#it’s just not interesting like it used to be. that’s just my opinion tho
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I dont have a lot of sensory issues but i have eaten many many sandwiches. Im usually very turkey & mayo, but i have had some very interesting combinations.
The nicest thing about a sandwich is that you can put anything you like on it, really.
Chicken nuggets? They're just a chicken patty split up. Add a lil mayo or ketchup and that counts as a sandwich.
Hotdog? cut into circles on bread. Put ketchup. Done.
I like carrots, so ive had carrots cut up on sandwiches. Or shredded.
Ive had potato salad on sandwiches too, but if they dont like inconsostent texture then maybe go for something thats really blended or in the food processor. Its just another option for like... a spread to go with something.
Also applesauce as a spread/sauce. Thats very wet tho so use sparingly.
Hummus is pretty consistent in texture and has protein which can help balance out a diet. Could also try with cucumber or diced red peppers.
Worth noting that theres chocolate hummus which sounds gross at first but it kind of just tastes like brownie batter. But pricey for an all the time food but maybe a treat.
Peanutbutter & apple - idk if peanutbutter works for them, and bananas seem like they may have too much mush going on, but apples cut in slices as if they were a lunchmeat/cheese has worked for me.
Creamcheese also. I've also done creamcheese & cucumber, creamcheese & salami.
Also strawberry creamcheese and strawberries was a pretty good one.
Egg...has a strong smell and not everyone likes the flavor or texture, but if you can get a consistent scrambled egg texture then egg sandwiches maybe. My dad used to mix em, add a little bit of water, and microwave them for 1 minute on like 80% power. A lot of people mock me for the microwegg, but it works and it comes out pretty much the same every time if you have one standard method.
If cucumber for crunch & moisture: beansprout or water chestnut could work. Imo the tastes arent too overpowering and they add the same kind of texture, for me. However! Beansprouts are stringier and water chestnuts are... a little wet.
In the other direction: spinach (not cooked) could be too close to lettuce, but i always found that it had a more consistently dry texture. I feel like it goes bad friggin within Days but also you could try putting that in a bananabread or banana muffin (you like. Food processor it in and it makes it a little spongy but it doesnt taste like spinach. Also its super green)
Have heard good things about spam, though its very salty and too close to ham for me. If ham texture gets to them tho and not ham taste, there's that.
Could try also sausage patties but like watch for whether the brand adds anything spicy.
I mean to be fair- i once put leftover lomein on a sandwich and ate that but like... There is no law saying you cant. And if you have something you know you will eat then putting it on bread to eat it makes it a sandwich regardless of anyone else's opinion.
Anyway good luck op! If there are other safe foods that they havent tried on a sandwich, see if you can find a way to use those things in a sandwich- theres a lot of substitutions you can make.
HI IMPORTANT QUESTION PLEASE ANSWER AND REBLOG
My child is working on expanding their safe foods and wants to try more sandwiches. The issue is there's so much potential with sandwiches that like, where do you start? So they're stuck on the same ones (cheese, cheese + cucumber, jam) (due to my own autism I am not much of a sandwich eater so I'm not much help)
We would love it if you could tell us your favourite sandwiches! No lettuce, mushroom, poultry, ham, bacon or non-cheddar cheese (or something adaptable if it includes those)
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Being a bsd fan is so awkward for me rn cuz I simply stopped believing anyone other than Oda can die in bsd forever ago (hell even Oda I’m looking at with suspicion at this point). So now with everything happening in the manga I’m just watching the entire fandom lose their shit and I’m stood in the corner like “cool😐 I wonder how they’ll come back��”
Like, I’ll get upset if the series ends and they’re all actually dead. But until then I’m just not buying it🤷
#ngl the plot rn makes zero sense. I low key hate this arc because it’s so over complicated#and literally every other chapter it’s just Dazai and Fyodor being like ‘actually I planned it!’ like bitch no you didn’t shut up#(btw I love bsd and Dazai and Fyodor. It’s just this arc. I hate basically all of it)#like bsd has always been confusing but it’s getting out of hand now#it feels like it’s been reduced to fake out deaths and Dazai/Fyodor claiming to plan everything#it’s just not interesting like it used to be. that’s just my opinion tho#bsd spoilers#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bsd manga spoilers#bungou stray dogs
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everytime sukugo gets called a crack ship i suffer +10 damage
#f.txt#it's not about the ship or anything#it's more just. they be calling anything a crack ship these days huh#djdfhskdsffgs#like with skg they did used to be a rarepair but arent anymore#but they were never a Crack ship. it's a ship that has made sense since the begginning. (ok maybe i MIGHT be a biased fdjfdfg)#but!!!!! they had 2 interactions!!! two!!!!! for a crack ship u need a minimum requirement of 0 canon interactions#even THEN. u might not necessarily call it a crack ship#i think it maybe has to do with how fandom has gotten much larger and the Big Ships are so much more omnipresent in any fandom#so maybe that skews people's perceptions of other ships? like. any smaller ships gets totally overshadowed.#or maybe it's just confusing the term with rarepair#but i mean i have seen people be so confused when presented with skg and finding it slightly bizarre#and before i would have kinda gotten it . but now after the fight. im like......did u NOT see all that.#a lot of people seem to not venture into ships outside the 'main' ones#and take them as canon to a certain degree ?#('why would u ship X with Y if Z is right there')#idk#it's interesting#maybe related to the mainstreaming of fandom#?#just thoughts honestly#tho i feel the same about rarepairs tbh dsfjsdfds#i feel like the idea of a rarepair has also gotten skewed#where some big ships (in my opinion) are also getting called rarepairs#had this drafted from a while back. but i saw skg being called a crack ship again and remembered it#anyways. i will reiterate......ppl really be calling anything a crack ship these days#dhsfjdhjdghjfffddfhhfd#it just makes me feel....old(?) idk fjdhfjshgjs more kinda like a purist all NO!!!!!!!! wrong use of the word!!!!!!!!#but let's be honest ppl have always been like that. 'there's X!! why ship Y!!!!!'#basically. conclusion. fandom gettin so big intimidates me fhdjdfghjdfhjdfhfsdfgg
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tumblr is the only place where people who ship canon relationships will suddenly pick up a victim complex about people online “being mean” to them after a show ended SIXTEEN YEARS AGO
#zutara#lookin at YOU zutara hate crowd#literally tho i’m assuming atp that you just weren’t alive when the showrunners purposely made fun of zutara shippers#like at a convention in front of a crowd#they literally used REAL zutara fanart to make fun of us#i was like 14 yrs old & it crushed me that my favorite show’s creators could be so hateful toward my interests#anyway i just feel like some shippers these days need so much validation from random strangers online & it’s so exhausting#no one is strapping your face to the screen & forcing you to look at posts#if you see an opinion you don’t like you can literally just keep scrolling lmaoo
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Big big fan of the two little whisps of hair in the hairline for some of the doodle 141 boys, especially with Skull Barista and his silly slick back and flustered Soap. Absolutely adorable, thank you for your service
Thank you!! I like adding them to Price, Nik and Ghost sometimes :3 slick back hair IS MY WEAKNESS <3
#salt and pepper my beloved#ok some interesting yap#im generally ok w/ a lot of things in the fandom except hair#i am very picky with Ghost’s hair#i cannot stand the fuck me up fam or fuckboy hair or the ones with a fade LMAO#or like curls + fade PLEASE GOD NO#btw im not hating artist/renderers who give him those hair this is just my preference#im either a long hair (shocking- but it exist) buzzcut (extra grumpy) or straight hair Ghost truther#or grass hair aka like the hair 2 months after buzzcut where its spiky and fuzzy and can go static#my go to to draw LOL#i still dont think ive gotten his hair right in my opinion#its a rough patch of grass thats it PFT#swoopy slicked back hair is for the special occasion#cringe at my unmasked ghost drawing lord i need to wipe that out and redo#karma is karma or hate goes both ways idfk but ive gotten people saying they dont like the fluff of Johnny’s mohawk in my style#to which i say ok i get it LMAO#ive gotten used to it to the point where if i drew a flat mohawk it felt wrong wheeze#eh /shrugs/#dont even get me started on Price’s hair#his one is more of a color issue i absolutely cannot handle his hair being light brown shade like naur#give him rich darker shade my man deserves that HAHA#funnily enough I do struggle with Gaz’s hair#sum about the tiny curls tho i think its just me not getting used to seeing him hatless more often#i do love au where people put him in braids#very yummy#ask response#thanks for the ask <3
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So who is your favorite creepy pasta my is laughing jack
Abandoned by Disney and Godzilla NES!!! For the creeps associated with the slendermansion idea (which I love btw), it has been years since I last read their creepypastas, but just for their characters I think Laughing Jack and Ticci Toby! I think Jeff is INCREDIBLY funny because in the og story he was just 13. To me he made that story up and posted it in the internet. I know him.
#ask tag#creepypasta#creepypasta fandom#like. to me jeff nina and jane are three idiots who share one (1) braincell#jeff made his story up because what actually happened isn't something he wants to share#he did cause an accident that hurt jane tho and they did have beef for a while#and nina to me copied his irl actions#if we're using the slendermansion concept i think the three of them were after the same guy#then all got there at the same time and went “???? what are YOU doing HERE????”#(they were all 18-19 when this happened)#and then slenderman took them in because to me the slendermansion concept works better if its found family#OR a metaphor for kids ending up in bad homes and having to break free of them (in this case is via killing slenderman)#(altho i prefer found family because it's more comedic)#oh wow that's a lot of talk in the tags! anyways if anyone is interested in my creepypasta opinions just send me an ask#jeff nina and jane have friendship bracelets as well. at least to me#source: i made it up
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hm i was able to write out a bullet list outline of an itws sequel but have no desire to write it. life is like that sometimes.
#i mean i tried to write the first scene a couple times and didn't like it so#also tmi in the tags#first time in my life i want to get on antidepressants so i can write again#loss of interest in hobbies for more than 2 weeks and all that#i successfully sewed something tho#anyway i kind of dont have insurance#like i do but i moved so i can't use it here#and i can't afford therapy or whatever on my own rn#anyway. shush.#i ALSO need to finish editing itws so i can send it to a publisher but editing sucks so bad i hate it#i have to rewrite two scenes and i just have no idea what to do in their place#then just general fix ups#my main two beta readers have opposite opinions too
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Tempted to do yet ANOTHER make over for my dead was-to-be-story-blog @/nervoqat but change the user and make it an oc kind of blog. Um.
#💭 — ⌗nervo rambles . ★#ppl still follow that blog I think#Dumbi ik for sure (I think)#so if I posted more stuff it'd be visible to the ppl following..#sigh#just a thought tho#I'd maybe probably talk abt my um#Boothill self-insert oc there#and maybe I could talk abt my story ocs#or just make ocs for the fandoms I'm in#that's always fun to do bc it's like “how can I make this oc fit in the lore?”#the one I struggled with most for that was my Omori oc#OMG I FORGOT ABT MY OMORI OC#oh the memories..#that was hard probably bc I had to fit in my first online friends oc as well#but dude it's so fun#anyways I need to get back to my hmrk#I wanna know if anyone would be interested in that#opinions guys??#would anyone follow the blog bc otherwise it'd just sit there and rot#like it had for months already#Argenti theme is dead#still there but not being used#I'm only hesitant bc as I said idk if anyone would follow the blog and stuff#and bc I don't rlly talk abt my ocs there.. and I'd be like “guys ask me questions abt them!”#and ik I'd get nothing in reply#so
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is it just me or... are the reputation rewards for fontaine underwhelming as hell?
#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo,ide yo !!#like i guess the crystalfy trap might be useful...?#i don't usually have below 300 crystalflies in my inventory so i don't need it#i just don't condense my resin that much cuz i'm either doing bosses or leylines most of the time#people who are constantly out of crystalflies might find some use out of it tho#but it might end up like the sumeru ingredient speeder-upper thing and be completely impractical to use over just catching them manually#unless you're too lazy to collect them. which is fair enough#i doubt it's actually gonna be that convenient unless it works like the parametric transformer tho#the wind generator looks interesting. but not enough of a draw for me to divert my bounties to fontaine to rush to get it#i hope it essentially works like a mid-air dash forward. or like a wind ring. that might give me incentive to use it over the feather fan#even the wind glider is kinda...#this is just my personal opinion and mine alone,but the asymmetrical color scheme is not doing it for me#my main hope was to get a different blue glider that isn't the wings of companionship so qiu doesn't have to keep wearing the latter#but i don't like how it looks on him at all. the light blue side just clashes too much#and the only characters i have that kinda look good with it are barbara and layla#except for the fact that the wings of companionship match layla's aesthetic and color scheme perfectly#and the dragonspine wings just match barbara way better#it'll basically only look good on focalors#and even then it doesn't look like it'll match her perfectly since the asymmetry on her outfit doesn't look as pronounced#but i guess theme-wise it fits her perfectly so that's probably enough#i'm gonna put it on chongyun for a while whenever i get it just for the hell of it#but yeah. i'm not a big fan of this glider#i'll be not-so-patiently waiting for natlan's glider instead#i hope to god it's true fiery bright red and there's no asymmetrical or stripey bullshit a la kfc glider#i will forever hope for a pink event glider tho#(event glider cuz i doubt they could possibly justify being able to get a pink glider in-story)#(although if they do i hope they do as soon as possible)#(yk what. i wish the reward for maxing out the sacred sakura was a pink windglider and not the teapot realm)#(and they just made the teapot realm purchaseable after the archon quest like the sumeru one)#(cuz that's the literal only place that would've made sense to have it permanently in-game)
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perfectly capable of making my own decisions buuuuuuuuut i also kinda wanna hear some opinions about this so
if youre someone who enjoys random polls pls vote ur favourite option?? ♥️
#or is it just me who gets little rushes from randomly voting on polls? i think its the same concept of taking tests i just like to find#the best option to me in the selection#text pots#i like all these equally and can see myself using any of these#the ygritte and billie piper one are kind of old tho so would not be my first choice#probably#like i know im over here talking with myself and ill be lucky if i get 3 votes but even so#i still am interested even in 3 peoples opinions. or even in just one persons opinion lmao
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I THINK I FINALLY HAVE AN ANSWER TO ERIS’ QUESTION AFTER ALMOST TWO YEARS !!!
#I’ve always wondered this myself because aesthetically or physically speaking I don’t have a type because idc abt looks and idk I’ve not#been surrounded by enough people to know what I like and don’t like ? 😭 ig it just happens idk#according to how I was previously it’s definitely a combination of looks that compliment the personality#the personality being the centrepiece in my opinion#growing up I’ve always liked the male leads who were a little distant reserved hard working etc etc#I use fiction as a descriptor bc nobody will know the ppl in my school so this is the easiest benchmark 😭#to put it bluntly I was always more inclined to people like alhaitham#but as I grew up I became so incredibly frustrated by how emotionally dense people are#how daft and slow they are in social settings and how insensitive people are#this built resentment 😭 so now again to put it very simply for ppl who don’t know irl specific ppl I know#that’s lowkey equivalent to Kaveh#which is so interesting because they’re so different even tho they’re quite similar in some ways#in the ideal sense putting both alhaithams and kavehs personalities in a mixing pot and stirring would make my ideal type#GASP I CANT believe I finally got an answer 🥹 as someone who knows nothing about herself this is groundbreaking LMAO#*proceeds not to use this info bc I am too aroace for this*#dora daily#this is actually incredibly funny because I’ve always regarded myself as kaveh and alhaitham girl version in a mixing pot too 😭#huh that is quite interesting#maybe I should revise my theory abt who I’m into but honestly it does seem so accurate and in line with my surroundings and how I’ve grownup#dies
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G3nshin players never beating the not playing the game allegations
#I keep seeing twt discourses n omg it getting so annoying cuz u can tell how many ppl don't got critical thinking/#Failed media literacy with their hot takes or 'gotcha' takes#Fanon rotting the brain so bad u take it as canon despite not being able to remember what canon was (which isn't bad but being so bold to#Argue somebody sourcing their argument while you use random comment on a tiktok vid of somebody going 'trust me bro' is insane)#Idk what f0ntaine done to make certain group of player suddenly have no thought in their heads but it like rlly bad#Like first implying n3uvill3tt3 does not care at all about fur14 is insane when u got him tuning traveller out n then him implicitly being#'i really really don't want to hurt her can we not hurt during this plan' moment with everybody n then closing his eyes cuz he couldn't bar#To see fur14 cry n then when saving f0ntaine he obviously was thinking about fur14 sacrifice n started crying in that cutscene#It one thing to argue fur14 doesn't like neuv but it another to say he doesn't like her#N even fur14 doesn't hold a candle if u have her n done the events she n neuv r in it obv she doesn't hate him lmao#Like u gotta be blind n deaf while playing the game to not see she has forgave him like n4v14 n clor1ne#U know who she hasn't forgave tho? arl3 :)#New twt g3nshin discourse r shippers going how is arl3fur1 toxic n not the new archon n c4ptain0#N I just omg OMG#I know ship wars r a thing but typically I don't care but seeing a take going like#'so arl3 attacks fur1 n that bad but c4ptain0 attacks m4vu but that not toxic 🤨..' I just felt my head explode omg#WHERE THE MEDIA LITERACY OML#it literally in fur1 voice line about the kn4v3 that she hopes to forget her n arl3 did attempt a murder on a fur1 who at the time had no#Powers!!! It not the same as what happen in n4tl4n!!#Also what with trying to imply m4vu is weaker than c4ptain0 since she a woman 🤨🫵 don't get mad that Ur ship heavily relies on fanon n#That the het ship has a more equal footing with each other#Crazy thing is I Def like canon arl3fur1 better than other ship just cuz I find the other boring but omg OMG#What w declawing the ship just cuz u don't like it being toxic or the fact one part of said ship has a negative opinion of the other...#That what makes the ship so interesting!!! That despite the effort arf3 may try to reassure fur1 she forever scarred by that moment orz#There multiple non toxic wlw ship u can have if shipping a toxic ship is too much but don't fall into sexist thinking cuz a het ship#Has a more healthy/equal canon dynamic#I'm ranting but seeing a take implying that m4vu is inherently weaker than c4ptain0 CUZ SHE A WOMAN???? CRAZY INSANE idk what type of rotte#Brain but there definitely maggots in you noggin#M4vu not cowering at the sight of c4ptain0 nor is she unwilling to fight him hell she wish she could have fought him while they both were i#Their prime... Imagine thinking like an incel cuz Ur ship is more toxic than another <o>
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wanted to do another TME sketchdump (that i actually finish coloring ;;;) and so i did!!!
been thinking about TME almost literally 24/7 (and the other time is spent on OCs lol) and i still can't get over how this story is literally everything ive longed to see (as well as full of things i didn't know i longed to see. hewwo Empress Arne and Emperor Christopher).
#The mighty extra#the mighty extra: one girl changes the world#i gave up on the Lyla/irlLyla one ahaha#i just wanted to transition between both her selves in a cool dissolving kind of way#also im utterly in love with this new artstyle of mine#can't wait to use it for my own original projects at some pt lol#also the Helene/Paris sketch in this makes me melt#i like how the universe heard my complaints about Tilt/Burst and said “bet. here's a ship that is of the same archetype but better"#literally Helene is manipulative of Paris but he's lovesick for her and their relationship is so fun and dynamic i love them#can't wait to see what pivotal moment in the plot changes Helene's opinion of Paris and at what point she reciprocates his interest in her#tho tbf she may already be at this point considering she's strangely playful towards him and literally no one else in the story#also!! Arne??? you'd think i should hate her bc she's cruel to my fave but goddamn am i kind of rooting for her ngl#she's such a good villainess character and i have a feeling if she wasn't blinded by sunk cost hell she would've been a good mother-#to Helene#especially because i can't help but remember that Arne implies she was spiteful towards Christopher for never once caring about Helene-#or Tyrone when they were hurt as kids and how she uses the unfairness of that situation to chastise him#honestly Arne's actions are understandable af. she's not a good person but damn if im not on her side over the emperor's#i have so many thoughts about this manwha it's literally such a complex story and so up my alley it hurts#never thought a transmigration manwha would end up being my favorite story ever but here we are#and im quite enjoying my time here :P
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now im in the shithole that is “absolutely no one around me wants anything to do with my hyperfixation”
#turns out my family cant fucking stand heavy metal i dont think theyve listened to a single clip ive sent them except my sibling played-#- the Doomstar Requiem for a bit bc they commented on The Fans Are Chatting#but they clearly hadnt read what id said about it and then didnt have an opinion on anything else theyd heard#and they dont even wanna watch the movie even tho they liked the animation#and bc the show is so succinct pretty much all i could talk to them about was like#just explaining the characters’ backstories and development. theres not much else to say. especially without watching any of it#^^^ of which i dont think they listened to any of THAT either#my relationship with my sibling is essentially just us sending each other things the other absolutely does not care for#and then getting mad at each other for not engaging about it#but at the very least they have other friends who engage with the same interests#W ; Vent Post#timposting again
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the placement of the st barthelemy memorial garden is certainly interesting
#sophies ramblings#i don't think there's anything wrong with the placement per se! it's just....interesting#btwn louvre (royal power) and st germain l'auxerrois (bells were used to signal the start of the massacre) sure is a choice#BUT it is on rue de l'amiral coligny so there is ALSO that#the sign describing the massacre is sort of what you'd expect and glosses over some details (in my biased opinion bc i work on protestants)#i think putting it at the site of coligny's death would be. A Lot and really All of paris was an execution zone so like. sure put it there.#it's fairly... neutral (?) in that it's not ON the quais where they dumped bodies into the seine#or the bridges where bodies got caught on the bridge supports#anyway also saw the Henri IV statue lol#also it only took 450 years :) to get a memorial :)#the pope acknowledged it in 1997 tho lol
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as a Helena fan who's witnessed this whole bit go from silly jokes/memes to genuine vitriol, it's been utterly bizarre. from what i noticed, the root of the comparison came from people fanonizing Jason to the degree of saying "he has Catholic guilt (bc of the Flashpoint priest!Jason) and he'd be an English school teacher (bc i'm assuming, his taste for classic lit) and he's female rage-coded and he would adopt/protect children" which, are canonical traits of Helena. so at first, it was sort of a joke lamenting the fact ppl would rather force unrealistic headcanons onto Jason than consume content with a woman in the Batfam. because it's sort of a tad ironic/painful to see fanonized Jason Todd who's being called all these things he isn't, when there's a canon character who *is* all of those things right there. like if that's the character you want, why wouldn't you want to read about Helena. the issue started with frustration against fanon Jason, from my experience anyway.
but then, it spiraled out of control to become a comparison of their lethal moral code and their disagreements with Bruce suddenly making Jason this stupid boy clone of Helena. which isn't true and is an insult to both of them to claim they're at all the same. they kill for different reasons, they're at odds with Bruce for different reasons. a well-written Helena and a well-written Jason really have little in common. though their interactions could be interesting, i don't even think they'd get along tbh.
i think in recent months/years, the Batfamily fandom suddenly became self aware that they grossly ignore the women of the Batfam. and now they're trying *too hard* to course correct for that. to an extent, i get why Helena isn't in the majority of fanon content- she hasn't really *been* a Batfamily member since pre-Flashpoint. the New-52 and Rebirth versions of her character are arguably not even the same character and certainly not a character as important to the Batfamily as she used to be. so why *would* a fandom mostly pulling from modern comics know who she is aside from the couple WFA episodes she's been in. (which did her *no* favors for people understanding her and also whitewashed her before the art was fixed.)
but, i think everyone's now trying to prove how woke their fandom content is (i hate using that word, it sounds very republican but i can't think of a better one.) by including women and characters of color to prove they don't just care about the boys. and sure, it's cool and all if you want to pick up Huntress comics bc you're sick of reading about stories only featuring Bruce and his "sons", but now it's like. almost a competition to prove how much more you know about the Batfam than other people when you make these jokes. i've seen the same thing happening comparing Steph and Jason recently. yes, it's important to care about the more diverse characters of the Batfam as much as you care about the boys. but now they're put on this ridiculous pedestal of being the "more cool alternatives". an organic push for content about the underrated characters is one thing, but it's another thing entirely when it's born out of a performative nature, which is certainly what this whole... thing feels like.
and the irony is, you can *really* tell the people doing this the most haven't actually read much of Helena's content outside of Gail Simone's Birds of Prey. and my hot take is, i don't think Gail Simone does a *great* job with Helena and she's often pretty sexist toward Helena (making other characters slut shame her, making Helena very promiscuous which isn't something she has a history of, etc) so, while it's important content for Helena, it can be a shallow reading of her. where all you really get about her is "pro-murder Batfam vigilante with a crossbow and a sassy personality" which sure, feels a *bit* like a shallow Jason. but that's the whole point, you have to make them both *incredibly* shallow to compare them. bc it's not about actually liking the women, it's about getting the shallow brownie points of saying "look i know who she is and i think she's *totally* cooler than Jason he's a dumb copy".
tbh even with the Jason Todd headcanons that are more egregious in feeling like "oh that's just Helena Bertinelli but a dude", it's not like it's being done on purpose. none of these fanon-only fans know enough about Helena to be purposefully stealing her traits and it really isn't that deep aside from sometimes, people just have bad headcanons that kinda make you wish they would read about characters aside from their main blorbos. but hey, they're not *required* to, and no one is an evil misogynist for having some OOC headcanons. you suck the fun out of fandom when you require people to interact with characters they aren't interested in. and depending on why someone likes Jason, they honestly might not like Helena. they're wildly different and have very different dynamics with everyone around them.
and i get it, Jason has had *wildly* inconsistent writing and there's debate upon debate of what's in character for him, what comics you should consider when trying to make fan content about him, and so on. i'm in the "anything past pre-Flashpoint isn't in the version i prefer" camp, but the whole mess of it scatters the fandom on how to write him. which i think is the actual root of him getting fanonizing beyond recognition, *not* people stealing from Helena. is it particularly headache-inducing to see Jason fans say "he's girl coded" or "he's female-rage coded"? yeah. but even those fans aren't ever going to be convinced out of their bubble by vitriolic comments made about how Jason's a total loser and Helena's so much cooler than him. and then the more canon-based fans who might *actually* like Helena and probably would read her comics if just given an honest recommendation of her character are *really* not going to want to be interacting her content/fandom. painting a broad stroke of the Jason fandom all seeing Jason as this cartoonish fanon version of himself does you no favors with anyone.
like i used to find the silly jokes/memes that were solely calling out bad fanon enjoyable as pure lighthearted "oh i wish more people liked this character the way they liked that character bc the fandom for this character is so small" vibes, but you're right about it getting out of hand. it's become the only thing people seem to talk about in the Huntress fandom space. i'd much rather discuss Helena for who she is then talk about Jason. because isn't it just a *little* ironic that in attempting to make this fandom more inclusive of the women, we still just *have* to make it about the men? you don't make Helena, or Steph or Cass or Onyx or any other underrated woman sound cool by comparing them to Jason. you just make it sound like you don't know how she stands as a character on her own. she's a cool character with a cool history (both in-universe and the meta history of the Huntress mantle) but this whole weird hate boner for Jason permeating the fandom space for her just makes people hate her instead of not know of her. and really, i can't blame anyone for that.
Like. Where and when did Helena vs Jason thing start? It's so fucking annoying and makes me think that I'll never want to interact with the Huntress fandom if/when I read more stuff about her. Which is a bit how I avoid interacting with the Nightwing fandom at large despite liking his stuff.
#necrotic festerings#reblog#batfamily meta#helena bertinelli#another reblog recced you some great places to start with her#(tho I personally disagree with them about the BoP movie that adaptation is *ass* for her character and whitewashing. but that's just me)#(for context Helena was made a mixed Black woman in the New-52 and has remained a woman of color since)#(so any content post 2014 where she isn't a woc is whitewashing.)#I don't like modern Helena but that is important and does add interesting nuance to her and should be respected so. that explains that ig#for comics I always rec starting with cry for blood or year one#huntress 1989 is good but the backstory is retconned but you do see a lot of her best traits on display there so I love it#and i'm a little mixed on her birds of prey content. bop: manhunt is not *too* bad for being by dixon. simone's work is. eeeeehhhh#important and has rlly good high moments but oh the low moments can really give you the wrong idea about helena#which is where I think *those* fans are pulling their idea of her to compare her to jason#bc wdym they're similar. *none* of her fundamental motivations even come close to comparable to jason's.#I love Helena. I would make everyone a Huntress fan if I could.#but *god* I get it if you're not bc fucking Jesus this is weird and toxic atp.#I used to laugh at some of the memes and even parroted the logic a year ago bc at first. yeah some fanon Jason fans can rlly be Like That#but now it's weird and I cringe/recoil at it.#if you can't say anything interesting about Helena without bringing up Jason then like. do you even *like* her??#or do you like the praise you get for your performative opinions. like.#it's that pop culture phenomenon of “here's my transgressive unpopular opinion hot take bc I'm more enlightened than all of you!”#suddenly becoming the accepted norm and getting parroted and parroted until it's bastardized to all hell.#bc no I don't think Jason fans hate women if they aren't a Helena fan. be so fucking for real with that nonsense.#i'm not a Talia or Selina fan bc I just don't consume enough content for them. it's *not* that deep.#if you're consuming content for Jason why would you even come across Helena.#Jason's return wasn't responsible for the death of Helena content. it was just unfortunate timing.#the real culprit was Paul FUCKING Levitz trying to bring back Helena Wayne as a Bertinelli clone#and thus fucking over the ability for Bertinelli to exist correctly in the New-52 and onward.#Grayson (2014) tried to salvage what it could of her but Levitz just screw over the chance for her to be Huntress.
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