#i suppose there isn’t that much toxic yuri in here…sorry about that anon

[saturnaftertaste]

what if hiram and archie but they're both girls

what if we were hiram and archie . and we were both girls

interesting premise, anon! it could go lots of different ways imo. really depends on the configuration. see one of the things that really creates the unique dynamic of hiram/archie is the fact that it’s built on the very patriarchal patterns of father-son relationships and ALSO the mafia/mob/cartel whatever (crime rings, essentially, are a male business.)

(there is also the question of race, but.)

hiram is brought into the mob the same way that archie is turned into a capo in season 2. i think before anything else, that is what shapes their dynamic that hiram does Wrong and archie Tries to Do Right. that’s the thing that shapes the entirety of season 2, right? archie wants to Do Right (protect fred) -> hiram offers him a way to do that by Doing Wrong (suggesting he start a vigilante group). archie then gets sucked into hiram’s world, with the lure of what i would call very male narrative motivations (this doesn’t mean these apply to men alone, but in fiction, are often seen as inherent traits for a male character to have) such protectiveness - over fred and veronica, power - over those who would seek to hurt fred and veronica. there was a point somewhere in the thousands of meta posts i’ve devoured in the last two days that fred getting shot makes him weak in archie’s eyes, and that hiram’s traditionally “powerful” persona becomes very attractive to him in the time following the fred incident.

have you ever heard of the theory of homosociality, anon?

the thing about the mafia, like i said before, is that it is a predominantly male business. the women, like hermione often cites in s2 to veronica, are supposed to stand behind their man as he makes his moves. the issue with hiram is the same issue that logan roy had in succession, which is that he had no acceptable male heir, so he does, again, what logan roy did: used his idiot son-in-law as a conduit for power. (idiot here used affectionately for archie, derogatory for tom wambsgans) what’s interesting to me is that hiram obviously prides himself on veronica having turned out to be such a cunning, self-sufficient young woman - and while this frustrates him as well, i have to believe that as some point he must’ve considered handing his empire over to her. but the fact remains that ultimately the mafia is a male business, and archie-and-veronica would’ve been a really odd, controlling couple because veronica would be running everything from behind archie’s stature. she does so, even, with nick st. clair and the speakeasy/casino side hustle in s2. she still has to rely on a man to pull the strings.

you know the riverdale genre theory? because of the way that hiram’s entire character is constructed around the mafia, and by extension, so is veronica’s relationship with archie, i think a lot of archie and hiram’s relationship has to specifically with their gender. think about it - none of the women on riverdale have such an intense relationship with the girls on the show who aren’t their daughters. even though alice HATES hermione and veronica, she doesn’t do anything more than forbid betty from being friends with veronica. mary doesn’t really interact with veronica the same way that hiram does with archie. gladys never even comes into meaningful contact with betty - for that matter, neither does hermione. all the girls have very complex minefield-esque relationships with their mothers, but none of the rivermoms ever reach out to the other daughters.

i would say on some level archie and hiram’s relationship cannot be replicated if they were female; say, for example, that hiram were to be woman, and still married to hermione; a lesbian mob boss would always be fighting her way into again, what is predominantly a male space. i don’t think she would’ve had the time to groom female!archie the same way into becoming her capo, because it wouldn’t supplement her position in the mafia to have more female capos. i believe if hiram were female, also, and veronica was still her daughter, there would be no focus on female archie (veronica’s gf in this scenario) and instead, veronica would have a very fraught, tense relationship with hiram instead, because hiram would be actively trying to groom her to take over the empire (?) instead of spoiling her and treating her as someone who would eventually marry into a different position of power. veronica would then fight hiram on all these things, because her girlfriend archie would be protesting against all the evil things that fem!hiram is doing, because fem!archie would be able to see it from the outside of the relationship. riverdale loves a mother-daughter struggle.

if, say, instead, this was a genderswap situation, where hermione is male and hiram is female, and veronica is male and archie is female, i believe nothing would really come of it either. again, fem!archie would be trying to convince veronica that male!hermione is evil, but male veronica would’ve been indoctrinated a long time ago. hiram being female and archie being female completely sap all the tension from their relationship, because all of a sudden fem!hiram would be using her cunning to ensure male!hermione stayed on top of everything, and fem!archie would be busy trying to ensure male!veronica wouldn’t succumb to the dark side. they would simply never interact! riverdale wouldn’t put them in the same room, even. it is possible i just lack imagination; but i just think the layers of repression and violence that form archie and hiram just don’t click in the same way if they were women. i don’t know.

(i do think, though, that fem!hiram would be a very possessive boymom over male!veronica. perhaps there’s something there? fem!hiram beefing with fem!archie over male!veronica’s attention? even so, riverdale, for all its female characters, doesn’t really do non-familial intergenerational interactions all that much. i have a jughead-meta reason for why this is, but that’s a story for a different time.)

[hoxtilicioustf2]

End of the Line

Alright, I’m sorry to do this, but after my last HxH post I’ll have to schedule this post; I’m out of the Hunter x Hunter fandom. I will soon proceed to remove all the references towards it on my blog. 

I will keep following folk who I’ve followed thus far, and I’ll maintain my HxH activity on my other media such as Twitter, Discord, etc. unless problems arise. I will just silence it here, atleast for now. When I start making art again, all my HxH art will go there instead of here. 

This will remain until the anti situation clears up. Antis don’t understand shit about pedos and accuse normal innocent people over fucking fanfiction and fanart. Also practice cancel culture in the addition of it, which remained apparent in one unrelated post.

I’d like to thank people who didn’t join the dark side, to name a few @hxhhasmysoul @avtorsola @astral-valkyrie I hope you can somehow maintain to live through this era and we meet again in this fandom once this bullshit is done and over.

I’d appreciate to be crossed out of that list.

But from now on, new followers on Tumblr (and by this i mean only new followers who hit the follow button after me posting this post), I’d like you to ask before following if you are in the HxH fandom or a minor. I won’t shoot for it or block for it, but I automatically block if I see you interact with any of the major antis, even if your personal opinion may be different.

All my other fandoms remain unaffected.

Rant below cut.

To start things off, I used to know a pedophile.

I used to know someone who sexted minors, who beamed when he saw a minor crossplay, and started being sleazy to them. I even had them pledge to never do that again once only to see them do that again.

My responsibility & sense of justice took over and I cut this person out of my life. But I didn’t just -cancel- them. I explained to them that I cannot associate with them so I can keep others who associate with me safe. I encouraged them to seek professional help, and I made it a condition for if he wishes to contact me again, or stand around in my circles. We used to be close friends, but I pushed all my personal feelings aside for the sake of others. That is how I handle things.

Now, while I won’t deny - he did like some questionable media; that didn’t make or break the fact he was a pedophile. He just simply had it in him in the first place. When I saw him call children (like Real Life Children) ‘subby and twinky’ I lost braincells; but I sincerely doubt this is caused by any fandom, for he wasn’t deeply involved in all that much. Yuri on Ice was the only major thing he was on with, and even that only on personal front. He never used his tumblr for a long period of time, and he also seemed to ship The Right Ships

Just, for this one example, I know about 10 to 100 examples where this isn’t the case. I know a person who aged up Dipper from Gravity Falls to fuck with Bill Cipher, I used to know plenty of people in TF2 fandom who enjoyed fucked up ships or a ship that was later confirmed to be father/son incest. I saw people (also in TF2 fandom) ship age difference, I even shipped said ship but I didn’t portray it this way (Character ages weren’t confirmed at start, but later they were officially confirmed to both be in their late twenties/early thirties so roughly 3-5 realistic age difference FOR ADULTS).  None of the people in these fandoms sexted children. Everyone of them had meaningful relationships with other adults. Everyone hated pedophiles. Everyone hated abusers, and if anything, were more on the side of abused.  So no association can be made.

And this is just the extent of my horizon. 

Now there’s one thing I want to address and that is cancel culture.

First of all, if anyone felt offended by my addition to the One Piece post, I hereby apologize. I had a stressful work day and I wanted to point satire at Oda with “Well I can draw more diverse body shapes than you!” I’m a woman myself, a wlw as well. I didn’t intend to demean other women, and I never plan to do so.

Now that we have this out of the way, people, If any post I do is offensive, harmful to be in the public spotlight, or just gives off a phobic vibe - shoot me a DM and I will address it as soon as I can. 

Don’t just ‘cancel’ me. We’re all humans and make mistakes. And if I don’t know what I did wrong how am I supposed to learn? If you’ve been too poisoned by me to continue, at least tell me what I did wrong and only then block me. I understand I don’t owe you anything, and if you don’t wish to have ties, for any reason, then you’re obviously allowed to severe them, but I too want to learn from my mistakes and do better next time - at least with another person, in case you will never welcome my contact again.

Cancel culture is toxic. Especially when it comes to completely non-abusive, non-severe, non-important situations that don’t linger or exhaust anyone. Sure, if I have continuously annoyed you and lacked manners and behaved inappropriate on your media, and couldn’t muster up the right words to defend myself, it’s okay to cut off, that lingers, that makes you exhausted to associate with me, and it’s not something to be fixed overnight. I understand. But for making 1 bad commentary on a post after a rough day on which I was literally scared that I might lose my job very soon, and completely dazed out, toward a person I don’t even interact with normally, like come on. How does that linger on you and poison you? Shoot me a DM, I will take it down. It can be even as simple as “I don’t welcome this type of commentary on my posts” off anon. Done. Removed. It’s really that simple.

Eitherway I had assumed that this person had as well blocked me because they associated with the most known antis in the block, and I assume my name is being passed around as some incarnation of the devil for merely ‘being an anti-anti’ So I just headed straight to blocking them back.

I know this sounds now very contradictory, but I state in my BYF that I block antis on sight (because I know what they do) and block back once someone blocks me. So if anyone wishes to be unblocked just shoot me a ask if you can or use a sideblog or something if you’re either out of the anti-business, cancel-culture business (which i will add to my BYF now) or have since unblocked me. .