#5 male characters i love

[deus-and-the-machina]

ngl I might get crucified for this but I think the dunmeshi yuri/yaoi discourse was stupid and misrepresenting the ao3 factoids. as of today the most written for mlm ship is labru with 69 (nice) and the next most popular has less then half that at 31. meanwhile farcille has 125 out of the 154 F/F ships in the tag. it is by FAR the most popular ship, with the next two most written about sapphic ships being marcille/izutsumi (9) and kiki/namari (4) and also a couple of x readers? so farcille dominates by far

it seems to me that what's going on is that several mlm ships are in rotation in terms of popularity whereas farcille dominates as the singularly popular wlw ship.

and this doesnt mean that the issues people were bringing up about the general lack of sapphic content and the way fandom treats female characters aren't valid, but idk man when farcille fanart is cropping up daily and getting thousands of notes and has about twice more the amount of fics that the most popular mlm ship on ao3 has its like. I dont think this is really a fandom that proves that point.

I would like to see some more variation in smaller wlw pairs to make up the difference though! I dont think I see any tade/izutsumi fics and we need to change that they could be so cute.

#keeping this bit in a tags bc its a bit spicier but even without farcille actually being by far the most written about ship I dont think #dunmeshi is the best work to make this argument with bc while its got great female characters the main cast is still 3/4 and then 3/5 male #characters when izutsumi comes and she's not very shippable on account of being 17. I wouldn't sit there scratching my head as to why peopl #are writing about the multiple very relevant male characters as if its some mystery. and again farcille is still by far the no 1 ship rn #I hope that more people getting into the manga will lead to greater spreads of interest in the various minor characters bc there are many #very cool ones esp the [REDACTED BIRD NAME] are very prime for cooking up yuri. I just wanna gather up people who are passionate about #sapphic works and talk about ideas and spread the creativity and discussion I want there to be more wlw stuff and I think the only way that #gonna happen is by spreading that passion and love and encouraging other sapphic creators and enjoyers #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

[sad-trash-hobo]

I know fast and furious is always advertised as such a macho man movie but I don't think everyone realizes how girl coded Brian is

I cant find pictures or gifs of specific scenes but if yall have watched these movies, you know what I'm talking about

#fast and furious #brian o'conner #he is a baby girl #literally the chemistry he has with every male character #in almost every fight scene............. he opens his legs alot #im just saying #brian is a girly #if they had just put a scene in of him sleeping in bed and dom getting out of the bed #it would've completely worked #these movies suck and i love them #the fast and the furious #fast 5 #2 fast 2 furious #fast and furious 6 #furious 7 #Paul walker

[aliciedraws]

Luka’s puppy expression in Migration…I can’t 😭😭

#he’s so in love with her I can’t #you know when they say if you love someone you let them go #idk for a moment my lukanette spirit was raging #he’s too good of a character and I am once again fumbled with second male lead syndrome #lukanette fanart #ml migration #ml migration spoiler #ml season 5 #luka couffaine #fan art #miraculous fanart

[magpod-confessions]

while i agree that there are some sexist assholes in this fandom, sometimes people call someone sexist just for preferring a male character over a female character, or for disliking a female character.

not everything is about misogyny, sometimes you just don't vibe with a character. it's okay to dislike a character, as long as you don't specifically hate them because of their gender.

(and before you say it, my favorite characters in tma are gertrude and daisy. but there are also characters i dislike, and some of them happen to be female)

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#agreed mostly #like i think its important to find the reasons why someone dislikes a character bc sometimes its for the exact same reason they like #a male character. which bothers me #but yea mostly agreed #anyways my top 5 favs are jon georgie daisy melanie and helen #love them so so so much #i care them #idk to me in tma the girls are just more interesting ngl #magpod #tma #the magnus archives #sexism #magpod confession

[that-rackin-frackin-varmint]

Looney Tunes: Back in Action: - Removed Content

this part kills me.

Kate "We'll replace Daffy with a hot girl"

Bugs "I wouldn't want to hurt a girl"

Kate "Ok but we'll make you guys enemies-to-lovers"

Bugs (completely skipping the insinuation of romancing the girl) "Usually I'm the girl in the relationship"

#melon ramble🍉 #bugs bunny #daffy duck #baffy void #looney tunes back in action #sometimes bugs just offshoots the conversation so hard that i have to spend 5 mins in silence pacing back and forth #trying to pick apart what the hell was the intent behind his response #i know that he means to say that it's not in his character to fall in love with someone AKA #he's usually a the female heartthrob #but it also just sounds like he doesn't want to become the conventional male lead. which fits since he doesn't ascribe himself as a “hero” #as much as modern looney tunes and wb neglect to respect that nuance #i have so many words for this #but so little memory in my hard drive #curses

[mamawasatesttube]

sometimes im like wow tim and kon are such a good ship they're so silly and they're both little freaks and they're best friends and i love love looove best friends to lovers :) and then i make the mistake of looking at the ship tag on ao3 and am consumed by the disdain irritation and disgust of a thousand suns. None Of You Understand The Fucking Assignment

#rimi talks #like ik it's just all the people who don't read comics and feel the need to assign fanon tim a male love interest #and latch onto kon bc he's the popular m/m tim ship #but also what if everyone doing that would fuck off and leave the tags to the 5 people who remember kon is a real character himself #life could be a dream ! #anyway i brought this on myself for looking at the ao3 tag i know i know. back to just rereading my own work jdjskhdkd

[dumping-ideas]

Taking a break from brainstorming and writing my WxS + ensemble fic by thinking rezero thoughts and how much I love SubaEmi & SubaRem both in and outside of romantic context because their relationship is so much more than that.

I remember back when the first season aired there's an 'I love Emilia' meme going around before I even knew rezero (I watched it in 2017 iirc). And when I finally watched it, I didn't really get why people at that time is mad at Subaru for not saying 'I love Rem' lol.

First of all, Rem is the one who rejected Subaru's proposal first. She knows that Subaru doesn't love her that way, and that something scared him so much that he chose to run away other than fight. She confessed not to get Subaru saying 'I love you' to her (although she kinda wished he would), but it's more about showing Subaru that there's someone that would love him and always be by her side no matter what--her.

And Subaru answered Rem's genuine love confession with the genuine truth--that he still loves Emilia. Because he knew that saying anything else but the truth will dishonor Rem's feelings. Rem falls in love with the Subaru who tries so hard for everyone and everything, including for Emilia's love. Actually, I like this scene because it shows how loyal Subaru is?? Even in his weakest moment, even when there's a girl that's so passionate about her love to him, his feelings for Emilia is still going strong. And I hate that a lot of viewers don't appreciate that dedication. Like damn, where can I find a guy as loyal as Subaru??

And not all anime-only knows this, but Subaru actually, truly, loves with Emilia because of the lap pillow in Arc 2. Sure, he fell in love at first sight when she saved him in the beginning of Arc 1 (also because she's physically his type), but it's only a bud--a crush. There's even a whole paragraph that's basically about Subaru realizing 'oh, I love her' at the end of the pillow scene in the light novel (ps. the ln is great btw). Just think about it, at that time, Subaru was terrified of being hated and betrayed again by everyone, everything he did ended in mistakes and he couldn't even tell anyone about his trauma---and then there's Emilia, who doesn't know or even able to understand, and yet she lent him her lap and a willing pair of ears to listen to his cries---showing Subaru that he's not alone in that world. For Subaru, he knew Emilia for more or less two weeks, but for Emilia, she only knew Subaru for more or less a day. Like, who wouldn't fall for her gentleness??

(And Rem did kill Subaru in cold blood and tortured him so I think it's weirder that Subaru forgave Rem, but that's Subaru for you ig. His super low self-esteem makes him has the mentality of 'as long as I know you have a shred of kindness in you, I can forgive you, even if you betray my trust, torture me, and kill me without remorse lol'

Btw, iirc in arc 7 he had a monologue where he said he still got shivers every time he heard the sound of chains--his trauma from Rem's torture will probably never go away).

So yeah, anime-onlies argument about 'Subaru's love to Emilia doesn't make sense' becomes moot if they actually have the context from the ln. But I didn't even have the context from the ln when I watched Ep. 18 the first time and I still understood why Subaru said 'I love Emilia' just fine, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Funny thing is that there's a scene in ln where Subaru admitted to both Rem (in Arc 3 before the White Whale battle) and Emilia (in Arc 4 on the carriage to Sanctuary) where he said that he also loves Rem. Again, understandable, because who wouldn't fall for Rem after her heartfelt confession?? And I appreciate how Subaru think that he's such a scum for liking two girls at the same time and thought that Emilia and Rem should know of his two-timing feelings. Rem is... well, she's kinda obsessed so she said that she's okay being the 2nd wife (but by the way Arc 7 goes I think she wouldn't be in the future), and the kind and gentle Emilia basically saying 'yeah, you suck' but she also said that she understood that Subaru and Rem had a history that she didn't know of so she couldn't fully judge Subaru for that.

Of course, then in Arc 6 Emilia said that she knew Subaru would be occupied with Rem when she woke up, so Emilia needed to work harder to make Subaru look her way... And then in Arc 7 Rem lost all her memories (which I think will tie in to Rem's own character development so she could live for herself, not for Ram or Subaru).

And also, why didn't anyone mention how strict Rem is to Subaru? In Arc 3 she basically said 'don't you dare run away from your trouble because I'm here', and in Arc 6 she's basically pissed at Subaru for giving up and not being able to stand up lol. Heck, in Arc 4 Subaru said to the witches that Rem is the strictest person ever to him because she wouldn't let him give up... and somehow it turned into a hero complex which is also addressed in Arc 7... although I think Arc 7 just made his hero complex worse... On the other hand, Emilia is gentle towards Subaru. In the Arc 4 light novel, when she realized how distressed Subaru was she put Subaru's ears against her chest so Subaru could hear her steady heartbeat to calm him down. In Arc 6, Emilia's (almost-)confession to Subaru was so soft even though all the chaos, and then when they fell she embraced him in such a way so she would fall to the ground first??? Even though there's no way they would survive that fall??? I'm so sorry, I'm so soft for that scene. Not to say that Rem wasn't gentle, but where Emilia would say 'it's okay for Subaru to rest', Rem wouldn't let him.

And and his narration in Arc 4 of his feelings for Rem and Emilia when he talked to his dad---Emilia is his light, and Rem is his sky--and how he couldn't live without both... that passage is so *chef's kiss*

And I haven't say anything about how their love for each other (and other people, in Subaru's case) is also a catalyst for them to love themselves...

Rezero is about love, and there are many forms of love. Romantic, platonic, familial, self-love, etc. ... The writer isn't wrong by calling it a heartwarming story.

#re zero #natsuki subaru #emilia #rem #basically a rant #actually subaru's dynamic with the everyone is so amazing even with the male characters #otto for being the only person who never thinks of subaru as a hero #but only as his stupid stubborn and kind friend?? #or julius who admires subaru's straightforwardness in life #who's proud of being subaru's friend #and how he's only able to stand proudly as a knight even though everyone forgets him because subaru remembers him?? #their exchange in arc 6 about subaru saying i remember your strength #and then julius responds in kind to the amnesiac subaru by entrusting anastasia to subaru??? #or even the comedic gag in rezelos where it implies that reinhard will do anything subaru asks of him #and even in arc 5 where subaru told reinhard to stop saying things that'll make fujoshi happy to him lol #and also the gag that child!subaru is the son of the emperor of vollachia and crossdressing subaru #while vincent and subaru has a mutual trust-hate relationship going on #subaru is a great mc i love him #love nagatsuki-sensei acknowledging the fujo in rezero fandom lol #also he once said that subaru is the delicate one in subarem subaemi dynamic #that he's the one who's supposed to be bridal carried in both relationship lol #based nagatsuki-sensei

[nokhwa]

They wrote the women of this show as all very much unbearable. And it's not in a way that's gender specific (a guy can't be annoying from being a pick me and a girl can't be annoying from being a dude bro, if you reverse the roles these tropes are quite fun), they just made very annoying characters and decided to make all of them women.

#Watched ep 5 and let me sau: not you geon-ah I'm so sorry for you love! #To the author's defense there's only one good positive nice character that has not annoyed me once till now BUT #I get what yall said when yall complained about the ladies of the show #I don't mind a show having a mostly male cast. In a drama that means less chance of romance yay. But make the women you have count #lily watches recordings of acting #text post #kdrama #a killer paradox

[bmpmp3]

lemme tell you im starting to get a little sick of when im complaining about when a show or movie is writing a major female character with not as much depth as her male cohorts or she's written oddly plot device-like for a main character and people always tell me "oh but it's intentional, we're seeing her through the eyes of the male main character and he has a crush on her so he doesnt see her flaws" because like

FIRST of all yeah i get it but its hard to write that trope interestingly to me at this point without a lot of work put into subversion so intentionality doesnt make it any less boring

SECONDLY half the time people say this about ensemble cast stuff and like why is the random dude suddenly designated as the most perspective of all perspective characters when it comes to this specific woman. why dont we get to see the other characters perspectives on her too?

AND THIRDLY do people view women they have crushes on as bland plot devices without lives of their own enough irl that this is so universal in writing? isnt the point of having a crush wanting to hang out and know more about your crush, know about their likes and dislikes and all that. am i missing something here

#im gonna sound insane for what im about to say. but i grew up watching way to much harem anime for a 10 year old #and im gonna be honest. maybe that spoiled me? those things were not without their flaws but at least the 5 different magical giant #goddess demon vampire women with multicoloured hair inexplicably in love with random normal guy at least had like. inner lives #like thats why the guy is so normal and bland. because the focus is on the magical women and their pink hair and their complicated #backstories and familial lives and whatever outside of the main character #like theyre still big boobied colourful haired fantasies but at least they showed me something about em #when it comes to these other stories where a woman is treated like a plot device love interest and written like a dead wife in an #action movie but like. alive. i cant help but feel like. are you holding out on me? i want to know her. show me her LIFE i want to SEE IT #grabs writers by the collar ARE YOU HOLDING OUT ON ME??? #its nuts because sometimes you see the bones of a really cool character but the writers are more interested in what she can do for the main #male character and how he sees her than whats going on in her head. i dunno im just getting annoyed. i think u can do this trope well #like how i think you can write basically any trope well. but i see intentionality used an excuse so often so i wanna see you do #SOMETHING interesting with this trope if ur gonna do it at least. subvert it in cool ways i dunno just do ANYTHING hfjdkjfkd

[a-master-procrastinator]

Okay, how many hidden conversations does imperial agent story have? Because I just discovered another one.

(by hidden I mean there is no indication that you should go and talk to those NPCs, you're lucky if you happen to click one out of pure curiosity)

Possible spoilers below

You can see it if you click on Watcher Three right after talking to the Minister and Keeper about Isen Four colony. It's not the whole conversation (bc I didn't screenshot everything), so if you want to see how it goes, I found it here (expand nodes 42 to 85).

#swtor #imperial agent playthrough #pls let me know cause i can only find these convos on torcommunity if i saw them in game already #and i would love to find them all in the game and collect them like pokémons #so far i have 5 #3 from imperial agent #1 from bounty hunter #and 1 from smuggler (and probably only for male characters)

[nyxi-pixie]

i dont trust a bitch that hates ronance

like wdym u like stedd1e(<3) or god forbid fucking h4rr1ngr0ve(😒) but you dont like ronance🤨🤨🤨🤨

like if u dnt ship it bc ur rooting for robin and vickie or ur a super yay jxncy person or smt sure whatever. but if u HATE ronance??? i do not trust you.

#anyone thats 100% insistent and totally sure that nance is straight gets my side eye tbh #bc like did u listen to murrays lil expose on her💀 'ur scared to be urself and instead rely on safety of conventional man' #yeahhh not queer coded at all #when we talk abt how mlm ships need 100x as much evidence as straight ships to be considered plausible??? #yeah that but x10000000 for wlw ones jfc #like steve can have a male friend that says hes got nice abs or smthn and everyones WOOF WOOF BARK GRR GAY PEOPLE!!! #sure okay have fun besties #but nancy is like 🥰robin ik i wanted nothing to do w u 5 seconds ago but ive actually decided ur my fav person🥰 #🥰we are gonna spend the rest of our time on this world saving mission glued together ok🥰 #anyway. do i believe it has any shot at endgame?? no! #but i do not like the way that people are like st3ddie<333❗❗❗ (i love it too dont get me wrong fruity four my loves) #and then totally ignore ronance. or worse. see them as side characters 💀 #i have so many thoughts on this but just. im usually a defender of why fandoms fixate on mlm ships bc women tend to have less development #(im a byler first. bc theyre the most obviously romantically coded in a Oh this one has Actual Potential way) #but robin and nancy are fairly well rounded characters. and they interact a fuck ton in s4. so. usual defenses are a no go #and now im ready to sword fight the haters #ronance #this is incomprehensible #but im right #only censoring ship names so i dnt end up in their tags i love stedd1e and jxncy dw

[icewindandboringhorror]

I still very loathe the Media Trope of ‘’cold genius man doesn’t feel emotions and never has relationships... UNTIL.. one random relatively bland Preddy Woman comes along and warps his entire personality and ability to think, his heart has grown and his seeming asexuality has evaporated, he is now Normal :)” or whatever like... AS a walking generic hermit archetype myself.. we would NOT act like that .... just let people be detached weirdos in peace, you cowards .. OR, don’t bother to write one in the first place if you find us too boring to exist realistically in our natural state lol.. pathetic 

#the only exception to this is its okay if he develops some pesudo-romantic psychologial fixation on one of his long suffering male sidekicks #or assistants or whatever (since this character acrhetype ALWAYS has some sort of like Straight Man Every Man helper to follow #him around and be an audience stand in. sometimes multiple like a whole team of assistants. sometimes just one etc.) #like a strange not-entirely-romance-but-mutualy-unhealthy-comedic-codependence w someone you worked w 25+ yrs COULD be in character. sure. #ASIDE from that one exception though..... just keep them aromantic and asexual.. why would someone who has been that way for their #entire fucking life suddenly be like ''well I've known this woman three weeks but she's really hot! whoops!'' #''guess I'm going to act completely out of character! sometimes booba so booby it fundametally alters the dna of me personality. you know ho #w it is'' .. like shut up.. explode #It's not that I project personally onto these characters (writers are bad at writing them and they're generally annoying as shit) BUT just #like... coming FROM the perspective OF a cold detached ''robot'' seeming hermit freak.. like textbook scholar wizard man locked #away in a tower somewhere type personality... You just watch shows sometimes and you can SEE that the writers are trying to write #the Character Archetype that is your actual realworld personality and you're just like 'we do NOT fucking act like that!!!' lol #you know ? like .. i don't actually care about the characters themselves but more just.. the principle of the thing. staying true to what #has been set up. You can't be like ''oh yeah this is your typical cold detached hermit weirdo with zero interest in human relationships for #the most part blah blah blah'' and then 5 minutes later be like ''WAIT GUYS!! LOOK! they're still NORMAL! look they love booba #too!!! haha hashtag Relatable!!'' .. what have you done to him.. you've massacred the archtype.. cowardly fool #Also I'm referencing them as male because this character archtetype is usually male but the same thing can apply for other gendered versions #of the archetype. it's ALWAYS annoying. no matter what it is lol. GOD AND IT'S even worse when they're supposed to be like hundreds or thous #ands of years old like.. some sort of supernatural being who's ''above it all'' because they've seen the world's cycles for so long #and blah blah and then it's like ''omg.. suddenly into romance.. for some reason all 900 years of my life nobody has ever been good #enough but YOU.. random ass person who I met 30 minutes ago and are completely average in every way or maybe you have like one #special power or are smart or something but apparently somehow I've lived 900 years without ever meeting a single other smart person #or whatever but WOW.. you... instant soulamtes.. I am no longer aromantic and asexual. I am also no longer smart.'' #at least if it's a human with a normal lifespan you can be like 'well they were only 30. maybe they genuinely did just have their first #sexul awakening' or something but.. you're telling me like.. 900 years??? 1000 years?? and NOW they're like 'whooa!!' lol #Which obviously all aroace people are different.. all people with autism or schizoid pd or any other mental illnesses that can sometimes #lend people towards that type of 'weird hermit' archetype are all different. plenty of these people WILL have relationships and sex and desi #re those things. but it's like.. if you are OBVIOUSLY setting out to write that one VERY specific archetype within the broader archetype #then GO ALL THE WAY!! you cant have someone be like HALF-detached partial-hemrit sometimes-maybe-genuis or whatever #or I guess you can but like. it should be that way from the beginning. it's the random sudden shift in personality thats jarring

[guideaus]

theres a weird type of person that interacts with media, i dont know if its ones desperate for representation, or they just have poor media comprehension in general, but it seems like when theres a story with lgbt characters, this type of fan scrutinizes the work wayyy more than necessary, seeing problems that arent there. i dont believe cancel culture is a thing, but they often try to label aspects "problematic", claim its queer baiting, even accuse the author of fetishizing the characters, and other similar arguments.

while on the opposite end, there can be a series with no canon lgbt characters, and you'll see fans shipping characters and replying "while not stated in the actual work, the characters' relationship together is so meaningful regardless" to people asking if a series is actually gay or not, which generally has the answer of no. i dont know if its because a lot of fans want a selfish wish fulfillment with a story theyre engaging with, like its fanfic, but its so weird

#personal #again it was teens trying to cancel hgsn lol but its just so weird. its not done yet or even consistently worrying. why are u throwing it o #and in favor of whatever else #it's not even over!! #if this sounds like smth a fandom mom would say sorry. i dont believe in that fandom shit to be clear #i just remember people calling the handmaiden the male gaze and someone said Little Goody Two Shoes was clearly fetishizing lesbians #then ppl on here act like two characters that make eye contact for 5 seconds are obviously in love #i dont get it. esp w a story abt a horror lol. lets put on our big boy pants

[emperorcartagia]

it makes sense that refa had a family with kids and a wife given his status, but making senna a character and having her role be what it is really makes their story tragic as fuck. his family so easily could have never been heard from again after his death, but londo taking senna in out of guilt is so fucking. sad. lol

#and im not gonna be out here woobifying refa of all fucking characters #but i do think he was a good family man. good centauri with a happy home life #and i do think he loved senna #and he died when she was like 15 or something like that so he spent quite some time watching her grow up #she didnt know what he was up to #lords had to do what they had to do #and it makes sense for refa to come home and be good to his family after being shitty to everyone else #hes self serving and the people he decides are worth caring about are going to get His Special Attention #and that includes his little girl #a whole ass teenage girl orphaned is so heart wrenching. a family that loved her. #a nurturing family life is already so rare on centauri prime #like please babylon 5 there was abolutely zero reason to make refa ??? sad ?????????? like dont make me feel upset over him #he doesnt deserve it #but im such a sucker for a weird fucking horrible asshole who has a soft spot for his daughter.. #proud of her despite the centauri clearly favoring male children #takes her out in public and raised her to be the strong woman she actually did turn out to be #all for him to die brutally which im not saying he didnt deserve bc he did #but londo rly did do all that bc he thought he killed adira lmfao. no wonder why he took senna in #literally nobody is puttjng this much thought into refa but me. i need to get help

[stormieislurking]

Hot take Morgana is fine actually you guys are just mean.

#persona 5 #listen I love Ryuji #but you have to be skipping half the dialogue if you think the Okumura Incident is the first time he insults Morgana #and he's not pervy. he is at most average pervy for a male persona character

[lesbianlenas]

was cleaning my room w my mom bc everything got dusty from my humidifier and she was cleaning my funko pops and was like “you know it’s weird how you have so many more women than men” and i was like how is that weird. and then she said “it’s almost like you don’t like men” 😭😭 she’s really going for it at this point huh next she’s going to just be like you’re gay aren’t you youre gay admit it and i also won’t respond to that 💞

#michelle speaks #after i didn’t respond she was like it’s ok you like what you like #and i was so mad i was like i can’t let her win rn……. #this is bc she saw my women want me fish fear me hat yesterday……i know it is……….. #at this point i just don’t want to give her the satisfaction of being right……yes i’m gay but that’s not her business……. #i will not let her give me the i love u no matter what speech i refuse…….she wants to so badly i know it and i will not allow it #it’s just principle at this point…….it’s my competitive nature………she can’t win………… #also i LITERALLY don’t have more women than men. like i maybe have a few more women but not like a significant amount #i mean like i do have more women but it’s not like 5 to 1 or smth it’s a similar amount 😩 #bc my mom was always getting me funko pops of male characters i didn’t really care for lmfao #so she was saying that just to say that. she said it just to say she knows i’m gay. i won’t fall for it…….