#she’s not a woman in distress
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the way connor is constantly reduced to this,,,he really is forgotten bc over 1k of u don’t understand him at all.
#like jfc#his reaction is to say ‘I’m sorry’ to kendall#bc logan was never a father to Him#his own mother was sent away#he had no one#and u reduce Willa to ‘#a woman paid to live in his house ???#always ignoring Willa’s own agency#she’s not a woman in distress#a lot of u are not allowed to talk about Connor or Willa#unless u read Justine’s latest interview and can prove u can process it
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The milf of all time
#art#helena sandsmark#dc comics#wonder woman#she’s so fun#and hot. did I mention hot#every superhero needs their damsel in distress. and for Wonder Woman that damsel is Helena#at some point I think Diana just starts getting Helena magic weapons so she can defend herself lol#not pictured here is Cassie’s friends all calling her mom hot#anyway Helena is the coolest. archaeologist. mother. tired#her insurance company is fucking tired of hearing from her#‘heyyyy. yea a supervillain blew up my house again. yes this would probably stop if I stopped hanging around Diana. no I will not.’
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Caitlyn makes me lowkey so mad bc she's lived in objective privilege her entire life, even when she tried to be a grittier cop in s1, she literally has a true safe haven to go back to with her two parents to care for her and listen to her. In s2, yeah her mom has been murdered, but holy shit can you imagine how much food and other resources the underside could have gotten for the cost of that funeral and that casket? Caitlyn has her way because of her name, gets platformed to the highest degree for her name even if she's being manipulated. She still has every resources at her fingertips despite Jinx's terrorism.
And yet when Vi, who is literally trying to kill her own sister, just didn't want Caitlyn to potentially shoot a very young child, Caitlyn acts like she has suffered more than Vi's whole existence. "I keep telling myself you're different but you're not." GIRL, YOUVE LOST IT. YOU HAVE NOW BECOME THE KIND OF ENFORCER VI FEARED AND HATED AS A CHILD. The mirror pointed back at Caitlyn with that sentence thrown at Vi is harrowing, holy shit.
#arcane spoilers#arcane s2 spoilers#arcane season 2 spoilers#i have been distressed about this for like 12 hours. shes made me so mad lol#love me a complicated woman... but being blindly a classist asshole is a hard one for me to love rn lol#arcane#arcane: league of legends#caitlyn kiramman#caitlyn arcane#aunt posting#i think part two is gonna kill me. my lesbians. please 😭😭😭#❤️🧡🤍💖💜#like just flip the words around a bit. 'i keep thinking im different but im not.' CAITLYN. im so serious on believing that im right here#that caitlyn is throwing accusations meant for herself because shes hurt and grieving#shes never had to live like this..... but vi and jinx have. the whole undercity/zaun has#im so mad at her rn even if i understand her steps lol
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Things I won't forgive the fight club movie for regarding the character of Marla Singer, entry C:
The manic pixie dreamgirlification of her own struggle with life and death. The narrator gets to have a serious issue driving his alienation but Marla gets her cancer removed so her pithy statement about the tragedy of death being that she doesn't fall over dead randomly is just a bit Offbeat And Interesting And Edgy haha! She's a real tourist, really, nothing ever stated to be wrong about her. Sure she overdoses. Sure you can see she's got a shit life. But she doesn't get backstory. She doesn't get a life beyond fun little statements that, when her own reason for saying and thinking them is removed, mostly just reflect the narrator. In the book, it is very, very clear. Marla does what she does because she has cancer and is afraid of The Slow Death. The Wasting. The Struggle. By taking that away you even reduce her suicide attempt. It puts it all in this context of nothingness. Sure, you can assume a depth, but I don't think we should be uncritical about the fact that they chose to remove it. Marla Singer is more than an object that bothers the narrator out of the support groups and gets fucked by Tyler Durden. Marla Singer is a person in her own right in the book, and in the movie she's just... not.
#fight club#the other major beefs are: Marla is the one who intervenes and chases the narrator down so he doesnt shoot himself at the end. she's not a#fucking damsel in distress#it's arguable she 'saves'the narrator#those are two interlocking beefs...#secondly taking away her clarity of the situation and thus her own choices in the entire later half .....#in the movie marla arguably never even knows about the split personality thing!!! he doesnt fucking tell her!!! she just suddenly gets#pushed around by big brave masculine man protecting unknowing victim woman who is stupidly resisting#*vomits*#bro in the book marla is keeping this fucker awake. tracking him thru the night#she slaps him across the face#she makes the KNOWING CHOICE to persue him to the parker morris building#to remove her entire reason for how she acts then also make her entirely passive in the latter half of the movie when she was previously#quite active.....#literally aside from this and the defanging of project mayhem i consider this one of the best adaptations of smth ever#but they really fucking let misogyny ruin a major part of the story#sorry this is incorherent i'm just like#this is legit the only way people come up with those 'marla isnt actually real!!' theories too#because she's totally reduced from her own person into a mirage for the narrator's interest
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I'm working on that spirit of spring thing and its got me curious about something
#Like. Obviously i always call Fawn Fawn and use she/her when talking about her#but for like 80% of her story her name is Erasyl and he uses he/him for himself#so it Feels weird to talk about pre egg cracking Fawn with the masculine set. but it also feels weird to talk about her at that point#in her life using the feminine set bc like. Her relationship with gender is a lot more like.#like she doesn't see herself as having never been a man or like she isnt a man anymore now that shes transitioned.#She would usually describe herself as having always been both at the same time but preferring to be seen as a woman at this#point in her life.#idk if you downloaded all of 2024 english language gender talk into her head shed describe herself as a bigender transfem#but shes from old timey fantasy land and also has like. a war and an extremely complicated interspecies alliance to think about#Ladys busy. she doesn't have time to put that much thought into gender outside of 'its nice when my friends and family#refer to me as a woman and i like presenting as one a lot more than i liked presenting as a man even if i didn't find presenting as a man#that distressing. '
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cant fucking believe i got a paragraph describing the color percy's literal boxers being shoved into my face but not one of him hugging sally w teary eyes after being missing for like 8 months ?????
#i actually dont remember if we get a percy×sally hug?#i think we do in the lightning thief?...right?#well u know what i would have loved?#a reunion in hoo#i mean boy's been missing for like 8 MONTHS#wasnt sally all distressed???? like where IS her son????#you telling me that she didn't summon Poseidon to demand him to tell her where her son is?????? YOU TELLING ME THAT?????#YOU'RE TELLING ME THE WOMAN WHO FUCKED A GOD AND HELD A GUN DIDNT DO THAT ??????#WELL YOU'RE WRONG#percy jackson#sally jackson#pjo#hoo#pjo/hoo#rick riordan#riordanverse#annabeth chase#leo valdez#jason grace#frank zhang#piper mclean#hazel lavesque#by the way the boxers one is from The Singer of Apollo short story !!
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Every time I have to study for one of my science courses and I really don't want to, I make more Ema Skye art. She's what keeps me going 'cause it's ROUGH out here
#ace attorney#ema skye#ace attorney investigations#she's my emotional support woman in stem#just like me fr#It helps to project the emotional distress these courses give me onto her
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thinking about how profound it must’ve been for shri’iia when she first received scratch’s ball (woman who has never gotten anything for free in her life ever)
#shri’iia’s relationship with scratch and owlbear cub is that she has only gotten those two for a day and a half and if anything happens to#them she’s gonna kill everyone and herself (she means it)#which is so funny to me bc I usually go for the intimidate options with scratch like she just makes him heel or drop the ball immediately#so she just seems like she doesn’t like the dog but inside she’s like ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😭😭😭 sobbing pissing herself the dog is so cute#shri’iia watching scratch roll on his back like a wiggling worm and she looks like she’s smiling menacingly and plotting#bc the lack of eyebrows + eye tattoo that looks like devil horns + insanely bright red eyes makes her look sinister#but she’s actually dying inside bc she finds him so cute. she will forgive how he drools on her and everything#also post oath breaking when she’s knee deep in denial I do imagine that he tries to console her w how dogs can sense ur distress and all#that. that’s why she gets attached to him 😭 she hasn’t had anyone console her before 😭#owlbear cub too… sobs she does love her babies but she’s doesn’t express it often she just doesn’t know how#but I do hc that those two are always bound to curl up w shri’iia when she’s in her trance. like when she’s laying down they’re like it’s#free real estate. then this 5 ft woman gets covered by a massive dog and her owlbear cub 🥰🥰#must be so sad for her to find out after the game that the owlbear cub and scratch left#she’s like im NOT upset btw 😭 tears running down her face astarion is like darling what mascara do u use mine isnt that dramatic#then epilogue when she sees them again and she has to give them up to shadowheart 💔💔💔💔#she’s like. clenched fist im so fucking happy for you I’m so serious
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Kazama finally finding something to say that actually lands a blow:
Except the person it truly lands a blow on is Chizuru:
Souji refusing to answer (a narrative choice that makes me go ballistic since it is so fucking good, nearly as ballistic as Chizuru not wanting to engage on this subject after the fight because she is too afraid. They are everything for each other and yet… damn I adore their dynamic):
Kazama being the worst (we love to see it):
Bonus: explanation why the ochimizu does not cure diseases
(Though what about Sannan’s hand? It was an old wound? And also considering that tuberculosis destroys the lungs I guess the ochimizu should at least mitigate its effect by repairing some of the damages which might explain why Souji shows less symptoms?)
#hakuouki#hakuoki#okita souji#yukimura chizuru#kazama chikage#hakuouki playthrough#kazama laughing in the face of the distress of the woman he still wants to make his wife at this point is…#that’s why she doesn’t want to go with you pal
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i just think that their actual relationship where they care about each other and want each other to be safe and their conflict is based on the moral conflicts that arise from venom's definition of "justice" is so much more interesting than the "wow i hate my ex" relationship that some people seem to want them to have. people hate to see two people have an amicable divorce and still care about the person they used to be with. and still see the person they used to be with even beyond the way they've both changed. anyway
#yes i think there are issues with the way their relationship is portrayed mostly because of the whole. uh.#anne weying is a woman being written in the late 80s early 90s. and so she gets damsel in distressed.#however CONSIDERING all of that. she still gets to be pretty competent on her own#she's a lawyer! has short hair! stands up to the cops and advocates for her rights! socially she's super strong and independent!#and when eddie wants to save her in this issue and can't get there what he does is sends the symbiote through the phone#so that she can save herself. essentially. so that She goes out and rips people's heads off#which is upsetting for her! sorry about that annie!! but still. even if the shevenom design is Terrible. she gets to be venom#that origin recap comic from last night is still pissing me off </3#venomposting#venom#venom: along came a spider
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“A love story with a psychological interest … a rather doubtful experiment with a public who expects a certain style from an author."
— Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Selected Journals of, on the subject of 'Kilmeny of the Orchard'
#the kilmeny read-along has been sooo funny to third-party#you guys are so genius#i always felt like kilmeny was maud’s ‘gotcha’#mostly because of this above journal entry#it felt like a total satirical play on traditional fairy tales#right down to how we see kilmeny’s life truly begin and develop and the moment she meets her ‘prince’ eric#like#right after she meets eric things progress for her… she sees herself for the first time… she perceives herself… and in the end she speaks#all things she hadn’t or couldn’t achieve without him#so here we have our damsel in distress… given growth and a beginning by a man that only wants to really trap her again#say nothing of the way kilmeny is the titular character and yet it is ERICS story#this feels like maud (a huge lover of fairy tales in general) having a bit of a go at these old-timey stories#how easy it is to suppose she was poking some fun at the Way of the World then too#her own existence as a woman was about to transform at the time she wrote it… she was engaged to ewen in 1908#ANYWAY that is my whole entire 2¢#i’m about to go like posts and make it EVERYONEs problem so RIP to y’all’s notifs#lucy maud montgomery#kilmeny of the orchard
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Some attempts at a design for Selena :3. The second image is inspired by the wedding in Haunted Castle, but I changed Simon’s outfit cause idk I just can’t picture him being comfortable in a suit.
The last two of these are way more headcanon-y lol. They’re under a cut mostly in case my headcanons and story ideas change d(^^ ). One of them was inspired by a Kikuo song I was listening to while drawing lol, the song “Let’s Go to Heaven”.
#castlevania#castlevania games#selena belmont#castlevania selena#castlevania ii#castlevania 2#castlevania simon’s quest#simon’s quest#castlevania ii: simon's quest#haunted castle#simon belmont#akumajou dracula#akumajo dracula#art post#my art#I remember seeing someone make a post somewhere about how it was weird that#a lot of the cut items from the first Castlevania were things like high heels and a love letter and stuff#I wonder if Simon’s wife/girlfriend was supposed to be a character at one point in it and she got cut for some reason#idk it’s interesting to me that she’s only ever appeared in like deliberately noncanon content ya know?#like Haunted Castle was even called not a Castlevania game by its own lead director#the two novels with Simon girlfriends in them were never intended to be canon just fun side stuff#especially the ones that were choose your own adventure books lol I love the art style in one of those#anyway I’ve been trying to think of ways to write her lately but its so easy to end up accidentally falling into annoying tropes alas 💀💀💀#especially ones the series has already used before oof#currently my idea so far is since Simon himself is kinda the chosen one hero guy trope in CV1#and ends up subverting that trope by genuinely failing a ton getting hated by the public and possibly dying at the end#maybe Selena might work as initially the damsel in distress and call to action trope and subverts that later????#I also have always thought she ends up the Mysterious Woman somehow hmmmm#it’s a hard headcanon to incorporate without just pulling a Dracula X chronicles and oh no she’s a vampire aaaaa but that’s been done 💀#I am also aware that not everything you write has to be 100% completely new and original and perfect but aaaaaaa
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#konan#and hanzou#and yahiko#and nagato#oh i am gonna be annoying again#because this whole setup just pisses me off so much!!!! she just HAD to incarnate the damsel in distress trope!!!! woman must be helpless!!#AND LIKE IT SHOULDN'T WORK WITH KONAN OF ALL WOMEN#HER JUTSU ALLOWS HER TO BECOME TRANSIENT!! hanzou couldn't do SHIT if she became paper!!#and before anyone says “oh but it's raining her paper would get wet” her papers not only resist water they also resist FIRE.#there was literally no reason for her to be captive except to set up the drama between nagato and yahiko's death#again konan is shown to be disposable!!! her role in the history is nothing without the men in her life!! AAHH *rips a door off its hinges*#don't take this as me disliking yahiko or nagato please don't because the ame trio is the most important thing to me (and sasuke too)#but it's evident that konan despite all her qualities her only purpose is to literally be one pillar sustaining a bigger building#and as someone who loves her very much and has her as my favorite character ever it. hurts :'(#ok i'm done. for now
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i wish i could kill myself in front of my mom but without actually dying
#did something i knew i shouldn't have 🤙#i am having Not Fun#so shaky and sick to my stomach#god i hate this woman#she's like roaches crawling under my scalp#digging into my brain#terrible itch and pain and distress#vent#tw suicide#tw suicidality#suicide tw#self harm tw#tw self harm#tw sh#trauma#tw trauma#not mlm#dantes talking again
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rewatching season 4 of code lyoko rn and i NEED a discourse on how the writing team treated william, yumi and sissi (and also sam!) like shit
#am i fixating on an obscure 2000s frenchie cartoon? sure#its my whole childhood#but like. what the fuck was with the writers like yumi is sometimes a fucking damsel in distress and we never saw good william in his-#-full potential#(not counting evolution. we DONT talk abt evolution.#also why couldnt they let sam become a lyoko warrior like i get it she had to leave or smth but like#couldnt they give my boy odd a stable relationship he clearly loved instead of being a womanizer#also the whole triangle thing w/ ulrich william and yumi was SO BAD#i guess 2000s cartoons were obsessed w/ love triangles#code lyoko
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If I had a bit everytime Penelope Garcia used lethal force without hesitation when she and Spencer Reid are in lethal danger I would have two bits, which is not a lot but it's low-key iconic it happened twice.
#imagine being a damsel in distress but like of.....of a Baby Girl's#twice#Derek Morgan to his best friends before he left : ´Look after each other´#Penelope ´BET!´ *rolls over an woman with an car she stole while escaping an cult*#Is the fucking lack of hesitation that always gets me#criminal minds#penelope garcia#spencer reid
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