#ofc this just my interpretation of the thing

[zeroiridium]

Underlying misogyny in the Mega Man X fandom

Maybe I'm coming across as "too woke" here or reading into things too much, but I'd like to talk about the misogyny surrounding the mmx fandom as I feel it's an overlooked issue .

My first example is the treatment Iris gets in the fandom.

Ignoring the blatant sexualistaion she's gotten over the years, Iris is either forgotten (which I don't fully blame people for actually), treated decently or hated and bashed for.......kinda nothing honestly

You see, Iris suffers from this thing called "treating writing flaws like character flaws." A.K.A. hating characters for what is clearly an out-of-universe problem.

The most common example is that characters (usually female) are poorly written, and fans of the media hate the characters for it. It's made even worse when male characters suffer from the same writing mistakes and get little to no negativity.

You can probably see how this relates to mmx. Iris is very much not a well written character. She barely has a role other than "extra trauma for Zero boo hoo," but then again, X and Zero ALSO aren't well written. They just seem better because you see more of them, but truthfully, you only need a maximum of three words to describe any of these characters.

Fandom misogyny also applies to other female characters, especially in the oversexualisation or complete ignorance department. Another great example of this would be Layer.

In-game Layer is a reserved, calm, collected woman who only really breaks out of that when Zero is around, in which she seems to get awkward, no doubt due to her hinted crush at the man. Even then she doesn't act all that different.

In a lot of fanon interpretations, though Layer seems to be sexualised and even demonised despite her barely contributing to the games. Granted colourisim also plays a part in that not only in fanon content but in canon media as well. Layer is the only black character in the X series, and she is by far the most sexualised, no doubt also contributing to her fanon depictions.

Another chatacter I'll mention in relation to underlying misogyny in the fandom is one you might not expect.

It's X.

Yeah

X suffers from this thing in male characters especially, where a desire for peace, benevolence and a dislike of violence, or any indication of emotions really, are seen as weak, soft, or you guessed it, feminine traits.

These type of characters are then often infantilised, fetishised, and generally misrepresentation in fan made media.

(It's at this point I would like to state there is nothing wrong with soft or weak or feminine male characters on their own)

X very much suffers from this, as despite fighting several wars people still portray him as a wimp. Even in the Zero games which is honestly kinda absurd to me?

Speaking of the Zero games, this post ia about mmz, so I'll keep this brief, bit there's also a lot of weird stuff when it comes to female characters in that fandom aswell, mostly sexualisation. For Fairy Leviathan, even though I don't like it and think it sucks, I can at least understand it. She does seem to have the maturity of a young adult and is almost flirtatious in her appearances. However, I can not say the same about certain depictions of Ciel, who is a confirmed CHILD. She's 14 in mmz 1, and she's 16 in mmz 4. No excuses.

Well we've come to the end of this rant where I'd like to say that there is nothing inherently wrong with ooc depictions of characters. People are allowed to have fun and play around with characters they enjoy. That's not at all my problem.

My problem is when fanon is treated like canon, to the point where fan made contet is treated as official information which ofc leads to a lot of confusion, misunderstandings and it'd honestly just plain annoying.

There's also problematic aspects like misogyny, racism and others, which I mentioned previously. To anyone with half a brain it should be obvious why those are bad things.

Anyway I saulte for making it the end of this thank you for listening to my ultimately not that clear way of presenting things

[forsaken-headcanons]

*appears like a pest through the window*

ITS ME AGAIN, EHHEHEHEH SRY FOR BEING SUCH A BUG

anyways! MORE CAEKIDD HEADCANNONS!!! WHY HAVENT I SEEN ANYONE ELSE MENTION HIM YET??? I’m the biggest cae Kidd fan tbh, he’s my pfp, he’s my blogs title, whenever I rarely become killer I’m cae Kidd. CAE KIDD IS LIFE!!!! RAAAAHHHHHHHH GRGRGRGRGGR

🌈⚡️🌈⚡️🌈⚡️🌈⚡️

The creature post forsaken was taken in by 007n7, because EVERYTIME it was in a match . -And as I said b4 in my previous caekidd headcanons it doesn’t do anything to the non yellow survivors. - it would always be interested in this one guy . Stalking him and following him around for no reason. It was still technically pure electricity, since it HADNT EATEN ANYONE YET COUGH COUGH. So in my interpretation it means it still has a childlike view. 007n7 was weirded out by this weird thing just following him around for no reason , and just …gave up and just let it happen. It was actually really friendly to the survivors … EXCWPT THE YELLOW ONES

it needs the yellow IT MUST BECOME YELLOW IT HAS TO BE YELLOW, THAT SWEET GENTLE YELLOW HUE GRGRG

it doesn’t have to eat anything, but it desperately wants the yellow color, AND THERES NO FOOD THATS YELLOW IN THAT PLACE!!! my voice claim for cAekidd is puppycat from bee and puppycat because yes! It can speak Japanese since the song it came from is yk color and electricity by mushi-p.

I just realized every post of mine is a yap fest chat. Anyways bye bye! Have a great day! Yk I haven’t seen any cAekidd ask blogs OR EVEN THAT MANY MENTIONS OF HIM ON MY FEED. GRGRGRG

Where my color and electricity cOOlkidd fans at? I NEED YALL TO MAKE URSELFS KNOWN !!!

also sry for appearing so many times 😔😔… also have a drawing of my child because 🌈CAEKIDD⚡️

-🎂(pest) anon(color and electricity coolkidds number 1 fan ofc. MY SHAYLA)

I LOVE CAEKIDD TOO I LOVE LOVE COLOR AND ELECTRICITY WAVES AT YOU. I'm gonna feed him a lemon and pat him pls don't go eat the yellow survivors kiddo

ALSO THE ART GDSHJK I LOVE THE COLOURS!! It looks so crunchy 10/10 would eat the colors if I was caekidd

[sannithology]

ATEEZ : IN YOUR FANTASY PREVIEW HINTS

YUNHO’s

Hello! This’s my first trying to be a Loretiny. I would like to share my symbolic interpretation on released IN YOUR FANTASY preview. Especially, Yunho’s part. It’s really caught my attention. So excited!

**Disclaimer : I’m a babytiny. Pls feel free to correct me & share your opinion. I literally welcome! **

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I questioned a lot on this scene ;

- Why the BG is the bed?

- Why he drinks some wine on the bed?

- Why wine was spilled?

- Where the dices come from?

- What happened here?

**Here is my interpretation**

1# Red Silk Bed, Red Dices, and Spilled Red Wine

I assumed that there’s sth happened to Yunho. ‘Bed’ is a place where we guard down ourselves both physically and mentally. It’s possible that he is in a defenseless state. That’s why the guardians can violate his mind easily. Perhaps he is temped to play a game with the guardians, with sth very important at stake and he loses.

Ofc! this scene is set in red & black tone which symbolizes temptation, violence, secret, and mystery — plus with silk bedsheet umm can’t be sth else!

2# Broken Halateez Pearl Necklace

So, what’s that important thing at stake? Well, It’s possible that is some emotional thing, because pearls symbolize purity, emotional value like, memories, hope, nostalgia, faith, trust etc. (For Ateez I think it symbolizes friendship, because every Halateez has it).

The broken one possibly means 1) Yunho loses himself 2) Yunho loses his emotion 3) Yunho betrays Halateez - and behind that there’re the guardians controlling him.

3# Do You Remember this Scene in Lemon Drop?

Yes! It’s Yunho picking up Halateez boots. This is a clear symbol that he is “taking on something” or “becoming something” in continuation of Halateez.

In the scene, the boots were placed like it’s waiting for someone to come and get them like a mission delivery (Matches up with what I assumed in 2# that he would betray Halateez). OR it can be just a transition point from the current world to world Z.

And the entire mv is filled with vibrant, cheerful energy, but it ends with a solitary shot in a darker tone, evoking a sense of turning point of the story.

4# Bridge : the Edge of the Reality

Another theory! the bed scene might symbolize that..

“what happened to Yunho was merely a dream or something rooted in his subconscious, not something that actually occurred in the real world”

This idea becomes even more compelling when I saw loretinys on Reddit mentioned that the final track of the first released titled “Bridge : the edge of the reality”, suggesting the end of the real world, followed by the title track of the repackage album “In Your Fantasy”. I smell sth here as well, but I’m stuck now. So, what do you think?

For the question “Why are there drinks only in Yunho’s and San’s previews?” in the pic. I didn’t do enough research to write about it properly. I’ll make it up in San’s part.

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There’s another teezer’s part I wanna write it as well if I have time! Thank you for reading!

Have a nice day in tinytown!

[captainyaps]

I feel like the only way I can justify it is that it wounded Zeus’s pride, and threatens his authority. Judging by the quick glimpses of his character during Thunder Bringer and The Horse and the Infant, he’s always above Odysseus, which is to be expected, but you could go as far to say that’s a key part of his characterisation, he’s always above. Applying greek mythos context, yeah that pretty much sums up Zeus. He’s never below, he’s always the king, the unquestionable one, the one no one can defeat (or rather, no one dares to defeat, no one dares to defy.)

But then Athena rolls in, wins God Games something she was clearly supposed to lose, and does exactly that. Link back to when Zeus is listing off the gods she can try to convince, then says or me, implying he is the final option, I believe this means Athena was meant to lose God Games, so she would be forced to try and persuade Zeus, which, I assume, was meant to end in begging, pleading, some other means of supplication, that would reaffirm Zeus’s power over all the gods, even the goddess of wisdom, who ‘never asks for favours’. I could even go as far as to say at the end of God Games, when she is reduced to pleading, that is the only reason Zeus decides to release Odysseus. He gets what he wanted.)

Therefore winning God Games, and winning it so swiftly, scares him. She wasn’t supposed to do that, and because she’d won, there’d be no begging. What would that mean for his authority? What would that mean for the other gods, could they just roll up to Zeus beat his game and suddenly they get what they want, and Zeus has to abide by the rules he set? No of course not! That’s ridiculous! And so Zeus goes beast mode to make an example of this, to remind everyone ‘hey guys, btw, I make the rules. Don’t piss me off asshole.’

So in conclusion, Zeus doesn’t actually hate Odysseus, he just hates being bested in anything. Athena does this, and it scares him into beast mode, and tries to kill her!

(But also I do think it would’ve been a nice odyssey referenced touch if we had some sort of Poseidon threat return, instead of Zeus going sicko we have him about to release Odysseus, then BAM SECRET BOSS LEVEL POSEIDON WOAH WHAT’S GOING ON? he returns from his trip and he’s BACK FOR MORE BABY! but judging from the snippets we’ve seen, we get a Poseidon return anyway, so I’m chill w that.)

Okay, so uh, wisdom saga. It was fine, telemachus and athena are very cute, very fun. I like how Odysseus' misery and suicidal ideations on Ogygia were touched upon. The callback to warrior of the mind made me a bit emotional ngl.

BUT.

Why the fuck was zeus portrayed like that??? Why did he smite athena?? What?? Why is he all "no one beats me at my game?" What game king. This portrayal just rubbed me all the wrong ways. Like, especially considering that in the odyssey he AGREED to let odysseus go, but it was poseidon they worried about.

Idk man the saga was okay, but i feel like that portrayal of zeus at the end was pretty unnecessary.

[bennetsbonnet]

Much has been made of Mr Darcy's "confession" to Elizabeth that he does not converse easily with strangers. It is repeatedly used to support neurodivergent interpretations of his character. And I suppose that when taken at face value, a character confessing that they do not easily converse with strangers and struggle to catch their tone or appear interested in conversation can absolutely scream AUTISM! (I say as an autistic person myself)

But this line is often taken in isolation. When considered in terms of the passage in which it appears in Chapter 31, it appears far less of a smoking gun than may initially be suspected. After some discussion about Elizabeth and Darcy's prior acquaintance in Hertfordshire, Colonel Fitzwilliam asks Elizabeth for information about Darcy's behaviour there. She readily supplies it:

'Pray let me hear what you have to accuse him of,' cried Colonel Fitzwilliam. 'I should like to know how he behaves among strangers.' 'You shall hear then—but prepare yourself for something very dreadful. The first time of my ever seeing him in Hertfordshire, you must know, was at a ball—and at this ball, what do you think he did? He danced only four dances, though gentlemen were scarce; and, to my certain knowledge, more than one young lady was sitting down in want of a partner. Mr Darcy, you cannot deny the fact.' 'I had not at that time the honour of knowing any lady in the assembly beyond my own party.'

What Darcy leaves out here is that it was he himself who chose not to be introduced to anybody. As we learn from the description of his behaviour at the Meryton assembly in Chapter 3:

Mr Darcy danced only once with Mrs Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in walking about the room, speaking occasionally to one of his own party.

Anyway, Elizabeth correctly does not buy his excuses. Not only does she respond with a cutting sarcastic remark, but she tries to bring the discussion with an end by speaking to Colonel Fitzwilliam:

'True; and nobody can ever be introduced in a ball-room. Well, Colonel Fitzwilliam, what do I play next? My fingers wait your orders.'

But Darcy does not get the hint and continues conversing with Elizabeth rather than quitting while he's ahead. However, I don't believe him to be missing a social cue here. Rather, this is an exceedingly conceited man who cannot conceive that anyone would not want to speak to such a Superior Being as he and more-so, is determined to defend himself from a perceived slight against his impeccable character.

Then we come to the passage containing the oft-cited line which allegedly contains proof of his neurodivergency:

'Perhaps,' said Darcy, 'I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction; but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.' 'Shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?' said Elizabeth, still addressing Colonel Fitzwilliam. 'Shall we ask him why a man of sense and education, and who has lived in the world, is ill-qualified to recommend himself to strangers?' 'I can answer your question,' said Fitzwilliam, 'without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble.'

Once again, Elizabeth does not buy his excuse for even a single second. She's fully aware of all the advantages a man such as he will have received in society (opportunities not open to women, might I add!) and draws attention to that fact. It's a brilliant, cutting line from her and she really set that one up for Colonel Fitzwilliam to deliver the knockout blow.

Not only do we have the testimony of Mr Darcy's cousin, that 'he will not give himself the trouble,' to appear cordial to strangers, but we have evidence from Wickham too. Although after this statement, Wickham quickly goes onto misrepresent Darcy's kindness to the poor, which contradicts Mrs Reynold's later testimony, I do believe Wickham to be telling the truth (for once!) here, when he tells Elizabeth in Chapter 16:

'Mr Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not want abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while.'

Which, again, demonstrates that Darcy is capable when he wants to be. That is the crucial point. Autistic people fundamentally lack the ability to understand social cues, they cannot turn it on and off as they please because they are snobs.

So, now we come to the infamous line about Darcy's supposed social struggles, and I hope that I've provided enough context to the line to make you see that it should not be taken at face value:

'I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,' said Darcy, 'of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.' 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault—because I will not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution.'

Again, Elizabeth is not buying his excuses for even a single second and tells him if he feels like that, maybe he should put the effort in. She has seen him in numerous social settings and been thoroughly unimpressed with his behaviour which, when you consider his rudeness to her at the Meryton assembly, she has every right to be.

So, what do I make of the line?

Well, I think it's abundantly clear that Darcy absolutely can speak to people when he wants to. Perhaps, in his mind, he struggles to make that deeper connection and make friends easily. But making friends is not always easy, it's a process you must invest time and effort into. If you do not do that, it stands to reason that you will struggle. Plus, if you hold others to ridiculous standards (as Darcy does) without recognising and fixing the flaws within yourself, you're not going to have deep, lasting friendships.

While this quote may appear to be a moment of vulnerability where he does confess a fault of his, which is astounding given his pride, personally I do not think it was not a soul-searching exercise. It was to make Elizabeth stop grilling him. It was self-serving. Although, I don't think he's entirely lying. Darcy is veeeery careful with his words and though this statement is not considered and perhaps comes out rather abruptly, it doesn't necessarily follow that it isn't true. I can imagine that it is probably something he's felt for a while, yet it is a rather desperate attempt to defend himself from a woman who sees right through him.

I think perhaps Darcy does realise that he isn't as naturally gifted as other men he knows (such as Wickham, Colonel Fitzwilliam and Mr Bingley) when it comes to forming acquaintances. However, he looks outwards and turns that bitterness against the world rather than looking inwards, reflecting upon himself and improving his manners which would be the correct thing to do. Thankfully, he later does this, but it took him twenty eight years...

In addition, Darcy appeared to have been under the illusion that he could coast by on Pemberley's reputation... which has always worked... until he met Elizabeth. For perhaps the first time, he encounters a woman who is not awestruck by him and his reputation and delivers the rebuke that he always needed.

So, while personally I'm inclined to believe there is some truth to his statement, as Mr Darcy is many things but he isn't a liar, I think it is said in desperation. His feeling stems from him knowing what he should do, but he can't be bothered to enact it... rather than any inherent social deficiency stemming from being neurodivergent.

Although, even if he does struggle socially, it's still no excuse for the rudeness he displayed to Elizabeth! My main issue with neurodivergent readings of Darcy is when they are deployed to defend his behaviour, when they attribute his rudeness to any potential neurodivergency and when they excuse his laziness. That is an awful message! Autistic people who struggle with social cues often do not, nor should they, go around insulting others. They should and often do put plenty of effort into being considerate and polite. In fact, I think, if anything, a love of rules makes us more likely to have good manners, rather than the reverse.

Ultimately, I'm not sure this line makes Mr Darcy the sympathetic-poor-sweet-innocent-shy-boy-autistic-representation that people want him to be. In fact it makes him look even worse, if anything. On matters such as these, he is every inch the conceited proud man he was widely believed to be at the Meryton assembly. Luckily, Elizabeth is an incredibly smart woman, who doesn't fall for it and immediately calls him out on his behaviour in a way that he has never experienced before. As she should!

[impaladin]

sketch of skizz’s first build from his new guess the build video

i haven’t even finished this video yet but it’s genuinely the cutest build i’ve ever seen in minecraft i LOVE IT so much,,,,, curious lil guy !!!!!!

[danothan]

Just reading some comics and saw a panel I thought you might like. :)

ah fuck, characters reminiscing always get to me ;__;

but i will never ever get over that fond way these two talk to and abt each other. especially when they’re poking fun, you can just hear the love in their voice it’s SICK.

the halbarry love language is annoying each other, but even more than that, it’s being each other’s exceptions

[rmbunnie]

I am alone on this barren earth (Jason Todd liker and Mia Dearden liker who honestly thinks issues 69-72 of the 2001 Green Arrow run are fun and good and would really like to talk about them beyond "Jason Todd was ooc and irredeemable there because he was trauma-dumping on Mia but also everything he said was fake and made up and he was manipulating her to become his sidekick and he blew up her school in retaliation because she didn't so really we should ignore the whole comic as bad writing /or agree he should just be read as an sadistic sidekick killer" (None of which is true and over half of which is directly stated to be false in the comic's text) but all people ever have to say about the comic is weird wrong takes about the three pages in which the gym fight happens ripped out of the very interesting and fun surrounding context)

[feline-evil]

Wrench looking at Literally Anything and Anyone: (Rage. Disgust. Trying to kill with his gaze alone.)

Wrench looking at Numbers:

(Well listen. Ok. This is Wrench we're talking about so still some rage and still some killing-gaze but. Softer....Soft....Reserved only for This One Guy. I know it's subtle, he's Mr Wrench. But look, see hims face.)

[real-reulbbr-band]

isn’t it so weird that cats- the show where you have to interpret certain aspects to create your understanding of the world, its characters, and relationships

has a fandom subgenre that just loves shitting on “wrong” interpretations because they don’t agree with it or like it.

[rouge-the-bat]

repeat after me: details a creator has stated about their characters/stories/etc for a piece of media outside of said media is not canon.

the creators saying x thing about y character on social media/in an interview/etc can potentially give you insight on their intentions/ideas behind the characters development/personality/etc, and you can accept it as true to your views on the character- but its still not canon if its not in the actual source material.

the term youre looking for is "word of god." in fandom, thats used to describe the creators interpretation of the media. some will accept this into their own view of canon, and some wont. either way, it is not strictly canon, and should not be treated like an asbolute fact of the character/story (or whatever else the information was stated about).

and also remember, subtext and things "read between the lines" can and will always be interpreted differently across the fandom. no matter how "obvious" a detail about a character seems to you from subtext, other people will still garner something different, because thats the point of art. everyone will resonate differently with art and come away with different ideas about it for a multitude of reasons.

sure, some people may be forgetting something or outright ignoring something thats blatantly stated, but when it comes to subtext any interpretation is valid. even if it contradicts whatever the creators may say. art is a mix of both what the creator tries to tell in their story and what the viewer interprets from it. you have to accept that sometimes these will not always align, and thats perfectly okay.

(and also, dont forget something in one official universe doesnt mean its canon in all official universes of a piece of media- even if one is meant to be the same story in a different media form (like an anime adaptation of a manga) or a reboot).

[angelshepards]

there are two lines about dallas's character that have always intrigued me:

"turning into a hoodlum because he'd die if he didn't"

"he died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday"

it implies that regardless of whichever path dallas chose as a child, his death was inevitable. that the circumstances of his childhood before the book and also his life within the story would only ever lead to one final conclusion. a young death, a death in childhood. the first line, that he had turned into a hoodlum in an attempt to prevent his own death, is even more intriguing because it makes me wonder how much of it was due to the circumstances of dallas's childhood, and how much of it was due to some internal repression. a large part of it was probably the physical circumstances, but i also interpret that line as hinting that dallas was probably a sensitive/thoughtful/empathetic child, all personality traits that would have probably killed him (psychologically speaking) from what is known about his early life. he says to johnny "you get hardened in jail". hardened from what? what kind of softness did dallas have before?

[parkitaco]

maybe i am dumb maybe i’m smarter than everyone but i thought it was common knowledge that mike did not initially intend for the ‘it’s not my fault you don’t like girls’ comment to have gay implications

[steven-cartoons]

one thing I feel like some of y'all tend to forget is that effeminate behavior =/= feminine presentation

a character may have effeminate mannerisms and personality traits while still being masculine in their clothing and overall appearance

....

...aka....stede is the butch and ed is the femme !!

[pestercide]

By the way please like,, don't bring drama into my blog. Especially super old drama. I simply do not care.

I think it's kinda parasocial to a. hold someone up to something they did MANY years ago and have moved past and are trying to grow and change from and b. expect me to care about something that doesn't concern me personally.

I firmly believe that people that have done wrong should be given the chance to grow and change. (This specific case doesn't regard me. But I just wanted to say it. Cuz people have wronged/hurt me and even if I don't want to forgive them I'd rather they work on bettering themselves than receive punishment).

Tl;dr don't come into my inbox like 'oh just so you know x did y' especially if it doesn't concern me personally