#but i'm really upset that everyone is hating on by@kuya . . . they know the intimate details of the male lead's name but just refer to | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

littlestarprincess · 6 months ago

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. . . I hate when people mistake "the narrative doesn't explore this female character's interiority" with "this female character is dumb and helpless".

It's better when they say "passive" because at least that is something you can concretely see or not see, but . . . when you don't see anything of a female character's thought processes and default to assuming she's "dumb and helpless" that says more about you than anything else.

#this is about mah0@ku #i'm glad there's more fandom engagement with it than i was expecting #but i'm really upset that everyone is hating on by@kuya . . . they know the intimate details of the male lead's name but just refer to #the female lead as 'the magical girl'. . . .i really related to her like i'm sorry as someone who had to grow up fast #and coped with that by being extremely blase about it all #that's not 'being stupid' or 'helpless' that's what literally kept me alive #i was in an extremely reactive environment and byakuy@'s quietly doing her best with the things being handed to her and the specific #variety of things being handed to her makes me feel seen #there IS something to be said about joking around with her going for like a week without eating & how women are expected to starve #themselves but like . . . also she's not dumb she's just been kicked over and over so much that she's keeping her head down #instead of taking risks that won't pay off #everyone nitpicking her age also sucks we don't HAVE a canon age for her we ONLY have context #which is that at some point in her past she dropped out of school and started working full time because shitty things happened to her #granted i haven't read the 4koma in a while but i'm pretty sure she was solidly in her early twenties by the time she and mira meet #and like yeah you can be like 'but her face looks like a child's' but like HER BODY DOESN'T THOUGH and NEITHER DOES HER OUTFIT #if anything mira's circumstances are more early twenties coded than byakuy@'s #like at some point if you're constantly seeing p3dophilia everywhere the call is coming from inside the house #also in this specific instance we're a whopping 12 minutes in so like #she'll get more development jfc

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