#len speaks

[theplasticman]

god hes so..djgkdjghkjdfhjdfk2o@^#*48u293r

[lendubsofficial]

Who's ur favorite character to voice?

EVER?

Oh god. Oh fuck siudfh I'm gonna give you my top 5, in no particular order, because I cannot possibly pick just one.

Okay here goes.

Magenta from Abomination (by @halfusek) and Datura from Metal&Ink (by @fishymom-art), these two go together because they're both versions of Joey Drew so it'd be weird to separate them

Grimm from Hollow Knight

Alastor from Hazbin Hotel

Leif from Bug Fables

Fizzarolli from Helluva Boss

Again, in no particular order XD

[hickeygender]

in world-shaking personal news, tom bombadil's separation anxiety has defeated his terror of my basement staircase, so i now have a gaming buddy. also i got a new job but this is far more important

[len-kagamine-02]

i’m len kagamine and i banan-approve this message

[cirrocula]

shaggy hair roy harper bc i enjoy the trope where characters with hidden eyes actually have hawklike vision

[petricorah]

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

[felikatze]

basil making me think abt isabeau's repression specifically in the context of his transmasculinity and i am going to explode

there are precisely Two Men in isat. isabeau and the king. both of them are Big Guys. both of them are rock types

yeah. yeah of course isabeau is gonna muzzle himself. he doesn't want to be like the other guy

in this essay i will--

[lendubsofficial]

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[hickeygender]

man, i was gonna keep pebbles for my hardcore playthru after unlocking her perk rather than buying pisek lad again even if i'll miss his beauty, but then i found the phantom horse and now am the proud owner of a slightly rotten friesian 🫶🏼 the fact we can't have more than one horse is a hate crime against horse girls everywhere

[len-kagamine-02]

i think i like you already

yuo didn't like me befor??

well atleast now you do. evrybody likez leno

[onaegling]

there's a lot of gay coding going on between aymeric and estinien, especially within the context of them being knights + nobility. there's an Insane amount of medieval romance tropes happening to them but it's just so subtle from a modern lens it'd be easy to miss. it makes me incredibly ill.

was it on purpose? i don't know. i just know Its There and im Not insane.

like, okay, listen.

+ the addition of the fact that you, as the wol, never learn estinien's past directly from him, in fact if you don't do the dragoon job quests, the only way you learn about it is via aymeric, who speaks of the matter in a way one would who was told directly by that person

what more is that — yes, i'm aware of ffxiv's tendency of avoiding romances of any sort all together, but they were never afraid to show, for example, thancred's philandering. nor are they scared of making a character's interest in the opposite gender explicit. with that said;

the thing that really sticks out in my reading of aymeric de borel being a closeted gay man is that he is Super popular among the ladies. he could genuinely have any pick of them. BUT that man is 32 and unmarried in a society where carrying on the family name is paramount. especially when he's the last of his line.

is aymeric and estinien's position in romances up in the air specifically to give room for people to play dolls? maybe. but from a strictly canon lens, we know aymeric's friends and acquaintances who have known him for far longer than the wol, and in every instance we know - both from aymeric and estinien - that estinien is aymeric's closest and — his own words — dearest friend.

don't even get me started on aymeric's dragoon-shaped ear cuff (!) that matches estinien's drachen textures

that his relationship with another man is so vital to his character and vice versa really bespeaks a level of closeness no other character can achieve.

all this to say — they share in each other a typical medieval romance which is hidden in the subtext of their friendship. and i think that's awesome especially when it's between two men. those knights are gay and in love to me.

[sweetsylus]

sylus is especially so big in this new card im actually salivating like a fucking dog right now

[rubberduckyrye]

Okay in all seriousness. There's something that I REALLY want to talk about as an open discussion with the fandom, but. This is not going to be a very nice thing to hear/talk about.

It's about how Gonta is treated by the fandom.

As a fan of all the V3 characters now, and as someone who has always been a fan of Gonta, and as someone who has many mental disabilities and two diagnosed neurodivergancies... I'm tired of playing nice about it.

You all need to stop being ableist towards Gonta.

I've mentioned in the past that I don't like shitting on personal interpretations. I don't like saying something is or is not canon because narration is just a big web of text that you try to decipher with your own personal biases, experiences, and thoughts. That's why two literary analysts analyzing the same text with the same literary criticism rules can come to wildly different conclusions--why people develop different headcanons from the same canonical information.

But one of the things that challenged my integrity is just how many people view Gonta as this innocent, naive, ignorant, baby boy who can do no harm/never has a complicated/dirty/violent/sexual thought in his life ever.

This incredibly ableist interpretation of the character bothered me for, well, obvious reasons (See: It's fucking ableist, need I say more?) but I never challenged it as harshly as I am now because to be frank, it's not my place to tell people how to HC a character. It still isn't. But I've pretty much given up on my integrity on the subject and have decided to go all in on discussing why this interpretation of Gonta is just. Really bad.

First of all, not to promote my own analyses here or anything, but I think this analysis I did of Gonta explains a LOT in regards to the ableism the cast gives him in canon. I also think that this subtle ableism is why the fandom is so bad with Gonta's characterization in headcanons and fanfic--because they've seen how the cast treats him, and they think it's normal. They don't see the microaggressions, they don't see the subtle ableism in the cast--they just see this big giant idiot who speaks like Tarzan in the English version (which... I don't actually know why people assume Tarzan (Thinking of Disney's version) is stupid. Like as a boy he had to reinvent the spear with no one to guide him on how to do it. He was able to strategize and outsmart "civilized" men in the final showdown. Still I digress) and don't see the literal genius behind his social awkwardness.

There is also another very important point I'm going to make in addition to this, and it's going to be very uncomfortable to Gonta fans who insist he's nothing but a sweet baby who only has pure thoughts. Especially to the fans who insist he "can't be sexual" or think it's weird to ship him with his peers.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but... Gonta blatantly has sexual desire and gets horny right in canon.

This is further clarified here:

It wasn't a matter of Gonta didn't want to touch her because touching someone in their underwear was inappropriate, or being flustered because she was in her underwear which is inappropriate...

It was literally a "weird feeling" that made him unable to approach her or touch her. A "weird feeling" that Miu makes pretty obvious as to what it was--sexual arousal.

He literally was sexually attracted to and felt sexual arousal from looking at Miu in her underwear. He had sexual feelings and thoughts about Miu. Why?

Because Gonta is a young man.

Gonta is a brilliant, talented young man who has normal human thoughts for someone his age--sexual desires, upsetting thoughts, complicated thoughts, ectect. He is not a child, he is not mentally stunted (I've been informed that people have literally said this on Ao3 for the NSFW Gonta fics, please for the love of god stop that)

I think the reason why Gonta fans typically want to keep him as a "pure baby child who can do no wrong" is because treating him like the young adult that he is makes it harder for them to justify Chapter 4. Every time I've seen a Gonta fan that hates Kokichi, it's always followed by the sentiment of "Kokichi manipulated and abused Gonta into killing Miu, so it's all Kokichi's fault." They're afraid of nuance and liking a character with the grey morality of genuinely thinking Mercy Killing the cast is a viable option, because it challenges their own morals about the character they adore.

To those people who read this and are upset: You can and should like Gonta! Gonta is a magnificent character who showcases the subtle way microaggressions can manifest and hurt people, he's a good-hearted person and a literal genius, he cares deeply for his friends and loves everyone with upmost sincerity.

But.

You need to re-evaluate your stance on Gonta if you think he's a stupid, naive fool who Kokichi manipulated. You need to re-evaluate why you think those thoughts, why you think Gonta being shipped with anyone is "Kinda weird" or "has weird consent problems" or "give you the ick." You have to challenge yourself and ask yourself uncomfortable questions in regards to why you treat Gonta like a child when canon has proven otherwise, why you think he cannot have violent or sexual thoughts, why he can't think mercy killing his class is the only way to save them.

This isn't an attack on you--but understand that these specific takes on Gonta? They are ableist in nature. They belittle and dismiss him, they treat him like a child, an idiot who can't think for himself--and you have to come to terms with the fact that Gonta is a far more complex character with complicated thoughts and feelings who is a young adult. Not a child. A young adult.

So again, ask yourself this: Why are you treating this young adult like he's a toddler?

[gojinka]

When I was 13 years old my teenage characters were the coolest thing in the world to me, now they’re like 10 years old in my head. they’re little vagrants. this isn’t saying a lot since I’m not that old but it still sends me that I never rlly changes their ages i just sort of grew around them and now perceive them differently. Like damn girl ur ten.

[jasper-unofficial]

finally, a worthy companion to "the butchest woman twitter can handle" 🫡