#like at this point y’all are infantilizing

[reesdomain]

Wonder in Wonder Banner + Papergame’s (PG) iffy business practices drama

‼️Disclaimer‼️

I was gonna type out all my thoughts but I’m exhausted from earlier discussions. So I’ll just post some screenshots from other players both domestic and global who have pretty much summed up my thoughts. I’ll also post an additional method to providing constructive feedback. While this isn’t a hate post this also isn’t a post for corporate dick riding either. These issues are being raised by players globally and are valid. There’s a difference between making profits and milking. Please don’t come here making excuses for corporate greed and the disregard for player feedback trying to silence people who support this game and have gotten it to where it is now. INDIE developers with teams as low as one or two can do much more with less. I’m sick of y’all infantilizing multi million and billion dollar international corporations because you’re ignorant to the business industry and how it intertwines and operates within capitalism and the creative industry. ETHICS should still remain at the forefront.

YOU can be content with the bare minimum. YOU can tolerate getting played because “It Is WhAt iT is”. YOU can be content with less. WE want more. WE want the funding they get from us reinvested properly back into the game and to actually be listened to when giving suggestions on a game that WE are expected to buy and support. Mind you, it was players like us standing on business that got us the few improvements we did get including banners longer than 7 days and more substantial rewards… Also, I am a P2P because somebody needs to support female oriented creative works. So don’t accuse me of being a “spoiled F2P” either. That type of dick eating is why this genre of female oriented media can’t elevate. And don’t get me started on the growing racism and misogyny from players that only makes it harder for this type of media to grow the way it should.

Drama Summary: Primarily NA, CN, and EU fans have been having issues with how the game is being operated. Particularly in terms of lack of content, resources, and banners. All of which are falling on deaf ears at Infold/Papergames until they want to temporarily pacify players with “bandaid solutions”. There are now talks of another boycott from NA and CN players. The newest banner, “Wander in Wonder” has had a lot of negative feedback for this reason. Especially since most of the additions are getting broken down even more and slapped behind a paywall.

The below screenshots aren’t even a tenth of what’s been circulating on the major platforms, official pages, and Chinese platforms. But these are points that stood out to me. Here is an additional source for feedback.

[forgetful-nerd]

All I wanted this morning was to read some good 2012 tmnt fanfics, but it looks like only the “Mikey is ab*sed” fanfics updated today.

[starlooove]

Ok so on those previous tags (and the post entirely tbh) that’s what I’ve been talking about when it pisses me off that y’all make shit up for everyone else that already applies to Duke. Like the closest to fanon tim you’ll ever get is his Gotham knights program which y’all don’t know about bc y’all don’t read but Duke has been with it since WAR (which tbh for the tim fans i think tim who grew enough to set that shit up meeting Duke who’s had the mindset but not the means since he was younger would be super fun. But whatever this ain’t about him.) and including the foster system thing it’s always hcs about these terrible families Jason’s been in or him being a flight risk or whatever when Duke is canonically right there and has arguably closer ties to the system itself rn. Like it’s so sick how y’all say u can’t include or give a shit about Duke bc he’s just not interesting to you and then TAKE everything that makes him interesting for ur white faves and I think the worst part is that so many of y’all don’t read enough to realize it which is just proof that you really WANT a character like Duke but he’s canonically too black for you. Like it’s giving making tim the ceo in ur mind based off a comic where he continuously is not fucking with the role and gives it back the SECOND he can. The REAL CEO is simply too black for you 💀

[transmascissues]

next time someone tries to tell me people don’t demonize and act violently toward trans men and transmascs, i’m just going to make them read this reply i got to a positivity post that was specifically about trans manhood and transmasculinity. this is basically just every negative thing people say no one says about us rolled into one message that’s aimed directly at us.

and as if this isn’t enough on its own, their whole blog is full of this disgusting shit. it seems to be dedicated to it, actually. (fair warning, don’t look at the next two screenshots if you don’t want to see even more genuinely awful transphobia.)

you can say what you want about how they’re probably just a troll or baiting or doing this for attention but the fact remains that, regardless of their true intentions, these are real things that a real person is saying about trans men&mascs, publicly and proudly and to our faces because they want it to do damage.

i’ve dealt with people like this before, on a much closer level. when i was a teenager, i had a grown woman come into my dms just to send me very graphic and detailed instructions on how to kill myself. literally entire paragraphs with all of the steps she wanted me to take. before i blocked her, i told her she was lucky she sent it to me and not someone more vulnerable, because otherwise she might have real blood on her hands. she just sent the whole thing again.

we can argue all day about infantilization versus demonization, erasure versus hypervisibility, what counts as violence, what words we use to talk about our oppression, and so on. but the reality is, whether you believe people want us dead or not, they clearly do, and a lot of them really aren’t making any effort to hide it. at this point, if you can’t see it, it’s because you don’t care about our lives enough to look at the reality that’s right in front of your face.

before you do anything else, block this person. don’t engage with them directly, don’t give them the satisfaction of the attention they might be fishing for, just block them. but don’t forget that they exist either, especially if you’re not a trans man or transmasc yourself. don’t just block them and move on and forget that there are real people out there who will say these things about us, who genuinely enjoy the thought that their actions might have deadly consequences.

because these are the people you empower to come out of hiding and start being blatant about their hatred when you insist that no one wants us dead, when you openly mock us and demonize us and try to cast us out from the community that we were supposed to share. when even our own people decide we’re an acceptable target, these bigots throw a fucking party because you’ve just told them they can get away with murder as long as it’s our blood on their hands. this particular blog was started recently, and i guarantee it’s not a coincidence that they started it in the midst of a rise in online anti-transmasculinity.

it really is telling, how much hate a positivity post has incited. y’all can’t stand when we talk about the bad things that happen to us, but you hate our happiness even more.

[stellasworks]

my personal opinions about MK1 men

Smoke is not a sweet little baby puppy boy, and personally I don’t think he’d like to be called a “good boy” I genuinely think he’d look at you like ‘what..😐’

Johnny is not this hardcore dominant man who’d call you a slut while having sex, yes, he may be this cocky guy, but he’s also a grown ass man that makes goofy movie references during poor timing. I just genuinely cannot see him calling is s/o anything degrading.

I know I make jokes about Bi-Han saying shit like “oh I could fix him!” But being completely honest that man is not fixable. He sees no genuine point to romantic relationships. He might get married and have a child but for the sole purpose to carry on his legacy. (Wouldn’t be surprised if that child followed in his footsteps and let him die like he did his father.)

and please, PLEASE the infantilizing grown ass men just because they’re genuinely good people needs to stop 😭 I’m sorry y’all.

Like I personally love Smoke and how much of a good person he is but please he’s like 29 I’m pretty sure, he’s not some soft uwu baby. 💀

[ms-scarletwings]

Endearing through the Alien Lens: A Clue About the Primitive Irken?

I love literary xenobiology. I love it a whole lot, in fact. There’s a paradoxical line I dance across, between criticizing intelligent fictional aliens for their likeness to our species, and criticizing them for their unlikeness. It’s a pretentious and laughable dance between “Come on, the sky’s the limit, there’s no real reason for a bucket of different extraterrestrial races to just all be more flavors of quirky humanoids! Boring, show me something actually alien!!” and the yearn for the use of alien races as a funhouse mirror of mankind’s own evolution. I think the way Irkens nonchalantly dwell somewhere on that subjective tightrope is a good part of why I can’t seem to stop thinking about them.

They are inspired and yet creatively original. They are truly alien, and yet, they can still play foil to the bottomlessly decadent humanity that Vasquez’s Earth has set the stage for.

Before, in the very first brain dump I let loose about them, I noted a few of their parallels to the worst in Homo sapiens and the insects they resemble. This time, something is chewing on me that i haven’t seen another put into perspective. A something that seems contradictory to our collective view of the heartless, sexless, atomized conquerors that all of the cosmos will fear:

They… have parental instincts.

I didn’t necessarily say drives or wants; however, they undeniably havewhat seems to be an actual, instinctual “cuteness response”. Like us, like social pack animals which invest a great deal of resources and time into their young. Given that the closest thing that 100% of smeets born on the home world get to call a parental figure is a literal cold, unfeeling, automated machine, this seems kind of weird, doesn’t it? They’re not even born like mammals or nested like birds, they’re mass produced, like hived wasps or ants, miles beneath their actual society and out of the business of the adults. So, what the heck with them being written to be humanized with this baseless, arbitrary trait?

But, ah ah ah, nitpicker Scarlet, it’s not baseless. It’s only ✨vestigial✨

Y’all could probably make a good guess to what the cuteness response is and why it exists in Homo sapiens, but to sum up- it’s the phenomenon of when we see something we find “cute” and it makes us react to it in a protective, nurturing fashion- or also want to bite/squeeze things, weirdly, if it’s just too damn cute. Well, what do humans find cute? Things that resemble human infants, basically. It’s a biological reflex that makes us want to defend and provide care for our kind’s absurdly dependent and slow-developing young, rather than abandon them in the shrubbery like they’re just screamy, food-leeching paperweights.

“Pff, really? Well I must be special cause I don’t even LIKE babies. I think babies are icky gross, not cute! So, genetic instinct my ass!”

I hear you, sure, but what about… harp seals? Or koalas, or pandas and puppies and fawns and kittens? Or funny little cartoon blorbos? At bare minimum you’d have to be an alien yourself to feel nothing looking at photos of young hedgehogs

See, the fact that a lot of us may often find baby animals a great amount more endearing than even humans’ is not even in conflict with this understanding of cuteness.

The concept of the “baby schema” was formally proposed in 1943 by Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian ethologist. Fun fact is he was also the same researcher who originally observed and described imprinting behaviors, as seen in newly hatched waterfowl. Point is that his “Kindchenschema” idea grouped together a handful of infantile traits that make fireworks go off in the parts of your brain that wants to keep things alive and baby-talk to them. Included on the list were features like proportionally large heads, big eyes, round faces, short noses, etc. despite the name, the baby schema’s effect is something applied not to just actual babies, but children generally, and even in our reactions to non-human animals.

It’s the hypothesis behind both why we’ve jacked up the skulls of so many small dog breeds in the name of aesthetics and why we generally find the portraits on the left side of this image more appealing to look at than the ones on the right.

The consistency of these features across many species may also give some hint that they experience a similar phenonemon, especially given that these are traits shared among bird or mammalian offspring which require significant attention and protection to survive. And, it may also explain why this image likewise gives me a huge dose of that sweet, sweet response.

Awww, look at that lil’ mans! Look at his teeny noodle arms!! I just wanna pinch him like a marshmallow!

YOU are not immune to cuteness psychology, and neither are the proud Irken warriors. I’m going to cite Zim’s proclivity to what I can only describe as paternal bonding as a demonstration of this response, but before you go reminding me about his pak defects, it’s far from the only evidence that this is a natural Irken trait.

Check out little Timmy (importantly, the surrounding response to him), a hilariously out of place youngster who appeared briefly in the trial transcript for the sole purpose of a dark gag and to get us some lore revealed.

Take further note of the complimentary nature of smeets themselves.

Suddenly finding themselves alive, fresh Irken babies too, like the hatched gosling, begin to immediately seek an emotional attachment with the first animate thing they see. While mobile and fast learners, smeets are far from being able to truly fend for themselves. They’re tiny and naive and they need lots of mental enrichment/teaching. They also play and form something akin to friendships, much like human children. In the bygone era before Irkens were so reliant on Paks and all of the advanced technology of the modern empire, smeets would have been exceedingly vulnerable. All signs point to a phase in Irk’s natural history where they were once nurtured after by adults of their own kind, and commonly bonded with their caretakers. This could mean compact family units, or maybe even a communal raising situation, akin to penguin crèches (Personally I like to headcanon that the tallests/queens were traditionally the only breeding members of the population but that’s neither here or now). Either sense, the evolutionary remnants of a parental creature are still around.

Taking all that to note, instead of perceiving Zim as the bizarre outlier to the Irken condition when it comes to having this soft spot, I instead see him as an opportunity to see natural behaviors in action without the suppression of his militarized society and its distractions. Even someone as warped and selfish as he can be is still very, very full of love to give that he doesn’t even understand enough language to describe. He pretty clearly shows he has no cultural understanding or reference of cuteness, and still, he’s not so different in this “weakness” than the very humans he manipulated into fawning over Ultra Peepi. It just took an example his own sensibilities could relate to instead of an unfamiliar, repulsive alien rodent.

And when he’s given the rare circumstance to show that potential, well-

*(With the rough shape/size down, no nose, and huge, bug-like eyes, Li’l Meat man may actually be a great approximation of the key “smeet schema” features. More importantly, it was made to specifically resemble Zim himself)

- I feel that’s downright adorable.

[adelaidedrubman]

wipfire wildsday. or something

was tagged for wip day by dearies @cassietrn and @direwombat, thank you! against all odds we are back on wildfire chapter 19! here’s a very shaky early draft little excerpt of jestiny being her lovable charming relatable self. warnings for violence and killing that is… not particularly gruesome or gory but perhaps particularly cruel. wildfire is a romcom as we know

“Alright.” She cut off his self-important monologuing with a press down of her thumb and a laugh, wedging the radio between her shoulder and ear to continue talking as she reached to place hands on either side of the cultist’s head. “Let’s play a fuckin’ game then, and you can show me just how much you actually fucking care.”

“Excuse me?”

“You value their lives so much? Let’s see if you can save this one.” She leaned down, so terrified sobs could be picked up by the meager speakers. “I let her limp off with no more than a broken arm. If you can do one. Simple. Thing.” She paused for effect before clarifying, “Tell me her name.”

“What on earth are you —”

“You fucking heard me,” she ground out. “Show me how much you actually care. Tell me the fucking name of the woman you sent out here to die for your fucking bullshit excuse for a cause,” she demanded. “Pale. Skinny. Ballpark five-two. Freckles. Green eyes. Curly brown hair. What’s her name?”

“Whatever infantile point you think you’re proving —”

“Would putting a voice to it help?”

She jammed a knee down on the twisted limb, grabbing a fistful of brunette curls to yank back and guide her screams towards the radio. 

“Please —! P-Please —”

“I think she’d like you to remember her name too, John,” Jestiny offered in a sugary sweet sing-song, pressing a hand back over her mouth. “What the fuck is it?”

“Do you think you’re doing anything but displaying every ounce of bloodthirsty wrath pulsing through your —”

“C’mon, surely you remember her?” she pressed with a rise. “She’s family, after all. You wouldn’t have just been bullshitting about how much you care about ‘every single soul I rip from it,’ right?” she teased in mocking falsetto. “Shoveled pig shit at the farm for y’all. Would be leaving behind a younger sister by the name of Stephanie. Guess that brainwashed cultist!”

“— can all now see it isn’t enough for the Deputy to simply take from our Family, no. She has to revel in her cruelty, to —”

“Maybe he could use a phone-a-friend, ya think?” Jestiny hummed, yanking her captive up by the hair again. “Think fast — aaanything he would remember you by?”

“I — I —” she let out a few more sobs, before sniffling and continuing. “We never talked much, sir. But I was over at your r-ranch a little while back, with B-Brother Will and Brother Nathan. When Brother Nathan h-had to be corrected for gossiping about —”

“Well, that oughta jog his memory, huh?” she said with a click of her tongue against teeth as she shoved the woman’s head back down into the dirt. “Got a name for me yet, darlin’?”

“Brothers and Sisters and wayward souls in need of salvation alike, listen to the lows this sinner who would ask to be called a savior will stoop to in order to —”

“No! Please, please, please, no —” The woman cried up at Jessie, features that had been contorted in agony seeming to sink with hopelessness as John preached on. “I don’t want to die, I’ll do — anything! Please, I —” 

“Clock’s ticking!” Jestiny chimed into the radio. “Give me a fucking name!”

“Do you think you set the rules here?” John snapped, finally breaking down to resume addressing Jestiny directly. “Do you think any of this cuteness and cleverness is going to save you when —”

“I think I’m the one asking the fucking questions!” she shouted over pained screams. “What’s her name?!”

“Deputy Rook, mark my words —”

“Her name!” she screeched, hands tensing. “What’s her fucking name?!”

“Jessie —”

“Bzzzzzzzzzzz-zzzzzt!” She kept her jaw pressed down on the talk button as she held tight onto her skull and twisted, so that telltale snap of her neck followed by the sudden absence of screaming could be heard punctuating the mimicry of an incorrect buzzer noise she drew out. 

“So sorry, Caroline. No prize this time!” She released her hands to allow the woman’s skull to drop limp to the ground as she hopped up to stand, shifting her radio into her hand. “And a special thanks to all the Hope County viewers at home,” she enthused, pacing in circles around the dead body to run out unspent restless energy. “Be sure to tune in next week for another round of ‘Does John Seed Give a Minimal Fucking Shit About the Followers He Sends Out to Die?’ when the answer will still be hell fucking nope!”

She clicked the radio off with a final sharp inhale, clipping it back to her belt. She ran a hand through her hair as she tried to slow the still frantic heaves of her chest. 

She turned in about-face to find Adelaide and Sharky having emerged from their battle positions to stand in the open space of the field, staring on at her with wide eyes and hanging jaws. 

“What?” she asked, looking between the pair and the dead body at her feet with a shrug. “Did we start doin’ capture over kill and y’all forget to tell me, or something?”

Adelaide cleared her throat. “Killing is one thing, but sugar, did you have to drag it out for the poor gal like that?” she questioned, blinking away the look of shock with a shake of her head. “Edging is supposed to be for the bedroom, not the battlefield.”

“Making John Seed look like the lying, hypocritical, scumbag, piece of shit fraud that he is live on air is more satisfying than anything I’ve ever experienced in the bedroom,” Jestiny grunted in reply, nudging the corpse’s contorted arm with the toe of her boot. “She was gonna have to die anyways. At least her death proved a point.”

“Better than anything in the bedroom? Sounds like what we really need is to find you some more gifted lovers, then,” Adelaide mused, crossing her arms and looking down at the corpse with a pink lipstick frown. “And a, uh — more willing audience for the whole public humiliation kink deal. You know they have nightclubs for shit like that, right?”

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[fizzigigsimmer]

Fargo Season 5: Gator Speculation

Y’all I am starting to fear for this man’s life. 😂 If you have not watched episode 5 yet, warnings for spoilers ahead.

So my theory that Gator and Dot may have previously been romantically involved went from an itch based on tiny clues that might have been circumstantial, to a full on burn last night.

Up until now we haven’t had any confirmation of Dot/Nadine’s age. The actress is only a few years older than Joe, but Hollywood is notoriously gross about women not looking their age, so it was entirely possible Juno was playing much older than she actually is. But now we know Dot was a teenager when she was brought into Roy’s little cult and when she married him.

For me that pretty much confirms that she and Gator are peers, and that he was a teenager when his father married a child near his own age. 🤢

Another thing that went from an itch to a burn for me: During the home invasion, when Dot first sees Gator she says “shame on you there’s a baby in this house”. This struck me because it’s the first time that I can recall Dot using such infantile language to refer to her daughter. While it’s not strange at all or uncommon for people to infantilez children in general, typically that kind of perspective becomes part of your regular speech patterns. “Gotta get home to my babies” that sort of thing. But to my memory Dot has always referred to Scotty with very particular language, possessive language at that. Scotty is always her child, her cub - and they even have her remind us there isn’t anything a mother lion wouldn’t do to protect her cub.

Dot might have chosen to refer to Scotty as a baby in that moment out of calculation, in the hopes that it would prick Gator’s conscience - which naturally infers that she has reason to believe he has one to work over. It also can’t be ruled out either that the specific use of the word baby was an unconscious slip, due to her shock and the vulnerability of the moment. Because the last time she saw Gator she was pregnant with what might be his baby.

The other hint we got this week is Dot confirming that Roy is an abusive piece of shit. She says something along the lines of what is obvious about Roy - that when he’s happy and feels in control things were good, but the minute he feels challenged or insecure he’d hit her and climb all over her just to feel strong again. Only when she’s describing this behavior she specifically uses the word ‘they’. They don’t hit you at first. “They” turn on you and push you down when they need to feel strong.

Now of course, Dot could just be talking about men in general. Men like Roy. But well, Gator IS a man like Roy. He’s desperately trying to walk in his father’s shoes and be all of the things he’s not, and he lashes out on other people to build himself up. We know from his own lips what he did to another teenager who accidentally injured him during a high school football game and stole his (most likely imagined) future in football. Given how close he and Dot are in age and all the hints that we have that he feels something for her, I think it’s highly likely that something happened between them.

I think it’s very possible that they connected, and were able to be vulnerable with each other. Gator seems just as surprised that Dot has become a “tiger” as Dot was that he has become his daddy’s lacky. I think in the past, at first they were able to find comfort in each other and things were good but eventually Gator did something that scared Dot and she decided to run.

At this point, I am confident at the very least that Gator’s feelings for/about Dot are romantic. Whether or not Dot has ever reciprocated them is still 50/50 for me. Regardless I think Gator held a candle for her and that as the tensions rise in the final episodes and he sees just how far Roy is willing to go to hurt and control her it’s going to force him to take a hard look at Roy, the kind of man and father he is, and really ask himself if that’s what he wants to be.

The part that scares me is Roy. Because when he’s in control and he feels like he has power over you, he’s loving. But the minute you do something to rock the boat… 😩 I have this really bad feeling that Gator is going to make an effort to be his own man, just in time to learn a final lesson about just what type of monster he narrowly avoided becoming. That scene with the blindfold and the rope keeps coming back to me.

Of course, my anxieties about that little clip aside there is always the possibility of the narrative going full Shakespeare on us. Gator, bringing about the downfall of his father’s kingdom by falling in love with his step mother and killing his father. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Full on Oedipus.

[lesbiannancytruther]

MY stranger things unpopular opinions <3

ok nobody asked but these r my stranger things unpopular opinions, inspired by a tweet where people just shared super common and well accepted opinions instead of actual controversy lol

also half of these r gonna be ronance centered because they’re literally all i think about

- first and foremost, nancy is a lesbian. i think so many of her actions and struggles can absolutely be traced back to comphet and repression and i feel like people want to cling onto her romance with steve and jonathan as a way to justify her fondness for them, when i think she can just care about them because they’re her friends and they’re trauma bonded(tm)

- while i like steve and robin being besties as much as everyone else i feel like people overestimate how close they really are in canon. of course they’re best friends but they really aren’t overly dependent on each other like people interpret them to be. they’re best friends but they also function really well on their own.

- though there’s no denying that will has feelings for mike i sincerely doubt that those romantic feelings are reciprocated and i think people are way too confident that byler is gonna be canon

- elmax is miles better than almost every canon AND fanon relationship in the show (i’d argue jopper and lumax (and biased opinion ronance) are the only genuine contenders)

- while i make a habit of being overly critical of men i think people forget that the “grumpy dad” trope with hopper that they like so much comes with him being a total dick sometimes lol

- both jonathan AND steve were weird as fuck in season 1. y’all r having a mid-off when u argue jancy vs. stancy

- and by mid-off i mean stancy wasn’t as bad as y’all act like it was and jancy is not as good as y’all act like it is

- y’all infantilize the FUCK out of robin buckley and im SICK OF IT!! she’s incredibly smart and strong and u people act like she’s stupid/a pushover/a nervous little baby

- in general i think the ronance fandom likes to apply tropes to nancy and robin in a way that isn’t accurate to their characters. its a very common and predictable pattern and i think thats why a lot of fan works feel out of character (an example to this is people applying grumpy x sunshine to nancy and robin respectively and it just doesn’t fit)

- karen is not a good mother. i think everyone can agree karen is weird as fuck for the billy thing, but i see a lot of people argue for karen that she’s really grown as a mother but i’m not seeing it. i don’t doubt that she loves her kids but there’s a reason mike and nancy are Like That

- y’all made up a ton of steve’s personality traits. i’m all good with interpreting his character a certain way but if the reason you hate nancy wheeler is because she unknowingly poked at insecurity of steve’s that u made up i have 0 respect for ur opinions lol

- and on that note steve is pretty badly written. i don’t think his path to “redemption” was bad but he’s so far from anything special that the love he gets from the fandom astounds me

- luckily this opinion isnt as unpopular anymore but steddie was figment of fandom imagination and the fact that it rotted y’all’s brains so bad to the point where you convinced yourself eddie munson was actually really important is just so...

- if you make fruity four content without nancy because you don’t think she’s interesting enough you’re a loser

- byclair is literally SOOOO much better than byler the fact that y’all aren’t going to war for them is upsetting

- this better not be an unpopular opinion but ive been seeing more of it recently: if you think joyce byers is a bad mother block me rn

- any hate that eleven, max, and nancy get is almost ALWAYS rooted in misogyny

ok thats it i probably have more but i cant think of any </3

[survivalove]

Regarding the adultification of Katara and Sokka, I also notice that fandom infantilizes Aang, acting like he's younger than twelve/thirteen, whereas in the show actual adults treat him like an adult and want him to kill Ozai because of his Avatar status, instead of killing the Fire Lords themselves. (Makes me wonder if his comment to Katara "you're still a kid" is based on his experience of only Gyatso rightfully still treating him like a preteen instead of an adult like the other monks did which upset Aang and made him feel left out.) Also, if Katara is poor and adultified, then her clash over chores with Toph makes sense since Toph had a different upbringing, being rich and also infantilized by her ableist parents (not trying to pit either girl against each other in the Suffering Olympics btw).

yes!!!! to all this

I saw this one tweet that said “y’all think aang’s not mature enough to be in a relationship but you wanted him to k*** a man” and it’s soooo true

the amount of people I see say “katara’s 14 and aang is 8” or some other age?? him being 12 is the most overstated fact in canon. the way they have to lie about his age to make their point is annoying like did you even try??

I think katara and toph were probably a little jealous of each other in the beginning not gonna lie (not to pit women against each other!!! lol) as in katara seeing this girl that’s never been expected to do any heavy lifting her whole life and toph seeing katara having her independence and a family that supports her aka sokka.

honestly it makes sense that The Runaway is so focused on katara while being a toph episode as well cuz their relationship is so important for both of their individual arcs (you could say this for any of the characters but still)

how I do love musing about katara and the girls. thank you so much for this ask! 💕

[shadelorde]

I’m thinking about how. An entire lesson of Avatar the Last Airbender with Toph’s introduction and arc is literally “stop infantilizing disabled people” and a huge section of the fanbase insists on DOING IT ANYWAYS.

Like guys. That’s literally one of the main points of Toph’s arc. Is that “I’m tired of being treated like I’m a weak helpless baby.” That’s literally why she left her parents.

What are y’all DOING at this point.

[yandere-writer-momo]

NSFW Hcs: Shunsei Kaku, Izou Motobe, Gaia, Ali Jr, Jack Hanma, Kaioh Retsu??

I just did Jack Hanma (my first husband) and 2 regular for Gaia (y’all really like the gerber baby man). And what is with y’all and old men? I will oblige because I too indulge in old men from time to time

Yandere Baki Head Canons

Shunsei Kaku, Gaia, Muhammed Ali Jr, Izou Motobe, and Kaiou Retsu NSFW edition

Minors DNI

Kaiou Restu (NSFW)

After he isolated you from all of your friends and basically infantilized you, he swoops in with the romance. And Retsu can be a really romantic guy

He takes things slow and sweet. He’s definitely a make love type of guy

Retsu is probably super vanilla. He also doesn’t have a whole lot of experience since he was in a temple for a big chunk of his life

Lots of kisses and sweet words. Retsu wants you to depend on him and only think of him. So he’ll always be sweet and soft with you

I feel like Retsu is a great lover and a great listener. Despite the fact he made you so dependent on him, he still treats you with respect.

Muhammed Ali Jr (SFW and NSFW)

His interest in you starts at the underground tournament. You’re probably either another fighter or a pretty face he noticed in the crowd, either way he was first attracted to your appearance. It was your fiery personality that really drew him in

He’s an obsessive man. And he’s super tenacious in his pursuit of you. He’d show up to your work with flowers. He’d probably stand outside your house with a boom box blaring some kind of sappy love song

He wouldn’t give up no matter how many times your reject him. He’s very set on being with you. He doesn’t even care if you’re already with someone (example: when he pursued Kozue). If he wants you, he’ll have you

If you do finally give in, which you eventually will. He’s actually a really romantic guy and he’s very fun to hang out with. He’s a nice guy

I’m the bedroom he’s a very giving person. He’s not much of a receiver, he prefers prioritizing your pleasure over his own

Also pretty vanilla but he may spank you from time to time. Nothing too crazy

He’s a great kisser and he’s a very attentive lover. He would be willing to try just about anything

Might enjoy wax play and anal. Eats ass

Gaia (NSFW)

This man is kinky. I didn’t make the rules. Probably ties you up with soft ropes and spanks you

He’s pretty skilled in the bedroom and definitely a soft dom. He wouldn’t do anything that would hurt you too much

Praises you a lot. Sometimes he’ll degrade you, but that’s only when Nomura shows through

Loves leaving love marks on you. He likes showing off that you’re his

Izou Motobe

He’s a pretty gloomy guy so I’d say you’re the kind convenience store worker that he buys cigarettes from. You’re always waving at him and telling him to have a good day. It starts becoming his daily routine and then he stops in twice a day just to see you. He tells himself it’s just because you’re younger and pretty but he knows it’s because he likes you

He’s pretty protective of you. There was a time he was in the store and someone tried to rob it, holding poor, little you at gun point. You’re just lucky Motobe was there to stop him from hurting you. Motobe wouldn’t ever let anyone harm a hair on your head

He’d eventually weasel his way into your life, you’d see him as a father figure at first until he makes it clear that he doesn’t see you as his child. You’ll be a little hesitant since he’s a lot older than you, but Motobe is super patient with you. You’ll eventually give into his charms

I don’t imagine you two would be getting it on too often without viagra. But he would probably be a little rough. Being with you makes him feel young again and he’ll try his best to keep up with your energy

You two mostly cuddle or kiss. People assume you’re his child when you two are out and about. People are pretty judgmental so neither of you clarify your relationship. It makes things easier that way

Motobe gets extremely jealous when a guy around your age talks to you. It’s upsetting to him because he knows you can do a lot better than an old man. Motobe needs a lot of reassurance

Would probably let you call him daddy in bed

Shunsei Kaku (SFW and NSFW)

Yikes. He’s an arrogant prick. He’s a lot more ‘humble’ after being defeated by Baki but he starts over training himself to become stronger. Shunsei wants to prove himself to his father that he can still do martial arts.

You’re the poor nurse that has to deal with his bratty behavior every time he ends up in the clinic. He throws things and screams at you but you try your best to stay professional. It’s your calm demeanor that draws him in

Shunsei finds himself constantly at the clinic where you work and no one else will take care of him but you. He was mean to you at first but he eventually looks forward to seeing you. Even though he was so mean to you, you still kept a pleasant smile on your face and took care of him. You never treated him differently than anyone else

Obsessed. He started to latch onto your kindness to a point that he would begin to hurt himself more and more so he could be taken care of by you. If you weren’t there, he’d scream at the other nurses until they brought you. Shunsei was only ever pleasant with you

He overhears the nurses telling you he probably has a crush on you but you shut them down. You tell them you could never date a patient

Shunsei makes a promise to you that he’ll stop being a patient if you’ll go out with him. You reject him softly but he still thinks he has a chance. He’ll keep swinging by the clinic everyday to see you, even without injuries

Shunsei notices his martial art training is getting better now that he has a new goal in life, to prove to you he can be your spouse

Shunsei will not leave you alone, no matter how many times you gently put him down. He’s too obsessed with you to ever let you go. Shunsei believes that you’re his and he has a right to you. You’re his nurse

Shunsei is the only character (so far) that would probably do noncon. Shunsei has no morals and he’s very selfish. He believes you are his to keep and to have. You’re his so he can do whatever he wants to you

He’s very rough and only cares about his pleasure at first. He will eventually become softer once he notices how much you cry

Shunsei would try to be better but he’s very stuck in his ways. I feel like he’d be miserable to be with. He’d expect you to always support him

He would baby trap you if you’re child bearing

[howdoyousleep3]

*cracks knuckles*

Okay, I grew up catholic and have tons of religious trauma. 🙃🙃🙃🙃

You’re a senior at your all girls school (OF COURSE). Father Ari is on his way out because all the girls have a crush on him and the diocese has caught wind of this. It cannot be ignored any longer, it’s getting out of hand and so he’s been transferred to an all boys school. (Cardinal Rogers has seen the social media posts you naughty girlies and has absolutely jacked off to them inserting himself into the stories about getting fucked by Fr. Ari - all the evidence collected by bitter old Sister Peggy). You have never participated in this because you are a good girl and that pulsing in your pussy is SCARY. More scary than exciting at this point. You are sheltered, practically infantilized by your equally troubled mother who looks at you with resentment because good girls marry the first guy they date and accidentally get knocked up by, solidifying their future that is nothing close to what they dreamed of.

Anywhooo, the church has always sort of given you bad vibes. Especially at night, you’re there a lot helping out and in the rectory after hours. You envy the peace it seems to give others. You can’t quite seem to feel that, only a shiver, a feeling that something lurks nearby. Something wicked.

You hate the stations of the cross. It’s violent retelling of Christ’s final moments. You wonder what is the point of it all. As you walk around the church, genuflecting beneath each beautifully brutal stained glass depiction of torture, you glance at Fr. Ari only to find him looking at you. Staring. It’s..weird. The look in his eyes reminds you of an animal. It’s wild. Feral. You don’t understand.

Face to face confession is the worst. You hate it. You much prefer hiding. Confession is weekly. You struggle to even come up with something to confess. You don’t do anything wrong. So you tell little white lies - you copied off of Sarah for a test, you stole some of your mom’s favorite caramels. You don’t even like caramel but you literally have nothing to say. Do you even believe in god? It all seems like a pointless joke.

He can smell the sweat on you. He wants to lick your face. He just knows your tits would taste so good. You don’t even realize he can see your crotch with the way your sitting. White cotton panties. Of course. Of course this little slut would wear something straight out of the porn he conjures up in his mind when he’s fucking his fist. When he thinks about you. He’s so fucking horny he thinks he can see your pubic hair sticking out of your panties. The tight little curls poking out slightly. He wants to stick his whole face into your pussy. Make you cum and drink up all of your creamy, salty, sweet, foamy pussy juice. Lay you down on the altar and place communion wafers one by one down your body, eat them off you, pour the wine all over your breasts and suck it off your nipples…

Idk that’s all I’ve got right now. Should I come off anon and give y’all more??

Take me the fuck away, nonnie.

Halfway through reading this masterpiece I had to stand up and take a little walk in my kitchen because I could not BELIEVE what I was reading, holy shit.

I would devour more of this. I won’t say I need this because I don’t want to put thy kind of pressure on you but 👀 please GOD I need more.

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

literally any anti ever will say "hey rhysand was kinda bad for raping feyre" and stans will say unironically with their full chests that it was for her own good

eh quibble, he never physically raped her, only mentally…. which is an insane sentence, the bar is 6 feet under and rhys stans will still grab a shovel. i knew they truly lost the plot when a majority blamed nesta for telling the feyre the truth over her supposed husband lying to her about their demon child from winged hell that damn near cost feyre her life to the point of her last breath, like seriously had nesta been a second late, she would’ve died and they just…. don’t care. also the baffling amounts of infantilization they place on feyre is so fucking irritating because wdym “for her own good” who is he to decide that? who are you to decide that? cuz last i checked both of her parents are dead. and what good is being protected here when this man has failed to stop her from dying twice? y’all don’t think that shit’s weird????? omo commot from here

[yes-these-obsessions-are-healthy]

It is no surprise that Astarion fans quickly became the most insufferable fans in the BG3 fandom. I’m a fan of Astarion but my God do a lot of you give us a bad name. Some of y’all are so wrapped up in your fear of people “missing the point” of Astarion’s character that you’re more focused on freezing him in a perpetual state of eternal hurt victimhood rather than championing him as a survivor who has been given the opportunity to grow beyond his trauma.

It reeks of annoying and extremely harmful “self care is giving up and never trying to better yourself because it’s hard and the world is terrible for expecting you to for your own sake” era that was big on here in 2010-2014. Stop using this cluster of pixels to justify your weird need for trauma to be depicted as insurmountable in all cases, or else it’s ‘invalidating peoples’ experiences’. Like it or not, some people do learn to grow past their trauma. They relearn how to function in a capacity somewhat similar to how they were before their trauma. And yes, some survivors relearn how to enjoy sex! Shocking, I know.

All of these “Astarion is ace” “Astarion is sex repulsed” “Astarion is demi” headcanons are just that—headcanons. Astarion is canonically pansexual. He is disinterested in feeling like a piece of meat for people to sleep with. That is also canonical. How you interpret that is up to you, but don’t go around telling people who want to explore fucking the sexy vampire that they’re doing it wrong because they aren’t treating him like someone who will never learn how to regain his agency ever again. It’s insulting as hell and honestly sort of dips into a weird fetishizing of its own, if not infantilization, i.e. the ‘tragic, beautiful waif who is forever broken from rape and as a result is bereft of icky sexual feelings’.

I don’t like it at all.

[stargirlfeyre]

“W-w-well Nesta wouldn’t have even had the chance to use Feyre and her child’s death to hurt her if Rhys hadn’t kept it a secret in the first place”

It’s gotten to a point where Nesta stans don’t even give a shit if they sound stupid or not. They will deadass get on the internet and say dumb shit in the name of defending this woman. Babe walk with me for a minute.

How old is Nesta? Is she a child? Is she incapable of recognizing right from wrong? The answer to those questions is no so tell me how the words that came out of her mouth is someone else’s fault? Tell me how a 25 year old throwing a possible miscarriage in her sister’s face is somehow Rhys’ fault? Would the whole encounter be avoided if he had told Feyre the truth from the beginning? Yes. Does that mean Nesta is completely absolved of responsibility for her actions? Let’s turn that brain on pookie.

The problem is y’all only say stuff like this because you want to completely strip Nesta of any type of fault. If Nesta was a decent person and knew that using dead babies in an argument was crossing the line then this wouldn’t have happened. If Nesta actually cared about her sister and told her in a caring manner from the beginning instead of choosing random people who she didn’t even like over Feyre then this wouldn’t have happened.

Nesta’s fanbase is just so obsessed with infantilizing this 25 year old woman that they strip away her agency and any nuance about her character. In an effort to defend her they not any make themselves look dumb but they completely mischaracterize Nesta and don’t do her justice. Nesta knows that what she did was wrong. She knows that her actions are wholly her own and no one else is at fault for what came out of her mouth. When the fictional character you’re bending over back to defend would most likely agree with us and not you then that should tell you that you’re on the losing side. Give it up and reevaluate the logic you apply to these characters.