#im so sorry im not usually a hater. but this is infuriating me.

[radio-zephyr]

a little bit of a rant below

but for baby tyrant

the character of emili, she just got introduced and now we're at the ball

tell me why people think she's a horrible person already?????? she's literally like SEVEN. SEVEN. Its been PROVEN her father is a piece of shit through his interactions with enrique (beating him, degrading/insulting him), and her father wants to use his kids to gain mabel's favor and have an advantage. LITERALLY PROVEN. And shes SEVEN. what is up with the comments section that they would even let it cross their mind that she's and irredeemably horrible person?????????

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SORRY im going to be a hater and incredibly annoying for a second. there's this post going around rn thats like 'pink haired anime girls are a plague on society and we need to go back to Ye Good Olden Days of 90s yakuza anime to heal the earth" and it honest to god infuriates me because the image of "good" anime designs is like:

literally solely GROWN WOMEN from shounen and seinen, with the exception of fucking MAMORU SAILOR MOON, who i can only assume the op thought was a girl. meanwhile the "bad" designs are like:

modern SHOUJO and ROMANCE protagonists, the majority of whom are children or teenagers. which is like. a painfully obvious false equivalency imo. this is not a problem with the progression of style over time, guys, it's a genre thing. shoujo and romance art styles emphasize the eyes of their protagonists and often feature child or teenage characters, who obviously have to be drawn differently than grown women in the first place. shounen and seinen are more likely to feature adult characters and are often more focused on action than expression, so the art style adapts accordingly to emphasize different features.

there are plenty of modern shows with female characters who aren't stylized in the "bad" image style. these shows are just... seinen, mostly. like. if you don't like the romance-anime art style... don't watch romance?? it's not like this art style is a plague on humanity, it's just common for a certain genre of show because it serves to emphasize the features of a character that usually need emphasis in the context of that type of show.

and it's not like the "bad" art style didn't exist in Ye Olden Days either?? in the "good" art style image there was LITERALLY a sailor moon character. in which 90% of the main cast looks like THIS:

heavily stylized with emphasis on the large eyes and hair. the style is not new, it's just genre-specific. I truly don't care if you don't like this art style like. i get it. it's fine. but don't act like it's a fucking plague on society PLEASE. shoujo is hard enough to come by nowadays anyway we really don't need to demonize the entire art style. i never advocate for people to watch exclusively battle shounen but if you're going to be this annoying about it just STOP WATCHING ROMANCE PLEASEEE

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rae give us your thoughts on taylor swift more specifically her rich white feminist thing she’s got going on and her influence on the current ‘girlboss’ trend and the current perception of women in media today???? asking bc i love reading your opinions on this stuff 💕

it sounds like u have some opinions of ur own lol but sure i can talk abt taylor swift! will be putting it under a cut bc i love my swiftie mutuals tho...swiftie mutuals look away im going to be mean sorry....

i mean yeah overall u kinda summed it up lol. i don't think i'd really care much about taylor swift were it not for the way she's been branded as some sort of groundbreaking feminist and subsequently played into that perception to profit ("the man" makes my eyes roll out of my skull sorry...)

i think my dislike of her was first seeded when "you need to calm down" came out--before then i just hadn't really cared abt taylor swift, knew a few songs but wasn't crazy about them, etc. but then she dropped "you need to calm down" and suddenly she was getting TONS of praise for doing SO much for the queer community and i was like. well first of all the song is bad second of all she's literally comparing her online haters to violent homophobes as though those two things are in any way equal or similar experiences third of all she's getting praised for profiting off positioning herself as a #ally. like this song and music video are not some sort of feminist praxis they are a way to funnel money into her already bulging pockets.

but because literally everyone around me (many swiftie friends) was gushing over how amazing she was for hiring all those dykes + faggots to dance behind her i felt like i was being gaslit + the fact that taylor swift was just happily accepting the money + accolades at the same time made me dislike her

when folklore came out i actually did enjoy the album which was. the first time that's happened for me lol i usually like maybe one or two of her songs and think the rest are mediocre at best but i was like huh maybe she's like changing as an artist and sort of settling into a new groove that's kinda cool. and then i didn't like evermore as much but i was still like okay cool new sound new vibe. and then she dropped midnights and i tried really hard to like it for my swiftie friends but...honestly i was shocked by how bad it was lol. just felt like a new level of low in terms of bad lyrics and the music was incredibly bland and boring to me, nothing new or interesting going on there. and then i felt gaslit again by all the swifties raving abt the lyricism of lines like "draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man" like!!! babe that is a tumblr post from 2014...

but aside from finding it genuinely incomprehensible that she gets so much credit for being an amazing writer or lyricist when the bulk of her discography is simply incredibly mediocre or straight-up bad imo (bc honestly that alone wouldn't be enough to make me dislike her; ik these are all subjective measures so even if i find it annoying to hear people rant + rave about music i think is bad it's not gonna make me dislike the artist or the people raving necessarily) what bothers me more and solidifed my dislike of her is the continuation of the way she acted when "you need to calm down" dropped. which is to say, it's infuriating enough that her fandom has sainted her, but what's more infuriating to me is the she seems inclined to play into that sainthood.

she often leans in to portraying herself as either a victim of misogyny or a #girlboss feminist. and like--this isn't to say taylor swift hasn't experienced misogyny, or that she shouldn't talk about those experiences, or that rich white women are exempt from sexism. but her feminist consciousness seems to begin and end with her own personal experiences of sexism, with no effort at a deeper political engagement made. she flies her private jet around and poisons the environment and when people try to call her out for it she sits back and lets her fans accuse anyone that criticizes her of being sexist. in fact, it seems that any criticism of her is met with accusations of sexism, which is an infuriating obfuscation.

at the end of the day, her politics such that i have seen are incredibly liberal and toothless, and her feminism seems largely focused on making herself more money ("the man" being about "getting ahead" faster, the whole thing with that one guy owning her masters centering around a dispute over property + who gets to make money, etc). she is a capitalist first and foremost, and because of that her feminisn kind of sucks, so i hate seeing people treat her as a Feminist Figure. i also think the gaylor thing is sooooo stupid and annoying and reinforces the concept of identity first and foremost as a discrete ontological category rather than something socially constructed + materially rooted. like the idea that taylor has some mystical gay Essence inside her that exists regardless of how straight her music + lifestyle is, the makes her Queer--sorry but give me a fucking break lol. i don't give a shit if she kisses other girls, taylor swift is not a Queer Icon, and i don't understand why people desperately scrabble to find proof that she is when there are already plenty of openly gay pop singers!

in conclusion taylor swift is the epitome of #girlboss liberal feminism to me and her supposedly genius music being aggressively mediocre is just the icing on the cake lol