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The No-Girlfriend Rule Review
The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall - 5/5 - Contemporary YA WLW
One of my best friends discovered Christen Randall's The No-Girlfriend Rule and knew I was meant to read it. I put it on hold as soon as she told me about it and it was my turn before the month was up. It was 100% up my alley! D&D, a fat main character, struggles with anxiety, basically being raised by a single mom, struggles with money, figuring out one's queer identity at the end of adolescence. The only thing I couldn't relate to was the main character's drawing skills, but even that I'm practicing!
At the start of The No-Girlfriend Rule, Hollis is looking for a Secrets and Sorcery game (fictionalized Dungeons and Dragons) to join. It's her boyfriend's favorite thing and she enjoys the art in the manuals. She would join his game, but the leader has a no-girlfriends rule. After a really bad session in a game store, she spots a flier for an all-girls game. She takes a chance on it and falls in love with the game. One of her fellow players is Aini, a girl playing a suave bard. As Hollis and Aini's characters flirt in-game, real feelings start to arise for the players. Hollis will have a lot to figure out about herself, should she choose to.
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#the no girlfriend rule#christen randall#book blog#bookblogger#queer books#queer characters#wlw#romcom book#contemporary ya#dungeons and dragons#nerds in love#good fat rep#plus sized main character
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I really do dunk on villain stans a lot but the thing is like. I genuinely do not care on any sort of moral level if you love a villain, or villains generally. They are pretend. The murder and the war crimes aren't real. Do whatever.
The issue is that like, this is a person the narrative is telling you to root against, and that it's okay because they are pretend. That doesn't mean they can't have sympathetic qualities but it does mean that as a rule the story is telling you "hey, here are the heroes who oppose this person, cheer for them" and also "you should boo and hiss when this motherfucker comes on stage" and a lot of people who like villains will look at everyone else and go "why the FUCK are you booing and hissing don't you see they have TRAUMA" instead of acknowledging the big "TIME TO BOO AND HISS" signs being thrown out by the story and saying "bring it on."
And I suppose you can argue that this is an overly simplistic way of looking at it, but if we're dealing with a story with at least some reasonably clearly delineated heroes and villains you're not intelligent for trying to pretend it's more complicated than it is. I'm not talking about the gray areas of antagonist who could be persuaded otherwise, nor antihero but straight up "this is the bad guy, we all but have arrows pointing at them saying it". Like, really, a lot of people who stan villains don't seem to do it for the love of the game, which I would respect, but because of a sour grapes situation with the heroes, or because they're in their edgy "subversion automatically means you're the smarter one" phase.
Anyway my point is I don't care if you woobify a villain for any sort of moral reasons but I do think that if you do so, you're a coward and not terribly good at understanding stories. I also don't care from any sort of moral standpoint if you enthusiastically cheer on the villain, but if you act confused or mad that most people aren't with you on that, I think you're an idiot and not terribly good at understanding stories.
#honestly a related phenomenon is like. you know how some people SAY something is their type but they only appreciate it thru headcanons?#like when people recommend podcasts with white casts and no clear indications of character race as Good Rep#or when people are like i love fat characters and every character they like is a canonically thin character they hc as fat.#this feels like that. trying to have one's cake and eat it too in the dumbest way possible#i'd finally add that the whole focus on Things Being Problematic really brought down the discourse#not that you shouldn't call out actually problematic behavior but literally a lot of the behaviors i dislike are not problematic#they are merely incredibly fucking stupid. you are not problematic for liking villains in these ways you're just dumb and kind of boring#on fandom
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hold my hand fellow fat dragon enjoyers we'll get through this 🤝
#g postin#in a world without much nice fat rep its good to have solidarity i think. idk how to word it#but im glad that fr tumblr seems to celebrate lotsa different dragons together and say to heck with official art
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When I’m in a being a stereotype competition and my opponent is the characters who aren’t bisexual and straight in the helluverse:
#the pansexual character are so bad#they’re all the same stereotype#and the gay characters are all predatory twines#the lesbian characters are mean men haters who love their gfs#the trans characters are just the ‘we can always tell’ stereotype#and the asexuals#are a serial killer cannibal#a fat person#and a child#good rep my ass#helluva critical#vivzepop critical#hazbin critical
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characters that make me fucking insane because look!! it's me!!
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Making characters who are fat and curvy and fat and physically fit is good and we need more of those, but I think if you dont have at least one character who is fat and also old or unathletic or with a body type considered more "awkward" ....you need to fix that!
#im thin so i am not the expert and it is good that there are more popular artists now who draw fit curvy fat people!!!#but being anti fatphobic in character design is about including all bodies and striving for realistic representation!!!#and look at the world around you!!!#draw the old fat saggy man draw the fat woman with 0 muscle because she works an office job!#draw the really big person with uneven sized thighs or uneven chest etc!#i was worried i seemed strange for being so fixated on fat rep topic but idc anymore. i have thoughts that i want to share!!!#(niche complaint: like omg i am so annoyed with the constant beginners tip of ''dont ever draw a round stomach'' because...#have you seen how many people irl have big protruding round ''beer bellies''? like. people look like that. there are many shapes and sizes.
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The thing is "forced diversity" only became a real thing after people online got called out for only ever having like white ocs or just Never making women [ESPECIALLY TRANS WOMEN] and now sometimes I see a character lineup and its like Oh I can like actively see the diversity checklist you were crossing off in your head specifically to try and get tumblr woke points because you are being so fucking Weird about this. Like in an effort to be like LOOK LOOK AT HOW DIVERSE MY CAST IS I AM ADVERTISING THIS BY JUST TELLING YOU ABOUT HOW DIVERSE EVERYONE IS YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW GENRE OR THEMES they make it so clear that making characters of color or women or disabled characters etc has to be a Conscious Choice instead of just. Something that comes naturally because that reflects our real world.
#Sorry I started thinking about that fuck ass paranormal park or whatever show#Makes a character who is a fat trans man. Makes his last name FUCKING GUTTMAN.#and again like. The complete performativeness of Woke Anachronisms#Like sorry man. If you make Sir Arthur and his knights do a pronoun circle thats stupid#The fact of the matter is a lot of the terms we use to describe things are new!#Like you don't have to have a character state every minute detail of themselves to be good rep#And frankly as someone who doesn't tend to bring things up unless its relevant like#I want more rep for people like me pleaaaaaase#There are so many of us that don't feel the need to be open with Strangers abt gender/sexuality/abled status/culture#like. It just isn't other peoples business!#I need to log off before I go on a tangent about how much I also fucking hate pronoun circles#I have to do them so much in college. Please. Please I'm so tired of how weird people are#If someone wants to know they can Ask Me stop making me choose between#Outting myself to the whole damn room or misgendering myself if the vibes aren't right#ANYWAYS. Bed time yaaaay ^w^#chittering
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I love everything about ofmd exceeept the fat shaming. They do all this great representation with queerness, gender, race, disability etc. And still they make degrading jokes relating to fatness. Why point out Fang needs two towels for the zip line when the others use one? Why is it specifically Wee John who farts? And in s1 when Stede gets called fat several times as an insult? Why? Why is that funny? I also think it's out of character for Stede to see it as an insult, I'm always expecting him to respond with "so what, there's nothing wrong with being fat?"
#ofmd#ofmd 2 spoilers#ofmd season 2#ofmd s2#our flag means death#ofmd spoilers#fat shaming#I don't understand why fat shaming is still accepted#especially hard to understand when it's in settings with otherwise good rep
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sisyphus is such a good character i just love the way he reveals he knew he was doomed he's soooooooo
#sisyphus body pillow when?#new blood?> hey? when?when?#girls be like i want that fat boy#sisyphus ultrakill#to me he is the aspd rep i wish to see heart emoji#not really iw ouldnt actually consider that good rep but errmmmm im aspd and i like him#thats what matters#heart emoji x2
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i see a lot of fun trolls fanart when i dip into twitter to post art these days, but trolls twitter fandom sucks actually bc no one fucking told me bridget has a cute little roller skating wedding fit in band together
fuck all that boyband shit we got bridget back its a bridget household
#era of sara#the bar is very low but bridget was my sweet fat girl representation of 2016#her design is very fun#speaking of fat rep bruce has the best new design of branches brothers#good for him. hes a lovely father.
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it is time. stage bat time 😌:
hirono ryouta
hirONO RYOUTA
HIRONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RYOUTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that’s it that’s the post lmao /j
i’ve btched plenty about kuukou’s writing in the stage but had hirono-san not been at the helm i highly doubt i would have cared for stage bat as much as i do lmao
i’ve fairly recently talked about how he defined the way kuukou moves in auxiliary media and how it brought to life how i envisioned he moved but it bears repeating hirono-san gave me everything and more lmao
like i still think about kuukou stalking up on some guy in track 3, twirling his mic and actually using it as a bludgeoning weapon with utter glee lol he’s so violent 💜
i love love love the feedback loop that quietly goes on behind the scenes with kuukou’s actors lmao
hirono-san mentioned in their cross talk that hayama-san’s 5th live performance was a frame of reference for the kuukou audition iirc, hayama-san a few years later during the 9th live imitated the way hirono-san used to bow as kuukou after nurusara’s division rep battle, and the bat actors took the bat seiyuu’s very cute 9th live blunder, missing their cue to introduce themselves in sync, and owned bat’s chaos by introducing themselves with their individual quirks in their rep live lol
lol during that cross talk, hirono-san mentioned he was endlessly amused by kuukou being tied up and angrily trying to talk in bat’s first drama track and i’m very happy he got to live it for himself after being tied up by dohifu in bat vs mtr lmao
still cracks me up dohifu had their very gay my home duet and kuukou literally went ‘REALLY???? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?????’ lmao
i’ve been trying my hardest to talk around stage kuukou’s writing but personal bangers despite are!!!!!
him trying to fight jakurai and when the man passed out without kuukou even doing anything he went, ‘bruh🧍♂️’!!!!!!!! him getting in hifumi’s face after being called out for his shitty attitude!!!!! him playing the bad guy to bring hitoya and jakurai together!!!!!!
kuukou: *points* HITOYA!!!!!!
kuukou: *points again* JYOOSH!!!!!!
i wish i was normal about bat’s rep live lol like while we may suspect that performance was borne out of his looming graduation, hirono-san snapped off that last remaining chain of sanity and went crazy lol
i think about him butting heads and screaming at kenta-san, one of the ddb guys who is probably the only one who could match that energy lmao, the roaring growing in frequency until he held up his jacket, nagoya side out, and yelling, ‘NAGOYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!’ until he blacked out on stage all the time 😭😭😭
other moments from the rep live i think about lol is that skit where hitoya totally scams kuukou and jyushi lmao but when hitoya told them the statue they ‘broke’ cost like 1000000¥ or some outrageous amount, kuukou started retching and that’s so relatable LOL
and that moment during the host club invasion where he walks in and goes ‘sup btches it’s been a while 😈’ and proceeds to destroy fragrance LOL
and him stuffing like four marshmallows at once in his mouth, expecting to be able to continue being able to speak lmao
and him going so hard his rings flew off and an unplanned mini encore happened as he tried to look for them LOL
saw a report that they were going stoopid one day during their rep live run the crowd was unwilling to let them go so hirono-san convinced the producers to let them do another encore on top of the several they already had 😭😭😭
and can you believe the hype never stopped even when bat wasn’t the focal point lol i heard that man at one point needed to be dragged off the stage during bop2023 bc he staunchly said they’d have to dim the lights on him for him to stop😭😭😭😭
there’s so so many bop2023 moments i think about like his redux rock paper scissors game, or him lifting up sasara only to drop him a second later lmao, him bullying stage posse LOL, the way they let him bring the hype whenever music lulled
and ofc the nb duet lol if the stage doesn’t want to do much by way of ichiro and kuukou’s relationship, thank fck hirono-san was there to carry lmao
crying over that one day when neither ichiro nor kuukou could catch their shared coke bottle to save their lives and kept laughing at each other while performing 😭😭😭😭😭
thank you hirono-san for establishing into stage canon kuukou dropped his bandana at ichiro’s feet after their breakup and that ichiro still has kuukou’s red bandana somewhere. it may not stick but that’s such an amazing take on that bandana’s whereabouts
daigo-san’s jyushi is so BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
THE top line i always think about is him joyfully walking into hitoya’s office in bat’s rep live and going, ‘hitoya-san!!!!! i’ve come to play!!!!! 😃😃😃’
previously that had been me crying anytime i thought about him skipping into hitoya’s office in track 3, cheerfully calling for him only to switch mid sentence into vkei mode once he noticed hitoya has guests lmao
his kuukou impersonation is legendary no joke lmao
AND SO IS ANY MOMENT WHERE HE PICKS KUUKOU UP LONG CAT STYLE SHOUT OUT TO BOP2023 SPECIFICALLY WHEN HE SWUNG HIM AROUND A LITTLE BIT TOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
that’s the second most bat moment i think about lol
i like how sometimes daigo-san’s default jyushi expression is the equivalent of this lol
another top moment i think about is him yelling how much he loves kuukou and hitoya during bop2023 😭😭😭
especially when you think about those early days of bat???? his first stage role ever was track 3 and he talked about learning the ropes from ruito-san, late night train rides with hirono-san after rehearsals and sharing his insecurities, bonding with them both despite the two of them being shy and UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
like I COULD CRY about daigo-san incessantly commenting under hirono-san’s posts after track 3 and finally hirono-san went, ‘bro what gives???’ and daigo-san went, ‘i’m trying to be your friend lol’ 😭😭😭😭😭😭
all that bonding culminated to a point daigo-san can make fun hirono-san in his most trying hours lol (he lost a lot of money gambling LOL)
forever haunted by him commenting he and sakakihara-san had an in depth conversation about jyushi after track 3 and we never had them in the same room 😭😭😭😭
i also think about this one report i read where hitoya and kuukou were beefing as they usually do so he sat himself aside and lol when kuukou asked him why’s he sitting over there he responded, ‘well i didn’t want to get in the way of your flirting 😒’ LOL
jyushi being hitoya’s (current) number one fanboy is my canon lol so i’m happy he got a whole solo about hitoya lol
another top moment i think about is jyushi dramatically crying he’s going to die alone in shinjuku because he got separated from kuukou lmao
will forever and always be bitter the mtc rep live with bat as guests wasn’t available for stream so we missed kuukou bullying samatoki by repeating everything he said, kuukou and jyushi getting chased around by juto and rio while samatoki and hitoya waffled (and samatoki oogled hitoya’s body lmao) and jyushi got arrested by juto so he started crying for kuukou who came out asking what was wrong as he piggybacked rio LOL
idk if you can tell but i like stage jyushi lol he’s very funny
both hirono-san and daigo-san are so down bad for ruito-san it’s so funny but i don’t blame them LIKE HAVE YOU SEEN HIM LOL
it’s so funny to see it bleed into their kuukou and jyushi like we ain’t ever getting over them essentially grinding up on him during one of bat’s songs in track 3 LOL
ruito-san is too peak for hitoya frfr lol ain’t no way we’ll get another hitoya who can do synchronised backflips with kuukou 😭😭😭😭😭😭
i almost forgot lol hirono-san commented that after track 3, he got stuck calling himself ‘sessou,’ kuukou’s personal pronoun lol, and similarly, ruito-san has a hard time not touching his chin like hitoya does LOL
stage hitoya is fascinating, simply bc of how much more adjusted he is than canon hitoya lol
like i cannot stress enough how the best morally grey hitoya was written when he scammed kuukou and jyushi into doing good deeds and favours for him lmao
since he’s so well adjusted, some of his and kuukou’s heart to heart changed in execution, but it was neat seeing him call out kuukou for assuming people can be effortlessly strong like him, and have that thought come back when he’s facing jakurai
idk if i have a preference between the stage vs canon on how they resolved hitoya’s and sensei’s relationship but i still think the stage absolutely cooked lol
will always be crying over kuukou’s jakurai impersonation lol and how he revealed it by teasing hitoya for having a date but kuukou apparently got the details wrong so he confidently corrected him that they had gone out for strawberry milkshakes
and fanboy jyushi fell to his knees crying how cute that was, he gets it LOL
there’s this motion stage hitoya does in his courtroom solo i think, where he stands with perfect posture and tilts his arms that makes him look like a scale ⚖️ and it’s so good lol symbolism in DANCING
so more on hirono-san and daigo-san loving ruito-san lol i always think about them gassing up the role he landed in a drag production 😭😭😭 hirono-san didn’t want to miss it and daigo-san eloquently used 🔥🔥🔥 in his hype, amongst other borderline thirst tweet shenanigans LOL
was that their last interview together……….???? but that video of them painting walls together where ruito spills paint all over hirono-san, daigo-san gently caresses paint onto ruito-san’s face, and hirono-san crushes daigo-san’s balls truly lives rent free i’m going to miss the three of them as bat so much 😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💔😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜
#vee queued to fill the void#BUT THERES STILL SO MUCH I WANT TO TALK ABOUT#KUUKOU AND JYUSHI PLAY CATCH WITH MARSHMALLOWS WITH THEIR MOUTHS#HITOYA (RUITO-SAN LOL) EXHAUSTED FROM THEIR REP LIVE RUN AND BEING PULLED AND GOADED BY HIS TEAM#DAIGO-SAN SHOWING OFF RUITO-SANS LIKE 1% BODY FAT ACHIEVEMENT WHILE HIRONO-SAN WAS ABSOLUTELY GOING BALLISTIC IN THE BG#THE THREE OF THEM PLAYING DARTS ON DAIGO-SANS WEB SHOW#THEY DIDNT DO IT TO EACH OTHER BUT HIRONO-SAN AND DAIGO-SAN GETTING THEIR NAILS DONE#I CAN KEEP GOING I DONT WANT THEM TO GO DONT TAKE THEIR BAT AWAY FROM ME 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#i will say the new jyushi seems to have the vkei spirit bred within their very soul which is hype for him lol#what makes me nervous ig is the new kuukou based on the new encounter mv moves practically like hirono-san#technically that’s good lol i’ll appreciate visages of hirono-san as i sit thru kuukou’s stage interpretation lmao#but what else is he bringing to the table???? just that???? copycat hirono????? hm#i may not agree with management giving us cross talks before we’ve seen the actors do anything but it will help get a general vibe ig#(also here’s to hoping the vision with kuukou was long form character development rather than a more static character approach pls lol)#i also promise to learn their names by each cross talk lol i can’t continue being part of the problem lol#anyway i hope the length of this explains why it’s late lol
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Okay, so, I feel like, to some degree, what is and isn't fat is cultural. The character in the image is Super Pochaco. I think a lot of people would call her fat, and by Japanese standards, she's almost definitely fat. I think how clear it is that she's meant to be fat also depends on the artist.
I feel like these make it more obvious she's intended to be fat. She has fuller arms and she also has a stomach that starts to curve into itself.
On an unrelated note, she has a junior, Super Taruco, who is definitely more obviously fat.
They're both friends of Super Sonico, who is a mascot to Nitroplus, a game company/developer/they're mascots for Nitroplus.
Yeah, I can understand by jp standards she's ~fat~, and can appreciate that she and taruco arent rail thin like every other anime girl mascot.
That particular post just rubbed me the wrong way bc the internet has this bad trend of saying "I love big girls!" And the example is a girl with big boobs and hips, not like, actually fat (no tummy/arm/face fat). Since all I could see was big boobs and thinner arms in that drawing, I figured that was the case.
The examples you sent do a better job of showing her actually being larger, so I guess it does just depend on how she's drawn. I just personally feel that was a bad example image to use for "fat girl fall" I guess? Any of the other images you sent might have been better (tummy visible, arms thicker, etc)
#n sfw#for the bikini pics lol#im not trying to start a fight over what counts as ~good~ fat rep or anything
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rewatching wwdits and god guillermo is literally character of all Time. like i cannot handle it. there is a little shrine in my head built to guillermo de la cruz.
#likee....... the rarity of good fat rep is smthing i am always so hungry for ans god damn guillermo checks every box#like he kills.hundreds of vampires without even trying and then also no one believes him when he trkes to tell them#he just. js literally everything to me
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It really irritates me that the fattest furry you guys can handle is some small idealized inoffensive pin up. Like lmao. Oh wait. He has a little bit of cellulite now. Just absolutely groundbreaking. This deserves a thousand notes. I have to share this immediately. /sarcasm
Anyway shout out to the artists who draw infinifat people and disabled fat people and realistic body features and get like... Twenty notes.
#im sure someone could write about all the annoying things i do and all the self aggrandizing i do. sorry for that.#but at least my art isnt plastered up everywhere like its never been done before.#at least i dont freak the fuck out like im jesus when i decide to give a character cellulite or change them to be a little fatter#like lmao hes just such an annoying poster with mid art and it sucks that you guys think hes the shit#go share images of actual good fat rep for once lmao
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Fuck it all you know what I want from media? Fat girls rep
Where are we? Where the fuck are we?
#fat#fat girls#media representation#media rep#media#fatphobia#capitalism#consumerism#body image#every body is beautiful#every body is a good body#mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora
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It's kind of crazy how Dot blatantly has an eating disorder, and despises she is in the narrative because she is a fat girl and then it's just ignored. so silly so silly so silly:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
#lunchtime lectures#school for good and evil#cw eating disorder#dot of nottingham#This is one of the things I wish I talked about more in my Coven post but I feared that people were gonna get mad#Like I'm sorry but looking back at it now the “They're evil and blah blah” excuse doesn't mean anything to me anymore sorry#it feels like a lame cover-up to justify the pointless abuse a fat girl faced because she just EXISTED#The second thing the movie mess and people complaining about how Dot should have been played by a fat person because “Rep”#Like I'm telling you as someone who is very much black and fat. I'm hated everywhere I go. She was never an actual good rep#she is one of the characters who were quite literally made to be a JOKE and sort of caricature#Like dude!! She wasn't rep at all Even tho I do reclaim her I didn't really care that they had a non-fat actress playing her lol#The reasonable thing they should have done was to rewrite her character and remove the stereotype she has. Then have a fat girl playing her#Dot is like only character who I think only fat people can talk about If that makes sense#skinnys can go home lol#Anyways Puts Dot in the Gam zee category#ramble ramble
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