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thrilling-oneway · 1 year ago

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i thought about this for a bit longer because i was like "surely surely there's gotta be a slash or femslash where people do that" and while there are some instances, from observation flanderisation and mischaracterisation of both the character and the ship generally seems to happen more with m/f

M/f ships especially for whatever fucking reason

#full disclosure i don't like any of the main m/f pairings so like i don't actively seek it out but twitter seems to think they're the only #ones i like because it's so broken and i can't be asked to filter any tags so i see stuff for them constantly ANYWAY #especially with VBS this happens because people seem to tone down the partnerships between vivids and bad dogs most of the time #(bc yknow. romantic soulmates coded lol) but like even if you ship akkh or tykh or whatever the hell you can still have the partnerships be #important. even if you have to downplay the implied romantic parts for m/f vbs to work you don't have to tone down the friendship #wow heteronormativity! boys can't be too close to their friends or they're gay oh dear. it's okay for girls though hashtag solidarity #also particular with akkh. often gets watered down to really tropey shit like shoujo manga soft girl x rough around the edges boy #or girlboss x boyflop sorta thing (which kinda happens to ankh in some circles)#the girlbossification of azusawa kohane.#also god the amount of times i've seen rinn or mzri fans start discourse with ritk fans over rui's depression like GUys.#i don't know how many times it has to be said but rui and nene became sorta distant in middle school. nene wasn't there for rui she didn't #know what to do for him so didn't do anything. mizuki and rui didn't really do anything for each other either they just made each other fee #less lonely #with mizuki their salvation came with kanade and n25 as said in carnation and outright shown in ribbon #with rui it came with tsukasa and wxs as outright stated in pandemonium and 2 years prior by mizuki and kaito in kamikou fes #like so what if nene wasn't there for rui in middle school? that doesn't devalue the ship and she's there for him /now/ and that's what #matters literally read the 3rd event in the game. it doesn't matter that rui and mizuki were able to heal because of people other than each #other and you don't need to twist it so that they did because then it doesn't make sense with their current characterisation #and i would call it heteronormativity like “the most important person to this guy can't be another guy” downplay male friendship #but honestly it just seems like. jealousy? in these two instances.#like damn okay so kanade saved mizuki (not that anyone brings this up EVER) and tsukasa was able to help rui but like. rui and mizuki's #companionship was still important to both of them even if they couldn't do anything to help each other. wxs is still important to rui HE #OUTRIGHT SAYS IT “when i started doing shows at the wonder stage with *everyone* my way of thinking and feeling started to change”#you don't need to try and downplay the fact he thanked tsukasa and make up something to cover it up because genuinely it's. kinda sad #that you're willing to misinterpret your ship because your salty that the rival ship got content #like rinn and mzri still work even if he thanked tsukasa. shocking i know #“i don't like any of the main m/f pairings” that's a lie i like kaimei actually. wait does that count as a main m/f pairing jeez these tags #are long maybe i should've just put them in the post #rambles #fuck it

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