#anti gwody

[real-total-drama-takes]

If you censor a fucking cartoon characters name when talking about them you are actually pathetic and need to touch grass 💀 imagine being so offended by the existence of sierra (a comedic relief character) that you censor every mention of her 💀

ok this is the second ask about this and I don’t think you guys understand. They’re not censoring sierra because of a trigger, they’re censoring her name because of how tumblr works.

If you say a word in an ask that gets published, it’s going to show up in the tag. Even if it’s not tagged “#total drama sierra” any mention of sierra puts that post in the tag. That’s how tumblr’s broken algorithm works.

See, people generally don’t like character hate showing up in the tags. That’s why I tag #character hate and not the name of the character mentioned.

It’s a courtesy. Censoring her name ensures that fans of sierra don’t see a barrage of sierra hate when they look at the “#total drama sierra” tag.

I actually appreciate it when people do that because I got an ask from an angry gwen/cody shipper a few days ago asking me to stop tagging anti-gwody posts because it’s clogging up the tag. Except, here’s the thing: I DON’T. I have never tagged an anti-gwody ask as #gwody. But it still showed up in the tag because people said “gwody” in the ask, and tumblr is broken as fuck. People assume it’s my fault when real td takes’ posts show up in tags with #character hate when in reality I’m taking all precautions to prevent that.

How about before getting angry about something you clearly don’t understand, you take your own advice? Go touch grass.

[joseeapologist]

what are your favorite and least favorite ships?

I might ruffle some feathers, sorry:

Favorite Ships:

1. Jacsee - I think I've stated why so many times so I won't even bother explaining again, or else we'll be here for hours.

2. MacSanders - They're super underrated. There's no way that they WEREN'T together during RR. Their chemistry in the show seems a lot more than just friends. The way MacArthur was like, "I play nice with you allll the time" like c'mon lol they're dating. Honestly I wish there was more content of them. You can never get enough MacSanders content.

3. Nowen - When I joined the fandom I saw them as a BROtp (I used to like Noco) but then my love for Nowen grew along with my love for the fandom, it's very contagious :) I think they had wonderful chemistry and @realitytvpros has FANTASTIC artwork of them (that's another thing, the fan art for Nowen is wonderful)

4. Crimsonennui - the best canon ship of the show, hands down (I think Jashawn and Lyler are probably the next best ships) even though they are very monotonous, you can obviously tell they love and care very deeply with each other; they don't need to show this with exaggerated PDA (like some couples) and having some dramatic spur-of-the-moment kiss - it is very obvious that they're in love.

5. Alenoah - This is Larson's fault lmao. Honestly, Alenoah (the ship) has been growing on me a lot. Something that really makes me ship characters is fan-art, but especially fanfics. I'm a bookworm, so if I see someone write a story in which they bring two characters together and show them having awesome chemistry, it's very contagious and I'll start liking it, which is exactly what happened with Alenoah. Good writing really helped me enjoy the ship (check out @alenoah's fic Pretty Poisonous,you'll see what I mean)

Least Favorite Ships:

1. Gw//ody - I’m sorry, but this makes me incredibly uncomfortable. I don’t want to be mean, but this is based on personal things I’d rather not get into. 

2. Co//derra - Same thing as Gw//ody, though I do like platonic Co//derra after canon (see @td-worrisometruths for their stuff, it’s great!)

3. No//co - Surprising, isn’t it? I’ve come to the realization that most ships involving Cody aren’t very good. I used to like Cody, but then my love for him sort of diminished over time. Cody just isn’t that appealing to me. Also, there was this whole drama about one of the No//co artists drawing very... fetish-y art even though they’re 16. Also, I never realized when I first joined how bait-y the Big Sleep episode was. Then I came to the realization that Noah would probably make Cody cry. 

4. Tom//ques - Tom//ques is basically No//co, but Tom and Jacques are adults so people think it’s okay to fetishize mlm and write gay smut of them. Say what you want about No//co, but there had been some fics in which it was centered around building a relationship. I cannot say the same for Tom//ques. Literally the only Tom//ques fics I’ve seen were smut. Shipping the two most effeminate men on the show isn’t the progressive take you think it is. This is going to sound awful, but I can’t bring myself to like Tom//ques because some Tom//ques shippers went after me because I shipped Jacsee, calling me immoral for it, and claimed that Tom//ques was “supposed to be canon” so I’m erasing mlm. Besides, the superior mlm ship for Jacques is him and Ryan :) But I love a Tom//ques friendship. I’ve said this so many times, but platonic Tom//ques is awesome.

5. Sc//ax - I mean, it’s mostly because I see Scarlett as a lesbian (and I ship her with OC named Devin!), but even if I didn’t I just don’t understand the appeal. Someone compared them to Drakken and Shego from Kim Possible, which I get, but like... no lol (Even though I do ship Drakgo) Scarlett legitimately cannot stand Max, and Max says that “evil doesn’t date” so I don’t really see them as a couple, sorry.

[total-ass]

i can’t help but agree with the last anon. cody just sucks man. i hate seeing content of him. it doesn’t help that most of his popular ships are horrible too. c0derra is disgusting, gw0dy is cringey and annoying, and n0co just pisses me off. i have his character tags and ships blocked and yet i’m still forced to see his weasel ass every day because his stans don’t know how to tag stuff properly. i’ve had enough of codathan.

[amakadoodles]

so, when is everyone gonna admit that gwen and cody both mutually love eachother?

[forwantofamohawk]

Selfishness, Selflessness and Reciprocity

Or: An essay on why I think that Coderra has more potential as a relationship than people give it credit for.

As a foreword, I would like to say that this applies equally to romantic and platonic Coderra. Many of the building blocks for a romance are the same as those for a lifelong friendship. All I want, at the end of the day, is for Sierra to be happy. 

Now you could alternatively call this essay “Cody’s tendencies in relationships and how that changes in Planes Trains and Hot Airmobiles” because the first item of focus here is his relationship with Gwen, and how and why it fundamentally doesn’t work. While Gwody is generally not well-liked as a relationship due to his creepy, entitled and stereotypical “nice guy” behavior, those aren’t the reasons why it doesn’t work. They’re effluences of the real core problem with his Cody’s behavior and that mentality, and I’m going to call it out right out of the gate: Cody is selfish. 

For him, it’s never about what Gwen wants or who Gwen is as a person that matters. She is an object to be attained, an ideal girlfriend that will make him cool by being with him. His first notable interaction with her is making a pass at her during the talent show- he more or less thinks he can “get” her with a bit of flirting, without putting in the legwork of actually getting to know her. Compare this with Trent’s first major interaction with Gwen in The Big Sleep as a counterpoint. Watching this scene, what strikes me the most about how Trent conducts himself here is that there is no flirtatious undertones to his approach, no overt, eye-wagging, shit-eating-grin “hey babe, you’re so cool and I’m totally into that”. No, he just talks to her. Talks to her about whatever she wants to talk about, lets the conversation naturally go where it goes, and it gets her to open up, if only just a little. Cody, on the other hand, never does this with Gwen, he never understands this, and every interaction he has with her until Up the Creek, and then resuming in World Tour, is about trying to obtain her as an item.

In World Tour, his selfishness and desire to have Gwen reach new levels and really show how little he actually cares about her as a person. During the episode in Australia, Gwen acts hurt because Duncan is acting jealous of Alejandro “hooking up” with Courtney. Cody’s first instinct is to offer her his vote, but with the implicit subtext this game alliance is a means for him to hook up with her. Gwen is not actually hurt here, she’s playing him for a vote, but he doesn’t know that, he thinks Duncan has actually hurt her. She says to him “ Can you make the pain go away?” and he nods and tells her he’s there for her and that he’ll make everything better.

This is Cody at his absolute lowest. Here he is seeing someone he thinks is heartbroken and vulnerable and all his first reaction is to manipulate it to get into a relationship with her. 

Now this may all sound very anti-Cody, and I certainly don’t apologize for or condone this behavior. But I also now move on to my next point, which is that it is a learned behavior which makes sense in the context of his upbringing, and that he has the capacity to change this behavior.

A bad childhood does not excuse bad behaviors as an adult, or even a young adult like Cody, but it does provide a level of understanding how and why he does the things he does. There is a substantial body of canonical evidence that Cody is a neglected child, manifested most famously and notably in the show by the revelation that his parents (nor anyone else for that matter) never once remembered his birthday in Awwwww Drumheller. Interestingly it seems the Dramarama spinoff has taken this idea up as well, with Cody having said “It feels like a mother’s warmth, or least, so I’ve been told” which in context seems meant to indicate that Cody is unfamiliar with motherly affection. But what he lacks in parental attention is made up for in material wealth- his TDI bio speaks of a plethora of the latest tech and gadgets paid for on his parents dime. This is where the root of his selfishness in dealing with Gwen comes from- having never received love in his life, only things, he can only conceive of a relationship as a thing to be had, not love to be shared between people. Because the latter concept is utterly alien to him. But it’s alien to him because this mentality is learned, taught by years of neglect and being spoiled. And what can be learned, can be unlearned.  

Enter Planes, Trains and Hot Air Mobiles. It is all good and well to argue that Cody is the way he is because he is a victim of parental apathy and absence, but unless this amounts to meaningful change in his behavior, it is meaningless. Here we see that Cody in fact has the capacity to change and to be better than he was, and it’s in his relationship with Sierra that we first see this.

The Total Drama Jumbo jet has been demolished to smithereens, and at the epicenter of the destruction was Sierra. The episode begins with her eliminated, incapable of walking, buried under rubble and with most of those still present utterly uninterested in her plight. Cody, Alejandro and Heather are tasked with racing to Hawaii by whatever means they can find, but Sierra is left with no provisions for her return home. Let’s be clear here- Cody is supposed to get to Hawaii, not Sierra. 

At this point in the game he’s only barely started warming up to her the last episode, and otherwise has rebutted her at every turn since the game began. She cannot move on her own, no matter what means he uses to travel she’s dead weight. With his chosen method of travel, the balloon, Cody can get farther and go faster if he goes alone. He has every logical reason in the world to be selfish here, from a competition standpoint. 

And yet he doesn’t. He takes her with him, an act that I would argue is his first truly selfless act in any of his canon relationships with anyone. He gains nothing by bringing her along, or at least, nothing that is immediately apparent when they set off. He risks his victory in the competition to ensure she has someone to take care of and look after her. He prioritizes her needs and the urgency of her situation over his wants, and even his personal feelings for her at this moment- despite everything she has done to him that has made him feel violated and uncomfortable, by taking her with him he has forgiven her, and without words said that her life and wellbeing are worth more to him than his own feelings about their past. This does not absolve Sierra of responsibility for these acts, but Cody’s forgiveness is an important step in giving her the opportunity to atone for them. It is a profoundly mature moment for Cody, the most mature he has ever been in the entire series since Up the Creek. 

Later on in the episode, something incredible happens. Something called reciprocity- an exchange of mutual benefit to all parties involved. And it’s when their hot air balloon has crashed and they are stranded in the middle of nowhere somewhere in North America, with no apparent means to continue the race. Along with a box of fireworks, Sierra motivates Cody with a rousing speech, and importantly tells him that “You want a number one fan? That comes with responsibilities!”

This is a first for Sierra, in that she is demanding something out of Cody’s side of the relationship. For all the time she has been on the show with him, she has taken care of him with no regard for getting anything out of it in return. She has saved his life at risk to herself numerous times, and while she exacted a toll in physical affection she had never previously called upon Cody to do anything for her, personally. Here that changes.

She demands that he continue the race not for his sake, but for hers, and for all the fans she represents. This transforms the act of continuing the race from a selfish one for Cody, into a selfless one, as he is no longer doing it out of self-interest, but to fulfill his obligation to his relationship with Sierra. And for the second time in the episode, Cody shows the ability to be selfless and consider the needs and wants of others. He is not a fundamentally self-centered person at heart, and his bad habits can be unlearned in the right circumstance with the right people. 

It is this relationship that carries a feeble weakling and a crippled girl to the finale against all odds. It brings out the best in both of them and takes two people who on their own would have zero chance for success, and allows them to lift each other up and help each other move forward. This is the potential of Coderra, as a romance or a lifelong friendship. It’s only two, maybe three episodes where we see a glimpse of it, but I think that together they can be a little less broken and start to defeat their worst demons. 

[ffraspberry]

SierraXCodyXGwen, but I like to think of this as Coderra. Sorry for Gwody fans. Song: Invisible by Taylor Swift Duncney: http://ffraspberry.tumblr.com/post/99348200021/a-little-duncney-its-been-so-long-since-i-last AleHeather: http://ffraspberry.tumblr.com/post/99357001916/this-is-like-the-one-i-did-to-duncney-previously

[real-total-drama-takes]

All Gwody Antis Are Sierra In Disguise.

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[real-total-drama-takes]

hey gwody antis? how does it feel to be biphobic transmisandrist? lyou’re literally against a queer ship with a neurodivergent trans guy with trauma in it. you should be ashamed. really.

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[total-ass]

gwody fucking sucks 😘

[total-ass]

i saw someone complain about seeing gw//0dy hate and well, people hate it because gw//0dy sucks. cody was a creepy weirdo that spied on her to see her naked while begging her to date him nonstop...what exactly is the romantic appeal of that?

[total-ass]

i genuinely do not understand the appeal of gw-dy at all. all i see in it is a creepy nerd harassing an extremely boring goth. like yeah gwen isn’t the best character but does she deserve to be with a freak that tries to creep on her naked with x-ray glasses and constantly begs her date her? he literally punched duncan in the face for “stealing gwen from him” that’s such a gross thing to do. the only upside to gw-dy is that it’s “not as bad” as c-derra but we all know that’s an extremely low bar to slither under.

[total-ass]

all of you arguing over n*c* and c*d*rr* and gw*dy and d*v*dy as if any of those things are valid in anyway 😐 i don’t know how many times i have to say it but the only valid ship with cody in it is cody and joshua from hijotee’s william country (which is an iconic piece of total drama media)

[total-ass]

my biggest issue with gwody and noco is that cody sucks.

he would need some character development before he was ready for any kind of relationship

[total-ass]

gwody is boring, i said what i said. the “bi alt gf and scrawny gamer bf 🥺💗” trope is so overused

[total-ass]

i think trody is the only ship with cody in it that doesn’t make me sick. c/derra is terrible for obvious reasons. gw/dy is incel wish fulfillment. davody and whatever tf mike x cody is just stupid. noco is lame bc noah would just beat the shit out of him. and i hate all cody/(girl) ships bc i’ve been blinded by “Playboy Sex God Cody” (i associate every m/f cody ship with p/rn now i hate the internet) the only ok one is harold x cody only bc harold is there and harold makes everything tolerable

[total-ass]

This might be a wild take, but I think that Coderra is actually better than Gwody.

If we only look at the canon, yes, Coderra is atrocious and definitely in the top 5 worst ships, but I'm sure that if Sierra was mentally stable, they would be very close friends, or maybe even a nice couple. I think that there's a possibility of them reuniting after 10 years, Cody being much more mature and Sierra finally receiving therapy, and with time, they would end up forming a sweet relationship (either romantic or platonic, I like both).

Gwody might not be that bad (is still trash), but I just can't see that possibility, even if Cody didn't had that character derailment in WT, at much they would be friends and not even close ones. I seriously doubt that they would see each other after TD, or at much they would have a few civil conversations or maybe even drink a coffee together.

I know Coderra is worse in canon, but at least that ship has potential for rewrites, Gwody simply would never work.