#guess who i never see hate for

[johnskleats]

is anyone going to tell the kat@angers that it's not feminist activism to argue Katara's arc in LOK is fine on the grounds that "some women want to be homemakers and that's okay!!"

Like you're not helping real women that way. In fact, most antis for the cannon ship ARE women. Many are homemakers themselves.

Katara is not a real woman. She is a fictional woman written by men.

Can the sensibilities and wishes of a girl change by the time she is a adult? Yes!

But as this is a textual character who, as per the text, rejects the societal structure of her fictional world (which mirrors our own) that women are and can only ever be docile homemakers (i.e. I don't want to heal, I want to fight; I will never turn my back on people who need me; let's start a prison riot; let's engage in vigilante ecoterrorism; let's pitch an absolute fit because the boys are not pulling their fair weight in the homemaking; let's confront my mother's killer at the absolute rejection and condemnation of the male figures whom I am to respect; etc) it is perfectly reasonable to argue that this end was not a natural course for her character.

Fictional characters are not real people. This means that they do not change their mind off screen. That is not an acceptable argument. That is called a "plot hole", which is a nonsensical change made at the convenience and contrivance of the writer(s), who in this case are men exhibited to not care for women or girls all that much. It is within THEIR character to write this way.

Regardless of who, if anyone, Katara ended up with, Katara tolerating disrespect, neglect, abuse of her children, giving up all of her former aspirations to live in the shadow of men, and dying as a mere footnote in history (and being alright with it!!) is not surprising given the absolute vitriol Bryke has shown toward female fans of their "creation". It was supposed to be a "boy" show. It was always supposed to be a "boy" show. The creators of Supernatural and Game of Thrones did the same thing. ATLA just did it first.

Arguing "not all women" is not activism in the face of what is really happening in this discourse. Sending death threats to real, actual women with feelings in defense of a fake pretend woman's fake pretend autonomy is performative activism, and worse, hypocritical.

Not all women agree with you. Not all women feel represented and find the outcome of Katara's story satisfactory. If y'all care about feminism and respecting women's choices so much, lay off the real life women you're so fond of harassing. Our views and opinions, while opposing your own, don't affect you.

[lesbiamano]

i drew a second outfit design for sumi wayyyy back so now i've decided to redraw it and make it better! and also, i chopped her hair off! now THATS what i call character development

[ironunderstands]

ship so good it makes me interested in omegaverse bc tell me why I now want to write omega Ratio who’s pretending to be a beta but gets found out by alpha Aventurine 😭😭

[dr-mothman]

I think not a lot of people talk about AM's self-esteem issues and self-destructive tendencies and it makes me sad.

[sonknuxadow]

this is probably an unpopular opinion with the amount of "everyone is married with kids" type future aus people make for sonic characters but i cannot see sonic getting married or having a kid ever. if he did somehow end up with a kid hed be the worlds first transmasc absent father or however the joke goes

[littletealights]

What makes you think that Arthur is a person of color? :0 just curious.

gladly.

so, at first, i thought it was me projecting but i think the first clue i got was eddie. yall might think i’m being dramatic but eddie was…suspicious from the get-go. in a normal situation like this, there’s actually 0% chance that it turns out the way it did for arthur.

but that’s beside the point. eddie knocks on the door and receives an unhurried response. he walks away to do.. whatever it is he was doing. arthur comes to the door, opens it, looks around and picks up some trash, muttering to himself. suddenly eddie has urgent business inside the office with a. flimsy excuse at best. strike one.

we, as the audience, know that arthur is being shifty because he’s just killed a man. eddie has been told, quite convincingly, that arthur was moving… boxes or something (im looking at the transcript, arthur just says ‘not furniture’ so…). and that arthur is working with sensitive documents. not sure if you know this but private detectives have to work with proper authorities to be allowed to operate legally. that means they work with the police and the courts. when a PI says a document is sensitive, they mean legally. they mean eyes only. they mean ‘come back later or i could lose my fucking license because you got the wrong look at classified documents.’ a building manager, especially their building manager, should know that. strike two.

he also asks for arthur’s partner, peter yang (who is, i can only assume, an east asian man). i should hope that i dont have to remind you that this is massachusetts in the 30’s we’re talking about, and what that means logically. but i will. america hated asian people the most they ever did until COVID in the 30s through the 60s. the only people they hated more were black and brown people. no matter how shifty and suspicious arthur was acting, eddie would’ve been… let’s just say ‘incredibly unlikely’ to ask for peter instead of the white man. strike three

there’s some little bits about subvocals and tone that i could say, but it’d be a lot and i don’t fully understand it enough to explain well why eddie set off alarms for me. because i dont have to. it takes 5 minutes (from 11:48-16:09 on spotify, so nearly exactly) for eddie to go from inconvenient, to annoying, to suspicious, to violent. and he ends the conversation with a very real threat of violence that essentially boils down to ‘don’t come back to the building again.’ eddie is a maintenance man. he did not have the power to evict anyone. unless, of course, they were a poc. so why was arthur worried about eddie when sneaking back into the building?

but, like i said, i thought i was projecting. projection and being-on-the-lam can easily explain arthur’s hesitance when delivering the baby and asking for a ride. or the gunshop in part 6. but the lighthouse? no, what really solidified it for me was the end of part 8.

here’s what officer collin knows so far: a visibly disabled man has stumbled, confused and upset, away from a lighthouse and a body that CANNOT have been killed by a human; and it is dark outside. that’s it. using this knowledge, he then proceeds to beat said man. brutally. repeatedly.

in part 9 they learn he is blind and when that timid little fucker (mitchell) expresses doubt, collin says this

this is something we like to call coerced confession. arthur did not kill that man (the lighthouse keeper). officer collin knows that arthur didn’t kill that man. (dont play, he knows.) but because it is convenient to say that he did, they’ll threaten and torture him until he says that he did.

now, friends, i’m not going to lie to your face and say that white folk are safe from the cops, youre not, i know. but what im also not going to do is pretend like there os any world in which this happens and arthur is visibly white. not in the thirties, not in america. despite being forgotten or unmentioned they are in the midst of the great depression, the exact last thing these small-town cops need is the arrest of a blind white man on their hands. regardless, i have never ever heard of a cop speaking this way to a white person unprovoked. i, on the other hand, have been spoken to this way myself.

this is already quite long and it doesn’t even cover the sheer magnitude of people who feel comfortable calling arthur (at his grown ass age of visibly-an-adult) ‘boy.’ or the wicked and downright racist way that larson says it, (genuinely. it sounds like he’s a middle school boy who discovered the word ‘fagg*t’ for the first time the way he says it. i couldn’t tell you how many times that word (boy) drove an ice pick through my fucking skull this season.) but i hope you can at least get the picture.

original post is here

[bk-179]

@projectmoonlightproductions dude that line you wrote, “forcing yourself to live to prove that you deserve your sentience” in relation to gingerbrave? has stuck with me for DAYS. In the best way, but still.

Gingerbrave does love living in the real world, and having friends and jellies and sunlight and snow and being surrounded by a living, breathing warren, but I feel like she wouldn’t truly be able to ENJOY or otherwise be comfortable in it for a long time because living, like almost everything else important to her so far, is a duty. It’s a duty because not only does he know that he was made to be eaten, but that she was one of a group.

For me, part of the horror of Gingerbrave’s situation is that he wasn’t (at least superficially) special. Her ENTIRE KIND was made to be prey. Her entire species is subjugated and rendered carnage for no reason other than the vices and cruelties imposed on them by a godly figure.

I feel like Gingerbrave would know on a certain level, in a certain part of his brain, that those cookies in that oven and on those plates were meant to be living, breathing kids. Kids like him. Kids that should be playing animal jam and going to school and eating slightly freezer-burnt chicken tenders and singing and laughing and running and living. What makes Gingerbrave different from all the cookies left behind on that oven tray?

I’m imagining gingerbrave, once they’re leading a “normal” life, throwing herself into everything. Trying to be the best and happiest and experience everything, with the underlying message in her brain playing “you need to live for them. They never got and never will get this; if you waste this chance in any way, you’re letting down every single one of those killed children.”

before he can get to the “living as a rebellion” mindset which is like. Infinitely more healthy in the long term, gingerbrave needs to get over the “living as a duty” thing I gave her. Btw he’s like, 12-is at this point in my personal timeline lolz. Womp womp. But uhhhh yeah!

[gabrielsantar]

it’s truly what warhammer is missing the most re: primarchs. it’s boring if they all like each other, and it’s boring if they all hate each other; there should be an extremely complicated system of primarch relationships in which at least two of them fucking hate each other but sometimes have to tolerate each other because they all have a bestie in common

[muirmarie]

Me: I joke about writing the same McCoy centric story over and over again in different ways

Me: and like. I love doing it and imma keep doing it because it makes me happy.

Me: but also. I do sometimes wonder if it's like. A little Much.

Me: like maybe I should branch out or something

Me: [reads another fundamental and extremely insulting misread of McCoy's character by someone who is clearly making a Choice to cast McCoy as the villain, because they have to get him out of the way of spirk, because they're too???? idk immature??? to realize that even when you're in a relationship with one person, other ppl can and SHOULD still be important to you]

Me: lmao I hope I AM too much actually!!!! I hope it is 100% obnoxious how much I love that doctor!!!!! Time to write more versions of the same story of McCoy being forced to realize that he is loved and cared for!!!!!!

Me: I KNOW MY NICHE AND IMMA DIE IN THAT NICHE, THANKS

[bumblingbabooshka]

Overhated Female Character x Underused Female Character [Patreon | Commissions]

[notcryingtoday]

okay so i'm actually waiting for my dad to watch arcane so i have to wait a couple days (also had to stop mid episode 4) and i see everyone hating on jayce including friends and you know what

(my theory is that he killed viktor (only reason everyone would hate him that much) and for the record he's one of my favorite character with vi and ekko)

I WILL SUPPORT HIM NO MATTER WHAT, HE PROBABLY HAD HIS REASONS AND EVEN IF IT'S TRUE AND IF THAT WILL MAKE ME CRY I DO THINK HE NEVER DID ANYTHING WITH VILE INTENTIONS OKAY HE IS A GOOD MAN

(also kinda suck that caitvi don't have any content but at least i can't be spoiled, a win is a win i guess)

[dailykugisaki]

Day 355 | id in alt

I was out here just "Wow I should color this so they know I'm gonna put air Jordans on Kugisaki Nobara fortnite tomorrow" then I didn't and just slapped some random shit on. She looks nice though.

[skunkes]

2 moods

[infiniteorangethethird]

ok not to turn into an AI tech bro for a moment here but the way some of you view AI as a general concept is starting to get really disturbing to me, esp as someone who studies computer science. There's plenty of reason to despise AI services like ChatGPT and such but it's really starting to feel like some of you will look at anything containing the word AI and go "oh well it's not made by humans even though it could have been so it's EVIL and anyone who uses it is a horrible person and also lazy". Like have we forgotten the point of making tools to make our lives easier or

[defsiarte]

Thinking about my current situation at home. Ignoring the obvious answer of “bigotry/ignorance”, do you guys think homo/transphobic parents are so indignant because they have a set image in their minds of what a queer person is/does, and can’t fathom that they may not know their kid as well as they think they do?

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Full thoughts on Oumasai? You mentioned them being terrible exes in your heart in one of your reblog post tags.

Generally, my brain has a few working settings for them: Fluffy, Angsty (but still sorta sweet), Angsty (as in the best metaphor for this is two airplanes crashing into eachother), "They exist but like the plot is more important than them and they have other stuff to deal with" and "Shuichi gets stuck in terrible situations with only Kokichi and they somehow make it work even though they've gotten extremely close to all the previous options in this list except the fluffy one and have encountered death multiple times". Btw, an AO3 author has fics where they have this mutual rivalry where they both hate eachother in their Oumota fics and its so funny that it deserves to be a runner-up on this list even though I don't have it in my own AUs. Oh, and Phantom Thief AUs are fun as well, though I'm not sure *how* canon they are cause in the game Shuichi constantly goes between liking his work and respecting his uncle, and hating his job and the pain it causes him.

They're like the one pairing I can't quite pin down as to what I'd like it to be. In my head, they're happy together, but also they hate eachother and are really only in the same spaces cause of their mutual friends, but they're also constantly up to shenangians with eachother and enjoy the other's company. It's a pairing that's really great to see in a positive portrayal when done properly, but is also really great to see in a negative portrayal when done properly. Maybe Shuichi feels sympathy for Kokichi after he solves "the puzzle", maybe he just moves onto the next one and doesn't even give him another look. Maybe Kokichi hates him after seeing him give sympathy to a literal assassin, just because his friend said so, but not a liar, even though as a detective, he should have seen firsthand how much damage murderers cause.

Maybe this is too far into fandom territory, and based on canon, and Shuichi doesn't really like investigating stuff all that much if his life doesn't depend on it, and they're getting nowhere because he's just gonna take stuff at facial value while Kokichi facepalms on the inside.

I also made an AU that's kinda a study on their opposing character traits and ideologies but I'll send that in a separate ask since its mostly off-topic.

Anyway, I really wanna know your full thoughts on this subject cause there's so much room for exploration of both of their characters through this dynamic, whether they like eachother or not.

I definitely need to tag this so it can be filtered, but it's also me talking about how I do not like a lot of this ship, and how I view them as an inherently toxic duo, so uh, check under the cut at your own peril

Oh boy, anyone who knows my blog knows I do not care for this ship, I am vocal about this but I also try to be polite. If it weren't for the fact I'm a sucker for Kokichi being cute it would basically never be on my blog. I do not think they work well in a relationship and I feel most of the time their personalities get stripped down to force it to work. I cannot stand fluff of the two outside of going "cute picture of kokichi smiling go brrr and also shuichi is there i guess"

However, I find the idea of them being a sort of "wrong person right time" to be interesting if done well. They're a trauma bond waiting to happen honestly. I feel like neither of them really see the other as like, a real person? More on Shuichi's end then Kokichi but definitely still somewhat on Kokichi's.

Shuichi sees Kokichi as a mystery, a nuisance, a confusion, kokichi's well being is second to the mystery, kokichi is someone to be stopped or placated, not a person, but like he says in canon, "the embodiment of a lie." Even when he gets closer to Kokichi in free time events or love across the universe, there's this exasperation. He's drawn to the intrigue, he's not drawn to Kokichi as a person. Kokichi is a natural phenomenon, like a tornado, inevitable, destructive, and intriguing, but not a person.

Meanwhile Kokichi only really takes an interest in Shuichi for all the things Shuichi doesn't want to be. The logical detective, the sherlock to his moriarty, someone he can wind up like a little toy robot and then watch go. He enjoys Shuichi's company, but he's not really coming down to meet Shuichi on equal ground y'know? He's still placing himself above Shuichi as the one tugging strings and fixing things to his liking. Kokichi wants the chase, but the chase doesn't really require actually opening up to Shuichi or treating him well.

or for a tldr;

This is absolutely not a mindset or dynamic for a functional relationship

So I find anything that doesn't to some degree acknowledge that fact to be bland and often ooc. These two cannot have a standard fluffy dynamic to me from where they are in canon, and attempts to do so that haven't earned it often draw an eye roll from me.

However, the dynamic as bitter exes? Absolutely perfect, the crash and burn from this must be spectacular. Shuichi goes a step too far in figuring out the mystery, Kokichi ignores Shuichi's opinions one too many times, Shuichi snitches on Kokichi to someone, Kokichi gets frustrated when Shuichi tries to step out of the bounds of the game in his mind...

Aka It's fucking imploding, and you just KNOW they'd be absolutely catty bitter exes, they're cyberstalking the other, Kokichi because he thinks its funny and he's bad at letting go, and Shuichi because he's also bad at letting go but he's pretending its to keep an eye on Kokichi and make sure he's not doing something messed up. Shuichi refusing to ever use the connections Kokichi brought him in his detective work even if it makes things more perilous or risky out of pride but does make sure Kokichi knows he's not using them.

Just, absolute disaster of a breakup, I am sitting with popcorn watching the fireworks, there's so many places you could take that and they're all interesting. I find embracing this toxicity and playing into them as a bad match who only tries to drag the other down, even unintentionally, who happened to meet at the right time to get attached to be very interesting.

Maybe they're forced to work together for a case because an innocent life is at stake and Shuichi has to swallow his pride. Maybe they keep rebounding off each other unable to resist the allure of easy drunk hatesnogging. Maybe Kokichi genuinely gets hurt and the only person around he knows well enough to be able to get some help with is Shuichi. Maybe Kokichi crashes Shuichi's wedding ten years later. Maybe Kokichi gets caught and imprisoned and Shuichi is the only detective willing to talk to him as Kokichi taunts him for being so predictable and being a lapdog who found a new owner. Maybe Shuichi starts dating again and Kokichi tries to homewreck by suddenly springing back into his life. Maybe they have healthy communication about their issu- HA maybe not that one. (this is a joke that could also be interesting)

Stories where they both have an ideology they want to impose on the other, Kokichi cannot be made to be good in the way Shuichi perceives as good without destroying everything that is Kokichi but also Shuichi cannot be made to be good in the way Kokichi perceives as good without destroying everything that Shuichi is. However neither would ever let themselves back down and just accept their differences, because that too would be a loss.

Unstoppable force meets Immovable object until they inevitably split apart messily with claw marks dug into the other. Consumption hiding as understanding on both sides. They bring out the worst in each other, Kokichi brings out Shuichi's catty prideful side while Shuichi brings out Kokichi's more controlling and manipulative side.

There is no respect, no true consideration of another persons needs and wants, only a game with one potential winner. At least, that's my own reading of the two and a potential relationship. So yeah, I basically see them as terrible exes. Neither can be what the other needs, and neither honestly really even wants to be what the other needs in the first place. No teamwork, only competition.

I will show no mercy for you🎵 you have no mercy for me🎵the only thing that I ask🎵 love me mercilessly 🎵