix that in your mind.

The purpose of these GIFs is not show how protective Sasuke is..... Well, I can talk about it all day. Let’s save it.

Me: Yo!!!! Sasuke..... You wanted to kill Naruto.... You said so yourself under the bridge. Meaning, He is the only person standing between your goal and your resolve and Naruto is always known to weaken your resolve. And yet why are you protecting him here? There is absolutely no need. Because, if there is a situation like Kaguya where both of you are must needed to save this world , then there is a reason to save him. But why now? Plus do you know, if Naruto dies, then Madara’s plan may not succeed because if a Jinchuriki dies, tailed beast also dies. It is perfect for your Revolution, isn’t it? Who gave you the right to own his life? Obito has his reason to kill Naruto, why not let him?Why is it that you want to personally remove him from your life? If he is dead by an external factor, you can carry on your path without any interference and pain. Why go so far to protect him ?

The answer is Sasuke values Naruto’s life more than his own even during his Team 7 days. He has this high esteem for Naruto and almost consider it to be a shame if some worthless fool takes his life. And Sasuke never hated Naruto. He once hated Itachi and his resolve to kill was real and intense. But when Orochimaru asked him to kill 1000 people for practice, Sasuke never killed anyone. He even implemented no kill policy for his team “Hebi”. So, someone like Sasuke who never liked to kill random innocent people, how could he let some trash take away a life, he considers dearly to the same level of Itachi? That’s why in this situation, his body moved on his own to protect something special for him. He may not agree it, but he always shows it.

But some other ship wankers try to say Sasuke may have said “You are annoying” but inside he deeply loved her which is why he was smiling. If so, Why didn’t Sasuke never showed his care not even once? He not only tried to kill her twice when she was defenseless but also let her die twice or didn’t bother at all during the war. Or show me where these soul level connection happened between SS or NH

In short, Sasuke and Naruto own each other’s rights unconsciously. Because they are the only ones who can understand each other’s soul which nobody can reach.

Me: Oh, by the way Sasuke, I think Susanoo should be used like this. You really don’t need your hand to protect Naruto. Susanoo can do it’s work for you. Minato would be proud though!!!!

PRIVILEGE

Most of the points I written above are in and of itself is a privilege they give for each other and not for anyone else. Privilege is essential in a ship. Because it shows how different a loved one is from normal people.

For Naruto,

I originally want to put how he begs for forgiveness on Sasuke’s behalf before Raikage and weeps immeasurably before hyperventilating. But this one trumps the other. Naruto literally broadcasted everyone how important Sasuke is to him and how he regretted not offering his friendship at that time and how he couldn’t stop Sasuke from reaching Orochimaru.

If you want to inspire Alliance shinobi forces, you should have shown how you worked so hard from the bottom to top. Projecting Sasuke as your regret and inspiring people shows how deeply you prioritize this person which affects you after so many years and hence, you don’t want any more regrets.

It’s very unconventionally romantic which passes the shipping category in flying colours.

For Sasuke,

The following is the Land of the waves arc which was novelized in the name of Innocent Heart, Demonic Blood released in 2006. 99.9% of the material is exactly as it happens in Manga/Anime.

This is the privilege Sasuke provides for Naruto. “ But coming from Sasuke, It almost counted as a hug”...

BROWNIE POINTS:

Now, the following are the scenes which add a mysterious flavour to this ship. I sincerely don’t understand why Kishimoto put this. I mean I am absolutely happy with it, but why? What was he thinking while drawing these scenes?

It’s also strange that, whenever they clash a Chidori with Rasengan..... They always gets repelled to their own sides and fall with a loud thump. But Naruto’s posture looks very perfect, I mean it looks like someone carried him and laid him down. Anyways, What’s Sasuke doing on Naruto’s side?? He should have fell on the opposite side. Why didn’t he walk away? There is absolutely no reason for Sasuke to come over to Naruto’s side and have an intense meaningful gaze.

This is another mysterious plus intense scene. I am still wondering, Is this really Sasuke? He is a person who avoids casual touches with anyone other than his brother. I’ve seen so many times Sasuke rejecting hugs from Sakura. I can’t even imagine what Kishimoto was thinking.

If you people pass these scenes off as Brotherhood or Best Friend chemistry... Then you lack basic human emotions. That’s all.

Me: Well, Sasuke, If you really want to kill him, you should have shovelled your sword right through Naruto’s vital point when you made that exuberant landing. There is literally no need for you to draw a long sword in close quarters. And what about the Personal Space??? With your speed, you can land without leaning on Naruto’s shoulders...

Also Me: Yo, Naruto... You were panicking when Sai does the same....but you don’t even flinch when Sasuke invades your personal space????

Anyways, it’s funny that both the intense scenes I have mentioned here were initiated by Sasuke. Quite strange and thrilling.

So, to conclude.... All these scenes I have mentioned made me unconsciously ship them as a pair. With all these being said, I believe all the ingredients for a good romance were laid perfectly. A moment of impulsive tension or affection, say a hug, between them after a difficult battle could mess with both and make a romance happen. And I don’t think either of them will deny especially Sasuke.

I don’t see any of this aspect in other popular ships such as SS and NH. If I am Sakura or Hinata in this universe, I will not be okay with my pair doing all these things with other person. I intentionally left scenes from Episode 478 as it is so intense and require a separate post. I am happy that even without Episode 478, SNS ship sails high. So, I believe both Sakura and Hinata are still fourth wheeling their respective pairs in Boruto universe also, I guess.

P.S: I don’t watch Boruto

Final memento:

No way a friend will look this mesmerized on seeing the other one.

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