#there is one particular scene where she reads ‘dulcinea’s’ expression is pretending to be one thing but actually being a look of
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I want to make a post about how smart Gideon is but am bad at making posts rn. But I’ll get to it because I feel like defending my darling girl. She’s smart! She’s so smart she’s just thrown into a situation in GtN where she is not given the tools she needs to understand everything going on around her!
Gideon so often gets done so dirty by a lot of slices of the fandom in terms of painting her as like, dumb muscle etc. when there is SO much more to her character. And I can’t help but think that a lot of the time there’s an element of people being weird about butch women in terms of that treatment. And even more so and intersecting with that, I feel like racism, conscious or otherwise, undeniably plays a role in this treatment of her in many instances. It’s not my place to speak further on that (and I’m sure people who are much more qualified to talk about this have been talking about it and probably getting largely ignored a lot of the time), but it’s a thought that’s popped up for me and has been knocking around my head a lot lately
#there is one particular scene where she reads ‘dulcinea’s’ expression is pretending to be one thing but actually being a look of#‘animal cunning’ or something to that effect#and I love it#I WILL talk about this at some point#and like yes joking about her being distracted by hot ladies in canaan house is all well and good#but I think a lot of times things turn into people calling her dumb#which really reduces her character#and does such a disservice to her#and it feels like in so many cases yeah that is very much tied in with perceptions of butches#and women of color#and butches of color#etc.#the locked tomb#gideon nav#gideon nav/kiriona my beloved you're currently my fave female character in the series today#it changes at any given time fghjk#but i always love her#also i realized 'qualified to talk about it' is weird wording but brain is tired and i am blanking on a better word to represent what i mean
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