#eliot posts

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everything in this life is temporary. except that fandom hyperfixation from when you were 14. that thang will be with you forever there's no escaping.

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us aros (rightfully) complain that most of the aromantic "representation" we get is creators saying their character is aromantic on twitter or whatever

but nothing compares to the absolute nonsense that the 2010s steven universe fandom went through

after the show ended, one writer was like "i've always seen peridot as aroace and deliberately wrote her to come off that way" while a different writer said "i've always seen peridot and lapis's relationship as romantic and deliberately wrote it to come off that way."

naturally wwiii broke out in the fandom over this

so yeah, we didn't even get a word of god confirmation. we got two priests saying contradictory things while the congregation duked it out in the parking lot

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the two main flavours of platonic ship:

A: struggle to find any platonic content of it because "they're so clearly in love, friends don't do that"

B: struggle to find any platonic content of it because "who cares, they're just friends"

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bodies should not be allowed to hurt unless something is actively hurting you. otherwise it's just like. bitch what the fuck do you want me to do here?

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meeting older queer people gives u +20 hp

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but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

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you start watching dungeon meshi and you see how marcille acts and it's like "great... another show where the girl character is fussy and dramatic and easily grossed out compared to her male counterparts :///" and then you continue watching and meet other female characters who are not at all like that and it's like "ah, she's not like that because she's a girl, she's like that because she's italian"

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also. it's just a gag but i find this bit of laios putting a bib on marcille oddly adorable

like that's his friend and he knows she normally hates getting messy (even if her shirt is already stained with her own blood) and that she's likely to drop/spill something on herself in her current state. so he does what he can to care for her, even if it is silly

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i saw generic horny anime girl art of marcille and it was so fucking jarring. i'm used to any thirsty art of her involving her being like, covered in blood and kissing girls with tongue. seeing that elf posed seductively in lingerie is like seeing a polar bear in oklahoma. she doesn't belong there!

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how the fuck am i supposed to act like a normal functional human being when The Character exists

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the Trans Experience in our society is being treated like schrodinger's gender. you're a woman when they wanna deny you agency and a man when they wanna deny you support. this is an experience that unites nearly all of us, whether transmasc, transfem, or something else.

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those funny tumblr comics weren't lying, senshi dungeonmeshi DOES materialize in your brain to encourage you to practice basic self care

me (tired, walking back to car from airport): i'm kinda hungry but ehhh, i'll just wait til i get home. no need spending money when i have food at home i can cook. besides, i ate well this past week, i can afford to skip just one meal.

the senshi that lives in the shared singular brain cell of every dungeon meshi fan: it's been nearly 6 hours since you last ate, and it'll take at least another hour and a half for you to get home. if you wait that long to eat, you'll get sick with hunger!

me: hmmm, yeah. i think i've got a baggie with like a handful of crisps at the bottom of my backpack. and a few pieces of candy in my purse. i could probably eat those to tide me over?

self care senshi: that's no good, you need way more than that. you can afford to pay for a restaurant; you CAN'T afford to risk putting yourself and everyone else out there in danger by driving while distracted by hunger.

me: you're right... i'll find a diner nearby to stop at.

(also the diner food was good + when i sat down to eat i realized i was starting to get a hunger headache that could have progressed into a migraine if i left it unmanaged. thank you imaginary senshi.)

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just remembered the other day a teen approached me holding a rapidly melting chunk of ice in his hand and asked if i wanted to buy a "limited edition pet rock"

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this site has learned to accept men's tits into their hearts. now i need you all to embrace women's flat chests.

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"falin isn't fat in canon (so stop unduly giving this series credit for fat representation in her case)": a very fair point! it *is* honestly a bit concerning that people are so conditioned by media to think stick-thin is the norm that they think medium-sized bodies are fat. and i've seen some very good points about how almost every character we see that has a heavier build is just like that because their race is naturally more stocky, and that almost no characters in this story are "overweight" by their race's standards. so while this story is much better than a lot of others with its body diversity, there are still some things that it could do better.

"falin isn't fat in canon (so stop drawing her fat)": your ignorance astounds me and your foolishness knows no bounds. i could fill libraries with the things you don't know on this subject. every time you bitch about this i give her another roll.

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the anime cut some of kabru's internal monologue, and i need you anime only people to Witness this guy's bizarro thought patterns in social interactions. all this man knows is eat hot chip and lie.