#thinking back on the way High Card treated Burst utterly embitters me and so i ended up writing this as a vent based on her lol | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shidoukanae · 24 days ago

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"desperately craving morally gray female characters who have self-interested agency in their plots" and "also realizing that said gal characters are literally the hugest indicator of misogyny in a work you can possibly find" are two feelings that can and should mutually coexist

#how salty are you about this today? yes #been focusing a lot of my time and effort on creating art/writing for my own projects but this thought's been worming in my brain a lot #thinking back on the way High Card treated Burst utterly embitters me and so i ended up writing this as a vent based on her lol #i lost all my love for that show the moment it treated Burst as a literal punching bag for a male character #and watching her be brutally assaulted by a male character and sacrificing herself for the sake of someone she met for 5 minutes is yikes #and as far as im concerned she and her alter-ego are the only characters from that show who still exist to me #anyways the point is if you have a morally gray gal character and the writing makes a point to strip away her agency or force her to be a-#goody two shoes all of a sudden that's misogyny and i won't hear otherwise #bc god forbid we let a gal be allowed to have control over her life or to do anything that isn't for the sake of someone else #because you can see how problematic that is right?#right???#anyways welcome to late night thoughts that dishearten me as an aspiring creator of everything i wish i'd find in other works instead #if only because i'd rather read a story about a cool gal character with agency and her own interests at heart than be the writer of one

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