#su crits were similar weren't they

[irkimatsu]

Friendly reminder that if you join a conversation about how Hazbin is about redemption and second chances

And your immediate reaction is "You mean like murderers and pedophiles? Viv thinks we should forgive murders and pedophiles???"

You are deeply, deeply annoying

[alectology-archive]

Omg yes a fellow tbg anti!! Every single time I remember that mountain bullshit and venkas death I’m boiling w rage

Lmao I didn't realise my frustrations with the last book technically made me a tbg anti. I do agree with the general concept of the book but you can tell it was incredibly rushed (the series probably needed another book or 2 tbh) and while the concepts she was trying to explore are super interesting and very important to tackle in fantasy which... continues to be pretty white generally speaking... they weren't planned out fully or given the care that they needed. I always blame rfk for taking too much onto her plate trying to tackle 20 different loaded concepts that needed to be handled carefully and ending up succeeding at none. Venka's death did nothing to reinforce the thematic elements of the story (which are again up in the air because it really felt like she picked up a couple of threads and never committed to any of them) and while su daji's was always inevitable, it was premature and badly handled.

This is also fully going off on a tangent but as an asian girl myself I take SO much offense at rin being stuck in a cycle of swearing her loyalty to objectively horrible and abusive men and the narrative never fully tackling it since that concept needs to be handled with a lot of sensitivity. Plus I also kind of disagree with people who think it sucked to make rin a very angry woman just because she's dark skinned - the common online crit about avoiding certain harmful tropes is very shallow and doesn't acknowledge that representation is not a one-fits-all and what works for a person of one ethnicity doesn't necessarily work for a person of another ethnicity just because they have a bunch of similarities. I don't think nearly enough asian women are allowed to be angry and passionate - the problem moreso tends to be with dark-skinned asian men being portrayed as violent and animalistic (which again - they're allowed to be angry!! It all lies in a writer's skill and I think rfk was fine there with altan because his anger is fully justified & he obviously struggles a lot with his addiction). I'm just incredibly frustrated that none of the rape survivors got to play an important role in the story and everybody ended up being killed off by the end of the series. I really can't say whether rfk intentionally chose to make rin's inability to extricate herself from toxic relationships with powerful men something that always going to end up hurting her - some of the sequences with altan and nezha certainly suggest so - but all of her female allies who were practically willing to die for her were distrusted for nonsensical reasons and once again, rfk didn't seem to commit to the idea and basically chose to make her toxic relationship with men and duty exclusive to altan.