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deeply unlikeable and unpleasant female characters are actually so important for the ecosystem and also as a good litmus test over if a person is Weird about women or not

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some people are so used to mostly consuming media where the women and people of color are static set dressing in stories about white men that they can't wrap their heads around the concept that female characters and characters of color can have arcs of their own. they'll see a character who's not a white man display a personality flaw that is clearly being set up to be overcome and they see it not as the setup of what promises to be an enticing character journey, but as an essential defining trait of their being, and proceed to demonize such characters for it. white men get to be dynamic and complex, women and people of color get essentialism and a pressure for likeability over good storytelling.

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hey uhh if you absolutely can’t resist the temptation to reblog a post about fandom misogyny from me to talk in the tags about how actually you’re so justified in hating a female character, maybe don’t. maybe try harder.

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this woman 🙏🙏

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free my girl she did all that but you people are only focusing on the actions that affected your male blorbo because his hurt feelings are more important to you than trying to understand her

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ciri!!

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from big-eyed eternal child to death herself

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Birthday gift

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IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it

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ANGRY AND HATEFUL PERSON AWARD! ❣️ Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people you hate! Absolutely no pressure but. It's sweet to know someone thinks you're shit inside and out <3

i think we should kiss. with tongue.

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really fun duo you have there. mind if i add arbitrary roles to their relationship dynamic so i can write one of them as an overprotective caretaker and the other as a naive helpless baby?

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Since we talked about Ciri I would love to see her doing magic studies with Yennefer or something. Just anything with a young Ciri having a good time for once

Okay so this isn't exactly what you asked for but it sprung into my mind when I set out to draw the ask

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this woman 🙏🙏

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theyre kinda cute or whatever

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Oh, and this one of Yennefer that I took ages ago...

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i tend to talk a lot about the realistic nature of the witcher, its "realistic fantasy," "brutal realism," its references to political realities and inspirations taken from history, and that is all very important to it.

but... i also want to take a moment to say that the witcher, as a tragedy, also fills me with a hope... that such love, such beautiful families and friendships can exist, even if they differ too much to survive in the end. the idea that the beauty and purity of that love even exists at all, in such a fucked up world, despite it and sometimes existing in the very middle of it, is also what makes it realistic. hope is realistic. love is realistic.