#galesplaining

[breezyleavesart]

Galesplaining

[fiddlehead-soup]

Letting him Galesplain so I can have an excuse to ogle at him tbh

[3tavs1durge]

Galesplaining .

[bigfan-fanfic]

Ok I was supposed to send a cute ask about Gale but I honestly NEED him to galesplain things to me as I suck his dick 😭😭

Gale would be trying, white-knuckling the nearest sturdy surface to try and ground himself and finish his thought.

[wyllapproves]

My Tav also has a sage background so instead of getting annoyed at Gale galesplaining I just imagine my Tav tavsplaining right back to him.

[aethramusings]

i always find is so weird whenever people say gale brainrotting about magic is him ‘ mansplaining ‘ it to tav. the difference between mansplaining and gales brainrot is that only “alpha-mindset” cismen mansplain to anyone who isn’t a cisman because they think anyone who isn’t a cisman is stupid .

galesplaining is Gale brainrotting to tav over his special interest that he’s dedicated years of his life to and he wants tav to be able to experience it to and he KNOWS they’re smart enough to achieve magic the way he can so he’s inviting them into a piece of his world and you have to be NICE TO HIM

[teiasviago]

exactly like objectively he’s not mansplaining but ppl love to twist popular words to have a different meaning so they can sound well-informed and progressive. like “galesplaining” you mean his optional expositional monologue 😭 ??

so much of this gale hate is so ableist though like idc that most of it is a joke, he doesn’t talk too much!!!! but bc he’s knowledgeable in magic—his field of study, arguably his special interest—and loves magic so much that he wants to share that knowledge, he’s visibly neurodivergent. so then people clock that very easily and automatically go “oh so this is the character we all bully for ‘talking too much’ and ‘mansplaining’” bc they never unpacked the ableism they were taught growing up. like yeah gale’s a fictional character who can’t be hurt by this shit but how do you think neurodivergent people who enjoy talking at length about their special interests/hyperfixations feel when seeing it? well, it sucks! i feel like a weirdo and an outcast. i feel like even in online spaces i should be staggering my fandom posts so i don’t look like i’m thinking about a piece of media too much, so i don’t come across as annoying. ach, just be careful what you say.