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imminent-danger-came · 1 year ago

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you have a point about fandoms as a whole having a sexist lean but isn't mei is literally one of the most popular characters in the fandom and dragonfruit one of the most popular ships in the fandom? It's one of the top 5 most written about ships on ao3 if you remove self insert stuff.

So I'll preface this with I only have experience with the lmk fandom on tumblr.

But like, it's 90% shadowpeach stuff (with maybe MK as a third wheel). I know this, you know this. If you look through the "lego monkie kid" tag right now Ne Zha has more content related to him and only him than Mei does—she's usually gonna be thrown in with dragonfruit and traffic light trio (though, admittedly the lmk fandom has a problem of viewing characters outside of shipping in general). For every 1 Mei fanart there's 1 piece of Ao Lie fanart to match despite their vast differences in screen time. Like, am I insane? Am I insane for thinking it's the sexism?

#if dragonfruit were mlm it would be the second most popular ship. probably.#Which I respect spicynoodles. If I really tried to think about it there would probably be something there for me #But it's a ship that does kinda feel like ''teehee what if two of the boy characters kissed''#Which is totally fine. Like it's true. What IF the boy characters kissed?#But for me personally. It's like- as a ship there's not really anything spicynoodles does for me that dragonfruit doesn't do better?#Is that a hot take?#I mean other than I'm a MK is aroace truther #I really like Mei and Red Son's dynamic #Yes I did love the EYD specials thank you for asking #It's just like. Family expectations and the Samadhi fire being Mei's heritage and also Red Son's.#Them helping each other. Red Son needing a hero and Mei needing a teacher.#I'm into it #''Don't use the flame Mei- be the flame!''#Like Red Son getting through to Mei the second time in 3x14 is very fun #Alsooo uhhhh ''You don't use a weapon. You are a weapon!''#yeagh #lmk #lego monkie kid #asks #dragonfruit #imp's a little fiesty

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