#give the girl some credit)

[tare-anime]

One thing that I like about sxf is that despite being a shonen (with not a teenager protagonist), Endo makes Twilight hot and very capable, but at the same time, make it hard for fans to give him harem.

Like, Endo does create lots of awesome women, but it is clear that Twilight has no (romantic) interest at them at all.

Karen?

Twilight didn't even bat an eye. Dumped her just like that

Nightfall?

Twilight clearly never see her more than colleague and mentee. He even despise the idea of their cover story as married couple

How about older woman? Handler??

Twilight clearly afraid respects her as older sister boss and mentor. And that's that.

The City Hall women who swoon at him?

Twilight imagine them as evil and despicable.

The only woman who can make him making lots of expressions, such as:

Devastated and confused

Flustered

Melancholic

Proud

Lovestruck Skipping a heartbeat

And truly smile

Is just Yor.

Love it 🥰

[miraculan-draws]

Ok so. You aren't gonna get Activism Bonus Points as a knight in shining armor for condemning the intersection of horror/and romance. People did it with Hannibal, Interview, Killing Eve, you can go as far back as Wuthering Heights and see the same shallow and lukewarm takes. Which is what Gothic Romance is—its horror and romance. It's not like. An aesthetic. It's not Romance but with black lace. Decrying it with every new story doesn't make you look righteous. it makes you look illiterate.

We have BEEN discussing. The psychology behind this sort of romance since FOREVER. Women and queer men (really the whole queer umbrella) are known to gravitate towards these kinds of love stories because culturally and historically that desire is "something to be ashamed of." So how do you justify wanting, when your kind of wanting is condemning? Worth shunning? A secret?

Take YOUR want out of the equation. Make the story about someone wanting YOU so badly that they don't take no for an answer, a "no/never/I won't give in to you" that can be given for propriety's sake as a verbal alibi. But it takes agency to toss ASIDE ones agency in the first place.

It's the same people clutching their pearls about pulp monster stories. With "bodice ripper" stories. (Same basic principle behind CNC in kink spaces honestly) And REALLY it's fitting that the centennial reproduction of Nosferatu is what started it back up because above ALL OF THESE—is the mack daddy of them all, vampire literature.

There is a line in Nosferatu 2024: "I am an appetite. Nothing more." And it took my breath away because THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT BABY. Vampire stories are never JUST a creature feature. They are never face value. They represent something, and it's mercurial—I believe Rolin Jones referred to vampires as "a dark mirror" to human wants and appetites, and how if you repress something hard enough it'll always rot and turn ugly and cruel.

"I am an appetite." You can read between the lines better when you're not shaking your head no for the imaginary social media jury.

And if this is something you routinely cannot catch on to, can't relate to, makes you uncomfortable beyond what you can tolerate, then there's no shame in just avoiding the genre altogether. (Fantasy/Adventure with romance as a side plot will probably be closer to something for you. Even Dark Fantasy will probably scratch the itch if you keep finding yourself starting and quitting gothic romances)

[zoe-oneesama]

Have you seen that leak of the new season yet? I just saw and it’s the new girl talking about something that marinette did and it was horrible

I haven't, but I've seen jacquesthepigeon's responses to people bringing it to them and can only have this^ reaction.

[apollos-boyfriend]

the whole “collect my pages” slenderman meme being attributed to slender himself drawing the pages and placing them for people to find truly goes to show that men will always take credit for women’s work smh

[clownzaf]

The whole fucking Batfamily being higher in the Young Justice (comics) tag than Anita, Greta, Slobo or Cissie is a fucking CRIME

[thewastedpotential]

Okey so my personal headcanon: this but with Red and Ramona.

Red didnt have a very good mother which is why she's trying to be better mom for her daughters and to be there for them.

The cycle of generational trauma pased from mother to daughter ends with her. Shes determend with it.

And i hate when she's pictured in fics as distant from Ramona or favors Cerise. No. She loves them both equally.

Ramona is her firstborn and Cerise is her baby. No matter how old they are they will always be her little girls.

[fromthemouthofzabe]

Okay so for the first few episodes of Ahsoka I was like BLEGH what is this?? she's so serious and melancholy? Her lightsaber fights are so boring? Where are the acrobatics? Where are the dumb jokes and nicknames?? Where is my girl, you've ruined her??

BUT THEN THE FLASHBACKS

THE LIGHTSABER FIGHTS FELT LIKE THE CLONE WARS

SHE LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE AHSOKA

AND SHE CAME BACK AND SUDDENLY SHE WAS SMILEY?? AND SASSY?? AND JUST SEEMED SO MUCH LIGHTER??

Filoni you mad lad I had my doubts but you've done it again

[holdfastperseus]

Do people forget that Annabeth gave up immortality for Percy first??

[the-one-that-weeps]

I find it a little poetic that, usually, plays have 5 acts, but isat has 6. And the sixth one is responsible for breaking the cycle. Like telling the viewer that "hey, it's not over. Your life isn't theatre. So go out and live."

[aikya-kat-44]

Penelope

Penelope is smarter than anyone gives her credit for. It isn't that she isn't capable of using force to get rid of the suitors (she was Penelope of Sparta after all) but that she realised she couldn't really without politically destroying Ithaca. So, does she give up? Why no of course. Instead, she comes up with a scheme equal to that of Odysseus' Trojan horse to ward then off until Odysseus gets home- and he CAN kill the suitors of and she loves him so ye the smartest of the male Greeks may be Ody but the smartest greek is Penelope.

[chalkanthit]

She's silly;;;

[liquidstar]

crazy take: aside from actual lesbian romance stories, obviously, nothing passes the bechdel test better than moe "cute girls doing cute things" anime. its always just a group of girls, few to no named male characters, boys and dating are hardly ever brought up beyond the abstract, if at all. like we're focusing on the girls hanging out rn, we dont need to worry abt that shit. mugi just ate mio's strawberry.

[viksalos]

*appears in ur bathroom mirror at 4am and offers u an anatomical heart* 🫀

jewelry @grouponlobotomy and @.puvithel (on ig) corset @lemainestudio

[ophernelia]

I know it’s said often, but in my case I genuinely mean it- I really love the small community I’ve been able to find and create. Major emphasis on it being small. That way I feel like I’ve been able to connect with a lot of you. I see certain usernames pop up and I immediately recognize it. I like that. I like being able to do that. It was never my intention to really have anything like this at all but I’m so grateful how things worked out! Thank you guys honestly. With that said, I do aim to keep it this size lol. Hence why I hardly ever tag stuff properly aside from just keeping my blog sorted. Finding Lykaia is meant to be like finding a hidden gem orrrrr dumpster diving and finding one really odd piece of trash. Idk depends on your preference.

[ruushinynerve]

I'm currently going through a winter melancholy with a deep escapism in Merlin fanfics (the reason why I still wake up in the morning, haha). I'm doing my best not to think about the future and other unpleasant things, and it's paralyzing me from drawing even for myself (my oldest hobby, for me it's truly the last loss of myself), because I feel a wild fear of any action and exhaustion from the very thought. Also there are nightmares. The next day they become ludicrous (still a little creepy), even though at that moment they aren't. I'm used to these episodes of apathy but they always come unexpectedly. I hope it won't take too long this time.

by the way, this is me when I'm really happy doing what I love

[camellcat]

hey guys. did you know I like season two episode eleven - fear her from the hit tv show doctor who? hey guys. h