#i usually never complain but...

[kingleedo]

Hongjoong || Work [240531]

[nellasbookplanet]

I recently started reading (and ended up dropping partway through) an m/m retelling of an old legend, and it made me think of this reoccurring thing I've come across a handful of times now in m/m fiction and how they approach women, equality, and world-building.

Let's call it the omegaverse problem, because that's where it seems the most blatant (I've only come across it twice outside of fandom spaces that I can remember). Basically, it's when the writer looks at the unequal and sometimes oppressive roles women serve in society (today and historically), and goes 'this is a good basis for dark romance but there are too many women here' and then just. plops men into the roles traditionally served by women and recreates heteronormative tropes but They're All Men Now, none of those icky women.

Now, completely removing any and all gender based inequality isn't a bad basis for a queer-inclusive fantasy! But thing is, this type of narrative isn't interested in women, so they often read as if women have mysteriously disappeared from society (except for the occassional mom or sister). They don’t bother to include women in traditionally male areas (the book I dropped had plenty of male courtesans, with diplomats and bodyguards and advisors also being male) nor to create new roles for them.

They also generally don’t bother to look critically at the systemic and societal inequalities they're mimicking. The concept 'typically sexist society but they're all men (or all women)' could be used to alienate and deconstruct our ideas of what’s 'normal' and what’s oppressive, a way to compare the intersections of class and gender. Instead, this kind of story is only interested in using inequality as inter-character conflict and set-up for romance. And it sucks.

[harbingersecho]

WODtober 6 > Underground

[cordycepsbian]

team snakemouth gijinka but more of a Fantasy™️ au than just regular humans. featuring our spin on the concepts of halflings and dwarves where they are creature animal. and leif is uh ??? the horrors

bonus doodle

[kirkwallguy]

ok i do have complaints and hate the gameplay (<- bad at it) but i am enjoying mass effect MUCH more now im out of the citadel.

[cnl0400]

Idk I feel like I live in another dimension than most of the OBM fandom on twt. There has never been free pulls on half anniversary besides the permanent gachas, like my god we know Solmare Is greedy but you're inventing stuff to get mad to

[cloudcountry]

thinking about all those times ive seen people be like "if i was bullied as a young child i would just punch them" and thinking Wow they actually have no idea what it's like to be picked on.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I bitch a lot about being put in high stress situations on here while full knowing im addicted to the pressure and the challenge tbh like id literally be so bored if it came by easy

[oceanboy7000]

thoughts and prayers for my chorus chat, they suddenly forgot how to read and sing and count a beat

[alchemicon]

I can't describe how important capturing akutagawa's expression in that moment was to me, like that's such a pivotal character moment, a revelation of his feelings for atsushi and it deserved to be done justice, sskk nation I'm so sorry.

[shitpostingkats]

Something that really bothers me is people being mostly sub watchers and then seeing a dub episode and complaining that the characters are "totally butchered". That's because there's a whole show of building that character in a slightly different flavor, y'all.

Actually, correction, something that really bothers me is people complaining about the yugioh dubs.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Still thinking about this scene. I need to kill him with my bare hands

[crossdressingdeath]

Rook: [Solas] sees a problem, and he thinks of a solution that has huge, horrible knock-on effects. And then he does it anyway, because there's no way anyone else could come up with something better! And it's okay that he did incalculable damage to the world, because he's really sad, you see?

I love it when Rook calls Solas out on his shit. Even when he's not actually there. This is what I've been saying! What a lot of people have been saying in fact!

And I think this dialogue really encapsulates the main difference between Rook and Solas that allows Rook to accept their failures and move on where Solas can't, because... yeah, Solas is really sad about all the damage he's done! But that's all he is, and being sad about hurting people doesn't mean anything if you don't strive to do better. When Rook gets people killed they stop, they grieve, they wish things had ended differently, but then they accept that it's done and resolve to do better in the future. They learn from their mistakes, because doing good is more important to them than being the best. Solas, meanwhile, insists that his plans are the best and never considers the consequences in the future (or the immediate consequences for people who aren't him), and then when those plans inevitably go horrifically wrong for everyone because he just goes with whatever sounds like a good idea to him at the moment he doesn't think about why that happened. He just sits and wallows in how bad he feels and finds ways to blame those idiots who refused to just do what he said because he said so and never for a moment considers that maybe there was another way because obviously his plan was the best plan because he's just so goddamn smart and poor him, if only those stupid mortals could see that he was better than them everything would be fine. He can talk a good game about how he's just a man and he makes mistakes if you give him the opportunity to show off how humble he is, but he never actually internalises that maybe his plans were deeply flawed from the start and trying to do the same thing but from a slightly different angle is doomed to failure (seriously, if you call him on his shit instead of giving him opportunities to play the humble hero he makes it so obvious that he thinks he's better than everyone. It's actually kind of funny given how consistently he fucks up every plan). And so when the next big, awful decision comes around Rook considers what happened before and relies on the expertise of the people around them to avoid the mistakes they made in the past while Solas does the same shit all over again because he's convinced no one could ever do better than him. Accepting your regrets isn't just about feeling bad, which is the mistake I think a lot of people make when it comes to Solas. It's about doing better, which Rook makes a real effort to do and Solas actively avoids because it would mean admitting not only that he failed but that his plans sucked—and frequently were morally bankrupt—to begin with. It's much easier to sit there and wallow than it is to try to be better than you were; Rook recognises that the effort is worth it, and Solas doesn't.

[scarameownya]

sometimes i wonder if my neurodivergent traits (stimming, overstimulation, ect...) might be too annoying for the genshin world

but then i remember alhaitham exist and ppl love him (and want to fuck him) and feel better

[headfullof-ideas]

With most of my side characters in my crossover, I try to nail them to at least one clothing design. However. I’ve just drafted a character who is GOING to have multiple outfits, which means finding the ‘generic’ outfit is HARD

[jeanralphiosbf]

should i make a tag list ,, would anyone care ,,