#honestly it makes me really fucking uncomfortable

[sufferu]

Bravo to you for choosing not to let Rem be forgiven so easily. Honestly I've never been a big fan of Rem as a character, sometimes her endless pandering and obsession with subaru just really annoys me instead, and I've never understood people looking at her doing all that and then saying “Wow that's so hot I'm so jealous of Subaru!”

As for the ones who want her deeds to be easily forgiven by everyone, my personal guess is that they all only care about her body and the unheathy way she forces herself to act like the perfect waifu just for Subaru's sake, but subconsciously they can't stand the shit she did either, so they secretly want their favorite waifu to be a perfect being without flaws. But to me, isn't it essential to love a character and accept their flaws as well? They did wrong things, but there's no doubt THEY did them anyway, and that is part of what makes them who they are. Another thing is that forgiveness has to be earned, we're not cruel, coldhearted, or closeminded for not forgiving someone who hurts us. So I too agree with that anon who thinks WHDAA cast need to to beat some sense into Subaru on way too forgiving and tolerating the people who have hurt/killed him.

But now that you've decided to do that, beware of those rabid Rem stans coming after you and I'm worried that their harassment goes overboard and affects your personal life

I will say — I believe that Rem and Subaru’s canon dynamic is one of the most intriguing and multifaceted dynamics in the entire series. Their parallels regarding their insecurities and family members, their mutually codependent tendencies, the way they run the risk of becoming each other’s perfect enablers, the genuine sense of love and affection that runs parallel to the unintentional toxicity fostered within their relationship — it’s all really interesting stuff. In fact, exploring their dynamic through the lens of outsiders (including amnesiac!Rem) finally getting to peer under the hood is one of the main reasons I wanted to write a react fic at all.

As for why people like her — honestly, I think it’s kinda easy to guess? She’s a very cutely designed anime girl, she’s incredibly well-voiced, her insecurities are genuinely relatable, she’s got a super awesome oni power-up transformation, her morning star lends itself to some of the best choreographed action scenes in the series (or at least Season 1), she appeals to the whole “submissive maid” aesthetic that she knows Subaru finds attractive (and that also appeals to the target demographic of Re:Zero specifically, let’s be real here) — and frankly, there are so many scenes in anime where characters we’re supposed to like do fucked up shit that it’s not difficult to just…gloss over the whole “tortured the mc for several hours” part of her character. It’s understandable, especially if you’re not an insane person who spends all their time hyperanalyzing the anime they’re a fan of like I am. I don’t think it’s really that far of a leap for her to develop such a massive following, she was basically designed to be as popular an anime waifu as physically possible.

But then, that clash can become…a little uncomfortable if you’re writing a story where “Rem tortures Subaru” is a major plotpoint, and if you don’t want to reevaluate their entire relationship, it makes sense to find a way to just — get the characters to move along, much like a lot of the irl audience does.

But I really like toxic characters and angst and complicated relationships and all that fun stuff, so that’s what I’m gonna focus on. —Also Rem is WORSE in the LN. Girl starts fantasizing about whisking Subaru away while he’s practically comatose from shock (second Arc 3 loop) and then also makes a comment like “even if he had tried to assault her in her sleep, she knew she never would have resisted” like GIRL??? The idea of not tapping that insane well of potential drama is ludicrous to me lmaoo— especially because I really don’t care about maintaining the status quo ;)

(Also frankly, anyone who would start seriously harassing me over whether or not I share their opinion about a fucking anime girl is too pathetic for me to care about. I honestly don’t think I’ll get that big of a response — especially not on Tumblr “Gay Website” Dot Com — but even if I do…I don’t care, lmao.)

[sapphic-agent]

you know, one character trope I cant stand is the " lovable perverted weirdo" trope, because honestly it can go die in a ditch for me. Mineta from mha is a pretty obvious example given that he gropes his classmates, embarassed the 1-a girls on national tv, and tgen pulled a "shes got potential" comment on eri. All while recieving minimal punishment.

Another is curly from hey arnold where he essentially blackmails rhonda llyloyd into being his grilfriend which she is obviously uncomfortable with, and then when she breaks up with him, she suddebly viewsed as the bad guy and has to apologize to curly, and even worse? When she does apologize curly creeps her out again and chases her down the street cackling like a maniac. What. The. Fuck.

It just feels horrible seeing future deviants in the making making girls around them feel uncomfortable and then barely have any retribution.

the only " lovable pervert" I don't detest is the creeper from dc, and thats mainyl cause most of his charcater is more around being a more heroic and animalistic version of the joker and is ACTUALLY LIKEABLE.

Tbh, I agree.

It's one thing when we're talking about women. I mean, it's still not okay, but it's about 10x worse when the victims are underaged girls. That's what pisses me off the most about Mineta, he just feels like an excuse for Horikoshi to perv on his underage characters. I think it's for this reason that the "loveable pervert" trope rubs people the wrong way.

I will say I did hear that the thing about Eri was a mistranslation. That's what Mineta defenders claim, anyway.

I think a pervert character can be done right at times. I like Sanji and Brook from One Piece, most of the time. Because they're not just perverts, they're characters outside of that unlike Mineta. They also both have interactions with women that aren't horrendous.

(I will say, it does feel like at times that Sanji regressed in this sense. In the East Blue saga, he was way more of a gentleman than an outright pervert. But Oda is also openly a perv so it makes sense. I could talk about how that really shows in his post time skip writing compared to his pre time skip writing but that's for when I eventually catch up to One Piece)

I still think that even so, this trope is tired and overdone. But you'll also have a bunch of weirdos defending it so whatever

[andavs]

ngl I'm also not liking alot of the spec I'm seeing and it's making me really nervous for where the show is going. I love these characters and I don't want to see eddie go through all of that

Yeah, sometimes the fandom takes things to a much darker place than they do on the show, and I’m really hoping this is one of those times. 

Like people were really expecting Eddie to fucking shatter in 5b when we saw him crying with the bat in the promo. There were all kinds of theories about him attacking Buck, possibly hurting Chris during a flashback, trying to kill himself, etc. The arc still explored how messed up he was, but he took it out on his wall, he kept it away from Chris as much as he could, and we didn’t actually see the breaking point or the destruction. A lot of it was implied and it stopped way short of going full HBO-level graphic and messy violent breakdown. Then he had one episode of focused recovery and was back at work and doing fine.

I have lots of issues with the pacing of that arc, but I think they hit the appropriate tone considering the rest of the show, and when and where the show airs.

So while people are going hard on this sleeping with his dead wife’s doppelganger, being fully delusional, destroying his entire life, Chris stays with Buck while Eddie ends up hospitalized, etc. I think (hope, really hope) there’s a good chance that the show won’t actually go that far because it is, at the end of the day, an optimistic show about healing. And a single dad so consumed by grief that he repeatedly cheats on his girlfriend to pursue an innocent woman who reminds him of his dead wife and completely destroys his mind, life, and family in the process is getting…a little dark.

It would get predatory really quickly and maybe they would’ve done it in the first season when all of the characters behaved in a more blatantly morally gray way, but the show has changed its tone a lot since then, and nothing in this season so far indicates to me that they’re going back to that. It would be a tonal 180 right at the end of the season while they're still trying to capture and keep new viewers on a new network.

Obviously we have no idea how far this will go, but my hope is that Eddie isn’t actually delusional, he doesn’t actually let it go that far, and the focus is more on the guilt and internal struggle weighing on him. Fingers crossed for panic attacks!

[hxhhasmysoul]

JJK is over? if so, final throughts?

It is over. There was no announcement of continuation as far as I know.

I think my overall rating for it is B.

It has some A and A+ arcs, some B arcs and the last arc is very uneven, mostly D or C with some A moments. The ending is kinda the same.

That doesn't change the fact that i love it deeply and am very attached to a lot of its characters and that is not likely to change anytime soon, it's my second fandom ever and I've never moved on from my first.

I think Gege Akutami is actually a good writer and has potential to be even better if they won't get bitter after JJK and kinda do a proper analysis of what they managed to do well and what not so well.

It's really clear Gege didn't manage to wrangle the plot in the end, didn't manage to explore all their ideas be it for health reasons or because the ideas crystalised too late and well there's no easy editing previous chapters in a weekly published manga...

I don't know how many one shots they've published before the JJK main series, but JJK is their first long form work. It makes a lot of sense that they stumbled in it. People don't fucking get shit right on first try.

I'm sure that JJK's sudden popularity has taken a toll. Especially sudden popularity with people who are not really the audience for a manga where part of the enjoyment comes from trying to dissect the lore and the power system. Or that has concurrent plots it focuses on... like that has anything that requires focus, that might require you to reread the chapter to actually get it, that requires you to keep track of what came before. There are a lot of people who do not enjoy stuff like that. Which is okay... but the JJK fandom is over saturated with them. Also with fucking bigots of all stripes. Or leftists who think that since JJK is not the most left leaning and enlightened work in the world that means the writer deserves death threats and there's nothing worthwhile about the work.

Gege did not stick the landing but that not a big deal tbh, it gave me trauma and brain worms really early on. If it hadn't done that, then yeah the ending would've mattered more. I was also ready for the ending being meh for a while now. There was a turning point when it was clear Gege's passion for JJK dwindled, at least for some parts of it because even in the last part there are moments which Gege really nailed.

Like @/cursedvibes once said that parts of the last arc felt ghost written. The ending kinda feels like that too. Like someone put something together for Gege from Gege's note but kinda missing the themes set up earlier. So like either that or Gege was just sprinting to the finish line, chucking everything away to just run faster.

So like yeah, JJK is a solid B for me. I'm curious to see more from Gege.

[weewooooweew]

shoutout to my mom for making me want to die and caring so much more about my academic success rather than my overall physical and mental well-being

[dol-dee]

theres so much to unpack here gfdfgd First of all I didn't know Sydney just went commando now?? Girl I didnt even ask you to do this, youre just out there rawdogging it??? Second of all, this is the first time Kylar is there. Just the absolute weirdest dynamic that Sydneys Ex-best friend/maybe childhood crush is watching this bc of her current partner

not to mention the lowkey cuckoldry and then Leightons there ofc..

(I already know this scene but I've never had Kylar there)

[butchdykecxck]

honestly I think my femme could stand to be more possessive and weird actually. Like where's my collar? Why am I allowed to be in the same room as women? Why don't I have your teeth marks all over me, staking your claim? Why am I allowed out of the house? Why don't all my clothes have their initial? Why don't you leave lipstick marks all over my shirt collar? Why dont-

[s4pphic-sh3nan1gans]

love that my mum just gave me a lecture (more like an unnecessary reason to argue with me though tbh) about internet safety as if I'm doing something really terrible and I'm a vulnerable, naïve child when I'm literally almost 20 years old :)

[designernishiki]

as much as a i understand and respect ace kiryu truthers, i really feel like kiryu is the type to really take the idea to heart that sex is something vulnerable and meaningful and thus reserved for someone completely trusted and special to him– someone who feels right. after years and years he’s still never legitimately voluntarily slept with someone, always tries to turn women away or is at least apathetic when they try to get physical with him, never feels that deep and specific bond with a woman– nothing compared to some of his bonds with other men throughout his life. and maybe, hopefully, one day it’ll hit him that there’s a pretty big, glaring reason why no women have ever felt “right” to him.

[gregmarriage]

this was meant to be a funny post, but then it got deep imao

not a relationship person, but i believe in their beliefs

[heartonthejindow]

jk’s weverse post was the first thing i saw when i woke up this morning and i would just like to wish all sasaengs a very get hit by a fucking bus. preferably at full speed. a big ass industrial size bus too not just any old schoolbus.

[curiouschaosstarlight]

person #1: "[character i really love] should die violently!"

me: okay, bye

person #2: "i love this character!"

person #2: "[other character i really love] should die violently!"

me:

[vulpinesaint]

my problematic gender truth is that i actually feel no attachment to either of the two binary gender constructs. it just like. makes no sense to me. i've got my own unrelated thing going on. but in the absence of connection to either choice i really do find it more convenient to cosplay closer to the one that people treat like a human being

[widevibratobitch]

the side effects of experiencing all this funeral stuff from this up close is honestly that im just starting to plan my own funeral in my head to entertain myself and it also kinda stopped me from being suicidal because i realised no one but me could do it right

[dreamlogic]

...

[box-dwelling]

I'm going to be honest, I think banning disposable vapes is going to send smoking rates through the roof. Especially among minors