People that don’t like nomae shippers, let me show you some pictures from the books of my favourite fairytale of all time Beauty and the Beast.
When the tale is FICTIONAL and is exploring seeing the humanity and connection in another sentient being so different to yourself it’s actually inspired from this very popular trope.
It is a trope that has existed forever and will always exist and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with exploring it in fiction. You don’t have to like it, we all like different things but don’t start a culture of harassment in this fandom, just block the tag it’s the normal thing to do.
Gerard adopting Ylfa is so sweet it makes me violently ill. Like, it was pretty clearly set up for her to be like,,, Timothy's way to heal from Jack dying but her helping Gerard mature by giving him a mirror by which to fairly judge his childhood is so narratively satisfying.
kabru would be deeply involved in leftie political discourse on twitter on his alt account. his main would be like that overachiever fake ass debate kid you went to high school with who only retweets from centrist news pages
I'm not gonna screenshot it bc 1/it really doesn't matter that much and 2/the person who made the comment is a kid but: a while ago I made a comic that's supposed to be a genuine study and reinterpretation of someone else's sprite comic (made in the spirit of authenticity too - to recreate the vibes of the sprite comics from that era, iirc very specifically because it's funny) and I got a comment on that comic's post that's like "glow up"
which is a compliment obvs. and the commenter probably didn't mean anything by it, it's a common expression. but I've been trying to find a way to gracefully put that comment away ever since it appeared lol
I just very much don't want my art to be taken as trying to one-up someone else's art when that's not the piece's intention. especially when the piece that inspired my art is perceived as "low effort" or "shitpost" or stuff like that. I did mention in the tags of that post that my considering it a study is entirely genuine, and I can legitimately write pages about the cool stuff I find in it other than and inherent in the haha funneys, but that's not for you guys that's for me. I just think that approaching art competition-first like that is a miserable way to do it, and (tipping into overthinking here if the whole tiny-comment-got-stuck-in-my-brain-for-almost-a-month part hasn't given that away yet lol) I really don't want that to be the takeaway from my own art. at least generally. if I actually think the source material is trash and what I'm doing is genuinely categorically better I'd just come out and say it lmao
it is actually true btw that I had to take my AP literature test in a dimly lit storage closet surrounded by dead frogs and formaldehyde as a result of having been born with adhd (beyond my control), and needing accommodation.