#get behind me princess

[da-man-si]

Some people are hating on Li Rong after episode 12, saying she is a vicious and vile woman who deserves to be used by Su Rongqing…and that she doesn’t deserve Pei Wenxuan.

I strongly disagree. In fact, I like her character. She has flaws, many flaws and sometimes I have shouted “girl no” at the screen because she does jump to the wrong conclusions a lot. Her personality has been moulded by the palace environment. She is proud, privileged, a hardcore skeptic and keeps her emotions reserved. Imagine a princess (mind you, she’s an eldest daughter) growing up in a palace where almost every person she’s interacted with is power hungry, even her mother and father. The treachery and bloodshed she must have witnessed. All over power. In her past life, she bent to all that. She would do what the powerful people wanted. She would convince her brother, the crown prince, to do what those people wanted.

She desperately wanted to find a trusted companion in Pei Wenxuan because she thought he is not from the palace and won’t go after power. She thought he will choose her and love her for her, Li Rong and not The Princess Royal. But in comes the trust issues when she sees him with Zhenzhen in his arms. She had taken one step forward in trusting him but then she took three steps back. Because trusting and communicating isn’t her forte. Those who have dared to trust in the palace have met with disappointment leading to death. Did her trust issues come in the way of Pei Wenxuan loving her? Yes. Do I hate her for it? No.

She does not become vicious or vile because she is unable to trust people. It is very tempting and easy it is to follow your fears and overthink shit all the time. She spent 40 years living this way so it will take some time for her to rewire her brain and resist and reject the urges to doubt.

I get that people are mad because Pei Wenxuan has put his heart out to her and she is still doubting him. But, that’s why I like her character. Because when she slams open the doors to herself and lets him in, that would be character development moment.

I don’t know what choice she will make in episode 13 but despite whatever choice she makes, I just want to put it out there that her trust issues come from complex, dark emotions and memories and not because the writer wrote a stupid and cruel female lead. Let’s not let the love for the male lead blind us to the point of hating the female lead because she doesn’t reciprocate his trust and feelings.

[demaparbat-hp]

Oh, Lala...

[officially-bug-art]

Old Bird Men Yaoi

[dykesevika]

when u make fun of her hair this is who ur being mean to btw :(

Men DNI

[khevras]

Golden Wind/Vento Aureo Spoilers

Video Transcript

Bruno: I'll be forced to cut ties with you. A traitor stands alone on an island of isolation. Your failure will be yours and yours alone.

So recently I've decided I really wanted to rewatch golden wind after reading the rest of the parts, and since this time I wanted to give more focus to the animation, I decided to watch it in dub. As a result, when I got to this part in ep3, I realised the dub had elected to change what exactly Bruno had said, stating the words above instead.

This struck me as a bit of a wierd change until I then realised how much this moment foreshadows Fugos 'betrayal' at San Giorgio Maggiore; by having the only one not betraying the boss being the one who suffers what Bruno predicted.

I feel like this foreshadowing is honestly amazing, and also hits home at how Fugo feels later on in phf when thinking back to his actions as the pier. I feel like he really does think of his lack of movement as a failure towards Bucciarati, one he has to atone for and I think it's really interesting.

On top of that, I find it really fun how accurate Brunos words are to the situation as a whole, and I find it quite ironic that the one who suffers them isn't even betraying the boss like Bruno is describing, but rather Bruno himself.

Overall, I really like how this singular line foreshadows a moment episodes later, and how I can bring up how Fugo's opinions and feelings on the event are reflected in Bucciarati's words.

[unpersoniverse]

I have never "I support women's rights AND WRONGS" so hard in my life

[secondary-colorentimy]

i dont like aurora’s mirrorverse design so i made her a knight or whateva :P

[jjkyaoi]

the “ace in the hole” comment between rosie and alastor can be taken however you want, but like. it’s obvious how it was intended and it reminded me how much it annoys me that people in this fandom just intend to completely ignore.. alastor’s asexuality PLUS aromanticism? like YES i know aroace people can date, but alastor doesn’t. like it’s been a thing since the pilot that he’s just not interested in dating whatsoever, and we have so little representation of that—although it hasn’t really been an obvious or stated thing in the show—and it gets on my nerves SOOOO bad. usually idrc and ignore what ppl do in fandoms but stop! ignore a characters identity! that is already so unrepresented!!

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

Every time I try to make a post rambling about another voice my mind just wonders back to Smitten I am so normal about this man

I feel like he’s such a misunderstood character compared to the other voices in the fandom. Maybe it’s because I decided to be more active and aware of the happenings of the fandom rather late, but that is something that I’ve noticed

[cryingpariah]

I simply cannot keep having these conversations with y’all I really just can’t.

You do realize you’re comparing Boa Hancock, a woman who was kidnapped as a child to be a slave for the upper echelon of the world of One Piece, forcibly branded like cattle, made to eat a devil fruit for the entertainment of her captors, and only escaped due to the grace of a fellow slave while still decades later being haunted by her time in captivity to Donquixote ‘Papa let’s go buy some slaves!’ Doflamingo and expect anyone to take what you’re saying seriously??

“B-B-But Boa is a bitch!! 🥺🥺🥺She kicks kittens and puppies and baby seals!! 🥺🥺🥺She looks down on everyone just cause she’s pretty!! If you really think about it 🤓🤓🤓 she’s worse than Doflamingo-!”

Doflamingo killed his father. He shot his father point blank while he was still holding his baby brother. A baby brother that he would also go on to kill. He’s committed canonical atrocities worthy of getting him the lowest level of Impel Down. He is by no means a decent person let alone better than Boa in any respect. He’s just a moderately attractive man with abs and that’s why you people are so willing to let everything he’s done slide.

As for this “evidence” provided in the screenshot, it’s a request. A request from a fan. It's common knowledge that unless it’s a cover story, all individual cover pages are non-canon.

But hey, good job drinking that Doflamingo Kool-Aid. I’m sure he’ll personally want to thank you for defending his slaver owner honour against *checks notes* a former slave.

Lastly, I want to touch on that last comment, saying very confidently that Boa is not a good person. I ask you this: Should she be? Do people deserve to have her kindness again? Should she, as a character, break down those carefully crafted walls just so dude-bros lurking in TikTok comment sections will find her more palatable? I certainly don’t think so.

[avichor]

“[insert animanga here] has more men than women so ofc ppl are gonna focus on the men!!!!” what if i kicked u. what if i pulled out each of ur eyebrow hairs individually. what if u shut up.

[wynn-ing-at-art]

Saw a tumblr post that made me feel sappy about these two <3 (from my fanfic, here!)

[incorrect-slaytheprincess]

the long quiet: so... this is my full potential?

the shifting mound: yes.

the long quiet: so, then it's all downhill from here.

the long quiet: like the narrator.

the shifting mound: i do not know what this narrator is. but they sound disappointing.

[pianokantzart]

Thinking about how the most anxious and inexperienced version of Mario is paired up against the most unhinged and powerful version of Bowser.

[vigilskeep]

Lmao see when you said ranger asha I imagined like. Dads with the cat they said they didn't want. "I'm doing the absolute bare minimum for this mission before I ditch Alistair and run off into the night why do I keep attracting strays (party members) and also strays (wild animals I didn't even know existed)"

this is how she would like to see herself jsgjsksk. unfortunately she loves and is delighted by both packs of strays and is incapable of even a halfway decent performance of pretending otherwise. sucker

[jrueships]

me on tumblr: ant is such a faggybottom, he wants dick so bad it makes him look stupid. i want to punch him into a murky & miserable paste

some random str8 guy on twitter: ant kinda sus

me: