#actually do i want to expand on the LN part. so the take i'm thinking of is the general idea that LN as a country was just

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1: the character everyone gets wrong

i just answered this but yeah it's fundy and ponk. come to think of it possibly also happyduo. the whole eggpire maybe.

8: common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

despite my best efforts i suspect i live in an echochamber but. spaces out for 10 minutes trying to think of common fandom opinions. you know i cannot really think of a take that has not caused awful awful discourse on my dash. i mean i guess re: the attachments advice that phil gave tommy that caused everyone to try to kill each other on my dash: i dont think it's that big of a deal? if phil gave some bad advice? if said advice was even bad in the first place? <didn't get too invested in that discourse

also i don't think las nevadas had to be destroyed for the. waves hand. narrative. or smth. it wasn't like. the root of all cquackity's evil or whatever. and i think it's good and reasonable that the LN arc ends with q deciding to build it back up again. sorry its my girlfriend

21: part of canon you think is overhyped

bedrock bros ^_^

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Sexiled LN thoughts!

So I kind of only even bought this short, two part LN series because from the description I got the impression there would be some yuri. And sure. There was a little yuri. Just a few crumbs of yuri. But you know what there was way more of? Over the top sexism. Like I get that was the whole point but yikes. Kind of cringey to read. Actually amazon had been recommending it to me for months but I didn't look into it because the title made me think "Just more hetero smut" which really, is not my thing. I'm really only doing this post because I bought it, I read it, it's something to talk about y'know? So where to start. Guess a basic synopsis? So our protagonist. Well one of them I guess. Our MAIN protagonist is a 25 year old lady called Tanya. She's a super duper skilled mage adventurer, and (As the title suggests) she's just been kicked out of her party by her sexist leader literally just for being a woman. He was like "Hahaha, I'm totally doing you a favour. You're getting older, you weak women need something to protect you. adventuring is no place for you. Now you can go get married and have kids and settle down right. That's what you women like to do isn't it?" Like apparently that's what all women aspire to be? Kayyyyyyyyy. Ya tool. Anyway she's now pretty pissed off. Rightfully so, as because this whole world is super duper sexist, nobody backs her up and helps her stay in the group. Why she'd want to stay in the group is beyond me, but irrelevant. She goes to the nearby wasteland to let off some steam by swearing gratuitously and setting off explosion magic everywhere she can. Upon blowing up a mountain (Yeah this 'weak' woman totally needs protection....) she might have accidentally freed Laplace, a mythical sorceress who's been sealed away for 300 years, during which time someone has being doing a pretty nasty PR campaign against her. Anyway to simplify what follows. This duo, being pretty wronged by men decide to team up, get a little yuri (I mean, they just kiss a few times.), and get revenge on the men who wronged them on various levels. Along the way they get a few supporters, also all women and yeah. That's really, without going into spoilers, that's the whole basic plot. Big girl power, anti sexism revenge story. Overall... It was fine? The sheer amount of swearing in it was pretty jarring to me with how many LN's I read, it just felt... wrong? Translators choice i guess.

I'm kind of trying to think of stuff to expand on, but there isn't really anything. We get good moments of crushing the super bad sexist dudes, which is good. Who doesn't like it when dumb misogynists get a good hard kick in the pants by a super powered magic knight lady? I did also find it amusing when our protagonist is trying to explain why she's wearing like, the classic platemail bikini you see in MMO's and such for women, and the 300 year old sealed sorceress is just like "Nah dude. That makes no sense. You're going to get cold, and that has absolutely no protection." Turns out all these super sexists rules for women are in place by this super sexist, impotent incel dude who sealed her away in the first place, all because women didn't like him. Apparently that meant women were wrong, not that he should reflect on himself as a person. But that's what that whole incel thing is, innit? Which.... I honestly find kind of hard to believe. An equal society isn't going to turn to extreme levels of sexism just because a single old dude that LITERALLY NOBODY IN POWER EVEN LIKES says so. Especially in a fantasy world where super duper magic exists, and physical strength differences between genders does not matter. "What, you want to take away my rights and restrict me. Hm.... let me think about it.... No. Also I just cast a fireball on you. You're a dead pile of ash and bone now. Enjoy trying to start your sexist movement. oh wait..." I feel it would go a lot more like that. Anyway, that's really my thought's on sexiled. It's all a bit overdone, but it wasn't terrible. Wouldn't exactly recommend it, but it did exactly what it wanted to. End!