#but a fan who is tired of their double morality

[sneakyboymerlin]

I don't like gwen/arthur because Arthur sucks. Like in their first romantic episode she has to teach him manners ugh

This was probably said in good faith, so I want to make clear that this is directed at fandom at large.

To be semantic, she more or less tells him that he already knows how to be respectful and that he shouldn’t need someone to hold his hand through using manners like a child, and then he enacts his own behavioral changes, having been properly shamed and also wanting to be respected by her.

That said, it is a tired trope for women to have to get their man in order. Then again, I don’t see anyone complaining about the misogynistic tropes with any other pairing… but people do tend to write their m/m pairings in a thinly veiled homophobic/misogynistic way. In short, they only hate misogyny when it aligns with their ship preferences, but not when Arthur compares Merlin to a girl as an insult (something which only makes sense if you see being a woman as a demeaning thing to be), not when fans treat Merlin as “the woman” (deciding that since he is both a servant and a softie, that he is to be assigned the sex roles of bottom and submissive since these are all traits that women are generalized as — not that he can’t be a sub bottom, but it’s pretty clear when people connect personality traits and menial labor/servitude to sex roles), and they definitely don’t care when their own analyses of Gwen fail to approach her as an autonomous individual who does things for reasons. There is no universal moral applied.

However, I don’t see how this statement is relevant to the topic of people minimizing Arthur’s canon love for Gwen and Gwen’s canon love for Arthur due to ingrained misogynoir. No one has to ship argwen, but to pretend that it isn’t present in the canon material when it is a built-in canon endgame pairing is just a desperate reach. Especially when people claim that it was a “marriage of convenience” (MIGHTY INCONVENIENT FOR A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE) and that Arthur just wanted to use this woman for her body/womb… That is an actual problem. People should not be saying this. It’s not even CLOSE to canon.

Of course, some people just say, “Oh, Arthur could never love her like that,” and cut out the parts they would get in trouble for saying. We can try to just laugh at the fact that they’re almost perfectly quoting Uther to push these ideas, but it’s an incredibly damaging mindset to take into life. Why couldn’t Arthur possibly love this sweet, strong woman who stands up for what’s right even when it’s hard — the very thing Arthur emphasizes as a key element of his moral code? Aren’t these the very things that you all write Arthur loving in a white boy in your fanfictions? So why is it different when those traits come in the form of a black girl? Why does it not matter when Merlin has to more explicitly #fix Arthur, whereas Gwen simply states her expectations to Arthur that he should act mature, and it’s taken as evidence that the pairing should be outright dismissed? The arguments used against argwen are all 1,000x worse in m/rth/r, but you see nothing but defenses for Arthur. “Oh, he was raised by Uther, how could he know any better?” It is a damning double standard.

A more succinct question: why are these traits of Arthur’s only brought up to justify removing Gwen from the picture, as opposed to Arthur? Why are these traits of Arthur’s brought up only to take Gwen out and bring Merlin in?

Again, nobody has to ship it. IMO shipping is a very specific act that has little to do with how you personally value a ship, but is simply a way to interact/engage with it. But to pretend that argwen has no place in canon and to apply double standards to it is squarely misogynoir. So the conversation about argwen is not directed at people who simply don’t ship it. It’s about the people who claim that it’s impossible for them to truly love eachother. They do love each other and it is canon fact. Take it or leave it.

[infiniteglitterfall]

I like most of this guy's videos. He's funny. He does good crowd work. He's Jewish and Italian. These are all good things.

I don't know what I thought was going to happen in this one. I definitely didn't expect him to create a metaphor in which Jews are furries.

I'm tired. I'm tired of the misinformation and the disinformation. So I took his furry metaphor and ran with it.

Israel's not an ethnostate. It's only about 73% furries.

You don't have to be a furry to get Israeli citizenship. It's just a little easier. Because the costume keeps you warm when those desert temperatures plummet at night.

The point where it crosses the line into antisemitism is when people start calling all furries "baby killers."

Although honestly, it seems like people will believe literally anything of actual furries. I mean, I kinda get it. I used to have a coworker whose fursona was a dolphin. I don't even think dolphins have fur. Why do I know what his fursona was? Well, mainly because he got called out for having dolphin relations in the dolphin chat when he was supposed to be doing human work.

That's not a furry problem, that's a My Old Coworker problem. But I didn't know anything about furries. I was as ignorant and biased as the rest of us.

And part of that bias with literal furries, just like with metaphorical ones, is that a lot of people are willing to believe pretty much ANYTHING of THOSE weirdos.

I mean, first a group that was founded to destroy Israel, because it thinks furries morally corrupt all societies (possibly through all the yiffing?), invades and mutilates, tortures, and burns its way across an area larger than the Gaza Strip. In one day.

And for months, while more and more horrifying details about this keep coming out, I'm simultaneously hearing all my furless friends insist that Hamas didn't kill any civilians, it didn't rape anybody, it was really just doing a really good protest. We should all be so fierce!

Since Hamas is #goals, Israel can't actually be trying to wipe out Hamas. That's not believable. It's obviously just telling civilians to get out of the way so that it can get them all in one place and flatten their humanitarian zones. (Eventually. Be patient.)

It's not that this isn't a genocide! It's just one of the slow ones!

Anyway, genocides aren't defined by NUMBERS anymore. Now, they're just defined by intent. And Israel obviously intends to wipe out all of Gaza and take the land.

That's why it destroyed all the Israeli settlements in Gaza in 2005, and made every Israeli leave the Strip. The first step in any genocide is to lull them into a false sense of security for, like, eighteen years.

I didn't hear any of the smooth-shorn talking about the pogroms in Russia last year. But now everybody wants to explain why this stuff in Amsterdam isn't a pogrom. Just like October 7.

I guess people hate Israel so much that they figure, if some Israel soccer fans act like total assholes, the best idea is to get on Whatsapp and Telegram and organize a furry hunt.

I mean, they're not wrong! As long as they're Israeli, you can post a video of yourself calling it a furry hunt. You can post a video of yourself running one of them over with your car. You can post a video of yourself body-slamming one to the ground, and all your friends curb-stomping them, or kicking their unconscious bodies. You can call them furries to their face while you beat them. You can attack bystanders who try to "help a furry."

(This goes double if they try to defend themselves. A furry defending themself is automatically seen as an attacker. It's those big costumes. They make you loom.)

You can wait till they've all gone home, protest your government having a debate about whether that was anti-furry behavior, and set an empty tram on fire while yelling "cancer furries." (A Dutch slur I wish I didn't know that basically means "fucking furries," only more so.)

You can destroy a local "street library" of Hebrew books. Then you can drive an hour home to Apeldoorn, and cover your city with stickers demanding it become "furry-free."

And nobody will believe you have an anti-furry bone in your body. Because you were so clearly getting your deeply justified revenge on the horrible soccer fans that you'd heard about.

Who, let's face it, are probably all baby-killers anyway, since a couple of years in the military is mandatory over there. So it's basically a victimless crime. With any luck, the war will wipe out antisemitism entirely. I can't think of a single antisemitic incident over the past year.

Even when some kids were drawing swastikas on the board at a local elementary school and yelling "Kill Jews" at their walk-out, a close friend who is Very Concerned About Antisemitism assured me that wasn't it. She says that "people exaggerate and lie about antisemitic incidents," and that it's all a widespread smear campaign against pro-Palestinians.

We just have to make sure people keep taking anything that WOULD be antisemitism, and aiming it at Israelis. Or Jews who think it's okay for Israel to exist. Or Jews, but in the context of hating Israel, which is probably what they actually meant, since everyone knows that Israel is a 100% Jewish ethnostate!

It's not going to be easy -- well, it's probably going to be easy. As long as they don't mistake any of us for those Bad Jews. But I believe in us. We can make this happen. We can finally live the dream. Next Year, Definitely Not In Jerusalem!

[evelhak]

Aaaaa, this!!! I literally cried, I am so happy to see some actual common sense!! I am so, SO tired of this trend, it's not just Rory either, there's a really unfair pattern going on where the "renaissance" on a piece of media is basically just fans ripping a protagonist to pieces for things that these fans do not hold other characters, particularly beloved antagonists and rivals, accountable for.

This video perfectly illustrates the dynamic: Rory, who tries her best to both achieve her goals and be a decent human being while doing it, who never was a perfect human if you paid attention, gets held to the standard of an angel, so every time she makes a mistake that mistake is treated as disproportionately horrible and irredeemable. Meanwhile, as a good example, Paris, who consistently treats other people horribly, gets downright babied, and how she deserved better is repeated, her own responsibility over her actions downplayed or completely ignored. Only her good qualities are remembered, and highlighted.

There's an excellent quote in the video:

"The audience loves Paris because she is so over the top that she becomes a non-character. But when you take her as a real person and judge her with the same standards as you would Lorelai and Rory, she is pretty terrible."

This. This happens with so many characters whose traits are so much that they are viewed as inherently comedic or unbelievable, so they don't count in people's eyes. Paris having a fit in her college entrance interview, yelling over the interviewers and defending eugenics, gets brushed off as "poor baby, she's clearly mentally ill, she just deserves better, she should have gotten in", while Rory, who got manipulated into an internship by the BIGGEST journalism figure just so he could tell her "she didn't have it" was JUST weak and entitled for getting upset and discouraged over it.

Paris cheating on her boyfriend for months with a college professor gets pushed under the rug because people are too uncomfortable to even acknowledge the whole thing, meanwhile Rory is THE WORST for sleeping with a married guy after she repeatedly asked him if both him and his wife agreed their marriage was over, suggested they could try counselling, and was lied to by said guy that both he and his wife knew things were over between them.

Yeah, Rory made mistakes, and definitely didn't act perfectly after either of the situations I mentioned. She was emotional and people generally make mistakes when they are. But for some reason certain characters get a free pass all the time, while it feels almost like Rory gets punished for even trying to be a good person. Like "See, I caught her making a mistake, that means she's the worst." As if trying to have morals and be decent is inherently arrogant and hypocritical. Like trying and failing is worse than not even trying. It's like, her mom and grandparents and home town expect her to be perfect, so fans did too, and now they're mad at her for being human because they put her on a pedestal. Meanwhile characters who consistently don't care about their impact on others don't get scrutinized, their actually horrible behaviour is just taken as comedy or proof of their victimhood.

Basically, people are desensitized to horrible things from certain characters, they expect it, so they don't react to it, but when Rory who is "supposed to be good" makes a mistake, it's suddenly the core of her character and all she is. Geez.

And don't get me wrong, I love both Paris and Rory. I love every character in the show. But this double standard drives me nuts. So many characters in the show have done very similar things as Rory gets accused of, some of them while feeling no remorse. Some of them have done a lot worse things that get forgiven easily.

And don't even get me started on what a hot guy with a tragic backstory gets excused for. Yeah, some things are understandable when you know the backstory. That doesn't make those things not wrong.

It's like people are obsessed with the idea that someone who appears good on the surface must be bad, and vice versa. Nuance be damned.

[hermitcraftx]

I agree with your post about hermit fans in regard to things being very popular. I’ve seen more people being angry and annoyed about scarian in the last six months than people celebrating it. Not tagging shipping is shit but it’s better than harassing people. I don’t know what was put in the water but something changed drastically and I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s seen it.

IT'S FUCKING INSANE! This fandom used to be so positive and welcoming and overall way more pleasant than some... other MCYT fandoms, but now??? I can't log on without seeing untagged negative interpretations in the main tags, can't express an opinion without getting anons calling me heterosexual sympathizers and hoping that I die, everyone has turned their back on everything that used to make this fandom really... fun? Like, I don't tag ON MY BLOG, but usually I don't maintag my shipping posts, and if I do, I tag the ship name so people can filter it.... I don't maintag duo names. What the fuck happened to make everyone so- miserable. Anons are probably going to be permanently off for me, too many people comfortable with their opinions and not comfortable with mine and desperately needing to tell me that.

And like- look. I get not liking interpretations. Personally I'm not a fan of the Double Life cheating arc because of how abusive and out of character people made Grian be, and I had to avoid ao3 for a bit because of that and filter the fucking tags. Same thing with found family dynamics. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it "overrated and popular" and just because you don't like something doesn't make it immoral or unethical either!!! People have to make everything a moral standpoint nowadays and it's really exhausting-

But that's a tirade. All over all the confessions blogs there's "scarian is overrated" despite Grian having nearly 10mil subscribers and most of them being on YouTube and considering all the hermits friends or family truthing them. Yes, there is more shipping than before- that's because Hermitcraft season 8 made it very obvious that the people on the SMP and the people IRL are very different, and it's no longer considered RPF. None of the real hermits died via moon explosion, ZombieCleo often says she's doing "lore", they make different skins, even GRIAN acknowledges that he's acting and playing a part with the permit office. Despite all that, there's STILL wars on shipping and people insisting that we're shipping real people, I fought this war on the DSMP side of things and it's SO TIRING.

DND podcast listeners, do you ship the people playing the characters? NO!!!!! Unless you do, in which case, have fun with that. I don't really care about RPF and I filtered the tags for it a long time ago, so maybe they do do that.

Every other day I see "Third life is overrated" "Last life is overrated" (LAST LIFE IS OFTEN THE LEAST FAVORITE SEASON I SEE PEOPLE SAY!), "the life series is overrated" "the cactus ring is fucking stupid" "they left the desert but we didn't" "no, THIS interpretation of scarian is bad and wrong" and like... guys. Guys. Fandom is supposed to be fun. It is not supposed to be a full time job. It is not supposed to be moral or ethical and you shouldn't feel the need to police shit. Jesus Christ, every other month there's a new fad that tumblr users flock to and once it's over everyone goes "EWWW THAT WAS LAME AND OVERRATED AND I NEVER LIKED IT ANYWAY" like.... I promise you cannibalism as an allegory for love is not mainstream you are just on Tumblr.

Like Good God. If it's so bad here go to Twitter. I'm sick of all the complaining and misery and hatred and I miss when things were fun- people are so scared of being cliche that they don't want to write things that they enjoy. Where are the coffee shop aus???? Where are the fun silly things??? Where are the 100k grimdark fics with worldbuilding??? Wheres the 500k fics that aren't even about the same characters anymore but that we love just the same??? Where are the forums and people talking to each other in comments and meeting each other that way??? Where are the roleplay servers?????? What are you all doing??????

People are scared of being judged. They want to do what everyone else is doing. They don't want to be cringe or cliche and every day I see a "cringe culture is dead" post and then someone making fun of another part of fandom, an antithesis to their previous statement. They don't want to be late to things, either. Who cares if Last Life was a couple years ago? Draw the fanart anyway!

I'm scared. Maybe I'm just old, but every post I see I notice that I get maybe a 10th in reblogs of what I do in likes, and I don't even post my art or fics to this site. Every post is like that. More and more people only like posts and they die, unseen, by everyone. More and more people misuse archive of our own's functions, treating it like it has some algorithm, when it doesn't, and it never has and hopefully never will. I see fic reuploads to "gain traction" (not how it works) and people reaching out to find RP partners (breaking TOS) and all sorts of other shit on both sites and it fucking horrifies me. I'm not even that old- I'm eighteen, and I can already tell how fandom has changed for the worst for everyone. Fandom used to be a community. Not consumption.

It's just... sad. Old fandom had PLENTY of fucking problems, and we have problems here too, but at least the positives outweighed the negatives. It's so... mean here, now. Even the happy things are mean-spirited. People treat it as if certain people have invaded this fandom space, spreading horrible opinions and ruining it for everyone, but the truth is is that shipping is always going to be a thing. It's a foundation of fandom- fandom started with housewives in the 1950s writing Star Trek fanfiction. You can never get rid of shipping. You can just interact with what you want to interact with and leave others to mind their own business.

[just-jordie-things]

spiderman fan anon here again who yapped abt how i think ur spideygumi fic is the literal greatest spidey au of all time.. sry i hope ur not tired of hearing abt it but i just reread the fic (again) and i cant stop thinking abt what mc and megumis development would be like from here… megumi is definitely not the typical peter-parker-type with his sense of justice (as one of his figures’ packaging hilariously summarizes “i save people unequally”) which has SOO much potential for a Good fucking hero story AND new relationship dynamic. like maybe megumi tries to become kind of a more “moral” hero on his own, but shit happens, maybe the govt or police are too corrupt and he realizes he can only trust himself to bring justice to the city, a more batman-like mentality. would mc have a problem with his morality and pull away? would she agree with it and help him as a journalist? would she disagree and give him the With great power Comes great responsibility spiel, leading to him growing into a more “true” spiderman-like hero? Idfk i do not write at all but i cant turn off my comics-loving brain with all this potential!!! i also dont mean to push u to write any of this but i had to talk abt it before i Exploded

the way i wanna make this fic a 5 movie franchise now becuz OMG THE AVENUES THIS OPENS UPPP

i am a marvel girl (sorry battinson baby even u aren't my fav) so i see spiderman!gumi having a deadpool mentality but without the mouth lolol

ok here's some very small thoughts i have about what a continuation in the story would've looked like:

he tries to find a mix between the public eyes' idea of the right thing and his version of the right thing but... dammit some people just gotta suffer a bit don't they?

he sees someone get a lil too harsh with a dog and he can't just give em a lil scare. next thing he knows they're beaten beyond recognition and webbed up to a wall for the police to deal with. fuck that guy, who hurts dogs??

when the news starts to call him things like menace and people start to wonder if he's not the altruistic hero they thought he was, megumi tries to balance between the different schools of thought of justice. he has you by his side, supporting him and wishing him all the best with being the best he can be...

so when some perp he's apprehending starts spouting off some real nasty shit, megumi tries to tell himself that prison will bring him to justice. over and over in his head he tells himself that he has to let some things go...

but damnit this bigoted asshole won't shut up and megumi just doesn't see how society could possibly function with pieces of shit like this roaming around. and no, when the guy's body goes limp after a swift ninety-degree head-spinning snap to the neck, megumi doesn't feel any regret. only relief that there's one less bastard in his city.

as for you, you've always trusted in spiderman. so you're learning to place your trust in megumi, too. you hate the rare occasion when he visits you bloodied and bruised, but you hate the idea of a city without spiderman's protection even more. you've been a fan of spiderman since the first day you'd heard of the sightings. a ride or die doesn't walk away just because things are getting a little nastier out there.

a career in journalism will prove to be difficult. the truth about megumi's double life is a secret that you both understand must stay contained no matter the price. you probably bounce around a few firms, trying to find just the right place to land where you can write the truth without revealing too much. however most outlets just want to report on the crimes spiderman himself has committed, and you struggle with badmouthing your hero (and your boyfriend)

i like to think megumi laughs at the papers trying to paint him as a villain. it doesn't stress him out, it's nothing to him really. just a source of entertainment for him to read to you over dinner. between the two of you, you handle the ugly headlines far worse. but megumi likes to rile you up by reading all the worst ones to you, just to make you fuss over it all. some nights it's like you're rivals again- megumi taunting you with the latest edition of the spider-menace storytelling, chuckling when you start to crinkle your brows and spout off about how some writers are uneducated phonies or how they're ungrateful for what he's done. you never fail to go on a long winded rant followed by some chugged down water. and as always, megumi will just smirk and shake his head as he throws away said latest edition.

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i lost wind here but i would love to hear if anyone has other thoughts too!!

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

this fandom feels like being awake during a lobotomy sometimes. like i like (most of ) the characters (excluding regulus) to an extent depending on characterization and so many ppl have superiority complexes being like we're not hp fans or wtv like yes u are???? double standards saying oh ewww u like that ship but then going batshit when someone disagrees with wolfstar or jegulus bcuz they " built the fandom" B.F.F.R im so tired, how do i interact with a fandom that has little canon and no solid canon focusing only on them cuz the creator's a terf. in a perfect world the marauders and even hp. were written by a good person (i feel like most of the fandom's problems would be solved by that...) i want to see and interact with content about the characters but so many of the people who do the same are like so stupid?? (racist/stereotyping, mean, hypocrites) like i'm losing my mind bcuz this is a hyperfixation but it's literally killing meeeeee. ur blog is like my safe haven in this fandom i swear- the crashout is near i fear

this entire thing... delicious. this acc loves u anon . YESS btw omg the lobotomy thing is so accurate it does actually feel like that it's crazy.

the superiority complex bothers me SO MUCH OMG every other golden trio era vid having "i thought this was james" and harry being referred to as "james' son" pisses me OFF. like i know theyre trying to be anti jkr and i mean we all are but thats just making us all look stupid "i forgot who harry was 😭" like that's not !!! a flex !!! they try to act like theyre so much better than people who like canon content like surprise surprise hating on and bullying people doesn't make you morally superior ??

jkr really did fuck everything up the moment she opened her mouth, had she just shut the fuck up she'd litr be praised and loved and all would be right in the world and jegulus wouldn't exist but JHVDJSKL. andyeah the racism and homophobia and misogyny is . crazy. 80% of the time you can read a text post and you can tell that their shipping of a ship started only because they hc one as a top and one as a bottom and ew ew ew . thats weird and disgusting. esp bc a lot of these ppl are like fourteen like you should NOT be thinking about sex 24/7 touch some grass instead of your peanits dawg 😟

[saltydkdan]

Yo, Salt man. Decided to finally bite the bullet and dive into One Piece. Currently on Volume 4/Chapter 27 of the manga (also episode 2 of the Netflix live-action, really good ngl). I'm excited to read it, but the sheer length of the manga is extremely daunting to me, and I'm starting to wonder if it's even worth reading at this point. Dunno if you got any sort of tips or such to help someone like me through this, or at least boost morale?

Don’t worry! I felt the exact same way. The length of One Piece can feel really daunting when you start. However here is what I tell people to keep in mind:

Get to Arlong Park

This is what EVERYONE SAYS. But it really is true. Get to Arlong Park, and if you enjoy it, then you will 100% love this series. Arlong Park is the arc where One Piece starts to really become what it is known for (and in some senses Baratie too). And what’s cool is that as someone who has caught up, Arlong Park isn’t even my favorite anymore, far from it. Arlong Park made me a fan, but later stuff like Alabasta, Skypeia, and Water 7 especially made me HYPER FOCUS on the series.

Basically if you think Arlong Park and stuff like Baratie is good, it really only goes up from there, as it’s more or less a taste of what you’ll be getting as Oda develops the story. If you don’t like it tho? No harm no foul! You’re allowed to feel however you want! You can move on to something else if you feel like and that’s super okay. Though based on your current reactions I feel like you are def gonna like it LMAO.

You don’t have to binge ALL of it

You are totally allowed to pick it up and read a saga and then put it down to switch to something else for a bit. In fact, if you do find yourself getting too tired at points, def switch it up with another series, TV show, or video game! Nobody expects you to finish reading it in a month or something. It took me a full year to catch up after jumping on and off of it and I had a blast because I didn’t force it!

There’s a reason that the series is broken up into arcs and sagas! The end of a Saga specifically is meant to be a very good break point for you to do something else if you like!

And trust me, if you’re anything like me, you won’t want it to end. After I passed chapter 1,000 I had a sudden violent awakening that I was going to catch up and become a week to week reader and I got really sad LOL.

Being a One Piece reader feels rewarding!

This is something I would have loved to know going in, but reading/watching One Piece (especially nowadays) feels like an insanely rewarding experience.

I have no idea how Oda pulls it off, but there is information that is as immediate as Chapter 1 that is still relevant all these years later in Chapter 1,000+, it really feels rewarding to be into the series for so long.

I’ve never read or watched anything THIS LONG that rewards the reader like this, it’s so fun. And it’s also something that makes One Piece great to re-read or re-watch.

There are so many fun twists, turns, and reveals that are either foreshadowed, or established in a very small way early on. I can’t emphasize harder how fun and connected it makes everything feel.

I call it the opposite of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Because while Jojo will constantly reset itself with a new cast and characters every arc, instead One Piece doubles down, and is still revealing massive bombshells that we’re hinted at ages ago.

The series does show it’s age at times

I don’t like ending stuff on a bad note, but I like to let people know to keep in mind that One Piece has been running for a LONG time, and this can be both good and bad.

It’s good in the sense that I think it gets better and better over time, but bad in the sense that it does feature a couple of outdated depictions, as well as “Pervy” anime-esque humor that I honestly cannot enjoy personally. Just make sure you’re aware going in because some of it has aged… horribly.

That being said though, when One Piece gets depictions right it gets them SOOOO right.

There’s a reason that there’s an ongoing joke in the community that “Luffy would have died multiple times over if not for the Queer Community” lol it’s extremely correct

Reward yourself with the side content

One of my favorite things to do, is after I caught up to a certain point in the manga, is that I rewarded myself by watching one of the One Piece Films from around that time.

It’s a great thing to use as a rewarding little checkpoint and be like “Omg now that I’m this far, I can enjoy this fun animated film without fear of spoilers”.

And while a good chunk of films are very obviously not canon and don’t clearly fit into the overall story (I.e. there is not a good space for them to canonically exist) some of them actually do fit super well, and in my opinion, even add greatly to the overall story.

A big favorite of mine, One Piece: Baron Omatsuri, fits this description like a glove. Not only does it easily fit between the sagas of Skypeia and Water 7, but it even adds to the later themes of the story, and even foreshadows certain elements later on in a super fun way! Plus it’s one of the only One Piece films to have a very experimental direction, created by the guy who made Summer Wars. It feels very different, but in a super fun way, and works as a great little treat for getting as far as you have in the manga!

Anyway, I hope that this helps you out? Remember it isn’t a race, and you can pick up and put down the series whenever you want! There’s absolutely no pressure at all.

A part of me wants to kind of make a “read/watch list” for people who get into the series based off my own recommendation/experience. Obviously everyone is going to read and watch the anime in order, but it would probably be cool to know when you can check out certain side content like Anime-only specials and animated films during your read-through.

If anybody wants that let me know! (I’ll probably end up making it on my own time anyway I have zero self control).

Anyway yeah, enjoy One Piece!

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Tired of ppl erasing Leon's flaws. Anyway, resident evil 4 remake analysis:

The funny thing with the remake is, they didn't actually write out Leon's misogyny from the og; they simply recontextualised it. He no longer says "following a lady's lead just isn't my style", but he DOES say "maybe you aren't heartless after all" to a woman who's saved his life and the life of Ashley countless of times. Hell, Ada is the reason Leon lives past Mendéz, she's the reason he finds Ashley again, she's the reason he is able to find anything in that place, and he still has the audacity to act like she doesn't care, or worse, that she's completely heartless, just because he got his wittol feewings huwt.

Leon's so selfishly caught up in making it entirely personal, even when she established that it wasn't, that he's letting his butthurt feelings literally warp his perception of her into something monstrous. He is quite literally the "one woman wronged me in the slightest way so I will distrust and despise her forever but actually it was just my entitled ass demanding more than she ever consented to give" kind of incel. All she did was kiss him in re2r, she NEVER said it meant anything, or that - fucking hell - she'd be committing to him in any way. I mean the very fact that she should have shot him to get the sample but didn't should be the biggest proof, to the audience and to Leon, that she truly cares and just didn't want him to get caught up in her work, which she actively recognises is not morally sound work.

Also, Leon never once stopped to care about or consider her own turmoil about it?? Every time they talked it was about his feelings and his sense of betrayal and "or are you just using me again", it was never about her. She cares more about him than he cares about her and it breaks my heart. He only cares about himself in this situation, he only cares about how Ada's actions affected him through his own lens, he only cares about his own hurt and doesn't stop for a second to consider hers. He doesn't see Ada as her own person, he sees her for what she could do for, or to, him. He sees her as a projection of who he wanted her to be, not as a person. And that's misogyny at its core.

And as for the fans ignoring every wrong thing Leon has ever done, and instead hating Ada for doing nothing wrong, that too is misogyny :)

Edit to add: it's most clear in how Leon treats Krauser in the exact opposite way. Despite Krauser being a power hungry maniac who killed Luis in front of Leon, Leon still appeals to Krauser's honour, he still tries to put himself in Krauser's shoes and says he "understands" the pain and betrayal Krauser must have felt. And these are all normal, natural reactions to seeing someone you used to respect and admire fall short. But the point is, he reacts this way with Krauser because he saw Krauser as a human being capable of good, whereas he only saw Ada as a projection of who he wanted her to be, and when she wasn't actually like that, he hated her for it.

Capcom's misogyny infects everything they make, and while they genuinely tried making Leon no longer misogynistic, this kinda thing still slipped through because Capcom only sees Ada as a romantic extension of Leon.

Edit again: Another thing is that just because you might think something is in character for Leon/makes sense for him to feel/act a certain way, that doesn't inherently mean he's right to. Like, Leon's an unreliable narrator a LOT of the time - anyone who has survivor's guilt like he does is gonna be. Just because you think it "makes sense" or you understand why he'd be upset, doesn't mean he's in the right to treat Ada the way he did. Leon was also understandably upset with Krauser and his actions, even saying Krauser "won't get away with this", and yet he still approaches Krauser with respect, and tries to empathise with Krauser's experiences. I just need people to understand that this double standard from Leon is obvious and misogynistic, that's all.

[jiminjeonging]

Man, the hypocrisy of K-Pop stans truly is nauseating. https://x.com/tallyspies/status/1889751764779323692?s=46 Here we have that one insufferable account who does nothing but criticize and complain about everything aespa does and engage in fan wars, always very worried about super important things like making these tweets calling out shippers and saying their outfits suck or that the concerts are boring or whatever, having the gall to compare you to a male fan and making a big deal out of nothing. Funnily enough, not so long ago the Karina Protect account posted about some disgusting weirdo who quite literally had his whole account dedicated to videos of himself jacking off to female idols PCs, with many of them being done on JM's PCs. I've NEVER seen any of these people who are constantly on shippers' ass RTing or talking about this type of stuff, much less about the freaks posting deepfakes or even the nasty akgaes slut shaming and degrading them to the max, because we're all very aware that they don't really care about supposedly "inappropriate" and "sexualizing" tweets, and they just want an excuse to go all out on their homophobia. https://x.com/serperiwhore/status/1889538048683360638?s=46 And here we have a tweet with almost 60k likes quite literally asking who is the true "alpha" among these male idols based on bulge pictures, and despite a few people asking them to delete specifically the Jeno one, the majority are freely comparing, fantasizing and truly sexualizing these men in a way that no GG stan could ever dare to do, because they'd be promptly canceled, harassed and probably ran off their fandom for being "disgusting freaks." Let's also not forget that the whole collective of K-Pop Twitter was sending death threats and cyberbullying that girl sanairl just because she was openly unsupportive of that whole PR debacle of 0227 to the point she had to move accs and rebrand. Unsurprisingly, that "fan" of yours who's one of the biggest wock enjoyers is finding this amusing and calling you weird too: https://x.com/mjnjeong/status/1889774548192473454 So... the bottom line is that I'm so fucking tired of this. Sorry for the rant, Nat, but for real, it's hard not to get angry at these people and their faux morality that is ultimately rooted in both misogyny and homophobia (and in the last example, rooted in having their delulu perception of MJ confronted and challenged). Don't let these assholes discourage you, because if anything, all of this is just more reason for GG shippers (and especially JMJers, of course) to get freakier and more annoying. Rest assured we stand with you, queen. Thanks for doing God's work and giving us good content that also doubles down in triggering bigots and hypocrites.

you really said everything i wanted to say ppl are always so dramatic and do too much against jmjers gg shippers and its very trying i dont even know how many weird asks i got and had to block them too but they still keep on going like someone just wished for me to get raped but im the freak one right?? i think im gonna take a break and just focus on writing fics im so tired of this fandom

[sagurus]

dcmk character opinion thingy - amuro rei?

This is in response to a post I made a few years ago inviting people to ask my opinion on DCMK characters.

So I am actually not a huge fan of Rei. To be clear I 100% see the appeal of his character, I get why a lot of people like him, I wouldn't criticize anyone for enjoying him.

For me it simply comes down to the fact that I'm tired of Gosho introducing yet more super duper competent genius characters to a series spilling over with them. And the fact he's yet another organization double agent who's actually 'one of the good guys'.

I can appreciate he's a little bit more morally grey than a lot of the other characters introduced (from what I know, anyway). But, for me, it would have been much more fun if he was a genuine agent of the org.

I've heard a rumor that I cannot source - and that I also think has been debunked anyway - that he was originally intended as an antagonist but Gosho got attached to him. Regardless of the truth of the matter, it made me think a lot about how much more interesting it would have made my experience of the story if he had, indeed, continued to play an antagonistic role.

Along with all of that, I'm just kind of irrationally annoyed about his popularity 😂 which is 100% my problem. Fun fact: I went to Japan recently and found shelves and shelves of DCMK doujinshi and I'd say with no exaggeration that Shuuichi / Rei doujinshi took up at least 90% of that.

Anyway, TL;DR, for my own silly reasons I actually do not like this character and likely never will. However, I recognize the things that do actually make him interesting to other people.

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

Just stopping by to say you are so right. I'm so tired of seeing the condescending and completely unnecessary "remember the Vees are evil uwu" comments when no one feels the need to post that shit for Alastor.

1.) No shit, every sinner that is in HELL was a bad enough person to warrant eternal punishment (this includes protagonists like Angel, Nifty, Husk, which the fandom loves to forget), and 2.) if you're going to take a performative moralistic stance of "reminding everyone they're bad people" then do it equally across the board. Especially with Alastor who has this weird free pass that I do not understand whatsoever.

I think it must be born of ignorance or something... the whole "he's a serial killer but he has a moral code" is ridiculous. There are no moral serial killers. They are vile murderers. They also tend to be complete narcissistic losers with no capacity for empathy who target the most vulnerable members of society. Even if that's not Alastor's target population his evil actions are still nothing to glorify or woobify. To be fair to Hazbin fans I think this unfortunately stems from a larger societal phenomenon of people adoring serial killers; it just sucks to see the constant lack of critical thinking and self-awareness because he's apparently "hot" (?) somehow.

Anyways I appreciated your write-up. I'm right there with you, it does get frustrating.

Y e a h it's really annoying. I think part of it is just the light hearted way murder gets treated in a lot of media nowadays? Which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing other than, like you said, kind of leading to the glorification of real serial killers. It can also lead to some WEIRD double standards in TV shows if the writers aren't REALLY CAREFUL-

Also on your first reason, while I do agree that a lot of the main cast has done some pretty heinous shit, I don't know if I agree with EVERYBODY deserving to be in Hell in the first place? Because like, the system in Hazbin is implied to be ROYALLY screwed up. I wouldn't be surprised if it was kinda Good Place esque in that, even if you weren't like, an actual goddamn criminal, if you don't fit the Gold Standard of Heaven you just get shoved in with the worst of the worst. Specifically Angel I don't think really deserves to be in Hell? Just because I think he's more of a victim of circumstance then anything else, given his mafia family and how he seems to have a genuinely good heart. But yeah no otherwise I completely agree, if some characters are getting held accountable, ALL OF THEM need to be held accountable.

[inspector-constable]

My thoughts on Barbenheimer, since these movies are now inextricably linked in my mind forever and I liked both of them more than I thought I would:

Barbie

I had a lot of thoughts on feminism, patriarchy, capitalism, and all that jazz after watching this one, but smarter people have already dissected that better than I could.

What I will say is I was hysterically laughing at almost every moment to the point where my face and abs hurt. Every time Will Farrell's gaggle of incompetent suited executive officers were on screen I just couldn't hold the giggles in. Helen Mirren's narration reminded me SO MUCH of God in Good Omens in a way that really got to me. There were parts where nobody else in the theater was laughing, but my partner and I were fighting to keep our guffaws down because the humor was just so, so on point for us. "SUBLIME."

My partner is a cis white male, and after reading the opinions of others of his kind, I am reminded once again how fucking lucky I am that he turned out to be a good one. He liked the movie even more than I did and it really resonated with him.

I wished the movie had delved a tiny bit more into how the patriarchy fucks men up too, and not just queer or neurodivergent or different men like Allan, ALL men are shoved into a box and punished for stepping out of line under the patriarchy. And I wish Allan had more screentime.

Generally I felt the movie was a bit heavy handed with its morals. Of course I completely agree with what it had to say and I don't mean to tone police. But because of my background and religious trauma I am just acutely and unfortunately aware of the kind of visceral reaction certain people will have to the way Barbie presents its themes. This was a movie that speaks to people who already agree with its central ideas. But if the writers/producers actually wanted to make anti-feminists think critically about their position, I think the message was a bit too hamfisted or condescending to accomplish that.

However I'm aware that even my thinking about this point is largely because of my anxiety and religious trauma and I am really tired of running films through a filter of "What would my dad say if he watched this movie?" I'll stop there before this becomes an entire therapy sesh

All that being said, I laughed, I cried, I spilled water on myself, I loved seeing all the pink clothes. Every actor was hysterical and beautiful. I love that movies can be bright and colorful and whimsical again. I gave the movie a 9/10.

Oppenheimer

What a shock to move on to this movie. To be honest, I am not a fan of war movies in general and I didn't know why people were so excited about this one. We probably wouldn't have gone if our friends didn't want to do the double feature.

At first, I was irritated. After coming from Barbie, having a movie totally populated by old cis white men felt annoying. There were almost no important female characters at the beginning. I noticed how Florence Pugh's character was basically just a sex object - yes she had interesting opinions, but it seemed like she was naked and riding a dick for half her scenes. Why was she naked but Cillian Murphy was fully clothed for their first sex scene? The whole movie seemed focused on a male gaze and a male perspective, par for the course for a war movie.

When Emily Blunt's character said "Can you explain quantum physics to me? It seems awfully complex." All I could think was "Can you play guitar at me?" Dead.

BUT.

As the movie went on I started to realize how well it fit with the themes Barbie focused on, but from another side. This movie is full of old cis white men, yes. They are the patriarchy, the literal men in power.

Oppenheimer actually did an incredible job examining exactly what I was left contemplating after I left Barbie - how the patriarchy destroys everyone, even the men who it benefits the most.

What a perfect example of how the competitive, egotistical, compassion-less, violent nature of toxic masculinity hurts everyone who participates in it while claiming innocent victims. The patriarchy built a weapon of mass destruction, refused to listen to calls for discretion, and murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians. And then the men, just like the Kens, began to feel their egos being threatened and they fought and backstabbed each other into obliteration.

So in the end it ended up being a marvelous commentary on similar social and political issues just like Barbie, while also being a strong anti-war movie (as Steven Spielberg would say every war movie is.) It was beautifully shot and the performances were incredible. The use of color and sound was perfect and the Trinity bomb scene (and the gym scene after) was one of the most impactful things I have ever seen. I felt like my brain was buzzing and my jaw was open for most of the movie.

However, I don't think Oppenheimer passed the Bechdel test and I was pretty bummed at the lack of female characters although Kitty's questioning scene was the most badass part of the whole movie. It was too long, too many names to remember, the timelines were confusing, and everything after the bomb test seemed to be boring political dialogue that I barely stayed awake for.

I gave it an 8/10.

[zingaplanet]

Why do you keep talking about the abuser John Lennon have some respect for his wife and son who he treated so poorly

Ok you know what, I never really used to answer this kind of asks but I want y'all to read this cause I'm kinda annoyed.

Firstly, specifically to the topic itself, not sure if this is a trigger ask but honestly not once in my post did i ever actually talk about lennon by himself in a hero-worshipping way? I like his music and I found his bond with his bandmates incredibly fascinating and sad, and I can surely sympathise with his tragic life story and childhood. But I do know full well he was far from a perfect guy, and never actually make claims otherwise? He himself claimed to abuse a couple of times and was definitely not a good father to Julian. I also don't like when people get beatified or at least forgiven of all wrongdoings when they die but let's face it, his 60+ years legacy and his presence as a public figure are not going away from public discussion soon, if you wanna try to cancel John Lennon then feel free?

Personally I don't wanna make arguments about cancelling public figures (so don't fcking come at me again with this). I'm not even trying to get y'all to disassociate him from his art cause I never actually gush about him personally. In fact I don't even care that much??? (Besides the fact that he was in a band that I love). There's a double-edged sword to everything innit? I know that some lennon fans might also come at me for this but honestly, i basically don't even care enough to get this involved?

Second and most importantly, I'm just so tired of people trying to tell me what I should and shouldn't do with my blog?? So many of you come to my asks everyday saying i don't like this, i don't like that, I know this is a multi-fandom blog but pls pls get that I'M DOING IT FOR ME?? Not for you or anybody else in any fandom?? I write, reblog, posts whatever I like here for MY OWN ENJOYMENT? I don't owe anybody shit and I'm not under ANY obligations to put out content that satisfy you. In fact I don't give a shit if you don't like any of my posts - tumblr for me is a fun place to go out and maybe gush about smth I wanna talk about? I'm not here on some grandiose purpose to talk about moral ethics or whatever, sometimes i can't help maybe letting that show a little in my posts but unless this blog is ran by an AI don't think i can disassociate myself and I don't really want to? which is why I stop answering some asks about my own personal political opinions.

Basically, what i'm saying is, this is a FREE space. Nobody actually forces you guys to be here? I'm not attacking you personally but honestly if any of you don't like my content JUST UNFOLLOW ME? I'm just here for good vibes really so these kind of asks are quite annoying. I'm not really going to answer these things anymore and more possibly just ignore you.

Honestly, this is 2023, let's just chill out, leave things we don't like, n let good vibes be hhh.

[aajjks]

Men say “women are women’s worst enemies,” and I used to fight that idea tooth and nail. But honestly? K-pop twt is proving it true every single day. The way y’all treat Jennie is disgusting. What did she even do? Be “lazy” in performances? That’s enough for you to wish violence on her? To say she deserves to die?

I’ll be honest, I used to hate her too, just like everyone else. I’m still not her biggest fan. But there’s a huge difference between not liking someone and actively being a misogynist, especially toward a Korean woman in an industry already filled with unrealistic expectations and double standards. I would never stoop that low.

You all slut-shame her, dehumanize her, reduce her to nothing more than a body or a headline, and for what? She breathes and suddenly it’s a scandal. She dates someone? She’s a slut. She wears something bold? She’s asking for attention. She smiles? She’s fake. She doesn’t? She’s arrogant. Literally nothing she does is ever okay in your eyes.

And the worst part? Most of this hate is coming from other women. The same people who scream “mental health matters” and “support female idols” turn into absolute monsters when it’s someone they don’t like.

Jennie is getting more hate than actual criminals in the industry. More than kim sae roon , seungri and taeil. She’s being harassed, mocked, picked apart like she’s not even human.

I’m genuinely scared this could push her to suicide. Idols' mental health only matters when it’s your favorite, apparently. And I’m sorry, but I'll never lose my morals over kpop and I’m 100% sure even the Tannies themselves would be ashamed if they saw this

Whenever it comes to defending BLACKPINK, you guys always take the shield of misogyny. I’m so tired of this.

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

So you don't think Marvel will make any good movies worth watching?

Oh my, I hope so. I truly, wholeheartedly, want them to.

The only reason I'm so critical of them is because I'm a fan and I love so many of their characters, mostly the 3 I have in my bio but there are others who are great as well. And the weirdest thing for me is that Marvel has proven that, when they want to, they can do some pretty good stuff.

I'm loving every second of Moon Knight, in fact every new ep I see I like it better than the previous one. I love Steven and Marc and Layla and my adorable piece of shit that is Khonshu. And I adore the Black Widow movie too, I miss Nat a lot but Yelena is fantastic. And NWH was the best MCU Spidey movie to date. I had fun with Eternals, Hawkeye had its faults but it was enjoyable, WandaVision was my favourite Disney+ show before Moon Knight aired...

So yeah they can do good stuff, both in D+ and the movies. But the mistakes? The mistakes are HUGE. The Loki series was a damn disgrace, the framing of most of TFATWS was terrible, EG was probably the worst movie they have made (and if we go further back Ragnarok was an insult to Thor and Loki's characterization, CW wasn't a Cap movie, Stark was treated like a hero when he's nothing but, etc).

So when talking about future projects I can't help but feel worried because I don't know if they're going to nail it or ruin it. And I hate being negative about it, I really want to stay optimistic and I try, but it's all very hit and miss with Marvel these days.

With that said I would LOVE to be wrong! I want MoM to be a great movie and focus on Stephen and his arc, I want Love and Thunder to approach Thor's character the right way and address his past... I will be the first to come here and yell that I was wrong and the movies were phenomenal.

[bettathanyou]

Cedric The Sorcerer Headcanon List :

Relationship Edition 💕 (Gender Neutral)

Hi folks, it's almost Valentine's Day again. As a Betta fish I don't really care about that holiday, or most holidays really- but I do care about a very special sensational sorcerer <3 hope u enjoy! This will include sfw + slight nsfw, not too much graphic detail tho. I'll put a tag when the nsfw stuff gets listed!

Cedric would be soooo genuinely confused about flirting- he would either think you're joking, take things too literally or not see it as flirting- just you being really friendly

Once he gets it through that big ass forehead of his (/j/nm/) that you LIKE him, he will immediately freak out and berate himself for not seeing it sooner. Then try to plan an elaborate scheme to try to ask you out, in typical Cedric fashion

Courting him would include tons of body doubling, just being in his space and doing things together and listening to his rants- and teaching you about magic if you're interested

Cedric's innate way of expressing love would be through gift giving and acts of service- but of course would adapt to your love language if the ones listed above didn't align with you

Would be shy about touching you at first, but eventually he will warm up to it and soon will find any excuse to kiss you and give you a hug/cuddle

Naps together are going to be very common- he's so tired and doesn't even realize it until you make him feel safe enough to relax a little

Literally your BIGGEST fan and hypeman, for real this dude is so smitten it's ridiculous

Because of how poorly he was treated by others, he has alot of attachment issues to work though. Can be very clingy and jealous at times, but will always do his best to improve and grow with you

Would definitely say I love you first

So so SOO protective of you, he will fr curse anyone who would make you cry or feel upset- he may be a reformed villain, but would do some morally questionable things for your sake no problem whatsoever

If you feel sad and want a distraction, Cedric will go full sideshow magician and won't stop until he finds a way to make you smile

He is 100% pansexual, so your gender identity is irrelevant when it comes to attraction ((will obviously respect pronouns and call out anyone who doesn't full stop))

Once he gets over his initial shyness, he will find small ways to compliment you as much as possible

Will talk anyone's ear off if you're mentioned in conversation, he loves talking about how amazing you are and all the funny stories you two share

Doesn't care whether he's big or small spoon, he just wants you close to him

You both will have plenty of inside jokes and will reference them endlessly, even if it doesn't make sense to others

Talking to each other for hours or just sitting in comfortable silence, it's one or the other

You both will start mirroring each other's vocal mannerisms until it's just y'all constantly vocal stimming instead of talking in coherent sentences

He loves kissing you anywhere of course, some of his favorite places are your neck, shoulders, and the top of your head

Definitely aims to marry you, kids aren't on his list of goals tbh (the royal kids and Calista fr are more than enough for him 💀💀)

Cedric will read to you in bed on whatever book he's reading to help you sleep if you're having trouble

Nicknames for you would include: my dear, lovely, love, darling, sweetness, honey, and sunshine (in reference to you calling him crescent moon, you're the light that makes him shine bright :') )

Nicknames for him would include: ceddy, sweetheart, darling, handsome, mittens, (you only use that one to tease him lovingly about his gloves) and crescent moon/moon (given for his white bangs looking like crescent moons to you, secretly his favorite one and you only use it in private with him)

Cedric wouldn't exactly get used to much PDA because of anxiety and his struggle of self worth, but hand holding is negotiable (kissing each other goodbye is fine too, but only on the cheek)

In PRIVATE THO??? hoooo boy

THIS IS YOUR TW FOR THE NSFW HEADCANONS, DONT SAY I DIDNT WARN YOU

Okay now the actual list starts here-

Loves to worship your body and has a serious praise kink. Need I say more? Yes, yes I do

A whimpering mess in bed, and you eat that shit UP

Has to take breaks cuz he just won't last otherwise 💀

Will think the first time you have sex with him was a fever dream until he wakes up next to you in bed with him

Feels grateful to even have someone who desires him

Foreplay doesn't start in bed, it's like a whole set up the entire day, with being extra loving and heavy flirting

Aims to please to a fault, so getting you off is what really turns him on the most

On that note, Cedric would feel uncomfortable receiving/asking for anything for a while, but as his confidence and self worth grows he finds himself a lot more receptive to it

He's pretty vanilla when it comes to positions cuz I said so but that's because he's so attracted to you he doesn't need anything fancy to climax

What he lacks in spice he makes up for in passion. No man will make u feel more appreciated and loved and that's on period 🤭

LEWD. HAND. HOLDING. yeah. Yeah.

Loves to say your name in bed

After you both finish, heavyyyyyy aftercare. Mandatory cuddles, gazing lovingly in each other's eyes, always brings you a towel first to clean yourself up (if he isn't already doing it himself) sometimes if you both have some energy left you'll run a bath for both of you and wash up together

You asked him once what your insides felt like as a joke, he replied "like home- warm and like I fit in perfectly" and you still haven't emotionally recovered from that

Obviously a power switch, next question

Has every sweet spot MEMORIZED

that's all I got so far, but PLEASE feel free to add on in the notes