#girlboss don't stop girlbossing

[wishesofeternity]

The thing about HotD is that it while it absolutely minimizes the agency and ambition of both Rhaenyra and Alicent, this is specifically used to glorify Rhaenyra and frame her as righteous while condemning Alicent and framing her lacking. That's the key difference in both their textual portrayals that has directly led to 90% of the fandom hailing Rhaenyra as the second coming of Christ while spewing the most hateful vitriol at Alicent just for existing. But y'all are not prepared for that conversation.

[devilsskettle]

The X trilogy + "psycho-biddy" influences

[bean-spring]

Viktor treating Hextech like this beautiful, majestic and worth loving dream. "This dream of yours" always talking about Jayce being the one to change the world. Focusing on Jayce and what Jayce can do with this wonderful dream. The possiibilities. The precious potential. The focus being on Viktor instead of on the board that has the dream written all over it, because it's from Jayce's POV. Viktor might be looking at the board but Jayce is looking at him. The sentence continues while Viktor turns around and Jayce's eyes are still on him. His mind doesn't go "oh, right, MY dream" but "OUR dream now" because Hextech, now, can't exist without Viktor. He sees what Jayce has never been able to share with anyone. He sees Jayce and their dream in a way Jayce thought he might never be able to share. So, all of a sudden, it isn't "the hextech dream" but "Viktor and me and our dream".

While (and no hate to Mel, btw, I love her. "she was manipulating Jayce" and "she loved him and cared about him" are things that can coexist") with Mel's scene, it's only "hextech" as a project. An investment. As Jayce is, too. The focus isn't even on Jayce anymore but the city. He's so small in comparison. This scene is separating him from his dream to turn him into a protector of the city instead. A symbol. Something he never wanted to be.

I'm going to be sick.

[bonefall]

Maybe I'll make a post on this at some point but like, something deeply fucked up about TNP and Po3 that people have totally forgotten about is how badly they try to whine that "Tigerstar Had Good Traits :("

Firestar does it, Brambleclaw does it, and they keep doing this after it becomes this GRAND irony that Firestar almost gets Tiger'd to death in a fox trap because he was too trusting. Bramble gets his pity award of keeping deputyship and then cries to his son about how No One Saw The Good In Tigerstar :(

And it's wiiiiild that no one else in this fandom has done anything with the fact that Leopardstar broke the Warrior Code to appoint Hawkfrost, who had no apprentice, an extremely aggressive and warmongering Tigerclone who says things like "Tigerstar wasn't the worst cat to look up to." ONLY qualifying trait was being kinda like Tigerstar.

And she practically did that the SECOND Mistyfoot went missing. And then Leopardstar continued to be one of the most violent and xenophobic leaders through Po3, joining with WindClan to attack ThunderClan.

What I'm getting at is that like, a few years ago, with books like "Blackfoot's Reckoning" and "Shadow in RiverClan" it's like they suddenly decided to retcon in a bunch of "redemption arcs" in hindsight. They just pretended like there was this grand high reckoning with TigerClan, when there literally wasn't, and if anything that caused SERIOUS problems for the cast that the authors didn't fully acknowledge as such.

And now ppl haven't actually read the main series and are just working with their recent memory of all these retcon books.

But TNP and PO3 are still there, and you can go and see the ACTUAL timeline where Leopardstar is really not apologetic at all, and Blackstar is a useful stooge for the very next wannabe dictator that strolls in, in spite of the new side content that COMPLETELY mischaracterized them for their plots to work.

[angels444yuri]

moths are so pretty up close but i am never not screaming and running away at the sight of one i'm sorry

[fromtheseventhhell]

why does this fandom act like dany never suffered again after she gains her dragons? i saw an improperly tagged post on my for you page here and in the tags people are genuinely saying that after dany births her dragons, she never experiences sexual violence or oppression again unlike sansa who has to use her "ladies charms" to survive. i couldn't believe my eyes as i read tag after tag explaining why dany is a girlboss who never experiences anything bad after agot. what is wrong with tha fandom?

It's cause! A subsection of Stansas have adopted the show's (misogynistic) logic that suffering = deserves a good ending, so they want to play the suffering Olympics so Sansa ends up looking the most deserving of a happy ending. They're constantly downplaying other female characters and their trauma to fit their logic. Dany has dragons -> which offers her protection -> which means she hasn't suffered as much as Sansa. Arya has a sword -> which means she can fight back -> which means she hasn't suffered the same way Sansa has. Cersei has power -> which means she has control over her circumstances -> which means she hasn't been victimized the same way Sansa has. And so on and so forth. It's nothing but thinly veiled misogyny based on fundamentally misinterpreting the books cause the story being told doesn't make their favorite look special enough for them. Even a cursory glance at the books would prove these takes incorrect but something tells me they haven't taken the time to actually read them.

[kumakuma-circus]

just randomly remembered that during my like 10+ attempts at the shadow yukiko fight i more or less consistently ran out of revival beads so yosuke was just dead (well unconscious but whatever) on the ground for like half the fight gfhfjvhfhfhd-

[bronzewool]

Went to see Wicked on tour with my mum and just finished reading Malice for my queer book club. And even though I had a fun time with both, I'm honestly tired of Fairytale Villain Retellings where the author does not want to actually engage with the villains and what makes them so iconic. Instead, the author takes the easy way out and makes the villain a misunderstood woobie, erasing what makes them interesting in the first place.

[a-lonely-dunedain]

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[zhongrin]

just had to schedule a 1am meeting with 3 ppl from another team bc of timezones...... orz

[rawliverandgoronspice]

So I really want TotK to make Ganondorf and the gerudos interact, I think it could be great, but I kind of... hope they'll do more with this than making gerudos fully reject him by doing a Girlboss on him in a way where the narrative doesn't acknowledge their history is far more complicated than this, and that allying themselves with the hylians unquestionnably as a way to do a Disney Feminism is uhh charged, especially from his perspective

I'm not asking for anything complex, it can just be that on the surface and then be subtextually deeper and worthy of nuance (which has been done already in the series, tho probably by mistake), but. Yeah.

(one day I'll do the post about why I think gerudo characterization in BotW to try and make them "good" is kind of done mostly in favor of hylian characterization rather than their own, buuut it's another post for another time)

[mixed-up-multiverse]

Scowling in 'The writers need to stop making me look weak for once'

[eclaire-went-bam]

hiii:33!! friendly reminder that someone can enjoy a character that has done heinous things and not support said heinous things

usually when a character does Bad Things in a narrative (espec if they're not the protagonist) it is Portrayed As Bad so people who enjoy the character Likely Know They Are Bad

& either way harassing people over enjoying a fictional character is just really childish

if you don't like the character, that is perfectly valid. but there's never any reason to characterise everyone who likes said character as Evil, and/or imply they condone the character's negative actions.

also sometimes i look at internet discourse and it's like people want morally grey characters but then turn around when "morally grey" is not always "i have my own rules but i still make all the right choices !!" some of y'all just need to admit you just like good characters that's fine not everyone is into the spice it's ok to like that good protagonist energy

;;;not saying every character i'm referring to fits in that "morally grey" category, some are just evil villains, but even then i'm sorry 90% of ur stories wouldn't exist without them. they drive the plot.

[rassvetsky]

with every lewis update the entire lewis pullman fandom spirals further into incurable insanity i fear

[cilantroodon]

I have a complex wherein if a person is attracted to me but I don't think much of them that warps into me being insanely attracted to them because there is nothing hotter than someone pathetically wanting an indifferent partner. however the second this happens the dynamic shifts and I go "wait who is this lmao" usually for good.

[i-platypus]

OMFG!!!!

saw someone refer to not knowing how to keep track of your money as "girl math" ......why are we in this weird era of treating women like idiots but repackaging it to sound cute and quirky. We All Need To Stop