#anti-infantilization

[froppygurl]

Am I the only person who isn’t on the “Infantilizing Ballister” train?

Let’s be frank here, majority of Tumblr, Pinterest, TikTok, etc. portray Ballister as some “UwU wet cat with big ol’ eyes that needs to be protected by his ferocious bf.” In my humble opinion, I find it very off-putting and rather, stereotypical of gay men. Ballister’s character is misinterpreted SO MUCH with how he’s portrayed on many social media platforms.

Even the Nimona wiki will debunk that Ballister’s misinterpretation isn’t true like at all. He’s absolutely determined as hell to achieve his goals and is a MASSIVE hardworker, he broods quite a lot which is something that people due tend to forget about, he’s incredibly smart, being able to craft a mechanical arm pit of spare parts in hideout is just brilliant, Ballister is yes, slightly awkward and can be paranoid at times, but man people really amplified those traits along with his big eyes and like basically made a completely different character out of it, and finally, he can actually defend himself and was the top of the class when the knights in his generation were cadets. On top of that, Ballister isn’t built like a twink, he’s literally buff and the end of the movie proves that even more. He has more broader shoulders than Ambrosius and just because someone is shorter doesn’t mean they’re just a “little baby.” As someone who’s on the shorter side, it kinda annoys me a little with how people who’re shorter are stereotyped like this.

This has not been the only time we’ve seen this phenomenon before with queer characters. It’s been an occurring thing for many years. One character being seen as the “Lil baby boy that needs to be protected” while the bf is seen as the “humanized dog that’s jealous over anyone who tried to even speak to the “baby boy” and is secretly a perv.” That trope has been used in MANY fandoms and Webtoons. It just throws gay men into a box and honestly it’s saddening to me. A lot of Fujoshis are at fault with this with how much they fangirl like hell over gay men and throw them in a box that appeals to their fantasies.

This is something I want to get out of my chest, because honestly it has been occurring so much I have to speak about. And before you try to make a whole argument with me, I’m going to say that yes, headcanons do indeed exist and are valid of course, but literally if the headcanons are just blatant stereotypes then honesty that’s really, really sad. Like genuinely sad.

[thesauce8]

i hate when people demonize sasuke for trying to kill sakura at the bridge. she initiated both murder attempts and was in a much more sound mindset. he had finally killed the man who had his entire family murdered, was having a psychotic break, was going blind, and was exhausted. obviously when you attempt to assassinate an incredibly unstable individual, they’re going to be triggered. hell, even a well minded shinobi would probably retaliate in the same way. sakura tries to kill sasuke, but he’s the one in the wrong for…trying to do exactly what she was doing first? her lack of commitment doesn’t matter because she came at him in a way that made it pretty clear she was attempting to murder him. when she hesitates, is he supposed to just wait until she works up the balls to kill him? fuck that

[yasmiralotta]

Blitzø 👏 and 👏 Stolas 👏 both 👏 used 👏 eachother 👏 to get 👏 what 👏 they 👏 wanted:

Antis: Stolas is a coercive r*pist!

Me: Okay, first of, Unhappy campers clearly showed that Blitzø knew how to get to the human world without the Grimoire.

He just decided to use "the easiest ticket to earth" instead.

Therefor, he didn't actually need the book and hasn't been forced to do anything. He didn't need to steal from Stolas to get his buissness going.

Antis: But he blackmailed Blitzø into having sex with him!

Me: 👀...

Antis: B-But Stolas started it!!

Me: Stolas was teasing him and Blitzø choose to use that to his advantage:

This is what I mean by "They both used eachother to get what they wanted". They are both at fault. They were both missleading the other.

And honestly, can you blame Stolas for thinking this was a mutual thing. He thinks that this is what Blitzø wants.

And then, he was litterly blindfolded when Blitzø started to leave. He didn't know about his real intentions yet. He still thinks that Blitzø was there to ravish him and that this is all part of some kind of roleplay (something we do know for a fact that they use in the bedroom thanks to Full Moon). Like, when Blitzø was flirting and teasing him like that, what was he supposed to think?

Antis: ...But Stolas made Blitzø feel bad in order to get him to stay!

Me: Again, Blitzø was the one who STARTED to flirt with HIM. So Stolas saying this (see screenshots bellow) had nothing to do with blackmail or making him feel bad, but instead as a way to show Blitzø that he is so exicted that it's HIM, his first ever friend, that he gets to share this very first intimate moment with.

And thaaaaat's just facts.

[xia0mi-c0m]

I hate the infantilization of Beelzebub/Beel.

I hate how this fandom treats Beel like a innocent baby, HE ISN'T A BABY. Nor is he innocent. he knows about topics like sex, he is a grown ass demon. Yes, he cares about MC but saying that he is "so baby" for doing so is kinda fueling into the toxic mindset that men cannot be caring and loving without being perceived as weak and needing protection from an outside force all because they do the bare minimum for the ones they love. I've been in this fandom ever since Obey Me came out and I'm not only heavily uncomfortable but also immensely disappointed in the fandom for this infantilization that is sadly so normalized in fandoms (which, is also unnecessary to do especially since the ones they are doing it towards are grown adults who can fend for themselves and don't need any help traveling through life). He is shown to be able to show sexual desire, even when it is implied rather than outwardly expressed at times. As aforementioned, he is a grown ass man, he knows about sexual topics he is not a fucking dumbass. In fact, if you have ever read the manga or played the game, you would know he is quite smart despite people portraying him as the opposite. Don't say shit like "Stop Stereotypes" or something along those lines when you're the one fueling a mindset that is, by the name, set up to make men who are decent human beings look as if they're "weak" and/or "helpless." If not, and you continue to say it while babying grown ass adults, you're being a hypocrite by definition. So, Obey Me Fandom; Do better, stop treating Beelzebub as a "UwU Cinnamon roll who's so baby 🥺🥺🥺", he is a demon whom is on the strong side of things and can fully fend for himself and others if needed.

[rcgame-thoughts]

The Parallel Universes Bureau infantilizing women…

(Warning: spoilers)

And here’s the bad news:

Maybe I’m not taking enough diamond options, but the people feel really flat to me.

Albert is really controlling and has anger issues. He’s very prejudiced towards all magical creatures. Our first impression of him is him kicking Colin, who is a tiny harmless creature. Is this supposed to be attractive? He treats Nettie like a bad child despite the fact that she’s a grown adult. I know he went through a lot as a kid, but is that an excuse? I’m having a hard time liking him. This author seems to think possessiveness = protective hero. 🤮

Glim keeps saying what a good guy Orion is, but… where? …how? I’m mostly bored with the whole arrogant king thing... and OMG!! I CANNOT BELIEVE he took everyone on this WILD GOOSE CHASE just because he needed backup but didn’t wanna call for help!!! Ughhh!! I really hate when people drag me through their shit, instead of just growing a pair and talking to me straight. 😡🤬😡🤬. I really hate manipulation. Nettie totally called him out on his BS at his own court. Everything she said was right, and I’m so glad she stood up to him. Probably the only one to ever do it.

I’m not romancing women… Does Glim get any deeper than goody-gosh tee-hee little girl stuck in a woman’s body? Even though she has some strong moments, she still mostly acts like a child. She has no real personal agency, but seems like a cheerful extension of Orion. Does she ever become her own person?

If Glim is a little girl, Nettie is the permanently grounded teenager. Rolling her eyes, scowling, sneaking around. She even dresses like she’s stuck in her rebellious stage. Not totally her fault though, bc Albert treats her like a teenager. But of the four, she’s the best one. She’s intelligent, decisive, and sticks to her guns. Major respect for letting Orion have it.

(Btw, no disrespect if you happen to love the characters I don’t. I’m not judging anyone (just the characters 😂), this is just my opinion. If you’ve unlocked something I haven’t, I’d be happy to find out more.)

The infantilization of the female characters is really disappointing. The women are treated like children — both by the men in the book and in concept by the author. The mayor, who is the only woman in a position of power, is depicted as having a schoolgirl crush on Albert. When he’s around, instead just kicking ass at her job, she’s reduced to an infatuated adolescent, batting her eyelashes and twirling her hair in front of Albert. 🙄

Archie is in love with her, so he hovers over her as if she needs his protection 24/7. And he seems to think his input can actually sway her in her decisions as mayor.

Even Isla isn’t that good at her job. Despite being a senior field agent, she still has to call a male coworker for help. She doesn’t know what’s going on with her own case until after he provides her with more information. The excuse is that she’s a good worker who could handle the case, but she’s still being taken advantage of by her superiors. Why set up these female characters like this? It’s really condescending.

The only character that doesn’t show any sexist attitudes or behavior is Locke. Can we have more of him? Seriously. His involvement in the plot was a huge breath of fresh air. In fact, can we make him an LI? If Nettie’s only into girls, I’d be happy to take him…

There are a few more episodes to go, so I’m still giving it a chance. I want to like it. The visuals are so wonderful… but the shallow portrayal of women is disappointing. Perhaps every character will grow until then? I hope. 🤞🙁

Or just give us more Locke. 🙏

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

When it comes to the entire grown adults refusing to read anything else besides YA novels issue /discourse.

As someone who've been a bookworm and has loved reading since I was a little kid and still continues to love and enjoy reading,

I personally feel that if the only thing you are ever reading or consuming is literature written for those in the 7th grade or strongly believes that the highest from of literature is either Harry Potter or the Percy Jackson series when you're nearing in your late 20s to 30s then you are severely limiting yourself as an adult and have showcased that you haven't read many books at all.

Yes, sure, there are books that I still enjoy and love from my adolescence and teenage years that I would love to reread or go back into sometimes due to my nostalgic attachment to said books I grew up with, But to only just continuously read the YA genre and nothing more. Especially as you continue to get much older and experience more things as a grown-adult, I deeply want the books I'm reading to reflect that growth and deal with mature adult problems and characters that aren't Fucking high-schoolers or dealing with middle schoolers preteen drama crap.

To only exclusively just read or consume literature or media that's technically for a younger demographic, not to say that you can't still enjoy said pieces of media, but to just only read YA books and not even willing to try to branch out more when it comes to expanding your literacy pallet.

It's feels like you're purposely keeping yourself in a constant state of arrested development.

Also, anyone who dares say that adult literature is all nothing but explicit Exotica truly shows just how ignorant they are when it comes to adult fiction and that they haven't read much of it.

I've read some adult novels that dealt with different aspects of sexuality or sometimes one's with sexual /romantic and intimate scenes with adult characters that are either married or use to be married or in a present relationship or just going about their lives dealing with the many different good and shitty elements of adult life.

Honestly, the older one becomes, doesn't it get tiring to be still reading books meant for 6th or 7th graders?

Like as a grown-ass adult wouldn’t you want to read stories dealing with actual adult characters that you can resonate with on some level, adult characters dealing with somewhat similar struggles and the sometimes bullshit fuckery that’s comes with adulthood and life in general as you get older. Especially as you reach closer towards middle-aged...

I just think you're doing yourself a massive disservice when it comes to your growth if all you read and consume is the YA genre only.

You seriously got more to adult literature in general than whatever you were forced to read in high school. Like, would it kill you to challenge yourself more as you continue to age.

[adhdnojutsu]

Your opinion? https://www.tumblr.com/dranosh-haran-of-paleoworld/766237407554273280/why-do-you-hate-itachi-so-much?source=share

Had to use a different browser because this pleasant person has me blocked lol anyway.

TL;DR: Itachi had no right to do the things he did, but he also had no choice. Even if adult onlookers could come up with choices, he was a child trapped in a mindset his authority figures hammered into him in his formative years, and then he was put under additional duress. Come the fuck on.

"This guy willingly betrayed his own people and family, selling them out to the government who wanted to destroy them all."

"Willingly" when talking about a 11-12-year-old brainwashed, groomed, traumatized child under duress is kinda wild. Yes, Naruto is all about normalizing child soldiers, but there's a line and that's Itachi having his horrible "milestones" at an age where others are still in school.

And it's not treason to report a conspiracy to commit, well, treason.

More after the break. Enjoy this screencap of a literal child and one of the many adults who chose to fail him.

Itachi was 11 when he joined the ANBU, 12 when he killed the clan. His incompetent piece of shit father dragged him into a "kill or be killed" situation at 4, and he already had the muscle memory of slitting throats ON REFLEX?? What the everloving fuck did Fugaku do to his toddler? He was encouraged to leave school and enter the field for more death and horror at 8. All for the alleged greater good that was peddled to children and adults more aggressively than America's magical sky cloth. Fugaku and Danzo played a grooming tug-o-war with a literal prepub child and actively, deliberately, had him believe the weight of the world rested on his 3 inch shoulders. The fuck did anyone think was gonna happen when Itachi joined the ANBU everyone encouraged him to join, and did the work he was taught to admire - BY Fugaku, by the way. Fugaku wanted a peacemaker, then tried to start a war. Hm.

Also, Itachi didn't "sell out" his clan. If I know a family member is about to start something with predictably catastrophic ramifications, like, you know, a glorified terrorist invasion ("coup"), I have a moral obligation to report that. "Family" does not matter. Blood, water, starting a war is something you deserve to have sabotaged. And if you're willing to kill, you better be ready to be killed. Everyone who cheered for the coup willingly risked death and willingly doomed their families. "Bloodless revolution" my ass, that is delusional. As if Konoha is just gonna accept Fugaku after a COUP!? Fucking TREASON!? Oppressed or not, you sow violence, you reap violence, and public perception matters. The public's perception of the Uchiha coup would probably be *checks notes* treason :)

"His own people"? They all treated him like a trophy and an attack dog when they didn't outright abuse him for speaking his mind, when he was clearly old enough to let them exploit him. All they had for him was demands to make them proud and bring them glory, at the cost of his well-being. Chapter by chapter in Itachi Shinden, you can watch him wither and crumble. When Itachi's comrade was killed when he was 8, Fugaku literally said "He'll get over it" while his boy was falling apart in the next room. Those are not "his own people", they're one big, bubbling cunt stew with very few exceptions, judging by the novel.

Whether the government wanted to destroy the Uchiha clan or whether it was racist or oppressive ultimately doesn't matter when the active threat to world peace and countless lives is coming from the other side. Two things can be true at the same time, so yeah Konoha sucked, but also yeah, the Uchiha posed a threat. The clan's lives weren't in danger when they decided to endanger everyone over discrimination that isn't even as egregious as what fat people on airplanes have to deal with. Defunding the police (LMAO), not letting a latent traitor run for president, surveillance, and a dedicated, OPEN compound none of the other clans who got one bitched about. Wow, what a compelling reason to set the world on fire!

Yes, Konoha failed the clan, yes, Konoha is scum for that. But two wrongs don't make a right. I'm tired of this whole nonsense of "they're oppressed so they're allowed to act like total barbarians and be the next oppressor". I'm tired on a personal level which you can probably guess.

This is not a responsible adult:

"He knew about Obito and that he was behind the 9-Tails attack but said nothing to anyone. He discriminated against his own people and slaughtered them all to the last child."

He should definitely have reported Obito. But calling his actions against the clan discrimination is like saying the German police discriminates against that Berlin-based crime family because it happens to be a BIPOC minority. THEY ALSO HAPPEN TO BE THE FUCKING MOB. Of course, most Uchihas probably weren't active combatants and didn't deserve to die, but as horrible as it is, strategically, Danzo had a point when he said there could be no potential avengers.

Plus, outsiders like to focus on numbers as if more dead people means more suffering, but this isn't true. Just because 99 people suffer and die with me, doesn't mean each of us suffers and dies 100-fold. Sasuke was based when he said Itachi should have killed him, too. Outsiders don't want to accept this because it IS horrible, but sparing a young child after killing his whole family, is not kind. What would've awaited any children Itachi spared? The village that ordered their parents' slaughter? A world that clearly doesn't want them and will come after them at the first chance? Yeah sounds ever so fucking merciful. Just because unaffected gawkers think preserving a unique cultural or genetic group is the most important thing, doesn't mean the people actually affected have such priorities when literally staring death or a life of pain in the face.

"He cast Tsukuyomi on his own parents and brutally murdered them, tortured his own little brother beyond imagine with one torture session putting Sasuke in a fucking coma, one he would've never gotten out of if it wasn't for that bitch Tsunade and that's the only good Tsunade did in the series."

When did he cast Tsukuyomi on his parents? And "brutally", well, they surrendered and he cut them down rather quickly. All murders are brutal. Should he have raided the local vet and injected them with anaesthetics first? He was a 12-year-old child, crying, shaking, probably exhausted and barely coherent after having killed all the others, and looking at his final victims, his parents, comforting him. Striking them down quickly was the best for everyone involved at that point, anything more elaborate, "more gentle", would have prolonged this horror. Also what did Tsunade do wrong, and if Itachi hadn't knocked Sasuke out for a while, he would have gotten himself killed. The Tsukuyomi was overkill, 100%.

"Itachi thought he was wiser and more noble than his own people, which was pure and utter arrogance. When brought back as an edo, he said that a 7-year-old Sasuke could've changed the clan. He called himself Itachi Uchiha of Konoha and that he specifically had no regrets he was a massive piece of shit in life and death."

This is called interpretation. Yes, he was an arrogant child, he admitted this, Shisui told him, adults told him. But being an ass at the dawn of puberty doesn't invalidate the fact that he WAS smarter than most and the Uchiha uprising WAS a problem, and the clan was infinitely more arrogant than him for thinking they could just take power and that's the end of it. They were delusional. Being 11 when pointing this out doesn't mean he's wrong.

Vilifying him for calling himself "Itachi Uchiha of Konoha" is silly. Many nations will do horrible things behind the scenes to keep the peace, and just because Sasuke and Itachi were the tragic and ever so pretty victims of this, doesn't make Konoha worse than others. It is a place people actually live in. A place people call home and have a right to call home and feel safe and thrive in. Itachi did what he was forced to do by both sides, to protect people's home and peace, not to get headpats from Danzo and Hiruzen.

He also never said he didn't regret the massacre. The fact that he said he wished he would have confided in Sasuke, the fact of him telling Naruto, Sasuke, and Kabuto that he was wrong to try and solve everything on his own, all suggest he wishes it had been different. His words when he dissolves are "Mou miren ha nai", which can be interpreted as regretting nothing, but this is usually meant in a sense of unfinished business. Itachi could not un-kill the clan. Danzo was dead. What more could he do that he could still have "miren" about? Personally, I think he shouldn't have undone the whole Edo Tensei because he kinda owed Sasuke to stick around and fight the other Edo Tenseis manually, but that's not the point.

Actual footage of Itachi alone with his thoughts, probably:

"None of his plans make any kind of fucking sense. He wanted to save Konoha from war even though the other villages wouldn't have attacked for their own reasons."

Kindly look at Syria, Sudan, or Yemen, because the civil war the Uchiha were sure to start, would have been bad enough, you absolute pinecone. But I agree, Itachi's plans were mostly shit, but who taught him any kind of life skills or coping mechanisms? He wasn't parented, he wasn't guided, he was a trained attack dog. He never grew up mentally because when you're not allowed to feel like a child, know what being a child is, how are you gonna know when you're supposed to be all grown up and smart? He treated his suicide by Sasuke like a playdate. He toyed with him. He was a typical old soul, trauma and paralysis masquerading as maturity and composure. It's very apparent in the novels how helpless and small he felt. When the FUCK did he get a chance to unlearn his helplessness on one hand, and the world resting on his shoulders on the other? Itachi was deranged, but not by his own doing. A 4 to 12-year-old child is not responsible for their poor life "choices".

"So Itachi saved Konoha from zero potential wars, especially when none of the other villages attacked after Obito's, Orochimaru's, and Pain's assaults in the series."

I wasn't aware Itachi's Sharingan could accurately predict the future. He stopped the civil war that was certain to happen and that he could stop. Not a single ninja has ever been expected to fix the whole world and the few who expected it of themselves were even more deranged than Itachi. Why hold a 12-year-old to a higher standard just because he's foolish enough to do so himself? Right until Shisui died, Itachi clung to his naive dream of becoming the greatest ninja to stop all wars. And then, both Fugaku and Danzo demanded he be that, when Shisui's death just had him realize how helpless he is. And then, there was a war looming on the horizon that he COULD prevent.

"He practically sent Sasuke gift wrapped to Orochimaru or Danzo. He knew about Obito and Pain's plans and yet did nothing about them, which just screwed over Konoha immensely."

Yeah he fucked up with Orochimaru, and this was one of the things he could have predicted after Orochimaru tried it with him. Not killing Orochimaru when he had both cause and opportunity, was bafflingly stupid and I'll chalk it up to plot armour since Itachi will kill his own mother to protect Sasuke.

He was also a useless spy in Akatsuki, yes. He aided and abetted in several Kage and Jinchuuriki assassinations, all to keep a cover of questionable use.

We do have to grant him that he needed to stay alive to give Sasuke deserved closure. He didn't even know Obito wasn't Madara, so I don't expect him to have known much about Pain's abilities. Given he allegedly ties with Jiraiya and we all know what Pain did to him, Sasuke would not have gotten his revenge. As for Danzo, can we not underestimate him please? He had to be worn down into self-destruction by Sasuke, and when Itachi attacked him in the novel after getting the MS, he was immediately stopped.

"He was never a prodigy or anything, unlike Sasuke. His fights are just him using genjutsu on his opponents and overpowering them with it, which just childish and stupid. He pulled Susanoo, Mirror Yata, and the Tsoka Blade out of his ass."

I agree Susano'o and its rigs were asspull done to compete with DBZ ratings, but how was he not a prodigy when he was recommended for graduation at 8? Poor writing or not, the canon fact is that Itachi was way ahead of his peers and many adults. We can't blame a character's personality in one moment, then bad writing the next. All writing boils down to creating the character's reality and all facts written by the author are equally valid.

Calling genjutsu childish and stupid is silly as you can apply this to all jutsu. Naruto's army of clones is arguably more ridiculous than mastering an otherwise underdiscussed technique at a level that has people like Kakashi scared. Personally, I think the big noisy techniques like Kisame's water jutsus and Hashirama's Slaparama are a lot more childish and geared towards hollering little boys. Itachi's fighting style is elegant and super duper gay.

"This fucker is all over the place and doesn't make sense. Dushman-e-jaan has posts that go into greater detail about how this guy doesn't make sense, and I recommend you read them as she does an infinitely better job at explaining my dislike for Itachi than I have."

Dushman explicitly supports this:

But thinks Konoha is worse for allegedly being this:

In other words, Doucheman is fine with making 0 sense whatsoever as long as they can virtue-signal for fascists if they know how to sell the underdog act.

[froppygurl]

Final product of Ballister!

The trend of drawing Ballister using references of his voice actor, Riz Ahmed is officially continuing! I’m rlly proud of this piece ESPECIALLY with the rendering

[lainalit]

The only feelings & fears regarding feyre's deadly pregnancy I'm interested to hear about are FEYRE'S, not cassian's, not nesta's and certainly not rhysand's

[helaenasaegon]

Green stans have the nerve to say that this show is biased in favor of the Blacks when their socials post nonsense like this:

On top of that, the showrunners have changed Alicent and Aemond so much in order to baby them that she's an entirely different character in the show, and he's taken multiple of his little brother's traits.

So which side is this show actually biased in favor of?

[totalycolpersom]

PSA- Don't use trans-emasculation to describe discrimination faced by trans men. It was made by a trans woman when trans men already came up with multiple terms (trans-androphobia, trans-misandry, trans-anti-masculinity) to describe our oppression.

Edit- Trans-emasculation was co-opted and was originally made to describe a subsection of trans-androphobia. It has been recoined by a transfemme to describe all trans-androphobia

[lecoindecachou]

'Ariana Grande Branded a Homewrecker'

Well, she is a homewrecker. She got friendly with the dude's wife, holding her baby and shit, knowing full well she was fucking that woman's husband on the low. What else would you call it?

[makorragal-312]

The Diaz parents are gonna be in for a rude awakening when they realize that Chris is in Texas with them for the sole purpose of getting space from his dad, not to fulfill their long-awaited familial fantasy.

[lonely-linn]

"sirius black's baby brother🥺" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHU-

[meadow-mellow]

me, getting notifs on twitter: *baby's first time being harassed by unhinged Romys <3* Sure, go off, lol. *proceeds to draw Magneto eating Rogue out*

[froppygurl]

Time for a rant once again

Yes, it absolutely takes time for habits to be broken, but I’m still frustrated. Why tf are people still drawing Ballister like a gay stereotype by making him built like a twink yet he’s clearly muscular. And also, it’s so fucking insane with how Ambrosius isn’t drawn in dresses like NOT EVEN CLOSE to how much Ballister is drawn with dresses yet Ambrosius’ Voice Actor, Eugene Lee Yang, CLEARLY does drag compared to Riz Ahmed, the voice actor for Ballister. I’m honestly surprised that Ambrosius doesn’t receive as much fanart of him being presented in a feminine way, but honestly when I look like how fujoshis portray the characters that aren’t so feminine, it’s a double edged sword. I swear I want people to act fucking normal about gay men instead of treating them like a personal fetish. There I said it. People have fetishes for gay men and they’re mostly girls who do so. I’m officially calling that out.

It’s still a thing like holy shit. I get it, it’s a fandom gig, but do you guys know that fandoms can influence harmful stigmas??? Like the stereotype that gay men are only just built like twinks and feminine even when they literally are canonically masculine presenting??? It’s absolutely ludicrous. Also, one thing I’d like to add, I saw one fanart of Ambrosius acting like a dog and honestly it’s gross. I get it, it’s a “himbo” thing, but it’s also a stereotype for men to be seen as “perverted dogs.” I cannot get this out of my chest it’s absurd.