#probably one of the most controversial ones on this post

[sofokl13]

tw: suicide

ok you know what?? i may not let jinx go actually. i think her conclusion can go both ways. there's some evidence she might've lived and i can't imagine riot actually killing of the most beloved character like this. but what if they do?

i know people have very strong opinions on characters sacrificing themselves, especially if said characters could achieve redemption any other way. they say it's depressing and shows that when you're broken enough, the only way is to kys. but, my two cents as someone who's been battling suicidal thoughts for years and maybe yearned for a sacrifice like this... i don't disapprove of this message. i think people deserve to go out on their terms. suicide isn't inherently bad. it's a human right. and jinx has been through so much that maybe it was the best choice for her. after all, that's what silco said; the only way to end the cycle is to opt out. she was ready to do that with burning everything left after her jinx-style, but in the end, she was ready to go out like a hero. instead of simply killing herself, she made it an act of love for her sister. she went out on her own terms.

on the other hand, if she's actually alive, it could be explained in a satisfactory way too (because IMO characters magically turning up alive isn't a much better trope either). as i wrote above, she lives like a jinx but doesn't die like one. it's her ultimate act. well, what if this is where jinx dies? her christening. jinx was born in the flames and died in the flames. instead, powder comes back. she passed the test. she's free now.

idk, this is going to be a controversial post probably, but i wanted to pour out my thoughts and feelings. i do hope jayce, viktor and heimerdinger don't come back because IMO their arcs were finished perfectly. but jinx is a more complex and volatile character. schrodinger's cat, even.

either way, she will always live in my heart. thank you, riot and fortiche.

[hopepilledstrugglemaxxer]

this is probably very controversial on radblr and idk if anybody else does this but i post because i am curious what other radfems think of this.

i am very androgenous irl and have a deeper voice than most women and other features that contribute to being mistaken as a man a lot irl. my name is also a gender neutral so for some people it can be difficult to tell that i'm a woman/very easy to mistake me as otherwise. when a man thinks i am a man, i will not correct him. i kind of passively let myself be seen as male. is this potentially counter productive to the goals of radfeminism to let myself be seen as a man? i do it because it makes interactions with men a lot easier when they see me as one tbh.

genuinely just curious to see if anybody has thoughts on this because i am somewhat conflicted on if i should continue doing this.

[miss-rum-hee]

i’m going to get jumped for this for this i can feel it in my soul

but here we go!

- G3 designs are complete ass & an even bigger downgrade than G2. The colors are ass, the outfits are bland & basic, there are too many fucking motifs & patterns, etc. It’s a complete & utter eyesore from start to finish. Clawdeen & Lagoona are easily the worst offenders of the whole lot. Lagoona’s colors clash SO MUCH. 

Clawdeen is not much better. Her outfit has too many moon motifs. Her outfit is just one main color, just in different shades with little-to-no experimentation with other colors.

The only design that I “liked” (keyword: liked) was Frankie, & even then I still have issues with their design. 

Once again, too many fucking motifs. It’s like they’re trying too damn hard to overcompensate for the fact that they don’t have the rights to the Universal monster design anymore (green skin, neck bolts, etc).

What I ALSO hate about the designs is how inconsistent they are when compared to the show. Both Toralei & Ghoulia have long hair when their designs in the shows have short hair & pigtails respectively, Cleo has an entirely different outfit. It’s just???? Why.

- I don’t understand how G3 Frankie having a prosthetic leg is “disability rep”. This is a ghoul who can canonically sew on limbs at will & you’re seriously telling me that they needed to have a metal prosthetic leg? It’s not like it’s the same as people who have to have a prosthetic leg for the rest of their lives. Like Frankie’s parents could easily just get them a new organic leg or something.

- The new races they’ve given some of the ghouls are lazy & tokenist as fuck. It doesn’t help that they partly fall into stereotypes too (Lagoona being a Spicy Latina with that “I’m like chili mango, I’m sweet & I’m spicy” line, Draculaura having an overbearing parent & her being a perfectionist, Clawdeen being shown as half-Mexican by her liking tamales in her song). Like seriously, Mattel, you couldn’t have made new characters if you wanted more representation in the cast? I know that some of the new characters in G2 (Moanica & Ari) didn’t exactly go over too well, but that’s cause they were bland replacements for well loved fan-favorites (Ghoulia & Spectra). I’m not opposed to having more representation, but the way they did it is just lazy.

G1′s representation wasn’t perfect either but I’m not giving G3 brownie points for doing the bare fucking minimum

Like, there are monsters from Honduras, Taiwan, China, Mexico that they could’ve made dolls based off of, I don’t understand why they just chose to raceswap instead of making new characters like G1 did.

Hell, I’ll show you some monsters from these countries:

El Cadejo (Honduras)�� -  A supernatural spirit that appears as a dog-shaped creature. It roams isolated roads at night, according to Central American folklore of indigenous origin. There is a good white cadejo and an evil black cadejo. The white one protects travelers & is benevolent, while the black cadejo is malevolent & lures people to make bad choices.

Jiang-Shi (China) - A Chinese vampire that moves around by hopping with it’s arms outstretched. 

Na Tao Ji (Taiwan) - The ghost of a spurned widow who haunts pine trees.

La Llorona (Mexico) 

You see? There are already monsters to get inspiration from for new characters, but NOPE. Just raceswap already existing characters, cause that’s just soooo much easier /s

Sidenote: In the show Draculaura is half Taiwanese but in the movie she’s Filipino. Same thing for Lagoona, she’s Honduran in the cartoon but Colombian in the movie. It feels like they’re just throwing ethnicities around & seeing if it sticks or not & it makes me dislike G3 more than I already do.

- I know that the accents in G1 were iffy & I see why some people have issues with them, but giving almost EVERYONE American accents feels like a very lazy way of fixing the issue. These mfs sound like they’re all from fucking California now. Why does fucking DRACULA sound like an American, he’s Romanian? Where is his iconic accent???!!! 

- The new box art is ugly, bland & uninspired. It makes the dolls blend in with all the other dolls on store shelves.

- Frankie being made nonbinary in G3 feels performative, & it doesn’t help that Mattel’s already misgendered them on some of the toy boxes for the dolls. I feel like that says a lot about how much they’re actually gonna commit to it.

- I get that making Abbey Nepalese is more accurate given that she’s supposed to be from the Himalayas, but I still miss her Russian accent. I wish they could’ve just changed her country of origin so that she’d be from Russia of even Siberia instead, given that both countries are listed on the page for the Yeti.

- Why were the movie & the cartoon so closely released to each other if they take place in entirely different universes? It’s just very confusing, especially since some of the plot points in the movie aren’t in the show. Like Draculaura not needing to hide her doing witchcraft from her dad is just dropped from the show & she’s now back to hiding it. Like it begs the question of who thought this was a good idea at ALL.

what are some controversial monster high opinions or some “hot takes” I’m starting a collection

[shoplifting]

Your silent protagonist doesn't have to use sign language btw. They don't have to write things down, either. They don't have to use language at all. Not every single person who doesn't talk can use words the same as you, or use them at all, so your favorite silent character shouldn't have to use what you consider a grammatical language to communicate in your fanart and fics. AAC exists. Drawing exists. Gestures and body language exist. Btw.

[lycandrophile]

let trans men&mascs romanticize testosterone.

keep your “you’re not going to look like an anime boy or whatever, you’re just going to look like your dad” to yourself.

keep your “but what about the balding and the acne and the anger problems and the gross hair everywhere and the horrible painful bottom growth and and and” to yourself.

keep your “once you look like a man you will scare people and you can never stop thinking about that” to yourself.

keep your “testosterone is poison and don’t you dare even suggest that saying that might hurt you” to yourself.

we are not obligated to take on your fears and traumas around testosterone as our own, nor are we obligated to let them influence our relationship with it.

we are not obligated to sit here in a world that heavily restricts and constantly threatens our access to it and listen silently as you contribute to stigma around it.

we’re already tired of watching cis society as a whole try to rip it away from us; we don’t need fellow trans people and supposed allies giving credence to their cause.

for many of us testosterone is life-saving medicine, it’s liquid gold, it’s the nectar and ambrosia of the fucking gods.

is it so hard to just let us have that? to let us believe that and say it and celebrate it without being given a million reasons to question it? is that really too much to ask?

if you can find it in your heart to let other trans people romanticize their transitions, i promise you can let us do it to.

testosterone is a beautiful thing. it makes people hotter and even more importantly it makes them happier and anyone who wants it should be able to have it because it’s so life-changing and magical and wonderful and incredibly important to so many people who deserve the happiness it offers.

[cescalr]

Oooh, definitely glee for the fandom asks! <3

Always with the hornets' nests with these ones, I see! Though i don't think there's a fandom out there that isn't in some way a hornets' nest once it gets large enough... hm. Alright. I'm just gonna be as honest as i can be about this, and tag accordingly.

Glee:

my favourite female character: augh. argh. ouph. so difficult. so hard. Since I'm working off of half-remembered show and half recently-rewatched show... its a tossup. Mercedes, Santana, Quinn. Probably Mercedes. She did nothing wrong ever in her entire life <3 well okay maybe except that one time she smashed kurt's car windows (but it was a banger song, though). Can't say Santana because of the Biphobia TM and other things like excessive use of bigotry-based insults, and Quinn. Oh god girl. Cheating is not cool! Funnily enough! So I find them really interesting but 'favourite' is hard to say. Mercedes. Mercedes for sure <3

my favourite male character: Blaine sam blaine sam blaine sam yes. I am imitating ripping petals off of flowers and coming to a conclusion based on which is the last name i said. So I guess that means Sam! But really this is a tie.

my favourite book/season/etc: Mannnnn idk. I don't like shows for seasons as-a-whole. Also i could not tell you what happened in any given season if you held a gun to my head. I'm not good at that. The only shows i know 'seasons' of are Buffy and Teen Wolf because i've watched them like 100000000000 times (exaggeration) for various reasons (mostly fanfiction research).

my favourite episode (if its a tv show): I can tell you my LEAST favourite episode (blame it on the alcohol, thank you Kurt king of biphobia! this is a persona foible it's not the worst episode in the show. by far. by far. it's kind of an average one. I'm just angry at it.) BUT er. Favourite? Idk. Genuinely some of the earlier Kurt-centric stuff was really well done (his convo with Burt... <3) and the Quinn giving birth accompanied by bohemian rhapsody was obviously iconic, but if I'll be honest I couldn't name any episodes of this show (other than That One previously stated, anyway). And yeah most of the time they were named after song titles and No i don't remember those song titles either. I'm just so bad at this. My memory is that of a goldfish's being haphazardly bounced around on a sieve.

my favourite cast member: it would be really funny if I said Demi Lovato [she counts!] but the truth is N/A: i don't know these people !!! They are strangers!! (i don't. follow celebrities. at all. I couldn't even name most of them. They're just people doing a job and their lives are irrelevant to me beyond their ability to perform that job well. I do not need to know where they live and what coffee they drink. Stalker shit tbh. I'm kind of a very private person myself, so rpf-adjacent stuff just... creeps me out. I've never watched a single cast interview in my lifetime and I'm not about to start!)

my favourite ship: Difficult to say! Grave and obvious lie. Blam. It's blam. Quintana is a close runner up though Santana really needs to stop dating people who cheat on the regular (I'll accept Quinn has grown enough not to do this by the time a Quintana coupling would be viable - and satisfying in terms of character arcs - narratively speaking).

a character I’d die defending: Blaine Anderson did something wrong for sure but like Kurt did it first so shrugs. Cancels out. Bad for each other! Case closed!

a character I just can’t sympathize with: genuinely don't remember if I had one of those the first time around because I was like 10 and just didn't pay attention if I didn't care, but Terri and her racist self take that 'prize' this time, alongside the obvious predator in the room [original choir teacher. Sandy? I forget his name immediately after hearing it. He doesn't deserve to be remembered]. Also JBI is just.... a yikes character all around. I mean, he's a blatant stereotype for one, in a the people who wrote this person don't like jews kind of way. Unfortunately common stereotype too, for the era, so not only is he that, he's also lazy. Just a one-note pervert who's the butt of various antisemitic 'jokes' you've heard from era-peer shows a million times over, tired and awful and a sour reminder of bigotry that continues to this day. Really regrettable character who's lack of redeeming qualities was probably purposeful. (I know Rachel and tina are also jewish, but this comes up very rarely and mostly only when santana needs to say something kind of fucked up, as is her modus operandi, for 'comic relief'. Tina's jewish-ness wasn't even canon for several seasons, because she didn't have a surname or a family or anything resembling complex character depth for several seasons. The one time I really remember Rachel's religion being important was when she was pressuring Kurt into believing in some kind of god, which??? don't do that. Bad example. Trying to guilt trip a friend into faith sucks. I take back what i said earlier Mercedes did that too. Boo. Girls try again that was a bad showing all around. Though i have no idea why Kurt went the acupuncture route as his 'secular' option but i think that has to do a lot with the writers doing literally no research ever once in their lives (you can tell they don't by the way they write the football segments of the show, which make no sense according to football fans who watch Glee, of which there are numerous because real life isn't like fiction where you can only like music or sports. Most of the kids in my school year were doing the most of everything ever if they were the 'popular' ones - we do that differently; popularity isn't really based on who know know; for some bizzare reason literally everyone knew who I was? Even people I'd never spoken to?? - but more about like... how much you can do, I guess. Overachievers, but I'm not saying that negatively; these people were generally - generally - very nice, and surprisingly chill for people who had no spare time whatsoever. I'm not entirely sure when they slept; A* across the board, at least one sport, at least one instrument, several extracurriculars, parties every weekend, dozens of friends and an s.o. . Eh? Way too much going on. Scary lifestyle! Impressive burnout rate, probably. Er. Tangent! Back to the scheduled programming).) There's uhhhh there's a lot of bad characters on the show, but i'd say Sandy and Terri and her equally but more loudly racist sister are truly completely irredeemable ones. Like they're not interesting or anything, they're just there to be narrative annoyances (which, in the case of Sandy specifically, is insane. Arrest that man!!! He has actively sexually assaulted minors!!!).

a character I grew to love: difficult to say because I tend to just make an opinion and stick to it. Also i don't remember who i liked at first and who i didn't, this show came out when i was eight. I didn't watch it until I was a little older than that, of course, but I frankly have spotty memory until my late teens, so! I'm not sure!! Quinn, probably. Pink-hair-era Quinn helped me understand her more, and seeing the moments of kindness hidden behind practical cruelty, when you understand her family and situation, makes things make a lot more sense. It takes a lot to get me to sympathise with a cheater, but I can see where Quinn was getting all turned around in her head about life because of her upbringing and socialisation, not to mention the profoundly negative impact cheerios had on her mentally and that the school's culture in general was not exactly a breeding ground for empathy and optimism.

my anti otp: can you tell (klaine). I don't dislike Kurt!!! Please let him have a fun chillaxed boyfriend in new york with his vogue friends. But also please stop attempting to control other people's diets thank you!! Thank you!! I'm of mixed feelings. Blaine and Kurt both did at least one bad, relationship-ending thing, and proved over and over again that they just weren't on the same wavelength in regards to life goals and ways of living it. They can't even share the same living space, which is kind of required for a functional marriage. I don't know, it just seems like they settled for their first proper, serious boyfriend even if that's not really the best match, and I... wish they'd just got to see more of life first, you know? They got married at like 20! Or something! I'm 23, I cannot imagine getting married at 20. That's a baby. Let them live first!

(same for Santana and Brittney, imo. I also don't really like them together because Santana and Brittney have very different ideas regarding monogamy, which is just never going to go down well in the long run. If your girl cheats on you like twenty times and tells you to your face its not cheating in her view of things, but you think it is, break up with her because you'll just make each other miserable. Brittney sort of seems incapable of feeling guilt but if she were, this kind of moral pressure would be Not Good, and obviously Santana isn't comfortable with the idea and doesn't have to be!! Just move on!!! Find other people!!!! Don't marry your first girlfriend if you've broken up like ten times this is simple!!!! Please!!!! But Klaine wins out over Brittana because - in my opinion, glee fandom please do not persecute me, I am known for this specific thing - I see... interactions that verge on abusive between Klaine that I don't see in Brittana. So. Oof? Ex; use of public perception to disguise attack; deliberately hurting Blaine in a stage-combat fencing match (you are not meant to make actual contact in these) and thus using Blaine's own dislike of making his difficulties common knowledge against him in order to 'punish' him. This is no good! Don't do this!!.[Also just to err vaguepost about a comment.... that is. not. what i would call passive aggressive. Physically attacking someone with a sword - no matter the type of sword, fencing foils hurt just as much, they're just not stab-you sharp... er, these days - is just straight-up aggressive.]).

Note that negative things stick in the mind better than positive ones; on a rewatch I may well alter my opinion!

But also I'm really, really stubborn. So it's not likely. Klaine.

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

my 1 (one) stardew opinion is shane should not have won the bachelor poll

[catboyidia]

its june so i wanna share my lgbtq+ headcanons for ffvii characters just for fun, starting with the main playable cast:

(except they’re hcs by an obnoxiously trans gay person that projects onto their faves at all times, spoiler alert: they’re all trans and gay)

- cloud: he/him gay trans man - starting off strong with a gay trans guy (i warned that i would be projecting a lot with my hcs in this post) … but i’ve noticed a lot of other people hc/portray him as a trans man too so i know i’m not alone on this one! i cant explain exactly why i hc like this but i just do, probably cause i like him

- tifa: she/they transfem lesbian - i cannot be convinced that she doesn’t like women considering how she is with aerith and jessie tbh, and i like her so i’ve lovingly hit her with the transgender-inator beam out of love

- aerith: realistically- they/them nonbinary lesbian - i have no basis for this tbh except it just seems right to me! as for my actual hc for her (which is a pure projection, pls bear with me) - he/they gay transman - this is purely my own projection because aerith is really like stereotypically feminine(?) in ways that i am also feminine, so it comforts me to think of her like me if that makes sense

- barret: he/him but willing to test out she/her, unlabeled gender that is not quite cis but he’s only now exploring it and hasn’t quite figured it out yet, bi-curious and experimenting - thats so long but i’m not sure how else to describe it, i feel like he grew up all “traditional” and stuff, and then being a single adoptive dad and being a huge part of avalanche, he probably hasn’t had the time to really think about any of it too much or explore his gender/sexuality, but now he can with being surrounded with others that can help him explore, realize it’s alright to be uncishet, and help him learn about these things

- cid: okay i’m not gonna lie, canon wise he gives me major homophobe vibes (maybe its the raging misogyny that makes me think he’s bigoted in every other way…) but ignoring that he/she nonbinary bi - definitely exploring a lot and isn’t quite set in stone about what he is yet but he just knows he’s not cis or het and with those being more broad and spectrum like labels, he feels most comfortable with those over anything else, and he feels like they’re just right for him

- vincent: he/they transmasc gay - i’ll be honest this is also projection on my part because i love vincent a lot and want him to be like me! also he gives me major gender envy…

- reeve (in place of cait sith): he/him transman and gay - again, i just love him a lot tbh, and i feel like he is the kind of guy that knew who he was from a young age and tried to help out other people that are trying to navigate their queer journeys and find out who they are, i feel like reeve would be a major inspiration and advocate for the queer youth

- yuffie: they/them demigirl lesbian and arospec - she’s definitely still figuring herself out but she has very little interest in pursuing romance, but any relationship she can imagine wanting in her future is with another girl

[stunfiskz]

what are some of y’all’s favorite deltarune rarepairs…..

[anonyanonymouse]

🙈

[wetheepiphany]

Hey maybe Jotaro became the way he is actually because of highschool? And not his mother being toxic?

There's many factors that shape a person in real life - why couldn't there be multiple factors for a fictional character too?

[coelacat]

the three ways to make me INSTANTLY dislike you:

unironically call an animal (or any living thing rly) "useless" because if it exists there is inherently use for it. thats how evolution works dumbass

"art is dead"/"theres no good art anymore"/i dislike modern art"/"i could paint/write/sculpt that"/any variation of some bullshit about how any sort of art is lesser than another

"i think anyone who believes in religion is stupid and should be embarrassed" and im especially deadass about this one. it puts you in such a bad mindset its not even funny. you can hate bigots all you want and the way bigotry may intersect with religion is always an interesting study but. genuinely. if you hate religion AS A WHOLE for just. like. being a reflection of a population. i think you seriously need to get your head checked.

[bulkyphrase]

Woohoo! #'s 14, 15, 23??

14. Name something that you think too many people are WRONG about in [insert fandom/pairing] fanfiction

Ok, so this is about a majority of the fandom getting an actual canon fact wrong rather than an opinion thing, but Steve Rogers did not rescue Bucky from Azzano. Azzano is the site of the battle where Bucky and the 107th were captured, but they were then taken to the Hydra factory which is, according to Peggy on the plane ride over there, "in Krausberg, tucked between these two mountain ranges."

Azzano is in northeast Italy--Krausberg doesn't seem to exist in the real world, but is presumably somewhere in Austria.

15. Name an aspect of [insert character] that you think gets frequently overlooked in fanfiction characterizations/deserves more attention/exploration

Possibly controversial but I'd like to see more Stony fic where Tony is the one dealing with things like internalized homophobia or outdated ideas about social issues. I mean, in canon he’s a middle aged billionaire who makes jokes about prison rape and prima nocta and Rhodey being fooled by a cross-dresser. I don’t think he’s conservative or bigoted, but he seems like a guy who has never put a lot of thought into these issues and would have every reason to repress and ignore any same-sex feelings he might have.

I like the idea of progressive, out-and-proud Tony and enjoy reading those fics, but Tony's growing and discovering things about himself would be great too.

23. Share an unpopular opinion you have RE: [insert fandom]

I've said this before, but if we're talking opinions about the fandom, I think people who say the MCU has gone significantly downhill are either looking at the first couple phases through the lens of nostalgia or are looking at the latest phases though MCU fatigue. I legit don't think the average quality has gone down--there were definite stinkers in the early films, and some really solid stuff in the past few years.

Also, people are allowed to get tired of the MCU and stop watching, but I think one of the best cures for superhero fatigue is to go and watch other movies. Of course you'll get tired of them if they're all you watch--take a break and go see a few art films, raunchy comedies, murder mysteries, etc. and then come back and see how you feel.

For the Grievances ask game!

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

oddest take i've seen lately was someone saying "i hate how puritan all americans are because they always go straight to pearl-clutching when they hear a curse word". and everyone in the notes was agreeing??

[piglii]

I think the reason most video game to movie adaptations (and book adaptations, too) suck is that most people in charge of making movies just do not give a shit about video games as a medium and literally see it as a 1:1 conversion of money. like, “hey that hot new mario or zelda game came out this year and made $800 million dollars! if we make that into a movie, surely it will make the same amount or even more!” because most literally just see other forms of media as crude oil waiting to be made into gas. like it’s crazy to me that it seems really hard to understand the appeal in engaging with a piece of media personally yourself (or like with friends in multiplayer) as opposed to just watching it play out on a screen.

[uncannydolliez]

Hey mercurial rose here, I’m just gonna link a few of my older essays since my personal blog is mainly fandom shit and I’m gonna post more theory on here hopefully :>

Next one is gonna be about the concept of empathy from an autistic perspective!