#hashtag problematic fave

[thespineoftherighteous]

omg haha stop trying to sanitize and youngadult-ify aftg you're so sexy no stopppp but like actually stop. stop.

[brionysea]

you're excited for netflix to introduce toph. i'm dreading netflix introducing toph. we are not the same

[unrealcities]

Zooming through A Place of Greater Safety on a nine-hour flight is actually a good way to read it 10/10 would recommend you don't know if you're just sleep-deprived or if Camille Desmoulins just keeps getting funnier but either way it adds to the experience

[justworthlessreblogs]

I can’t believe that Rio would hold a gun to your head and force you to write 10k words

it's just one of his many crimes

[everymlmhybrid]

Searching sweep on my blog and reminiscing on all the times my faves lost

[silverislander]

it's times like these i wish i could actually draw well bc i have MULTIPLE characters who would fit the barbie mugshot meme so well... ivara and min, cal and idgie, alice and benji...

[reanimatestar]

watching the hunchback of notre dame musical biting clawing weeping on the floor

[snekdood]

the only way i could be anonymous online at this point is if i deleted everything and stopped caring about my comic and gave up and stopped trying, and while that is tempting sometimes, im honestly just too dedicated to my characters and honestly myself and defending myself and my own dignity to do that.

[la-pheacienne]

Oh so D x D were right in depicting Jaime x Cersei sex scene in the book as a clear cut rape scene. No, you say? What I remember of that scene in the book is that it was dub-con AT BEST, and this AFTER taking into account the author's own very obvious misogynistic bias (Watsonian vs Doylist perspective) and JC's specific dynamic of being the same person in two bodies and their lack of autonomy in the face of one another and their fucked up sick relationship in general. After taking into account all of these quite important factors, this book scene is still technically a dub-con sex scene, under a lenient reading which I'm willing to give to Jaime because again, I'm taking into account all these factors. If someone chooses to see this scene in the book as a clear cut rape scene, it is understandable to me.

D x D took a dub-con sex scene with a shit ton of underlying complexities underneath and turned it to a clear cut rape scene. Okay! Not The Best in my personal opinion! But still, Not So Atrocious! After all, how are you gonna depict on TV with absolute accuracy with the limited time you have something that is pretty complicated in the book and already kind of still comes across as dub-con or at even dangerously close to rape? Oh but I vaguely remember seeing posts in the lannister crowd about the show!scene being a depiction of "gratuitous violence" and "oversimplifying the dynamic". Am I wrong? I also agreed with the lannister crowd on this. I don't think GRRM intended to write Jaime as a rapist and Jaime comes across as a rapist in the GoT scene. I consider this to be a distortion of canon, despite the fact that in the book we had a real dub-con scene.

But suddently introducing out of the blue actual, very real physical domestic violence in a relationship that had NONE in the book is canonically plausible or even an improvement of canon, for the same crowd? And why is that? Because the couple has a huge age difference whereas JC were twins? So an abusive relationship or even rape is less plausible if the perpetrator is the same age as the victim? Who told you this? Daemyra is abusive because the uncle gave gifts to his underage niece? Because the couple is incestuous? In GRRM's work? You are seriously, unironically arguing that the above factors (age difference + incest) are meant to hint at a non consensual, abusive relationship in GRRM's universe? Are you for real?

Where is the acknowledgement of the author's problematic standards and worldview here? Where is the distinction between the Watsonian and the Doylist perspective here? Where is your indignation at the show runners turning up the gendered violence in ways that are not book canon? At least the JC scene was based on a real, already highly problematic sex scene. Now that the show runners came up with a brand new form of violence that did not exist in the book, what do you say? That it's fine because it's not as gratuitous as Sansa's rape arc? What about Alicent's rape arc? That's not gratuitous? Do you seriously believe that a rape arc is a necessary tool for adding complexity to a female antagonist? Really? What about Laena being burned alive? What about Aemma? I haven't seen a lot of talk about those. Are these not "gratuitous violence" in your book? Or you just don't really care right?

To sum it up. It is Problematic™ gratuitous violence hashtag male gaze only when 1) my perfect angelic fave (Sansa) is the victim or 2) when my fave is the perpetrator.

It is not gratuitous violence when 1) the narrative turns my fave from an antagonist to an underdog via rape or 2) when it makes characters I hate look worse than their book counterpart.

Hate to break this to you, this is not exactly a solid construction. The general criteria you use to identify gratuitous, non canonical violence need to be applied to all cases alike, not according to your own bias. The bias in this fandom is so shocking that it borders on gaslighting and I am looking specifically at book fans who have dragged GoT to hell and back for years and are now applauding this shitfest that is House of the Dragon for the same reasons they used to trash GoT.

I genuinely want nothing to do with that show anymore.

[themandownstairs]

one thing that should be really clear in the wake of the smoking crater where James Somerton once stood is that ANYBODY can cause damage by just making shit up. Not just journalists, not just politicians, not just hashtag-problematic-fave musicians and influencers.

the adage "if it seems too good to be true, it probably is" extends to fantastical stories and urban legends and compelling historical narratives, and it's really, really frustrating that people are hypervigilant to jokes in tweets being stolen or entertaining anecdotes from somebody's day being fake but won't put in a second of thought to if they should trust somebody who cites zero sources and makes many long videos fast so long as they have an expensive looking backdrop and interesting lighting or editing.

[highladyluck]

Re: Cybele, Tuon’s personal sigil is two golden lions harnessed to an ancient war cart. I hadn’t made the lion connection between Tuon & Elayne before- also interesting since Tuon describes Mat as the lion on the high plains.

So I wanted to elaborate on the Mat/Elayne Freyja/Odin parallel, so here’s that essay. For the sake of keeping this post semi coherent any off topic but vaguely relevant ramblings will be at the bottom of the post.

To start I was surprised to find out that while the obvious parallels between Mat/Odin and Perrin/Thor are often noted I haven’t seen anyone mention how Elayne is Freyja, so I’ll start by talking about those similarities. Freyja is a goddess of love and fertility as well as a goddess of death and war, and of course, of the magic practice of Seidhr which I covered in my precious Mat post. Freyja much like Elayne is a twin, having a twin brother(and masculine form) Freyr, the god of peace, fertility and prosperity. Freyr also has a horse cult, for some reason. Freyja of course is the second patron god of Seidhr sharing the role with Odin but she fulfills the more traditional and feminine aspects in a more socially conventional manner. Her husband, is often absent resulting in a particular myth of her crying ‘red-gold’ tears in his absence, her husband, Odr’s name actually means frenzied madness so shout out Rand. Freyja is also often depicted with having red-gold hair like everyone’s favorite Trakkand. She’s also associated with cats and she’s sometimes connected to the Phrygian goddess Cybele, who instead of a chariots drawn by cats has a chariot drawn by lions. Of course the Cybele/Freyja connection is debatable but I wanted to point it out for the lion connection.

Now onto the fun part, Freyja/Elayne and Mat/Odin, let’s talk about that dynamic. So if you didn’t notice Seidhr isn’t the only domain Freyja and Odin share, they’re both also gods of war and death, specifically they’re both gods of glorious death on the field of battle. Half of the slain are taken by Odin to Valahalla and the other half to Freyja’s realm Folkvangr. Now this might be a stretch but the sharing of the dead between Odin and Freyja reminds me of the sharing of The Band and the Dragons between Mat and Elayne in ToM and AMoL. Once again that’s a bit of a stretch but I wanted to point it out. Though I think the Band of The Red Hand is definitely a reference to Odin leading a procession of fallen warriors and the fact that Elayne gets shared custody is something I find very interesting in terms of this parallel.

Odin and Freyja are also both connected to the Valkyries for the above reasons. I think it’s safe to say that Brigitte is a Valkyrie, a spirit of a female warrior who comes to lead the dead to Valhalla and Folkvangr respectively. The fact that Brigitte bonded to both Mat and Elayne(through the horn and through the Warder bond respectively) is something I think proves this connection. Yada yada the Horn of Valere and the Heroes of the Horn are the Wild Hunt which in some stories is led by Odin with a Valkyrie at his side, Mat and Brigitte yada yada.

Also depending on who you ask Freyja is often conflated with Odin’s wife Frigg and Odin with Freyja’s husband Odr so uh- Matlayne

Now how do these connections inform Mat and Elayne’s dynamic. Well for one it explains why they are so heavily linked to eachother, from Mat’s vague connection to Manethran’s King Aemon and Elayne LITERALLY being the Rose of The Sun to Mat and Elayne sharing their weapons of mass destruction with eachother, the two spend a great deal of time with eachother and working together. Much like Odin and Freyja they compliment eachother and work together in their respective domains, whether that’s being a soldier and his Queen or two powerful people sharing battle earned death while accompanied by a woman warrior spirit and legendary procession of long dead heroes. They are complimentary halves and foils to eachother, they of course clash because they are forced to share space(share domains) but in the end they come to an understanding and make eachother stronger through their differences and similarities.

Okay okay tangent time, so I’m really insane about Mat/Elayne’s whole relationship and how Elayne is a thematic character foil to Tuon. Like Elayne is the Rose of the Sun and Tuon is the Daughter of the Nine Moons. The thematic relevance of Mat choosing to stay in Ebou Dar with Tuon vs. taking Elayne’s contract to become an Andoran general, choosing the Moon over the Sun. All I’m saying is that RJ robbed us of the potential Mat/Elayne/Tuon love triangle that would’ve shot and killed me. The Themes, The Character Foils, The DRAMA

Next tangent has nothing to do with Elayne really but was inspired by the previous tangent. So the Seanchen are represented by the night but they are also symbols of death right? Now one of Tuon’s names is Kore which is an epitaph of Persephone and with the death connection and the kidnapping that brings an obvious parallel to the myth of Hades and Persephone. But I’d argue that the story themes put Tuon in the role of Hades rather than Persephone while Mat takes Persephone’s role. I mean wed to Hades(Tuon) and brought into the underworld(Seanchen) only to become trapped there by eating a pomegranate(or accidentally starting a foreign marriage ceremony) able to return home to the land of the living(Andor) but only for short periods of time, all while becoming more than she once was as the Queen of the Underworld(Prince of Ravens). Anyways I have FEELINGS about Mat Cauthon.

[housefreak]

HELLO MOVIE MUTUAL IF YOU HAD TO RECOMEND. 5 MOVIES you have seen in ur most recent era or whatever which would these be 🦇

omg hiii miles, you do NOT. want my most recent era (bad movies i hated watching) but i will very happily give you some of my recent faves :)!!

the passenger (2023) - its of ALL TIME. to me and the problematic toxic yaoi community. but its really good the leads are fantastic and i love the two sides of passivity and childhood trauma they represent & their dead end town & the way it was shot emphasizing the viewer as an even more passive observer than randy

rent-a-pal - hashtag vintage parasocial relationships and loneliness and isolation and living with your parents yayyy yippieee & it was also so killer in how it was shot and scored....

palm springs - TIME LOOP MOVIE EVER !!! he did get bicurious in there and just i love how it played with the existential aspects/depression of it and just its so fun and i liked the romance n general character relationships <3

whiplash - i dont have like. anything to say its just wow. & had some of that fun over the top color grading i loveee

something in the dirt - ok well. i love everything benson and moorhead do but this is so <3 even w/out it just being theirs. its mocumentary that weaves between reality and recreation and shows their own manipulation of events but you never really know yknow

[simcardiac-arrested]

scenecut

i dont know if you know this (looks around) but i fucking love robots. Like badly. it’s terminal. it’s so so terminal. if there’s some shit i’m watching or reading and there is a little robot thang i will fall in love with them immediately. #1 fave speedrun like ohhhh oh my god. good fucking gtacious. I LOVE ROBOTS SO MUCH !!!! IT’S LIKE. i dont even know where to start. i think their character design is always banger of course. i love futuristic sleek robots and i love robots that are big and clunky. love when they have wires and perhaps buttons and latches and other such things ��� love when their metal is rusty or perfectly shiny. LOVE IT ALL SO BAD !!!! love when robots don’t look like anything at all and are just these abstract fucking cubes but i also utterly love animal and creature adjacent robots and humanoid robots. just straight up human looking robots too you guys are ok you can get in the pile . second of all why i love robots. it’s the themes ma.n . it’s the themes and narratives. of being something Other. of being created by someone to do something specific and then growing to be your own person. of learning to be human and sometimes learning you don’t have to be human at all. of expressing yourself in your own way. of living in this world how you see fit, not how other people want you to. THERE ARE SO MANY POSSIBILITIES !!!!! and yeah look i know it’s hashtag problematic to interpret robots as aroace or autistic buuuuut idgaf IDGAFFF !!!! DIDNT ASK !!!!!!!!! I LOVE DOING THIS TO ROBOTS I AM HITTING U WITH MY AAA BEAM !!!! FOREVER !!!!!!!!! because robots as a whole just. don’t fit in. they are ostracized because they are not inherently human. and they often tend to have AAA traits of not really understanding humanity and attraction . Cuz like look im aroace and autistic and yeah it’s cool and sexy and whatever but also to be serious for a moment. it’s isolating! it’s lonely. i often feel isolated from my friends and peers and (joker voice) Society as a whole. because there are many things i do not understand just, on a fundamental level. and see robots do this too because of simply Being Created . being not Born Right into this world . and i lauve it. i love robots who’s core theme is Not Fitting In. sentient robots who can’t quite fully relate to humans but also no longer relate to normal programmed robots. CYBORGS !!! MY MAN GENOS FROM ONE PUNCH MAN iiii have been uatistic aabout him for far too long. because look he is a cyborg, he doesn’t fucking fit in anywhere in the opm universe—he is not human, but he’s also not a monster, but he’s also not 100% robot. he’s just his own thing. he often questions his humanity, and one of the main themes of opm is that we don’t change because we’re human, we are human because we change. and throughout the whole story you can see genos changing and opening himself up to the world and. OKAY INB4 THIS TURNS INTO AN OPM/GENOS RANT (sorry i love him so much it’s licherally not my fault) what im trying to say is like. robots. of the metal variety . 👍So gooud

[leechloach]

Do the random ppl who follow me on tumblr know that patrick bateman is one of my hashtag Problematic Faves. I Love american psycho. This is a long post about it.

I read almost the entire book in one 8-hour sitting when I was 15 and sat in the break room of my mom's job for her whole shift bc I was so scared my father was going to come to my house and kill me and he was texting me obsessively. This was like the very beginning of me trying to cut him off which I didn't do fully until I was 18.

ANYWAY the book is disgusting and bad but also very good. I listened to the music from the stage play version (which really exists, and is Good, btw) before I ever saw the movie. I do like the movie but they change the last names of some of the more important characters for some reason (i.e. it's Paul Owen in the book and musical, but Paul Allen in the movie. Why? I hate this) .. and the novel is from Bateman's perspective so you get much more insight into how he thinks and operates and let me tell u it is worse than u think if you've only ever seen the movie.

I also always think of an article I read about the novel specifically, postulating that the murders that Bateman perpetrates are an allegory for HIV/AIDS, specifically him having unprotected sex and spreading disease. bc well. It's set in the late 80s/early 90s, Bateman has a weird nonsexual gay encounter and freaks out, he's overly obsessed with masculinity but very perfomatively, he seems really disinterested in women beyond what they're wearing + fucking them but is concerned with how men actually Look and is preoccupied with their sexualities at points. Etc etc its like, probably not like that or intentionally like that but it is an interesting theory and like I said. I like american psycho a lot. And IM a homosexual

The music from the play is So good btw. It's mostly original songs but some covers of 80s music that is referenced in at least the book

[nxvermore]

thoughts?

https://www.tumblr.com/dlivee/754431555426992128/jon-bernthal-one-of-the-biggest-zionists-in?source=share

Disappointing to say the least. And if I'm not mistaken, he also signed that letter against the cease fire, so, it's missing that on the post.

Did you think this is news to me? I used to like him, follow him on social media, wasn't exactly a "fave" in the sense that one would actively search for things of him and see what he's up to (and these days I don't do that at all anymore), but eventually I ended up discovering these things.

So, what's your goal here? Is it again because of my Kastle post? Maybe you're the same person even, and that's why decided to be anonymous. Or perhaps it's anonymous bc you thought I might check your blog (I wouldn't) and see that you might be a hypocrite who's a fan of just as problematic people, maybe of someone who is friends with an abuser, just like Jon.

Sometimes the people behind things that I like taints the thing and ruin it for me, but sometimes it doesn't, and this is the case here. I still like Frank and I still like Kastle.

If you're bothered by my post, or others, about the subjetc, I suggest you do what I do, block the hashtags and/or accounts so it won't show up for you again. Makes absolute no sense to me when someone searches and keeps feeding on things that they don't like instead of spending time on things that they do like.

[ironmyrmidon]

Rip to a real one. Julius would have hated Communism tho. Hashtag problematic fave.