#mlm fetishizing

[asgardswinter]

Having been in the cod fandom for a year and a half now (played the games since i was a kid tho) i have noticed how a lot of the big cod fanartists draw the characters eerily similar to the VA’s even though the characters look VERY different from the VA’s. It also goes hand in hand with the mlm fetishizing, how these fanartists (mostly straight cis women honestly) have the audacity to draw nsfw content looking exactly like the VA’s, bc again its very fetishizing especially when their sole content is mlm nsfw content.

It also bothers me that these fanartists draw some of the characters such as Gaz and Simon exactly like the zionist VA’s even tho they clearly look very different.

With Simon it isnt even confirmed he looks like the VA, so its even more gross that some of these fanartists draw him.

I think its rly disgusting how fanartists like Wombywoo block people for calling her out on this, especially the zionism. Like u have no problem with drawing characters looking like real people that support genocide. Its despicable. Get a grip and stop being complicit in this.

[hohohomelander]

I hate those stupid "- being super gay for 10 minutes straight!!" videos about some character who has only ever been interested in the opposite sex. true pillars of cringe

[riverthebooknerd]

"but why do you even ship them-" IT BRINGS ME JOY AND WHIMSY!!!!!!!

[spockandstars]

It’s honestly kinda funny when men act like women having slash ships is exactly the same as straight guys fetishizing lesbians. If a considerable amount of men were writing essays and novels about an emotionally complex romantic relationship between two well-developed female characters, well that would be a different story.

[literallyneurodivergentandaminor]

i kept seeing ppl do genderbent stuff of scott pilgrim characters and heres my input.

[kinardscake]

Tommy Kinard is such an important character. He makes people reveal their true colors.

Like, that’s his superpower, y’all. 🦸‍♂️ He’s like a litmus test for homophobia.

[unolvrs]

you'd pair marcille with laois? not falin? I'm curious about your reasoning for that (not jugementally!), because I've only ever seen people shipping falin and marcille, and it seems like those two's closeness is pretty central to dungeon meshi -- would you be willing to explain your perspective on that? no obligations to, of course, I'm simply curious because it's an opinion I've not seen before. hope you're doing well!

i get why people ship marcille with falin, especially since a lot of her motivation as the story progresses comes from falin. but at the same time, marcille and laios have more scenes that're definitely implied to be romantic, in my humble opinion — it's not shoved down our throats but it's a smooth thing that happens every now and then.

honestly, [SPOILER] ever since it was revealed that marcille was a researcher when falin was a student, and the canon ages presented in which falin was most likely a teen when they first met completely eradicated whatever ship was forming. [END]

plus, i think what bolstered the marcille x falin train was that one scene in the bathtub. but throughout the manga, we see more of marcille & laios more than anything else.

and i don't wanna compare manga readers vs anime readers but it seems like i have no choice but to do so: it's the dilemma i have with laios x kabru where, yes, people can ship whoever they want to ship but i feel very strongly about how laios and kabru's relationship is just kabru chasing laios in a way, and kabru having a more developed and AMAZING relationship with mithrun. but since kabru is a pretty boy twinky stereotype, and laios is a big guy, people naturally gravitate to it.

then there's falin and marcille, whose ship was even more popularized because of the bathtub scene at the beginning but as everything develops, it's marcille and laios who have more scenes that imply something romantic, especially at the end [SPOILER] where marcille stays with laios and their "monsters" eating each other [END]

i think more japanese fans are into marcille x laios, but western twitter is more into laios x kabru and marcille x falin. but again, this is just my opinion! PLEASE IT'S JUST MY OPINION RAHHHHHH

[avichor]

stop hating women challenge

[sareenademon]

The internalized misogyny in this fandom is unbelievable. Yes I’m looking at you, fan girls who favor male characters over female characters💕

You’re the reason why NRS doesn’t care about female MK characters😌

Thank you for handicapping us in getting proper female representation because you’re bitter and horny.

[local-limebug]

jason todd has so many underrated canon love interests. essence, isabel, artemis, and rose are all characters i love with him. like those are good ships. why is everyone ignoring them?

[usercelestial]

i genuinely think i might kill myself

[nqueso-emergency]

This is the problem. You need to understand that it is absolutely okay for one man to lean on another man and it does not mean they fucking want each other. You are the living definition of fetishization.

[xia0mi-c0m]

My ships just because I'm bored 🤷🏾‍♀️

otps!!! >_< :

Treyrid

Jade x Trey

FloRid (FLO RIDA?!?! /j)

IdoAzu (POLYAMORY WILL RUN THE WORLD!!! And this doesn't include Leechcest and if you ship that, get the fuck outta here dawg)

Treyridkei

RookVil

VilLeo

RookVilLeo

MafuEmu

MafuMizu

EmuNene

Rui x Tsukasa

MalleYuu!!!!

Others I also ship!!:

Floyd x Vil (I think the ship is quite cute but this is also coming from someone who enjoys opposites attract)

Trey x Rook

MalleRid

My Melody x Kuromi

Raťafák Plachta x Valentin Ruky (Still love them sm!!)

TreyYuu

Treykei

AceRid

Jade x Azul

Floyd x Azul

Azuide

AzuRid

Leoide/Leona x Idia

Malleus x Idia

IdiaYuu

Adeuce

DeuceEpel

JackEpel

Jack x Epel x Deuce

Sebek x Epel

Lilia x Trey

Neige x Che'nya

Che'nya x Trey x Riddle

Mimi x Yomi (Lomando/Fancy Island)

Lawrence Bluewer x Edgar Redmond

Gregory Violet x Herman Greenhill

LeoYuu

CaterYuu

Jack x Ruggie

Trey x Riddle x Floyd

^ Sometimes at the same time (never including Leechcest again and obviously)

Trey x Riddle x Jade

FloydYuu

IdiaVil

JamiKali (it's a meh for me at times but I like the fix it fanfics and genuinely enjoy the fluff tbh..)

JamiAzu

FloKali

Osana Najimi x Raibaru Fumetsu (I do not support yanderedev)

Oka x Ayano

Gojo x Geto

Nobara x Maki

Killugon

Ruggie x Riddle

Lilia x Trey

VilKei/Vil x Cater

Cater x Idia x Leona

Cater x Idia

Cater x Leona

MizuEna

That's all that I can think of currently 🤷🏾‍♀️ (Still being updated)

[anetherealpoetess]

i'm not reblogging the original post because the op seems great and i don't want to hurt feelings. but this is such a fun-killing take i genuinely want to gnaw my arm down to the marrow of the sea-foamy bone:

"if the most interesting thing you can think of about a character is the ship you like them with, then I don't think you actually like that character very much."

romantic relationships where every lamb becomes the knife and every knife becomes the lamb are not interesting to you? or what about vampiric psychosexual laments full of blood-bound codependency where the lovers are each other's slow descent into decay and ruin? i mean, that's fun! that is objectively fun!

shipping is strangeness and sincerity and terror. it's vault-bright lucy and her irradiated wasteland-rotten ghoul. it's louis de pointe du lac's naked centering of lestat in a narrative other characters keep trying to invade but louis stubbornly just won't let them. it's these violent delights having violent ends. it's transgressing societal boundaries of right and wrong (an inherently empowering narrative for women and gay men who have been told what to do our whole damn lives.) it's paying homage to a cruel god but also that cruel god is an ordinary person traversing a post-apocalyptic landscape with you. it's hand in unloveable hand! it's hand on my cowardly heart!

the most intersting thing about many many many characters are their romantic entanglements. and that's okay! it's more than okay! it's lush and febrile nutritional goodness that incapsulates all aspects of fiction and therefore life, from horror to devotion, from tenderness to gut-shocking betrayals, from loving monstrosity to hateful divinity.

if you ever catch me not shipping, call a priest. i've been possessed.

[losingthegame]

this misogynistic trend of hating on female characters bc they get in the way of your gay ships needs to end

[sukibenders]

"Why did they make Michael into Michaela? They took away one of the hottest men in Bridgeton now!" Okay, now it's one of the hottest women in the show. What's the issue now? Still got Francesca and Michael, in a way.

"Francesca's infertility plotline is ruined now! It was so important in the books!" Why can't she still have this particular plot, while still being with Michaela? Why is that suddenly erased now that Michael is a woman? Do you not believe that sapphic woman can't also struggle with infertility? There are multiple ways that the show can still incorporate this.

"Why are they making everyone gay now? It was fine when it was just Benedict but now-" I'm going to stop you right there. What's wrong with having more than one queer character? There are multiple straight people in the show, and in most forms of media, but you draw the line at having more than one gay/queer person? Imagine what it's like for other queer people to not be represented or to only have that one person be a vessel for the entire community. Doesn't sound very fair right? Another thing, because I see a lot of people who say this call themselves "allies", it doesn't sound very supportive when you say things like this. It doesn't instill confidence in your support for the queer community when you can't even fathom the possibility of more than one queer person on your screen without complaint. It's okay to be a little bummed out about the change, but to use rhetoric like above feels very...it leaves a sour taste in the mouth personally.